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You and your best friend are getting on in years and getting old is not for sissies. You find it helps to talk about the life that might follow this one. You have both heard stories, some based on faith, or movies, some – if you can believe them – from dreams. People your age are not in a hurry to dismiss stories in which someone dead appears to a living survivor, sometimes to let them know they are okay or give a hug, to seek help with unfinished business or make amends.

You heard that some people make an agreement with a friend or colleague: if I die before you, I will try to come back in a dream and tell you how things are on the other side. If you die first, you will do the same for me.

The deal is done. Your friend dies first. After the funeral and the tears, you remember your agreement and wonder whether they will manage – assuming that this is really possible – to come back to you in a dream. Days pass. When you remember your dreams, you find no trace of your friend. Just the usual mix of the weird and the wispy, the confused and the quotidian.

Creative Lucidity and Ethics of Lucid Dream Sex

Robert’s recent conversation with Dr. Clare Johnson 

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GROWING BIG DREAMS

Here’s a fun note on the pre-history: A year ago, I had a clear vision in the space between sleep and awake of the manuscript of my new book being delivered to my door in a baby basket.

July 6, 2019: Hypnapompic zone

Baby Basket at My Door

Someone is at the door, making a delivery. I go to the door and look out into a narrow street of whitewashed houses, flooded with sunlight. At my door someone has left a baby basket. Really? I look more closely. Instead of a baby there is a bundle of typed pages, neatly stacked and tied with both pink and blue ribbons. I know this is the next book I will publish. Feelings: happy, excited

At that point I had not decided what my next book would be or made a publishing plan. After I shared my dream and the drawing with my wonderful editor Georgia Ann Hughes we agreed on a plan for the book.  GROWING BIG DREAMS, which contains a chapter on the creative gifts of hanging out in that liminal space between sleep and awake, was officially published on September 29. The audiobook version, narrated by me, is available on Audible.