COURSE

The Mindful Guide To Lucid Dreaming

Every night we dream for hours, but how often are we mindful of our dreams? In this course, you’ll learn to mindfully reconnect with your dreams. That means you’ll learn to: have lucid dreams (become aware you’re dreaming during the dream), become skillful during lucid dreams (feel comfortable in the lucid state, be able to “control the dream”), remember your dreams / how to use a dream journal, and also – learn to practice mindfulness during the day to enhance you lucid dreaming practice during sleep, and learn from your dream experiences to enhance your waking life. You'll get more out of life by being conscious during dreams. In this course, you will also learn: How to remember dreams clearly How to use a dream journal skillfully How to get familiar and more integrated with your dreams How to become lucid (conscious, aware) during dreams This course teaches a few of the best, evidence-based lucid dream induction techniques. These include: How to influence what happens during lucid dreams (dream control) How to integrate mindfulness into this practice (meditation, visualizations, other exercises during the day) Generally, this course will teach you how mindfulness and lucid dreaming can and should be practiced together, rather than as people usually understand them to be (separate practices).

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Meet your Teacher

Jason Cassidy

San Diego, CA, USA

Jason Cassidy is a certified mindfulness teacher and lucid dreaming teacher. He has worked in sleep medicine for over nine years with experiences in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for insomnia, sleep and dream research, polysomnography, and sleep education. Jason has developed a comprehensive mindfulness-based lucid dreaming course that focuses on three skill sets: dream awareness, lucid dreaming, and mindfulness.

20 Days

6.5k students

4.8 stars

14 min / day

Awakening

English

Lesson 1

Healthy Sleep & Mindfulness

This is a lesson in the best practices for getting healthy sleep and also an introduction to mindfulness. This is the first of many lessons in lucid dreaming. It's best to understand how to get restful sleep before beginning a sleep and dream-based practice.

Lesson 2

Insight For Dream Journaling

Here, we discuss what's going on inside the mind while we sleep. We briefly cover the technical stages of sleep, and then how to remember dreams by dream journaling. Learn how to skillfully use your dream journal, and why journaling is crucial for lucid dreamers (especially beginners!).

Lesson 3

Mindfulness & Sleep

Here, not only do we get an intro to the basics of mindfulness and how it relates to lucid dreaming but we also get to practice. This is an exercise for the mind - it's not just about understanding these concepts, it's about learning a skill and experiencing the benefits first-hand. Please enjoy this guided meditation and don't forget to write your dreams down

Lesson 4

Seeing Mindfully & Dream Imagery

Of all we remember from our dreams, the visual details stand out the most. It's what we see in dreams that we recall most clearly and vividly (compared to sounds, emotions, physical sensations, smells, etc.) - and also it’s the imagery that can make dreams the most intriguing, stunning, and beautiful. Mindfulness of vision/seeing while awake can help us enhance visual perception in lucid dreams. Enjoy this eye-opening meditation, visualization, and contemplation of Mindful Seeing.

Lesson 5

Listening Mindfully & Hearing In Dreams

Often, it's what we hear that pulls our attention or our focus away from the present moment. Listening mindfully is useful for improving concentration and gaining familiarity with what tends to distract us. Also, what we hear in dreams; conversations, music, and background noise, are details the mind produces and if we know how to listen to them just right, they might help us get lucid.

Lesson 6

Spatial Awareness & Expansion

It's kind of incredible how far we can extend our sense of awareness. This practice is all about the sensation of being in a body, and also being more than that - expanding out into the space around us. This is called spatial awareness. In dreams, we might feel embodied, we might not… we might be flying or swimming, or not moving at all…dive in here to learn more.

Lesson 7

Mindfulness Of Emotions

An essential part of lucid dreaming practice is familiarity with emotions. Emotions can be quite intense and significant in dreams. In this lesson, we explore how we relate to our emotions and how that relationship manifests in dreams.

Lesson 8

Reality Testing (Part 1)

Lucid dreaming is awareness of the fact that you're dreaming - but how do you know for sure? In this lesson / guided meditation, we explore how to observe and question our reality state in a way that promotes the same mindset in dreams. When we question our state of reality in dreams, we're more likely to become lucid and awaken within the dream. Enjoy this two-part lesson (the next one outlines how to verify whether you're dreaming).

