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 of the most frequently asked (and least answered) questions in lucid dreaming: What’s the deal with lucid dream sex? She breaks down the pros and cons, answers listener questions, and shares scientific insights from dream research.

The Art of Lucid Dreaming includes a “Guide to Fabulous Lucid Dream Sex”, and The Complete Book of Lucid Dreaming dives into how to stabilise and guide erotic lucid dreams, and the ethics of lucid dream sex.

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

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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 and expectations.

Dr. Clare shares the story of a psychotherapist who froze every time she got lucid in her dreams. She was terrified of changing anything, as she perceived dreams as sacred. But what are the ramifications of this attitude in terms of our wider perception of consciousness? 

In this episode, we'll illuminate the transmogrifying nature of the dreaming mind and explore lucid dreaming as a mutual conversation. Learn more in Dr. Johnson's books and video classes: https://deep-lucid-dreaming-video-courses.teachable.com/

Dive through portals into lucid dreaming on her big website: https://deepluciddreaming.com/

Or join Dr. Clare in person on Hawaii October 25-29 for a fabulous Lucid Dreaming Ocean Retreat. https://deep-lucid-dreaming-video-courses.teachable.com/p/lucid-dreaming-ocean-retreat-hawaii

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 dreaming ocean retreats. There's a whole universe within you to explore!

Hawaii Retreat, Oct 25-29:

https://deep-lucid-dreaming-video-courses.teachable.com/p/lucid-dreaming-ocean-retreat-hawaii

Video classes: https://deep-lucid-dreaming-video-courses.teachable.com/

Listen to the podcast on Dr. Clare's website and explore her site for a huge amount of info: https://www.deepluciddreaming.com

"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 lucrative! - guidance on where to invest his money.

Dr. Banerji, who has a doctorate in Mind-Body Medicine specializing in Health-Related Dreams, recounts how a dream helped him heal from an excruciating physical event. His story serves as a reminder that within us lie depths of healing intelligence—our inner guru—waiting to be accessed through the dreamspace.

Dr. Clare Johnson shares a series of luminous lucid dreams that helped her heal from a fibroid tumour.

Bhaskar also shares a powerful psychic childhood dream where he saw the school test: each question clearly written out. His dream was exactly correct, so he was able to ace the test... but was accused of cheating by the headmaster!

Another intense dream helped Bhaskar potentially evade kidnap by warning him of what was about to transpire. Two people in the travel group he was leading from Laos to Cambodia decided not to heed his dream warning... and they ended up being kidnapped by an ex-militia group. (Fortunately, they were OK in the end.)

On this day of Guru Poornima, we’re celebrating the “inner guru” of dream wisdom with this special podcast recorded deep in the Indian jungle.

Dr. Bhaskar Banerji organises fabulous Dream Conferences around the globe. Next one is in India in February 2026. Send an email to stay in the loop: [email protected]

Dr. Clare's next Lucid Dreaming Ocean Retreat is on Hawaii's Big Island, October 25-29, 2025. Amazingly, a lucid dream incubation temple is being specially built for us, and Dr. Bhaskar will be there, too. Info here: https://deep-lucid-dreaming-video-courses.teachable.com/p/lucid-dreaming-ocean-retreat-hawaii

Sign up to Dr. Clare's newsletter to be first to know all her workshop, retreat and conference dates, receive lucid dream tips and dreamy gifts: https://deepluciddreaming.com/sign-up/

Learn more about Dr. Bhaskar Banerji's work and inspiration here: https://www.dreamanalytics.info/inspiration

Chime in with your questions and comments and follow the Sleep & Deep Lucid Dreaming podcast on your favourite platform, from Spotify to Apple Podcasts, or listen on Dr. Clare Johnson's website: https://www.deepluciddreaming.com/podcast/

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 dreams where we flee, and dreams of vehicles. 

She explores why it's vital to trust your gut when figuring out the meaning of your dream, rather than accepting another person's authority and their imposed idea of what your dream means. 

