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Have you ever found yourself floating in infinite space? This experience of black space (or grey space, or countless dots of light) when you’re asleep is often known as the ‘void’. I call it ‘the gap between dreams’ because this is dream space, there’s just no...

People tend to take strongly opposing views on the question of telepathy. Any kind of telepathy: waking telepathy or dream telepathy. Whether or not we believe in it seems to depend on our world view. Some believe that everyone is separate, that we cannot ‘inter-mesh’...

There’s a doorway into lucid dreaming we can enter every night. The doorway opens when we’re lying in bed, eyes closed, deeply relaxed, just drifting slightly. This is the moment when, if we remain mentally alert, we might notice dots of light like distant stars, or...

If you ask the average lucid dreamer what they like to do best in their lucid dreams, two answers are by far the most popular. One is flying, the other is sex. Lucid dream sex can feel as real as waking life sex. Most lucid dreams take place in REM sleep and genital...

Once you’ve learned how to get lucid and how to stay lucid, the next step for most people is learning to explore and guide the dream. Lucid dreaming is not all about ‘control’ – each dreamer can decide for themselves how much or how little they want to guide the...

The use of lucid dreaming in psychological healing is established: there have been many different trials and experiments on resolving nightmares and the integration of lucid dreaming into PTSD therapies. But how do we go about overcoming traumas through lucid...

Inspiration. Creativity. Imagination. What’s the secret? How can we learn to access these whenever we want to? For lucid dreamers, the answer is easy: ‘Wake up inside a dream.’ My PhD explored lucid dreaming in the creative writing process and I interviewed case...

Every artist has bad days, a bad month, or even a bad year. In these periods, it may seem that creativity has abandoned us. No matter what we try, we can’t think of a fresh angle, so we circle back again and again into a stale routine. Or we feel empty, tired, and...

Waking up inside a dream is like turning on a light in your mind. In a flash, you understand the nature of the reality you find yourself in. ‘Oh – I’m dreaming this! This is a dream!’ This realisation is usually followed by sharp mental clarity and a sense of...

‘It was only a dream – not real!’ How many of us heard this from our parents when we woke up from bad dreams as kids? But for children, dreams – and especially nightmares – are super-real experiences which can form part of their long-term memories. It’s confusing for...