Lesson 9

Reality Testing (Part 2)

Now that you’ve learned the first step of reality testing (questioning whether you’re dreaming), now you can move on to Step 2: testing and validating your conscious state (or state of ‘reality’). These are the evidence-based methods for confirming whether you’re awake or dreaming so you can achieve, with confidence, that Ah-ha! moment of lucidity. Enjoy!

Lesson 10

Seeking Dream Signs

Finding lucidity requires a certain mindset—almost like a detective looking for clues. Only, the clues you’re looking for are dreamlike signs that will help you realize when you’re dreaming. In this lesson, you’ll learn what to look for, and how this can help clue you into a lucid state.

Lesson 11

Thinking About Thinking

Metacognition is a term that means ‘thinking about thinking’ or ‘awareness of awareness’. Lucid dreaming is kind of a hybrid state of consciousness. But awakening is possible in both the waking state and the dreaming state. Learn more about it in this lesson.

Lesson 12

Prospective Memory

Becoming lucid during a dream often involves realizing, or remembering to realize you’re dreaming. There are actually different forms of memory, but the one most useful for lucid dreaming is “prospective memory” or “remembering to remember.” Learn how to hack your prospective memory to get lucid in this lesson.

Lesson 13

Balance Beam Meditation

Tying all back into mindfulness; this guided meditation is an exercise you can come back to whenever you want to strengthen your attention and your sense of focus and balance. Useful both while awake, and for lucid dreaming.

Lesson 14

Wake Back To Bed Method

This is THE most powerful lucid dream induction method. Evidence-based and strongly supported, the wake-back-to-bed method is the fastest, most reliable way to get lucid. In this lesson, you’ll learn why it works and how to do it.

Lesson 15

WBTB Exercise

Now that you know the why and the how, here’s your chance to actually implement it. Listen to this session during the W (wake) period of the WBTB technique for inducing lucid dreams. This will help you prime your brain and get into the proper mindset for lucid dreaming.

Lesson 16

Maintaining Lucidity

Once you GET lucid, how do you STAY lucid? Beginners often get so excited once they attain lucidity, that the intense excitement throws them out of lucidity! This lesson will teach you to stay calm, cool, collected, and maintain focus and stability so you can maintain lucidity during your dreams.

Lesson 17

Understanding Nightmares

Nightmares are all too common. But depending on how we think about nightmares, and how we relate to our upsetting dreams, we can turn our worst dreams into our best friends. Since in this course, we’re bringing light into the dark places of our minds, nightmares can be truly transformative opportunities. By changing the way we understand nightmares, we can ease unnecessary suffering in our minds. This lesson is designed to explain why disturbing dreams happen, and how they can actually be appreciated rather than feared if and when they happen.

Lesson 18

Working Through Nightmares

Now that you have a better understanding of what nightmares are and how you might deal with them, let’s try putting it into practice. This exercise will help you bring mindfulness and lucidity to unpleasant experiences, negative emotions, fears, nightmares, etc.

Lesson 19

Awareness & Compassion

In this session, first, we meditate… then we expand awareness. Just like in dreams, in meditation (and in other ways while awake), we can be flexible with our awareness, our perception, and how we feel about ourselves and others around us. This flexibility gives us power because it gives us options. When we have the option to be more compassionate and loving, well we simply have the option to live a better life. Learn more about this practice in this lesson.

Lesson 20

Using Your New Skills

As we conclude this course with this lesson, we reflect on the many skills we’ve learned. The wonderful practice of mindfulness does not need to stop when we go to sleep. In fact, as I hope you’ll agree at this point, sleep is a profound opportunity to enhance our mindfulness practice and explore the absolute majesty of the mind and of human consciousness. Take what you’ve learned and use it wisely.

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Recent Reviews

Susan

June 3, 2025

I enjoyed this course very much. I didn't have a lucid dream yet. I will continue to practice what I learned here. Thank you.

