If you are looking for community support in the area of dreams and nightmares, the IASD, described below, is a wonderful organisation. If you need individual support, research your area to find a therapist who has experience working with dreams and nightmares, and see a sleep medicine doctor if you suffer from sleep disturbances. All over the world there are psychotherapists, crisis hotlines, and mental healthcare services to be found. I have included in this resources section a range of books that expand on many of the topics explored in The Art of Transforming Nightmares.
The International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD)
For readers who would like community support with their dreams and nightmares or who want to deepen their exploration of dreamwork, I highly recommend becoming a member of IASD. This vibrant and friendly organisation brings dreamers together from all walks of life, creates fabulous dream conferences (easy-to-access online ones and others in global locations), and provides a wealth of expert dream advice, insight, and information through its member-exclusive DreamTime magazine and its academic journal, Dreaming. IASD is community-based, supportive, and fascinated by all aspects of dreaming. For me, it’s like a second family. Find out more at www.asdreams.org.
Deep Lucid Dreaming
If you want to go deeper into lucid dreaming and healing through dreams, on my website you can explore everything from lucid dream healing and the sparkling black void to sleep paralysis and nightmare solutions. You can pick up a free e-book on how to get and stay lucid, as well as one on how to heal nightmares. You can watch lucid dreaming videos, and contact me for advice. (Please understand that I get a lot of messages, but I do my best to reply as fast as I can.) I look forward to connecting with you. Visit www.DeepLucid Dreaming.com.
If you like the idea of exploring the healing, creative, wild, and spiritual aspects of dreams, nightmares, and lucidity in a small, relaxed group by the ocean, you may wish to join me on one of my lucid dreaming retreats. We share clifftop meditations at sunset, morning dream groups, and workshops on everything from healing dreams to conscious death and playful creativity. I offer my best practices to help you become more lucid in dreams and in life, and we share illuminating lucid discussions over dinner in local restaurants. I also lead online Transformative Lucidity workshops, Yoga Nidra for Lucid Dreaming courses, and Lucid Immersion weekend intensives.
I offer private, one-to-one mentoring sessions where I create personalised nightmare solutions and lucidity programmes for people and advise them on aspects of sleep, from transforming upsetting dreams and sleep paralysis to encouraging healthy sleep and higher lucidity. I have created video courses on lucid dreaming, nightmare solutions, and yoga nidra for lucid dreaming and blissful sleep, with more to come. For more information, write to me at deepluciddreaming@gmail.com or see my website.
My YouTube channel, “Deep Lucid Dreaming Dr Clare Johnson,” has plenty of short videos where I talk about different aspects of lucid dreaming: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3P-H6MiXL4oRQjocOrcxlw. You can also contact me on Twitter @LucidClare or visit my Facebook pages: https://www.facebook.com/DeepLucidDreaming/ and https://www.facebook.com /LucidClare. I’m on Instagram as clare_johnson_lucid_dreaming.
I wish you an illuminating path into your dreams, and a happier, healthier dream life!
Book Resources
The world is full of riches and there are many wonderful books out there on the topics covered in The Art of Transforming Nightmares. I’m giving you a couple of suggestions per category, just to start you off. Please see the bibliography for many more great titles.
Children’s Nightmares—Guides for Parents
Bulkeley, Kelly, and Alan Siegel. Dreamcatching: Every Parent’s Guide to Exploring and Understanding Children’s Dreams and Nightmares. New York: Three Rivers Press, 1998.
Johnson, Clare R., and Jean M. Campbell, eds. Sleep Monsters and Superheroes: Empowering Children through Creative Dreamplay. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2016.
Mallon, Brenda. Dream Time with Children: Learning to Dream, Dreaming to Learn. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2002.
Sunderland, Margot. Using Story Telling as a Therapeutic Tool with Children. London: Speechmark Publishing, 2000.
Wiseman, Ann Sayre. The Nightmare Solution: Simple, Creative Methods for Working Out Your Dream Problems. Brattleboro, VT: Echo Point Books & Media, 2013.
Dream Creativity
Barrett, Deirdre. The Committee of Sleep: How Artists, Scientists, and Athletes Use Dreams for Creative Problem-Solving—And How You Can Too. New York: Crown Publishers, 2001.
Mellick, Jill. The Natural Artistry of Dreams. Berkeley, CA: Conari Press, 1996.
Dream Novels
Jay, Clare [Clare R. Johnson]. Breathing in Colour. London: Little, Brown, 2009.
———. Dreamrunner. London: Little, Brown, 2010.
