Book Review: Dream Sorcery by Nikki Wardwell Sleath

Title: Dream Sorcery
Author: Nikki Wardwell Sleath
Published by: LLEWELLYN
Pages: 358

Have you wanted to improve, explore or even learn a new way to perform your magick?  Ever thought about the possibility of it being done with your literal dreams? Or maybe help with that upcoming presentation at work?
This is where you should begin if you’ve already learned how to lucid dream as it would be easier to do but can be helpful for those of us new to lucid dreaming. Open your psyche and the answers are here for us to find and utilize.
Nikki proverbially grabs our hands through the pages, taking us on an adventure of self-awakening and rediscovery in their book Dream Sorcery. They lay the complete groundwork for us on waking and actively performing our craft for better utilization in the waking world or elevating your sorcery by crafting with and harnessing our dream energy. This book offers an array of instructions and each process, but before beginning, readers are guided through essential steps of planning, setting clear intentions, and learning how and when to perform their reality checks. Nikki offers detailed instructions to show you how to banish and/or invoke pentagrams and what they look like, and a dream journal prompt to help keep every experience accounted for and to identify what needs to change for the next session. They offer illustrations on how to create hand runes as to limit confusion and to help with accuracy along with the illustrations and pronunciations of Norse Runic and Irish Ogham Alphabets. Bottom line is that Nikki prepared one of the most detailed ‘Scout Handbooks’ for the lucid dreamer as they prepare us the best way they can and forges this pathway with us to success.

As a lucid dreamer myself, it was fairly easy to follow along and to understand the process as a whole. I have a lot of work to do before I am on Nikki’s level. Following each step and piece of information I was able to re-shift my focus and begin doing things to harness the energy of the sleeping plane. Nikki does warn that it can be overwhelming at first, which is completely true. The feelings that happen in the dreamscape, are something to marvel at. It’s intoxicating to feel the universe and the dreamscape this way but also homely.  Although I was not able to perform any manifestations or magick –this time– I was able to create a new world that shifted and started as I saw fit with Nikki’s endless offerings of tips and a multitude of ritualistic exercises, such as communicating with elevated spirits. The one that stuck out to me the most was the process in how to communicate with a Plant Spirit. I love and use plants in my crafts, and what better way to become more in tune with them than to feel them and understand them more? As rhetorical as that is, the answer is simple: by communicating.

I recommend the book to anyone willing to walk the dreamscape and harness their dream world’s energy and to better understand who we are working with in our practices.