Lucid Dreaming: How to Learn, Grow, and Heal While You Are Asleep with Charlie Morley

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Dr. Mark Hyman

Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Medicine

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🗓️ 24 July 2019

⏱️ 71 minutes

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I often talk about the importance of high-quality restful sleep and getting the right amount when it comes to creating great health. But what about the role of dreaming? You might be surprised to learn that the way we dream can have a multitude of benefits on our waking life—specifically through lucid dreaming, or the act of knowing we are dreaming while we are, in fact, completely asleep. To dig into this intriguing topic further, I sat down with expert lucid-dreamer Charlie Morley on this week’s episode of The Doctor’s Farmacy.

Charlie is a bestselling author and teacher of lucid dreaming and shadow integration. He was authorized to teach within the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism by Lama Yeshe Rinpoche in 2008 and has since developed a holistic approach to dreamwork called Mindfulness of Dream & Sleep, and has written three books which have been translated into 13 languages. In 2018 he was awarded a Churchill Fellowship grant to research mindfulness-based PTSD treatment and continues to teach on retreats for armed forces veterans. In this lively conversation, Charlie and I get into why lucid dreaming is such a powerful technique.

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0:00.0	Coming up on this week's episode of the doctor's pharmacy.
0:03.0	This is the cool thing about lucid dreaming.
0:05.3	It maximizes the third of our life that we spend asleep.
0:09.1	By doing that, we optimize the two-thirds that we spend awake.
0:16.4	Welcome to the doctor's pharmacy. I'm Dr. Mark Heimann and that's pharmacy with an F-F-A-R-M-A-C-Y
0:21.8	a place for conversations that matter. And today's conversation is something that's a little
0:27.1	unusual, but I think we'll matter to many of you because it's about becoming healthier in a realm
0:32.6	that we often don't talk about, which is our spiritual life. And the guest today we have is an
0:38.3	extraordinary young man who is one of the leading teachers of something called lucid dreaming,
0:44.7	which we'll get into in depth, but essentially it's being awake while you're dreaming
0:50.9	as a way to explore your consciousness and heal and resolve issues in your life.
0:58.7	And be more awake and have a bigger brain and all kinds of cool stuff that happens as a result of
1:04.5	this amazing technique or method that isn't really new and we'll talk about that. He actually
1:13.2	derived a lot of this through his own experience, not knowing actually what he was doing and just
1:19.2	kind of figured it out as a little kid, 12 years old, but he then realized that this was an
1:24.9	ancient practice of what's called dream yoga and Tibetan Buddhism. That's been a very secret
1:30.6	practice for thousands of years that now is being taught to Westerners and he actually was authorized
1:38.8	to teach dream yoga within the Kagu School of Tibetan Buddhism by Lama Yesha Rinpoche in 2008.
1:45.5	And he's developed this holistic approach to dream work called mindfulness of dream and sleep.
1:49.8	He's written three books about it, which have been translated into 13 languages. He's spoken at
1:54.7	major universities like Cambridge University. He's spoken at Buddhism and Youth Culture at the
2:00.4	about Buddhism and Youth Culture at the House of Parliament. He's a regular expert panelist for
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