The mindfulness of dreams and sleep

What if I were to tell you that you can transform your waking life while you sleep? That you could not only help to solve recurring challenges and heal emotional wounds but that you could wake in the morning with a surge of renewal and joy. You would still benefit from the same amount of rest, and actually, more often than not, you’d wake feeling even more refreshed than you would ordinarily. Sounds like a no-brainer surely? The thing is, most people don’t realise they’re actually sitting, or rather lying, on a goldmine at night when untapped potential lies in wait, just ready for the taking.

Mindfulness of dreams and sleep is an approach developed by leading mindfulness teachers, bestselling authors and dream work experts Rob Nairn and Charlie Morley. In a nutshell, mindfulness of dreams and sleep is about using different sleep states to harness your potential. The first key sleep state that you can work with is the moment just before sleep, the hypnogogic state, which often includes sensations of floating, falling or spinning. Then there’s the hypnopompic, that broad and refined state you experience just as you are surfacing from sleep. It’s possible to use mindfulness within these two