Mark

April 22, 2025

Pretty cool stuff. I haven’t found it easy to implement all the practices as described. But what I could has improved dream recall and we’ll see if I get to some lucid dreams.

Luis

February 20, 2025

Well planned and executed, I learned a lot besides lucid dreaming. Definitely need to go through it again. Thank you!

Carolina

January 24, 2025

I love you

Tad

December 13, 2024

Very well done class. I learned quite a bit even though I’ve been working on lucid dreaming for years. Lots of gratitude that this class exists.

Jeff

June 6, 2024

After half a lifetime, I finally understand the healing capacity of mindfulness. Not just from my head, viscerally. While I have yet achieved lucid dreaming, I do remember my dream more, and I do have a sense while dreaming that I want to remember my dreams. To some extent, that is lucid dreaming. Equally meaningful for me is knowing that lucidity can extend to daydreams and visualizations. I am lucid durin I mean just having the understanding that I can be 'lucid' during the day is a breakthrough for me. Because there is so much care and intention put into the course this deserves 5+ stars. The therapeutic benefits of becoming lucid are not addressed so much but they are implied and they work for me. With many thanks!!!

Lois

May 25, 2024

I plan to repeat the course & practice with more consistency.

Deanna

March 6, 2024

Thank you so much for this very informative and interesting course ! I will listen again to take away more from it.

theresa

January 7, 2024

I am intrigued by learning from this course, I’m in the process of relistening, reviewing, practicing the suggestions you provided. I appreciate your time and effort put forth, you have provided a wealth of information, I am finding this helpful in taking control of my life, thoughts, actions. 🙏 Thank you

Jodi

January 3, 2024

Excellent course! It includes instruction on getting lucid, of course, but there is also mindfulness meditation throughout, which truly does prepare you for lucid dreaming. I attained one short lucid dream and one sub-lucid dream, in which I made note to observe colors, and discovered how vivid the colors are in my dreams. One suggestion: In Lesson 18 there is a reframing exercise. Don't choose a traumatic experience--go with something you're ok enough with revisiting. Take this course! It's well worth your time, and will change both your dream experience and your waking life!

Deb

September 3, 2023

Loved this, looking forward to your next classes.

Kim

September 2, 2023

Very good, interesting course. I would like to learn more about what to do when within a lucid dream.

Christopher

August 21, 2023

Very well done. Thank you.

Micah

August 20, 2023

This course isglat-out, bone-simple, brilliant. Not a word, or breath is an extraneous move. The goal is there, elucidated, on Day One. Go. Now. Starting this couse again tomorrow.

jamilah

May 26, 2023

Paul

April 19, 2023

Brilliant, loved every Module, I have had a lucid dream more than one actually, but your course is so thorough and touches on many aspects that resonate very deeply within me and my consciousness. I’m so grateful for what you’ve done. I’m actually going to do this whole thing all over again. Look forward to your next course. Namaste, Paul. Paul

Samira

March 10, 2023

I will be repeating this course. It’s done well, but I didn’t lucid. So will retake it.

Sandy

November 29, 2022

Great course Jason! I’m on my way and maybe next week I can really concentrate on my log and using the tips. It will be much less busy and stressful. I especially appreciate the conversation and look forward to checking back as more people take the course and write about their experiences. I definitely want to stay in touch. I can imagine using this as one of many psychotherapy tools. My husband runs a clinic for patients with Functional Neurological Disorder and some of them might respond well to trying out Lucid dreaming.

Kathleen

November 23, 2022

I’ve journaled my dreams for many years, from grade school to late life, and recognize how they are a reflection of my waking stresses in life. Changing the outcome of a dream (lucidly), which happens on occasion, was not something that I was aware could be exercised. I want to be the hero in my dreams and now I have a practice! Just knowing that this is possible, after years of mind-numbing dream “hangovers” is huge. Thanks!

Monica

September 17, 2022

Very helpful. I went through the whole course in one day because my subscription is up today. There is a lot of information that many other lucid dreaming courses leave out. It is worth your time. I look forward to noticing dream signs and becoming lucid with the beam meditation. Thank you!😊🙏💚

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