Kelly A from Texas says the angel membership has helped me tremendously to trust, trust my intuition, how to communicate with my angels and guides, to trust the messages I'm receiving and my sense of knowing.

Oh, Kelly, Kelly A from Texas, I love you. Thank you so much. That was beautiful.

Hello, beautiful souls. Welcome back to the Angels in Awakening Podcast. I'm your host and author, Julie Jansis.

And today we have a really, really fun guest and topic here. We have Samantha Faye and she has a new book called the Awakened Dreamer.

It's about lucid dreaming, astral travel. And I can't tell you how many emails I get from people saying, Julie, you were my dream last night, Julie, you were helping me.

And I have to say every night before I go to bed, I ask God, please allow my soul to work in the way that you need or the way that I could best serve the collective.

And so it's not surprising to get those emails, but it is really fun validation. Samantha, welcome to the show.

Thank you. I'm so happy to be here. And you know, I've gotten those emails from listeners too. And I find it absolutely intriguing to think about this idea that we are working when we're sleeping.

So I call it like kind of light worker and night worker, you know, we do where our work during the day and then at night we do our work there as well.

I love it. So talk to everybody. And I want to cover first for people who don't understand these concepts. What are the differences between astral travel, lucid dreaming.

And then I want to go deeper into the mechanics for those who are aware, but we'll start out with the fundamentals. What are the differences?

So lucid dreaming is when you become aware while you're dreaming that you're dreaming. And so lucid dreaming can involve kind of archetypical or metaphorical experiences, or it can be something a little bit more esoteric.

But it does involve this feeling that you get where you're like, oh, I don't think this is a dream. I'm actually awake and aware, but you still are might be having a typical dream.

Do you know what I mean? Where you're working through a nightmare or it might be a recurring dream. A lot of people become lucid when they have that typical flying dream.

Yes. So astral travel is different because that's that's your soul leaving your body. And it does happen. There are two types of astral travel. There is conscious astral travel and that you can do when you're meditating.

It often happens in that hypnagogic state between sleep and waking or between waking and sleeping.

That's conscious astral travel. It involves a lot of technique and meditation and trial and error and practice. But spontaneous astral travel often happens when we are sleeping.

And that is when you can leave your body in the in the sleep state and visit with loved ones on the other side.

Do work like you were saying when you first opened the show, help cross over earth pounds or receive really important guidance and help from from your team on the other side.

That's amazing. So I have to ask you this because dream pretty intensely where I remember that I've had dreams every night.

But it almost feels and I had an oracle reader tell me this in my 20s. He's like, you don't wake up feeling rested because you're doing so much work as you dream.

And I have since then asked God, you know, please rest my physical body to the maximum degree possible but still allow my soul to be able to do this work.

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