Ambar Cruz (better known under her creative pseudonym Ambar Lucid) is an American singer in the genre of indie rock. At twenty-one, she has already amassed half a million monthly listeners on Spotify and has a nationwide tour under her belt.
The singer attaches great importance to the practice of spiritual searching, which helps her rethink childhood psychological traumas. As she recounted in a recent Forbes publication, she was an early child of emotionally immature parents, and her father was deported to Mexico when she was young. In her struggle with feelings of isolation and neglect, Ambar turned, among other things, to lucid dreams (LD).
Interestingly, her first album, released in 2019, was called Dreaming Lucid. Lyrics from the album include: “When I close my eyes, I dream of a place where it’s all alright, I’m changing my reality, I’m going somewhere better for you and me. Medicate my soul, let me drift away.”
The words recreate a scene from the singer’s lucid dream. Ambar learned from a book on the topic that if you can’t count your fingers, see the time on the clock, or read written text, it probably means you’re dreaming. She practiced this technique repeatedly until one day it happened—she “awoke in her dream.” The dream that Ambar then experienced resembles a course of personal psychotherapy, including thorough conversations with her eight-year-old and a teenage selves. “That allowed me to put into perspective my parents just being humans. . . . People aren’t perfect. They can’t always give you what you want,” the singer concluded.
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