Hi I’m Manal, and I want to help you wake up to your own Lucid Dream
It takes more than a minute to recalibrate in your Lucid Dreaming state, but rest easy as you are not alone. We are all waking up and relearning just what it feels like to be the Author of our own lives. So give yourself grace, compassion and a support network, because this moment of waking up, takes the entire collective - you cannot do this alone and the great news is, you don’t have to.
Ever since I can remember, I would write my way through life, through feeling, through dreaming. It’s a mystery to me, how our stories can go so unnoticed until one day, we wake up and realise, the pen is in my hand… I can tell any story I want about me, my life and my own possibility - so what happens next …
A little bit about my universe
I live in the quiet, little seaside town of Woonona with my husband and two children, where I enjoy the simple luxuries of being under the sunshine, by the sea with all my favourite characters close by for play. Life has always come back to these simple luxuries - a bit of sun, a bit more sea, fun friends to play with and a wild imagination to keep me good company in the moments in between.
Writing my first book was easy, releasing it into the Wild… that was a little harder. But as we will all have the pleasure of learning in our own lives, we don’t want it to be easy - we want it to be exciting!
For me to release this book, I had to meet many of my own outdated stories that desperately needed re-writing. Lucid Dreams may very well read differently for you than it does for me - each time I revisit the words on the pages - words I apparently wrote, I am hit with yet another portal of possibilities of what exactly I was trying to tell myself and I wonder, will anyone hear what I hear when they read these same words?
Nonetheless, I am excited to share this little piece of my own life’s journey of waking up to what I truly am in the hopes that it may also guide you in your own, wake up story…
Why Wake Up?
If it isn’t easy why should I Wake Up?
for the joy.
When you begin waking up and learning how to remain in your Lucid Dream state, you will arrive at something truly unfelt before- Your Joy! An unwavering, distilled, original shape and size of Your Joy! And it just so happens that it is my dream to see everyone arrive at this final destination of Being - for the Joy of You!
“I’m in the right place. I’m with the right people. I’m on the right path. I’m in the right life”
Daily Sunrise Mantra
My Wake Up Story
Well it’s a long story short, but just like you - I was living my best life, or so it kinda felt. I had friends I loved, a husband I loved, two children I adored, and I really did get to do anything I wanted to do - it just turned out, I was really, very good at lying to myself… and my bet is, so are you
I have had many lives so far in these 40 little years of mine; moved from teaching English and Art in High Schools to starting my own fashion label, just as I dreamed - moved from Sydney inner West to living right by the sea and the mountains, just as I dreamed - Married a man who loves to make me laugh and dance, just as I dreamed - had two kids, a daughter and a son who are full of joy and play, just as I dreamed - and yet… something was missing, or better yet, someone…
Me!
You see, it took quite a while and I couldn’t quite put my finger on it, but it turns out I didn’t have to - every question I thought I was asking was actually being asked of me - where the Hell are you Manal? You have the life you dreamed of and yet, I can’t quite feel you Here? Where are you running off to? What are you so afraid of? Are you ever going to Be Here to feel it all? You’re missing it !
And so, the Waking Up began - slowly, but surely, I began to feel all the ways I have been creating escape routes from my own life; My Own Perfect Life - a feeling I don’t know or like, see ya! A moment I don’t quite trust, I’m outta here!
Eventually, I couldn’t help but see how terrified I was to actually feel myself in my own life - and this was a huge shock for me, because as far as I was concerned, I was as brave as they come! I could do and feel anything - well, turns out that wasn’t quite true for me. I was curating the feelings and moments I was most comfortable with, setting a very specific temperature setting on my life and not allowing any other setting to exist. What this meant was that, I was living in such distrust of myself that everyone and everything around me had to bend and shapeshift just to keep me comfortable, because there was no way in Hell I was going to bend any other way.
That was until, I woke up - just enough - to be aware - just enough, that I was participating in my own drunken slumber. Now, I’m scared of many things it turns out, but the one thing I am definitely not scared of is myself. If I was the bad guy of my own life; the wicked witch who spiked my own apple to keep me asleep from my own Charming Life, the mirror’s skewered perception making me look ugly, the voices of all those I love laughing and mocking me - if that was all just me - well, I could take me on, and I would… and Lord Almighty did I!
And now, there really is very little that scares me. After meeting the scariest parts of myself, I have decided that I am not someone to fear, but simply someone to love -
From this shift in story, I really am living an entirely new life because you see, nothing actually threatens me except me. I have a very new relationship with myself, because I have met My True Self - and the one thing that My True Self will not tolerate, is any attempt to lie to myself about what I am and what I am not- and that has made every difference in the world about what it is I can actually do, be and feel - in fact, it is the only lie that has and will ever stop you from living in your very own Dreaming
If you want to make a short story long and follow my full journey, head over to the blog where I invite you into where all the magic happens - inside!
Stay Connected.
Now that you are waking up, let’s stay Dreaming together! Be the first to hear about upcoming workshops, book signings, presentations or simply, enjoy the little musings from my Dreaming to yours. To keep us all moving forward in this new Lucid Dreaming, we really do need to stay dreaming together