Erin, you are an experiential expert on dreaming in general and lucid dreaming in particular. After reading your descriptions of how lucid dreaming evolved for you, it sounds as though it began in the spirit of creative play. For the benefit of any readers not already familiar with your work, could you please describe lucid dreaming and how you create with it?

I learned lucid dreaming after doing my science fair project in junior high on the subject of dreams. It sounded so interesting to be able to control dreams so I experimented with it while still in my teens. It didn’t take long before I was able to become lucid while having a dream, then I learned how to change the plot of a dream while it was happening, and eventually I learned to program in advance exactly the dream I wanted to have. My favorite dreams were the ones where I could don my cape and play superhero, careening around the sky, shooting lasers from my hands, and vanquishing the bad guys. And since I was a teen at the time and quite boy crazy, I could easily arrange dates with my favorite actors.

Sometimes we receive warning dreams, others show our own emotional processing, and some can be chalked up to indigestion, etc. Can you outline the main categories of dreams and how lucid dreaming is or is not appropriate to use in each of them?

Like you mentioned there are several types of dreams. Sometimes I call them dreamscapes because while I’m in each type I can identify the dream “landscape” and know what to expect. The dreams I like least are the ones where my subconscious is trying to process buried emotions. Necessary, but usually they are jumbled and fear-based and not at all fun. I also have precognitive dreams where I dream of a future event. Those often come out sort of hazy or with a gray halo around them. I also have dreams where I am in conscious contact with my higher self, spirit guides, angels, or other celestial beings. Those seem more like direct communication to me where I basically find myself chatting with them and there’s no dream symbolism around at all.

I think it’s inappropriate to try to make every dream a lucid dream. You’ve got to give your subconscious mind it’s share of the night. Important work is being done in those dreams. But since you have 4-6 dreams every night, on average, there’s plenty of time for a lucid dream or two. Lucid dreaming provides good practice for staying conscious whether you are in a dream or in life.

Dreams, even for those who do not remember them, usually set the emotional tone for the day following the dreams. How is your waking life affected by your lucid dreams?

Like everyone else, I sometimes have dreams that are unnerving, like when I dream one of my kids is injured, or if I dream my husband is cheating on me, or if I dream someone has died. It can wreak havoc on my emotions and take anywhere from 5 minutes to 2 hours to shake off the effects of a bad dream experience.

What is the optimum balance between lucid dreaming and other dreaming?

That is likely going to be different for each individual. I can handle a lot of lucid dreaming. Some nights I will program a dream situation and it carries me through until morning so that I’m having one long continuous experience. Even if I wake up in between I can usually get right back in where I left off. Can’t leave Magneto running around unchecked now can I?

I think the more conscious you are and the more you tackle the problems of your life and the happier you are, the more lucid dreaming you could be safely doing.

Your posts on your blog share some quite interesting adventures in dreaming. What are the most creative applications of lucid dreaming in your experience so far?

In high school when I was studying for a biology test on the Kreb’s cycle I remember being very tired and wanting to go to sleep. I programmed myself to dream about studying and sure enough, I did! I think I got an extra hour of studying in while sleeping. On the test, I had that Kreb’s cycle down pat! Just don’t ask me anything about it today.

I also use lucid dreaming to practice anything from making a speech to parenting to cooking. It’s like a virtual school in there.

Are you developing anything new in lucid dreaming at this time?

I’m always on the lookout for new and richer dream experiences. Right now I’m finding myself doing psychic readings for people while I’m dreaming. Sometimes, if I know the person, I’ll call them the next day and see if the information I got fits them. It’s been amazing. So I guess I’m practicing my psychic skills while dreaming as well.

Do you deliberately gather information during dreaming for use in your waking life, or does it simply come spontaneously, such as described in your post A Visit from Grandpa?

I don’t do it deliberately, no. If it wants to come, it knows how to find me.

In what ways are your dreams a creative component of your spiritual growth?

I credit my experiences with lucid dreaming for opening many doors to me and helping me with my psychic development. Being able to retain your consciousness while your body is unconscious is extremely empowering. You can retain that sense of power during your waking life as well. Treating my life like a lucid dream helps me control and determine the course of my life. Just snap my fingers (practically) and whatever I want comes to pass. We truly do create our reality. When you practice inside your dreams you get better at manifesting in life.

What are your recommendations for those who wish to use their dreams as a creative component of their spiritual growth?

