Sleep & Deep Lucid Dreaming

Sleep & Deep Lucid Dreaming

Who are you when you sleep and dream? Are you a lucid dreamer? Transform your relationship with the third of your life you spend asleep by becoming conscious in your dreams. Ask questions, share dreams, comment, and listen on: https://www.deepluciddreaming.com/podcast I’m Dr. Clare Johnson and I’m here to help you experience the wonder of lucidity and empower you to sleep better and be happier in all areas of your life. This podcast offers informative weekly solo episodes and monthly conversations with luminaries, authors, and lucid dream magicians. As a warm welcome you can instantly download two free audio classes: 1. How to Lucid Dream 2. Tips for Deep Sleep A little background about your host: First person in the world to do a PhD on lucid dreaming as a creative tool. Lifelong lucid dreamer. Author of 8 dream books, including The Complete Book of Lucid Dreaming, The Art of Lucid Dreaming, and Elixir of Sleep. Past President and CEO of the International Association for the Study of Dreams. I had my first lucid dream aged 3, taught myself to lucid dream at will, and have had thousands of lucid dreams, sleep paralysis experiences, and OBEs (also known as astral travel). I teach people to sleep better and have amazing lucid dreams. I lead workshops and Lucid Dreaming Ocean Retreats in exotic locations. In this podcast, I share my best lucid dream induction techniques and dive into healing, nightmare solutions, how to interact with dream people and animals, and so much more. I also share tips for blissful sleep and waking lucidity. Welcome to this marvellous world! Connect with me, receive your free guided lucid meditations, and listen here: www.deepluciddreaming.com/podcast

Episodes

August 21, 2025 12 mins

Common dream metaphors like dirty water or broken vehicles may signal physical concerns. Dr. Clare Johnson shares powerful stories of lucid dreamers who healed headaches and tinnitus.

Upcoming Lucid Dreaming Ocean Retreats with Dr. Clare Johnson: Hawaii, Oct 25-29, 2025. And Portugal, May 19-23, 2026.

Sign up to Dr. Clare's newsletter to be first to know all her workshop, retreat and conference dates, receive lucid dream tips and d...

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Struggling to become lucid in your dreams? You might be unknowingly held back by deep psychological blocks or limiting beliefs. In this episode, Dr. Clare Johnson reveals how these hidden fears impact not just your dreams but your waking life too. She shares simple, powerful techniques to dissolve them.

Learn how to shift your mindset with positive affirmations and vivid imagery, clear inner resistance, and open the door to conscio...

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What are the ethics of (lucid) dream sex? What does it mean if you have dream sex with someone who is not your partner? How responsible are we for what we do in our dreams?

In this candid conversation, Dr. Clare Johnson talks with the fascinating and insightful bestselling author Robert Moss (Conscious Dreaming; The Dreamer's Book of the Dead, and more). 

Robert offers insights into why men who never share dreams suddenly begin to,...

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July 31, 2025 12 mins

From flying orgasms to shapeshifting dream lovers, Dr. Clare breaks down the pros and cons, answers listener questions, and shares scientific insights from dream research. What really happens when we have sex in a lucid dream? Why does it feel so real? Is it ethical to have dream sex if we have a partner in waking reality? And why are our thoughts so vital while we’re making love in a lucid dream?  

Dr. Clare Johnson explores one o...

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July 24, 2025 11 mins

What are the pros and cons of dream control? Let's look at the attitudes around this topic. Are dreams sacred messages from the unconsious that should not be tampered with or changed in any way? Dr. Clare Johnson identified FOUR levels of dream control during her PhD work at Leeds University.  She shares these in this episode.

A lot of people misunderstand what lucid dreaming is and how the dream responds to our thoughts, emotions ...

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July 17, 2025 11 mins

The lucid void is that endless space you sometimes end up floating in, possibly bodiless, during your night of sleep. 

The lucid void usually perceived as black, but it can be grey, or rainbow dots of light, or any other colour.

In this episode, we'll look at the incredible creative value of the lucid void and what it is.

Learn more about the magic of sleep, lucid dreaming, OBEs and more with Dr. Johnson's video classes and lucid d...

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"My most lucrative investment tips have come from my dreams," says Dr. Banerji.  The wise and marvellous dreamworker candidly shares how he received stock market tips in dreams—advice that astonishingly led to financial success in waking life.

