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5 tips for Powerful Dreams Over the Holidays

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Today is the first day of winter in the northern hemisphere.  With the longest night of the year behind us, we can look forward to longer and warmer days ahead. But hold on a minute.  Let’s not invite the light back just yet.  These dark days have … [Read more...] about 5 tips for Powerful Dreams Over the Holidays

Lucid Dreaming: a Hybrid of REM and Waking Cognition

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A study accepted in the journal Sleep last month (but not yet published) claims that lucid dreaming should be not be considered a REM dreaming phenomenon but rather a unique state of consciousness (Voss, et al., 2009). Poetically, the assertion that … [Read more...] about Lucid Dreaming: a Hybrid of REM and Waking Cognition

What is Lucid Dreaming?

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This is my final post on ways of working with dreams without a dang dream dictionary.  Becoming a lucid dreamer is an advanced dream practice that is actually easy to learn.   I've been leading up to this post because to start lucid dreaming you have … [Read more...] about What is Lucid Dreaming?

Dream ReLiving: An Advanced Lucid Dreaming Practice

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I’d like to share an advanced lucid dreaming technique taught by Scott Sparrow, a psychotherapist who played a major role in the beginning of the modern lucid dreaming movement.   Dreams often give us gifts, but sometimes as lucid dreamers we … [Read more...] about Dream ReLiving: An Advanced Lucid Dreaming Practice