Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take
The Art of Lucid Dreaming
Clare R Johnson, PhD · 2020
68/100
👎 Skip It
Clare Johnson's academic credentials in lucid dreaming research give this book more scientific weight than most titles published by Llewellyn, and the Lucidity Quiz as a personalized entry point is a genuinely smart structural choice. The Llewellyn imprint and the spiritual-adventure framing will be a hard stop for readers from traditional faith backgrounds, and anyone seeking a purely psychological or neuroscientific approach to dreaming will find it too mystically colored. For readers comfortable with that territory, though, the practical depth here is real.
✦ Penny’s Take — this is The Review Group’s own editorial assessment. Penny’s analytical review line researched this book from real sources and scored it across the lenses shown below. It’s an honest first-party read — not a page-by-page personal one. The gold ✓ Penny Tested mark is reserved for books Penny reads cover to cover herself.
⚠ Parent note — our reviewers flagged: Published by Llewellyn (New Age/occult-adjacent publisher); spiritual-metaphysical framing throughout — traditional faith readers should be aware. We still scored it 68; these are context for your family, not an automatic skip.
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Verdict receipt0–100
safety72
substance70
craft70
originality72
accuracy68
hype65
age-fit75
human-eye68
Penny’s verdict68
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