"Dr. Clare Johnson has firmly established herself as the Queen of Lucidity... The Art of Transforming Nightmares is a brilliant book that will show you there is no darkness within – only light unseen. "
Andrew Holecek, author of Dreams of Light
The Art of Transforming Nightmares: Harness the Creative and Healing Power of Bad Dreams, Sleep Paralysis, and Recurring Nightmares
Clare R. Johnson, PhD
Transform Nightmares into Healing, Creative, Spiritual Gifts
Practical tools to reduce nightmares, manage sleep paralysis, resolve distressing dreams, and release fear. The Art of Transforming Nightmares is a friendly, hands-on guide to help you tap into the immensely rich gifts that bad dreams offer up when we work with them in healing ways.
Dr. Clare Johnson, world-leading expert on lucid dreaming, shares her best practical tips for overcoming nightmares and a unique quiz that identifies your personal sleeper-dreamer type so you can fast-track to the transformative techniques that work best for you.
With forty-five practices and fifteen tailor-made nightmare solution programs, this guidebook helps you set up your own unique program for transforming your dreamlife. It shares practical tools to reduce nightmare frequency, manage sleep paralysis, resolve distressing dreams, and release fear.
You’ll tap into the deep wisdom of your unconscious mind and discover how to transform your night of sleep into a beautiful, healing refuge so that you wake up energized and ready to lead a life of happiness and wonder.
“Wonderful and practical suggestions for understanding nightmares. Instead of trying to banish or avoid scary dreams, Johnson teaches us how to explore the messages and emotions those nightmares bring us.
From monsters to zombies, trauma, anxiety, and depression, from PTSD to night terrors to sleep paralysis, she shows us how all dreams can be a source of healing and transformation.”
“[A] revolutionary book… Beautifully written, The Art of Transforming Nightmares empowers the reader with ‘the little-known secret that nightmares can be transformative, healing gifts.’
For those wanting to reduce nightmare frequency, manage sleep paralysis, or transcend fear using creative, lucid, or psychospiritual methods, this book offers a treasure trove of well-informed tools and solutions.”
“Dr. Clare Johnson gives us a wealth of practical guidance on how to use “bad” dreams and nightmares as portals to healing and transformation.
I love her suggestion that nightmares are gifts in ugly wrapping paper. This book issues a vibrant call to us to choose our actions and attitudes in dreams of the night and the dream of waking life.”
“The Art of Transforming Nightmares is a personalized and practical guidebook that can help us transform terror to transcendence and confusion to creativity… this book is essential medicine for the terrified soul.”
