Preneur World March 2023
The luxury lifestyle magazine for those with the Preneur MIndset. In this issue: Shania Twain, Florence Pugh, Helen Glover MBE, Active Affluent for full-on outdoor enthusiasts, Luxury Hotels in Dubai and further afield, Minipreneur Fashion, Toys & Books, Techtastic Treats, Fabulous Fizz, Ask The Expert and much more.
The luxury lifestyle magazine for those with the Preneur MIndset. In this issue: Shania Twain, Florence Pugh, Helen Glover MBE, Active Affluent for full-on outdoor enthusiasts, Luxury Hotels in Dubai and further afield, Minipreneur Fashion, Toys & Books, Techtastic Treats, Fabulous Fizz, Ask The Expert and much more.
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Ask The<br />
Expert<br />
Charlie Morley is the UK’s<br />
leading lucid dreaming teacher<br />
and also one of the UK’s sleep<br />
experts who has worked with<br />
veterans to help them overcome<br />
sleep disturbances. His research<br />
and approach can be found in his<br />
latest Hay House book, Wake<br />
Up to Sleep. He also offers this<br />
as a course to both veterans and<br />
civilians with sleep disorders.<br />
Charlie is a best-selling Hay<br />
House author of four groundbreaking<br />
books on lucid<br />
dreaming, sleep & mindfulness.<br />
For the past 15 years he’s been<br />
running immersive sleep &<br />
dream retreats across the globe<br />
and he’s presented his work at<br />
both Oxford and Cambridge<br />
Universities as well as the<br />
Ministry of Defence. Charlie<br />
also offers a wide range of<br />
workshops, retreats and online<br />
courses. Check out his website<br />
or social channels as he runs<br />
various workshops in London<br />
and sometimes free in-person<br />
events. He also hosts a monthly<br />
FREE Drop-In / Meet Up (an<br />
online Dream Circle).<br />
To find out more, please visit<br />
www.charliemorley.com<br />
Guide To Lucid Dreams<br />
Charlie Morley is the UK’s leading lucid dreaming<br />
teacher and a best-selling Hay House author<br />
A lucid dream is a dream in which<br />
you are aware you are dreaming,<br />
and you’re able to direct and<br />
influence the dream at will. It’s<br />
something that has been practised<br />
by various traditions, cultures,<br />
religions for centuries. Humans<br />
have been doing this since eternity<br />
began yet it’s only been in recent<br />
decades that we’ve realised that<br />
you can actually do some pretty<br />
powerful inner growth work<br />
within lucid dreams.<br />
Rather excitingly, lucid dreaming<br />
is something that can be learnt,<br />
even if you’re not currently<br />
recalling many of your dreams.<br />
Here in the West it was first<br />
recognised scientifically by a<br />
Dutch psychiatrist named Frederik<br />
van Eeden who came up with the<br />
term for lucid dreams in 1913.<br />
Though it was in the 1970s that<br />
lucid dreaming really exploded<br />
and various studies validated and<br />
delved deeper into the field.<br />
HOW CAN LUCID DREAMING<br />
SUPPORT PERSONAL GROWTH?<br />
During lucid dreams, neural<br />
pathways in the brain can be<br />
strengthened and created, just<br />
as they can while we’re awake.<br />
This means that dreamers who<br />
consciously engage in certain<br />
practices within their lucid<br />
dreams, such as sport, acts of<br />
kindness or engaging with joy,<br />
are creating and strengthening the<br />
pathways associated with those<br />
practices, making them easier to<br />
do in the waking state.<br />
One of the easiest ways to explore<br />
our unconscious is through our<br />
dreams. Lucid dreaming takes this<br />
exploration a step further because<br />
as hypnotherapy expert Valerie<br />
Austin once told me, it allows us<br />
‘access to this data straight from<br />
the unconscious without it being<br />
edited by our rational, conscious<br />
mind’. Our true capacity is just<br />
waiting to be revealed to us, and<br />
when we start to do mind-training<br />
work such as meditation, selfhypnosis,<br />
energy work and, of<br />
course, lucid dreaming, we being<br />
to get an idea of just how deep the<br />
iceberg goes.<br />
HOW TO LUCID DREAM<br />
Keep a dream diary. The more<br />
you’re able to recall your dreams,<br />
even just fragments, the easier<br />
it will be for you to have a lucid<br />
dream. That’s because through<br />
keeping a dream diary you’ll<br />
become more familiar with the<br />
dream state, therefore, the next<br />
time you’re dreaming you might<br />
recognise that it’s a dream and<br />
wake up in the dream!<br />
Try to stay mindfully aware during<br />
the hypnogogic (the state you<br />
enter just before you fall asleep)<br />
you may then enter straight into a<br />
lucid dream if you remain mindful<br />
as you fall asleep.<br />
Try some reality checks during the<br />
day. Every time something surreal,<br />
unusual or uncanny happens in the<br />
day, ask yourself: Am I dreaming?<br />
If you get into this habit you’re<br />
more likely to ask yourself that<br />
same question within an actual<br />
dream, just before you become<br />
lucid.<br />
If you think you’re dreaming, ‘test<br />
the dream’ to see if it’s real. Try<br />
switching on a light at the wall.<br />
Your brain won’t be able to make<br />
the light appear as quickly (or in<br />
the same way) as a real-life light<br />
switch.<br />
Look at your hands, look away,<br />
and then look back at your<br />
hands. When you look back at<br />
your hands, they will be blurry<br />
or misshapen because the mind<br />
can’t replicate the same image in<br />
succession<br />
Try to read text or your mobile<br />
phone screen in a dream. You’ll<br />
find the words are eligible, jump<br />
around or are difficult to read.<br />
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