The book The Lucid Dreamer by Malcolm Godwin, has a subtitle, ‘A Waking Guide for the Traveler Between Worlds’ this tells the whole story. There are two kinds of Lucid Dreamer, people who practice to become lucid in their dreams and the natural Lucid dreamer of which there is only 10%. Even for a natural LD, there is practice involved. I have been a dreamer and a traveler between worlds, dimensions and time, all my life. I am lucid during 65% of my dreams. It is difficult to share the wonders I experience. As my friends often remark – “It’s obvious why you don’t use drugs – you don’t need them!”


Staying lucid once you become lucid is not always easy and I have found useful tips in this respect in Carlos Castaneda's book – The Art of Dreaming. I also learned that one of my worst lucid experiences is called ‘False Awakening’ This is when you dream you are awake, and at the same time you are lucid so you know you are dreaming. Usually the dream starts out as dream but one where I am going through the motions of waking up and going about my life, then suddenly something odd occurs and I realize I am in a dream. It becomes a nightmare when I can’t wake myself up. The worst experience in this respect I have had was seven false awakenings. I must admit I do get frantic – I have often thought this is what insanity must feel like, you are aware of everything around you, you are very aware its NOT REAL but you can’t get yourself out of this weird world. I have learned though that panic doesn’t help. Two things work. A psychologist friend of mine suggested that I don’t fight so hard to wake up but instead that I go to sleep in my dream. In other words lay down, snuggle into a comfortable position and try to sleep, this way I relax out of the panic state and usually wake up shortly after that. The other thing is if you live with another person, tell them your fear of being trapped in dream world and make them promise you that they will always wake you up. Believe me that little bit of information sticks somewhere and when I start panicking I remember I will be woken up, and then I just go with the flow of the dream. One of the most wonderful things about Lucid Dreaming is that you can change the dream.


I didn’t want to do that for years. I was so amazed at my ability to be completely lucid in a dream reality that I just wanted to observe. However a point came when I had to defend myself in a dream and I changed certain objects to help me survive. From then on it became easier to ‘take part’ in stead of being passive. Since my dreams are extremely vast and I often have dreams of places and things I can’t describe (not for lack of anything but vocabulary - In this case a million pictures being a thousand million words that I don’t have) my dream life is often a lonely one.


With the gift of being a dreamer I also have a generous gift for Dream Interpretation. Perhaps because I have experiences so much in the dream world. When people ask about this skill I usually just say Josef and I attended the same school of dream interpretation. Please feel free to submit your dreams, it will be treated with confidentiality. When I do dream interpretations there is usually some questions I need to ask. I need as much detail as you can possibly provide. Your dream interpretation will be a correspondence until an interpretation is possible. All your questions concerning the dream and the interpretation will be answered.


Lastly people often ask me how they can remember their dreams, and I usually suggest they drink one or two huge glasses of water before bedtime. This will force you to go to the bathroom during the night and hopefully you will be disturbed by your bladder during a REM cycle.

May all your dreams be interesting!

Willow