In other dreams, Dr. Banerji’s deceased father appeared, offering financial advice to ensure his son's wellbeing from beyond the grave. These dream encounters provided him with valuable - and...

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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 dream...

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June 26, 2025 10 mins

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 nightm...

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June 19, 2025 13 mins

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 a...

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Have you ever encountered super-aware lucid dream people, animals, or beings? How do such encounters help us to understand reality? Between them, Dr. Clare Johnson and Robert Waggoner have notched up almost 100 years of lucid dreaming experience! Yes, they are indeed that ancient :-)

Join these lucid veterans for an exciting exchange of experiences from meeting deceased pets in lucid dreams, to meditating while lucid and experienci...

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June 5, 2025 14 mins

Wish you could recall more of your fabulously creative dreams? Dr. Clare Johnson shares an easy way to condition your brain to remember dreams, and shares 5 tips to raise your dream recall from zero up. She lists negative factors that inhibit dream recall and shares why a particular Moby song became her bridge between dreaming and waking. 

Her new book, Elixir of Sleep: Practical Solutions for a Good Night's Rest, is now out in Fre...

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May 29, 2025 12 mins

What's your current attitude towards sleep? Dr. Clare shares an ancdote about a professional football coach whose thoughts raced as soon as he got into bed at night, and how he changed this with a simple technique she taught him.

Sometimes we fall into a sleep rut where we’re not getting optimal sleep. But we can turn things around! Dr. Clare Johnson shares a soothing sleep ritual that you can try tonight. You can receive this ritu...

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May 22, 2025 14 mins

Can everyone learn how to get lucid? Dr. Johnson looks at the science behind lucid dreaming as a learnable skill.

Why get lucid? When we wake up inside a dream we can interact consciously with the genius creativity of our dreaming mind. We might choose to actively guide and shape the dream, but lucid dreaming doesn’t have to involve dream control. We can also simply go with the flow of whatever is happening.

Dr. Clare shares an emp...

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Float into blissful sleep with this guided meditation, specially created by Dr. Clare Johnson, with dreamy music. You can receive the full-length version of this meditation for free when you head over to www.deepluciddreaming.com and sign up for the newsletter. You'll also receive a codeword to get 50% off her big, deep professionally produced video classes, including the 30-Day Power of Sleep class.

Dr. Johnson has created hundred...

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Invite streams of lucid dreams with Dr. Clare's Lucidity Booster Meditation: a great method of training your alert, lucid attention by day and raise your lucid vibe. Enjoy the calm, centred awareness you experience as you listen.

You are welcome to receive a hefty discount on Dr. Clare's full Lucid Mindset video class which has the longer version of this lucidity booster meditation, along with a fabulous lucid tiger power guided vi...

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May 8, 2025 7 mins

Sleep should be an absolute joy, and so should the time we spend preparing for it. In lesson #4 of this mini-class, Dr. Johnson explores the power of the breath to calm us down and ease us into deep, restorative sleep. 

See www.deepluciddreaming.com for articles, tips and advice, and sign up to Dr. Clare's newsletter to receive free downloadable blissful sleep meditations and e-books. Click on Classes for an array of video classes,...

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May 8, 2025 9 mins

Top tips to help you get lucid in your dreams tonight! www.DeepLucidDreaming.com has ten year's worth of fabulous articles, tips and advice. Sign up to Dr. Clare's newsletter to receive free downloadable lucid meditations and lucid e-books, as well as dicounts for her wide range of lucid dreaming classes.

A lucid dreamer since the age of three, and the first person in the world to do a PhD on lucid dreaming as a creative tool, Dr. ...

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May 8, 2025 7 mins

Dr. Johnson shares 3 sleep tips that are easy to implement and will increase your chances of getting a wonderful night’s sleep.

Dr. Clare has a big new class, The 30-Day Power of Sleep (see www.deepluciddreaming.com/classes) and she has created hundreds of practical techniques to help people sleep better and unlock the wonderful gifts of sleep and dreams. She is the author of 8 books on sleep, lucid dreaming, nightmares and dream t...

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May 8, 2025 8 mins

How do we create a lucid mindset? In this free mini-class Dr. Clare Johnson shares her best tips and techniques to help you have lucid dreams.

A lucid dreamer since the age of three, and the first person in the world to do a PhD on lucid dreaming as a creative tool, Dr. Johnson has pioneered original theories about lucid dreaming and has created hundreds of practical techniques to help people reach this state of consciousness. She ...

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