Sleep is more than lying down for eight hours with your eyes closed. In a single night, you can experience healing, creativity, lifechanging dreams, and blissful rest. Worldleading lucid dreaming expert Dr. Clare Johnson offers a unique take on sleep as both a biological necessity and a spiritual journey. She reveals littleknown portals into sleep, from sound vibrations and breathwork to sex and orgasms. You’ll receive insomnia tips, midnight balms, and prebed meditations to calm your nervous system. Discover what type of sleeper you are with the comprehensive sleep quiz and use it to find the most effective techniques for you. With tips for each of the twelve sleep types and more than sixty practices, this book will help you ignite your spiritual evolution while you slumber. 'The new quintessential read on what it truly means to sleep and how to maximize those sacred hours every night.'—Mike Dooley, New York Times bestselling author of Infinite Possibilities
Clare R. Johnson, PhD, is past president and CEO of the International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD). In 2007 she became the first person in the world to do a PhD on lucid dreaming as a creative writing tool (University of Leeds, UK). A global lucidity teacher, Dr. Clare Johnson has developed hundreds of original techniques to help people access their unconscious intelligence via the inner world of dreams and sleep. A lifelong, frequent lucid dreamer, she has actively investigated the world of sleep for nearly fifty years.
Clare is the author of the acclaimed book Llewellyn's Complete Book of Lucid Dreaming, which combines psychology with cutting-edge science. Clare's work in the field of sleep and dreams has been featured in documentaries, anthologies, radio shows, magazines, podcasts, and television. She speaks at international venues on topics as diverse as sleep intelligence, creativity, conscious dying, and healing dreams. Her book The Art of Transforming Nightmares proposes lucid dreaming as the world's most innovative insomnia solution and offers techniques to resolve nightmares. Elixir of Sleep offers a unique take on sleep as both a biological necessity and a spiritual journey.
A novelist, prize-winning short story writer, and poet, Clare is the author of two lucid dream-inspired novels (as Clare Jay). Breathing in Colour was written as part of her doctorate and looks at how lucid dreaming can heal trauma. Dreamrunner explores lucidity as a potential cure for violent moving nightmares. A passionate advocate of dreamwork as a way to empower children, Clare coedited a book on children's dreams and nightmares, Sleep Monsters and Superheroes. Her book The Art of Lucid Dreaming is a highly practical, how-to guide with a popular lucidity quiz. Dream Therapy (US title is Mindful Dreaming) explores the transformative effects of dreamwork and offers techniques to unwrap the meaning of dreams.
You may feel inspired to join Clare on her lucid dreaming retreats. These usually have a beautiful ocean setting, and the creative, healing, and spiritual aspects of sleep and dreams are explored. For more information, see www.DeepLucidDreaming.com/retreats or contact deepluciddreaming@gmail.com.
Clare is the founder of an online school, Deep Lucid Dreaming Video Courses. These on-demand classes and live workshops are enjoyed by thousands of people and include downloadable meditations for lucid dreaming and blissful sleep (www.DeepLucidDreaming.com/classes). Clare offers live workshops, a specialised Lucid Star mentoring programme, and one-to-one client sessions on sleep, dreams, nightmares, and lucidity (www.DeepLucidDreaming.com/private-mentoring-sessions).
Sleep & Deep Lucid Dreaming is a new podcast with Dr. Clare Johnson. It offers two free audio classes, "Tips for Deep Sleep" and "How to Lucid Dream," as well as conversations to inspire you to tap into your inner genius and fall in love with sleep. Tune in on your favourite podcast platform or visit www.DeepLucidDreaming.com/podcast.
On Clare's website, DeepLucidDreaming.com, you are welcome to subscribe to receive e-books and a free guided meditation for blissful sleep.