Healing Through Dreams
Barasch, Marc. Healing Dreams: Exploring the Dreams That Can Transform Your Life. New York: Riverhead Books, 2000.
Johnson, Clare. Dream Therapy: Dream Your Way to Health and Happiness. London: Orion Spring, 2017. (US title is Mindful Dreaming: Harness the Power of Lucid Dreaming for Happiness, Health, and Positive Change. San Francisco, CA: Conari Press, 2018.)
Healthy Sleep
Krakow, Barry. Sound Sleep, Sound Mind: 7 Keys to Sleeping through the Night. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2007.
Naiman, Rubin R. Healing Night: The Science and Spirit of Sleeping, Dreaming, and Awakening. Minneapolis, MN: Syren Book Co., 2006.
Lucid Dreaming and Nightmare Solutions
Johnson, Clare R. The Art of Lucid Dreaming: Over 60 Powerful Practices to Help You Wake Up in Your Dreams. Woodbury, MN: Llewellyn, 2020.
———. Llewellyn’s Complete Book of Lucid Dreaming: A Comprehensive Guide to Promote Creativity, Overcome Sleep Disturbances & Enhance Health and Wellness. Woodbury, MN: Llewellyn, 2017.
Near-Death Experiences
Fenwick, Peter, and Elizabeth Fenwick. The Art of Dying. London: Continuum, 2008.
Sartori, Penny. The Wisdom of Near-Death Experiences: How Understanding NDEs Can Help Us Live More Fully. London: Watkins, 2014.
Sartori, Penny, and Kelly Walsh. The Transformative Power of Near-Death Experiences. London: Watkins, 2017.
Out-of-Body Experiences
Buhlman, William. Adventures Beyond the Body. New York: HarperOne, 1996.
Johnson, Clare R. “Surfing the Rainbow: Fearless and Creative Out-of-Body Experiences.” In Consciousness Beyond the Body: Evidence and Reflections, edited by Dr. Alexander De Foe. Melbourne: Melbourne Centre for Exceptional Human Potential, 2016. http://deepluciddreaming.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Consciousness-Beyond-the-Body.pdf.
Post-Traumatic Nightmares
Davis, Joanne L. Treating Post-Trauma Nightmares: A Cognitive Behavioral Approach. New York: Springer Publishing, 2008.
Krakow, Barry. Turning Nightmares into Dreams. Albuquerque, NM: Maimonides Sleep Arts & Sciences, 2002.
Sexual Dreams
Delaney, Gayle. Sexual Dreams: Why We Have Them and What They Mean. London: Piatkus, 1994
Garfield, Patricia. Pathway to Ecstasy: The Way of the Dream Mandala. New York: Prentice Hall Press, 1989.
Sleep Disturbances
Schenck, Carlos H. Paradox Lost: Midnight in the Battleground of Sleep and Dreams. Minneapolis, MN: Extreme-Nights, LLC, 2005.
———. Sleep: A Groundbreaking Guide to the Mysteries, the Problems, and the Solutions. New York: Avery, 2007.
Sleep Paralysis
Hurd, Ryan. Sleep Paralysis: A Guide to Hypnagogic Visions and Visitors of the Night. Los Altos, CA: Hyena Press, 2010.
Sevilla, Jorge Conesa. Wrestling With Ghosts: A Personal and Scientific Account of Sleep Paralysis. Bloomington, IN: Xlibris Corporation, 2004.
Spiritual Dreaming
Holecek, Andrew. Dream Yoga: Illuminating Your Life Through Lucid Dreaming and the Tibetan Yogas of Sleep. Boulder, CO: Sounds True, 2016.
Moss, Robert. Dreaming the Soul Back Home: Shamanic Dreaming for Healing and Becoming Whole. Novato, CA: New World Library, 2012.
Telepathy and Psi Dreams
Mascaro, Kimberly R. Extraordinary Dreams: Visions, Announcements and Premonitions Across Time and Place. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2018.
Sheldrake, Rupert. The Sense of Being Stared At: And Other Aspects of the Extended Mind. London: Arrow Books, 2003.
Ullman, Montague, and Stanley Krippner, with Alan Vaughan. Dream Telepathy: Experiments in Nocturnal ESP. Baltimore, MD: Penguin, 1974.
Trauma and Dreams
Cartwright, Rosalind, and Lynne Lamberg. Crisis Dreaming. London: The Aquarian Press, 1993.
Mallon, Brenda. Dreams, Counselling and Healing. Dublin: Newleaf, 2000.