Can Lucid Dreaming Transcend Dementia? Bob Hoss Interview

In this podcast episode, Dr. Clare speaks to one of the deepest dream explorers around: Bob Hoss, Director of the DreamScience Foundation and a powerhouse at the International Association for the Study of Dreams.

Tune in and discover:

• How Bob communicates with his wife Lynne, who has dementia and is unable to speak, in his lucid dreams! He describes how he went to a “halfway house” between the living and the dead to reassure her… and what happened next in waking life.

• Dr. Clare shares her dreams of light featuring an Alzheimer's patient.

• The most exciting dream research: how neuroscience aligns with lucid dreaming. Brain imaging and AI.

• Experiments to discover how conscious lucid dream figures are.

• The four levels of dream control (Johnson 2004)

• The delight of becoming a dot of conscious awareness in lucid dreams and transcending the ego-self.

• Dr. Clare shares her lucid dreams with deceased people and their message of how incredibly precious life is.

• Bob shares what lucid dreaming and quantum entanglement teaches us about the meaning of life.

You can find Bob Hoss over on https://dreamscience.org/ or reach him at [e-mail]

Join Bob Hoss and Dr. Clare Johnson at the next IASD conference in Ashland, Oregon, June 13-17, 2026. Experience the power of sharing lucid dreams and dream wisdom with hundreds of enthusiastic dreamers… and dance the night away at the Dream Ball on the last night! Info at https://www.asdreams.org/

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And… come to Portugal for a lucid dreaming ocean retreat with Dr. Clare Johnson, 19-23 May, 2026. https://deep-lucid-dreaming-video-courses.teachable.com/p/lucid-dreaming-ocean-retreat  P.S… a spot just opened up for the Hawaii Lucidity Retreat later this month: 25-29 October on Big Island. We have our very own lucid dream temple :-) For details, email [e-mail]