Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Clare R. Johnson, PhD, author of Llewellyn's Complete Book of Lucid Dreaming, The Art of Lucid Dreaming, and the new The Art of Transforming Nightmares. Nightmares can be terrifying, but astonishingly, they can also be opportunities for deep healing and spiritual progression. There are many swift and practical ways of working with stressful dreams or nightmares to unwrap any gifts they have for us. What would you do if you had a nightmare like this one? In a parking lot, I see an old man with a wrinkled, ghostly white face. He scares me. I sense he is going to rape me. I yell at him to go away. I struggle to say something but no