What does it mean when your partner cheats on you in a dream, or all your teeth fall out? Which symbols do dreams use to send us health messages?

Dreams can be baffling and obscure. But they communicate in a symbolic and metaphoric language. When we familiarise ourselves with this, it's incredible to unwrap the deeper meaning within our dreams.

In today's episode, Dr. Clare Johnson unpacks four highly common dreams, including dreams where we flee, and dreams of vehicles.

She explores why it's vital to trust your gut when figuring out the meaning of your dream, rather than accepting another person's authority and their imposed idea of what your dream means.

Her book Dream Therapy (US title is Mindful Dreaming) offers many beautiful practices for unwrapping the essence and wisdom of your dreams. There are also blog posts on Dr. Clare's website, such as this one: https://deepluciddreaming.com/2021/04/the-secret-language-of-dreams/

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Nightmares can be terrifying experiences. But the fact is, you CAN transform your nightmares and transmute all that energy into creativity, or healing, or personal growth.

In this episode, Dr. Clare Johnson looks at what happens in the brain during a nightmare, and why so-called "bad" dreams arise. She explains why anxiety dreams and nightmares can be viewed as unfinished healing dreams.

We can train our brain to have fewer nightmares and anxiety dreams. Dr. Johnson's book The Art of Transforming Nightmares has a comprehensive Nightmare Quiz encompassing everything from traumatic recurring nightmares to sleep paralysis and scary out-of-body experiences. This quiz fast-tracks you to the practical tips and techniques that will help you transform your dreamlife on every level.

The 30-Day Power of Dreams class teaches Dr. Clare's original Lucid Imaging Nightmare Solution, a transformative technique that has helped thousands. Go to https://www.deepluciddreaming.com and click on Classes. Use code word SLEEP at checkout to get 50% off this class.

There are also blog posts on her website to discover how to turn nightmares into healing dreams.

Please share this episode with anyone you know who is experiencing nightmares. There are solutions! We can empower our dreaming selves, and this empowerment will bring us greater confidence and happiness in our waking life, too.

Children's nightmares are covered in an upcoming episode and there are tips for kids in The Art of Transforming Nightmares and in The Complete Book of Lucid Dreaming.

Have you ever teleported, or been pulled up by an invisible force in your lucid dreams? Every night, we travel out of our physical body and enter a dream body. While our physical body sleeps in bed, we climb mountains without getting out of breath, swim for miles underwater, or fly Superman-style through the dream sky.

Dr. Johnson explores lucid dream travel through the lens of two categories: involuntary and voluntary. She talks about being sucked backwards or downwards out of the dream scene, the lucid void, and time-travel in dreams. She shares her highly lucid experiences within spaces of light, where she is sometimes shown the mysteries of the universe in the form of codes and chains of light. In such lucid dreams, time does not exist and everything is divinely interconnected.

Dr. Clare gives tips on how to teleport in a lucid dream and the art of shapeshifting into a bird or animal. There is so much fun and amazement in lucid dreaming!

Go way deeper with Dr. Clare Johnson’s huge book, The Complete Book of Lucid Dreaming. This is also available as an audiobook that lasts 20 hours and will teach you everything you always dreamed of knowing about the mysteries of lucid dreaming, as well as the science behind it. www.deepluciddreaming.com