There are some amazing dreamers out there, people who have dedicated their life’s work to dreaming. As a new feature for the IASD members’ magazine DreamTime, I’ll be interviewing these dreamers.

Here’s the first one, with Dr Patricia Garfield who wrote Creative Dreaming forty years ago – a book which inspired and encouraged me when I came across it when I was doing undergrad research into lucid dreaming back in 1996.

Click on the cover of DreamTime to read the interview.

Lucid dreaming triggers creativity, and my 4-year-old daughter woke up the other week announcing she wanted to make a book of her favourite lucid dreams like asking a silver crown to fly her to the moon, whizzing down the biggest water slide in the world and being a 91-year-old surrounded by trees. She went for it and has collaged lots of pages using glitter glue, bits of crepe paper, wool, sequins and acrylic paints, as well as cutting out and sticking in pictures of witches and unicorns she coloured in with felt-tips. If the dream can be described very simply, she writes it, and if not, I write the dream in silver pen around her artwork. Go Yasmin!