Practices

Chapter 1: What Are Nightmares and How Can They Help Us?

Practice 1: How to Release Fear and Become Calm

Practice 2: Keep a Nightmare Journal

Practice 3: Who Are You When You Dream?

Practice 4: Top Ten Tips for Getting Lucid in Your Dreams and Nightmares

Practice 5: Create a Soothing Bedtime Ritual

Practice 6: Pre-Bed Meditation to Calm the Mind 36

Chapter 2: Understanding the Symbolic Language of Nightmares

Practice 7: The Nightmare Reflection Technique

Practice 8: Reenter the Nightmare

Practice 9: Connect Your Nightmare to Waking Reality

Practice 10: Experience Your Nightmare as an Alien from Outer Space

Practice 11: Free Association à la Freud

Practice 12: Ten Key Questions for Unwrapping a Nightmare

Chapter 3: Exploring the Dark Shadow for Healing and Transformation

Practice 13: The Lucid Imaging Nightmare Solution (LINS)

Practice 14: Creative Nightmare Responses

Practice 15: How to Identify Your Shadow Selves

Practice 16: Become the Monster

Practice 17: The Nightmare Transformation Technique

Chapter 4: Rediscover Your Inner Child Through Nightmares

Practice 18: Lucid Dream Magic

Practice 19: Artistic Nightmare Options for Adults and Kids

Practice 20: Coping with Sleep Terrors

Practice 21: Enlist a Power Animal for Help and Protection

Practice 22: Create a Sacred Altar

Practice 23: The Egg of Light and Other Nightmare Protections

Practice 24: The Lucid Writing Technique for Nightmares

Practice 25: Nightmare Work to Protect Your Inner Child

Chapter 5: The Nightmare Quiz and Nightmare Solution Programmes

Practice 26: The Nightmare Quiz

Nightmare Solution Programme 1: The Nightmare Sufferer

Nightmare Solution Programme 2: The Traumatised Dreamer

Nightmare Solution Programme 3: The Agitated Sleeper

Nightmare Solution Programme 4: The Insomniac

Nightmare Solution Programme 5: The Lucid Dreamer

Nightmare Solution Programme 6: The Anxious or Depressed Dreamer

Nightmare Solution Programme 7: The Visual and Imaginative Thinker

Nightmare Solution Programme 8: The Mythical Dreamer

Nightmare Solution Programme 9: The Child Prodigy Dreamer

Nightmare Solution Programme 10: The Health-Challenged Sleeper

Nightmare Solution Programme 11: The Psi Dreamer

Nightmare Solution Programme 12: The Out-of-Body Traveller

Nightmare Solution Programme 13: The Lucid Void Visitor

Nightmare Solution Programme 14: The Sleep Paralysis Explorer

Nightmare Solution Programme 15: The Spiritual Dreamer

Practice 27: How to Create Your Own Unique Nightmare Solution Programme

Chapter 6: Healing from Recurring and Traumatic Nightmares

Practice 28: Bring Soul Dreams and Healing Imagery into the Body

Practice 29: How to Transform a Post-Traumatic Nightmare

Practice 30: Imagery Rehearsal Therapy: Rewrite a Nightmare for Healing Resolution

Practice 31: Lucid Dreaming to Transform a Recurring Nightmare

Practice 32: Forgive and Release

Chapter 7: Sleep Paralysis and the Art of Transforming Fear

Practice 33: How to Release Fear in Sleep Paralysis

Practice 34: How to Discourage Sleep Paralysis Episodes

Practice 35: Sleep Paralysis as a Springboard for Lucid Dreaming

Practice 36: Invoke Protective Powers: Ball of Light

Practice 37: Change Your Sleep Paralysis Story

Practice 38: The Insomnia Freedom Technique

Chapter 8: Nightmares That Transcend Time, Space, and Death

Practice 39: Question Your Beliefs, Assumptions, and Expectations

Practice 40: How to Release Fear During an OBE

Practice 41: Yoga Nidra: Balance Between the Worlds

Chapter 9: The Luminous Shadow: Spiritual Nightmares

Practice 42: How to Navigate the Lucid Void

Practice 43: Turn Mythological Beasts into Protective Allies

Practice 44: Meet Your Inner Light

Practice 45: Drumming Journey: Create Your Own Spiritual Dream