Thank you for joining us for episode 525 of Live Happy Now.

Many of us talk about following our dreams, but few of us take it as literally as this week's guest.

I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and this week I'm talking with Bonnie Buckner, founder and CEO of the International Institute for Dreaming and

imagery, and author of the new book, The Secret Mind, Unlock the Power of Dreams to Transform

Your Life. Bonnie's here to explain how our nighttime dreams can help us solve the challenges

in our lives, develop our fullest potential, and help us discover our purpose. Let's have a

listen. Bonnie, thank you for joining

me on Live Happy Now. Thank you so much for having me. I'm excited to be here. Oh, I've been so

looking forward to this conversation because we're talking about something that all of us do,

but most of us don't really understand. So, and that that is dreaming. And I love this book that you've written.

And I love that your approach uses so much science to back up everything that you're teaching.

And I was really curious to learn how you got into this area of study because it's a little bit

unusual.

Thank you for asking that question. I got into this, not as an

area of study, but as a kid, in fact. When I was a young child, I had nightmares all the time,

and it was really a lot for me. And there was just a moment where I was thinking about, you know,

as little kids do, oh, what's the Guinness Book of World Records for never sleeping?

Because I didn't want to sleep.

And then I just had this flash of, oh, wait, this is why I'm here.

I'm going to learn how to deal with my nightmares and I'm going to teach it to other people.

Now, as a kid, I understood that

very clearly. And then as I moved forward in life, what does that actually mean? And so then it

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