Crystals for Dream Work: Properties and Uses

Certain crystals are associated with lucid dreaming, dream recall, astral projection, protection, intuition, and clairvoyance. Here’s a list of my favorite crystals to work with, their properties, and uses.

Mystic Merlinite

“Also known as Indigo Gabbro, Mystic Merlinite helps to open the door to the dream world by allowing you to see and be conscious that you are dreaming and therefore develop the ability to manipulate your dreams as well as learn the lessons you need to from them.  Assists with overcoming any emotional hurt you might be holding at a subconscious level and allowing you to overcome any self-destructive patterns that you might be holding because of it.  Mystic Merlinite allows us to see the light and dark within ourselves and come to the realization that both are needed within our existence in order to live a full and balanced life.  By doing this it helps us to facilitate self-awareness and self-growth.

Mystic Merlinite Physical Healing – Help in cases of amnesia and in recovering lost memories, bring balance within oneself.”

Amethyst

“Amethyst is one of the best crystals for lucid dreaming. Amethyst assists in remembering and understanding dreams. It relieves insomnia. Encourages selflessness and spiritual wisdom. Amethyst activates spiritual awareness, opens intuition and enhances psychic abilities.

Amethyst is also a powerful and protective stone and can protect you during sleep from negative influences or energies. Amethyst is a natural tranquilizer, that will help you relax and overcome dispels fear and anxiety. It calms and stimulates the mind, helping you become more focused, enhancing memory and improving motivation.”

Purple Fluorite

“Purple Fluorite increases mystic visions and aids spiritual balance. It helps the intuition to connect to the rational mind. It is another great stone to use for lucid dreaming practice.

Fluorite cleanses and stabilizes the aura.  It absorbs and neutralizes negative energy and stress.  An excellent learning aid, Fluorite increases our powers of concentration, self-confidence and helps us in decision-making.  It encourages positivity, balances the energies, and improves balance and coordination, both physically and mentally.”

Moonstone

“A stone for “new beginnings”, Moonstone is a stone of inner growth, self acceptance and inner strength. Moonstone is a natural crystal choice for lucid dreaming work, as it enhances your intuition and promotes spiritual insights during dreams.

Crystal Healing Expert, Judy Hall, recommends Moonstone, which opens the heart to nurturing qualities as well as assisting in the acceptance of love.”

Clear Quartz

“Clear Quartz is known as the “master healer” and will amplify energy and thought, as well as the effect of other crystals. It absorbs, stores, releases and regulates energy. Clear Quartz enhances psychic abilities. It aids concentration and unlocks memory, so you can easily remember your dreams.

Clear Quartz balances and revitalizes the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual planes. Cleanses and enhances the organs and subtle bodies and acts as a deep soul cleanser, connecting the physical dimension with the mind.”

Selenite

“Selenite is another powerful crystal to use for lucid dreaming. It opens the crown and higher crown chakras and accesses angelic consciousness and higher guidance. It can even be used to access past lives as well as future lives.

Selenite provides for clarity of the mind, expanding ones awareness of the self and of ones surroundings.  Selenite is a calming stone that instills deep peace and is excellent for meditation or spiritual work.  It assists judgement and insight.  It clears confusion and aids in seeing the deeper picture.”

Labradorite

“Labradorite is a great crystal for lucid dream work as it balances and protects the aura while you sleep and raises your consciousness while grounding spiritual energies. Labradorite banishes fears, anxieties and insecurities that may cause insomnia, and strengthens faith in self and trust in the universe. It stimulates the imagination and calms an overactive mind, developing enthusiasm and new ideas.”

Lepidolite

“Lepidolite activates the throat, heart, third eye chakras. It also opens the crown chakra, clearing blockages and bringing cosmic awareness, and insightful dreams. Lepidolite facilitates astral travel, and can help one connect with angels, guides and spiritual helpers.

Lepidolite brings deep emotional healing and self forgiveness, soothing and reducing stress and depression.”

Blue Kyanite

“Kyanite induces dream recall and can promote healing dreams. Kyanite is an excellent stone for meditation and attunement. It encourages psychic abilities and communication on all levels. Kyanite aligns all chakras and subtle bodies instantly. It provides balance of yin-yang energy and dispels blockages, moving energy gently through the physical body.”

Moldavite

Moldavite is a very powerful stone that can be a bit intense for some. It is recommended to hold the stone for short periods of time as it can cause rapid change and body sensations.

“It is considered the stone of the new age because it carries the energy of the extraterrestrial world. This prominent crystal is very interesting being one of the oldest minerals on earth and believed to originate from outer space. Being extraterrestrial, this crystal has the ability to induce incredible lucid dreams.

It radiates energy and even upon your first touch, you can immediately feel the warmth by sending vibration throughout the body that will permeate a slight prickling sensation. This enables the blood run smoothly in the veins that reach up to the brain to clear the mind.

This crystal posses such strong energy to elevate your mind, take you beyond boundaries, and push you to the limit, thus supporting the desire of your subconscious mind to dream lucidly.”

Lapis Lazuli

“Lapis Lazuli is a semiprecious stone that has been used for centuries to induce lucid dreaming. The stone is said to have a strong connection to the subconscious mind, and is thought to help unlock the secrets of the subconscious. 

It is also said to help improve communication between the conscious and subconscious minds, making it easier for people to become aware of their dreams and achieve lucidity. In addition, Lapis Lazuli is believed to help connect people with their spiritual guides and angels, making it easier for them to access guidance and support during their journey through lucid dreaming.”

Celestite

“Celestite helps connect the physical and spiritual planes to promote lucid dreaming. It helps to open up the Third Eye chakra. This is the energy center located between the eyebrows that is associated with intuition and psychic ability. When this chakra is open, it’s easier to become aware in a dream state. Celestite also makes your dreams more vivid, allowing you to more easily enter into a lucid state.”

Sodalite

“Increases confidence, Intuition & relaxation. Assists in dream recall, lucid dreaming & truth seeking. Helps formulate new thought patterns & interpretation. Use in meditation, self reflection & shamanic journeys. Supports the regulation of blood pressure”