Explore! There’s so much you can do in a lucid dream. I talk about lucid dreaming in my blog a lot, sharing experiences and giving tips and advice for achieving them. Listen to my podcast on lucid dreaming for more information.

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The course, titled Higher Sense Perception Mastery, was created by you with your guides and nature spirits. This makes it particularly interesting since you are the most skilled individual I know at working with higher sense perception.

Can you tell us what Higher Sense Perception Mastery covers?

The course has three steps: healing our near and far senses; reconfiguring them for ease in higher sense perception; and interpreting with higher sense perception.

Why is it important to develop these abilities?

Higher Sense Perception is traditionally known as intuition, clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience and other psychic abilities. The guides I work with, however, view HSP as the natural right of every human who experiences life from a place of joy, appreciation and openheartedness.

By taking the course, a person can not only begin to perceive beyond the mere physical but also begin to live in his or her fullest potential. In other words, the end result isn’t to be able to use your third eye to spy on the boys in the locker room, but to be fully experiencing life in the highest vibration possible. That is the definition of higher sense perception. Psychic abilities are just a natural by-product.

Can anyone take this online course?

Yes, they can. The course was designed with Crystalline Consciousness Technique™ which has built in safety mechanisms. Participants should feel gentle healing and joy during the course.

I personally don’t subcribe to “the-more-intense-it-is-the-better” mindframe when it comes to energy healing. When healing is balanced electromagnetically, there is no healing crisis.

It is important for participants to understand, however, that in a healing process the old distorted energies (or traumas) will lift out from the conscious mind last. That can feel a little bit in your face. As long as this lifting out is interpreted from a “May you go with God…but go!” attitude, instead of…”Help, I’ve fallen and can’t get up!” there is no distress.

As the old distorted patterns lift out, it makes room for new possibilities.

As there are two ways to take the course, can you describe them?

The first way to take the course is to just read each daily lesson. It brings new information to the conscious mind.

The second way includes the conscious information as well as energetic information from the guides who are creating the course. Some of this energetic information is for the healing mechanisms of your body and some is for new ways of perceiving.

For people who are energetically sensitive they will feel this as waves of energy moving through their body. For others, they may notice a difference in events or people surrounding them. By the way, those who feel the energy move through them are primarily using their near senses, while the ones who notice a difference in their environment are using their far senses.

For the energetic component to happen, you must donate on the blog (or send a check) in a multiple of 21. This act of donation indicates to the guides that you are activating your free will and choice to receive the energetic component of the course.

Will everyone who takes the course be a master of higher sense
perception at the end of the 21 days?

The guides actually chose the word “mastery” for this course. I am
a bit more cautious about using such terms as I know we humans can get fixated on certain expectations.

After questioning the guides (kind of severely!) about it, their response was along these lines: “Every human is a master soul. There is no need to become a master, only to allow one’s self to open to their mastery.”

After the 21 days there will be a mastery for each person…and it’s just a beginning to greater and greater levels of mastery.

Can you describe the process of creating the course?

Ha! Or LOL as my son would say on his cell phone texting. Good
question!

First there was the word (or intention). And on the first day, gia said, “Let there be light!” And on the second day gia said…well you get the idea.

Who can explain how creation works?

I can say that the tools that were used to enhance my own higher sense perception were Crystalline Consciousness Technique™ for setting up my fields with the guides, muscle testing, divination cards, clairaudience, Bach Flower Remedies and lots of dream time.

The tools used by the guides to create each day’s lessons were the CCT protocol and Soul Charts, geometric configurations with sacred geometry and other vibrations, holographic time chambers, and some goodies that I don’t even know about.

Since you have an extensive background working with higher sense perception, can you give us an overview of your work?

Higher Sense Perception is something that has opened slowly for me. This has given me a better understanding of how to work with the gifts and challenges of being psychically gifted.

My own unique way of perceiving has more to do with reading energy and clairsentience, then it does with clairvoyance. In other words, when a person asks me a question I read their field for the answer. The implication with this is that we have all the answers…we just need help at times accessing them.

Being a healer, however, I’m not just interested in information. If something need healing, why provide just the information about that? When I work with people, there is healing and information going on simultaneously.

In conclusion, what is your view of where humanity is going at this rather volatile time?

All roads to lead enlightenment because that is the natural consequence of evolution. Some of us have chosen the long arduous way to get there and some of us are moving at the speed of grace.

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