Her book Dream Therapy (US title is Mindful Dreaming) offers many beautiful practices for unwrapping the essence and wisdom of your dreams. There are also blog posts on Dr. Clare's website, such as this one: https://deepluciddreaming.com/2021/04/the-secret-language-of-dreams/

Please leave a review if you're enjoying this podcast. You can listen to all episodes including both mini-classes here, and sign up for free guided meditations and a lucidity guidebook: https://deepluciddreaming.com/podcast/

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 nightmares and anxiety dreams. Dr. Johnson's book The Art of Transforming Nightmares has a comprehensive Nightmare Quiz encompassing everything from traumatic recurring nightmares to sleep paralysis and scary out-of-body experiences. This quiz fast-tracks you to the practical tips and techniques that will help you transform your dreamlife on every level. 

The 30-Day Power of Dreams class teaches Dr. Clare's original Lucid Imaging Nightmare Solution, a transformative technique that has helped thousands. Go to https://www.deepluciddreaming.com and click on Classes. Use code word SLEEP at checkout to get 50% off this class. 

There are also blog posts on her website to discover how to turn nightmares into healing dreams.

Please share this episode with anyone you know who is experiencing nightmares. There are solutions! We can empower our dreaming selves, and this empowerment will bring us greater confidence and happiness in our waking life, too.

Children's nightmares are covered in an upcoming episode and there are tips for kids in The Art of Transforming Nightmares and in The Complete Book of Lucid Dreaming. 

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 about being sucked backwards or downwards out of the dream scene, the lucid void, and time-travel in dreams.  She shares her highly lucid experiences within spaces of light, where she is sometimes shown the mysteries of the universe in the form of codes and chains of light. In such lucid dreams, time does not exist and everything is divinely interconnected.

Dr. Clare gives tips on how to teleport in a lucid dream and the art of shapeshifting into a bird or animal. There is so much fun and amazement in lucid dreaming!

Go way deeper with Dr. Clare Johnson’s huge book, The Complete Book of Lucid Dreaming. This is also available as an audiobook that lasts 20 hours and will teach you everything you always dreamed of knowing about the mysteries of lucid dreaming, as well as the science behind it. www.deepluciddreaming.com

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 experiencing interconnected oneness. 

Robert is a well-known lucid dream author: Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self, and longtime lucid dreamer. He and Dr. Clare have worked together on the Executive Board of the International Association for the Study of Dreams and have given joint lucid dream presentations at IASD conferences. Robert is co-editor of the Lucid Dream Experience magazine, and an all-round fascinating person. Tune in to hear some of his wildest lucid dreams and just how cheeky he was in his early lucid dreams.

Robert describes floating through his own palm print into a different dimension while lucid dreaming, and receiving information about when his mother was going to die. 

Dr. Clare runs through her four levels of awareness in lucid dreams from zombies to super-lucid figures (see her Complete Book of Lucid Dreaming for a chapter on this), and the two of them exchange experiences they've had with various types of lucid dream figures.

From lucid dream bubbles and where they can take us, to towering beings of blue light, this episode covers a fascinating range of lucid dream phenomena. 

Watch this interview on YouTube: https://youtu.be/9GUTEm8Y0zc

Listen on Dr. Clare Johnson's website: www.deepluciddreaming.com/podcast

Dr. Clare Johnson was the first person in the world to do a PhD on Lucid Dreaming as a Creative Tool. Her books include the giant classic: The Complete Book of Lucid Dreaming, as well as twin books The Art of Lucid Dreaming and The Art of Transforming Nightmares. Her brand new release is Elixir of Sleep. Dr. Clare's video classes have attracted many thousands of participants and she leads Lucid Dreaming Ocean Retreats in stunning locations. The next one is on Hawaii's Big Island, October 25-29. See www.DeepLucidDreaming.com for details, and sign up for free guided meditations, a lucid dreaming guide and other gifts.

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 French translation (Elixir de Sommeil). It's also available as an audiobook (in English, narrated by Dr. Clare) and of course paperback and Kindle. It will soon be translated into other exciting languages.

Find out more and browse podcast episodes here: www.deepluciddreaming.com/podcast 

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 ritual as a free downloadable guided meditation in different lengths, narrated by Clare, when you subscribe to her lucid newsletter on https://www.deepluciddreaming.com