Another thing that you can do to change the landscape is to close your eyes and “change” it. This can be whatever works for you, from wishing you were where you need to be, knowing you are where you need to be, or forcibly morphing the landscape. With your eyes closed the dreamscape should be more fluid and easy to manipulate due to the fact you aren’t focusing on any of it.
Also, Terra, you just may find that once you get lucid it is easier for you to have that dream. From what I’ve been reading, it’s easier to successfully pull of what you want to do in a lucid if you’ve practiced it IRL first, be it by actually practicing or by visualization/meditation.
Hey Colors C: It seems TeraFlare and wolvendeer have beat me to you!
Congratulations on the WILD, and Tera and wolven are right-- Spinning and closing your eyes are both good ways to will your dream environment into stability/ changing.
Spinning usually stops the dream from fading, and closing the eyes will send you somewhere new-- I think it may be better to stabilize your environment, and just summon/ go to your character from there. That way, you won’t wake up once you get to the new place.
Personally, though-- when I spun last time, the scene blurred and I woke, and the closing eyes sent me to a new place that melted–
When I want to stabilize a dream, I find that it works best for me to just verbally command/ask the dream to become more clear. I said: “Greater clarity. Now.” And it works every time, it’s also direct and easy to remember. pasQuale’s (our admin) did this, I think, and I followed suit.
If you want to go new places, going through doors or mirrors can be a fun way of doing so-- also flying. C:
I hope that helps! If you ever want a more in depth description on how I’ve personally gotten my characters to appear in my dreams, just prompt me to do so here. Or if you’d like a private discussion, please don’t hesitate to PM me C:
Good luck and if you have more questions we’re more than happy to help! C:
I got very close to having a character lucid dream! My characters appeared in a non LD, and I became lucid but woke up I’ve given some of characters more details (about their history etc) which keeps the thought of characters on the brain. Hopefully this will transfer over to my subconscious while I’m dreaming. I’ll try CALD again aswell.
Wolvendeer, thanks. I have to try visualising/meditating sometime so I get to grips with what I want to do in a dream.
The ‘increase clarity’ things works. In my previous LDs I said it and it made the dream more vivid. Shouting it makes me wakeup, so I just utter the words like I would do in waking life.
Also, the opening door trick is what I plan to do to enter the futuristic city. I’ve changed where a door has lead in one of my epic lucids a few months back, and it sure is strange! I’d better avoid a mirror though, my reflection is often creepy in dreams!
Hopefully this will get me into a character lucid dream. I’m ready!
The biggest dream killer is excitement. If you get excited (eg because you finally get to meet your characters face to face) you’re almost guaranteed to wake up. Best advice is to stay calm and keep yourself focused on something in the dream.
It’s nice to see you’ve met your characters in a dream, though. I didn’t meet my character Crystal for a year and a half after I met her for the purposes of CALD. Whenever you meet one of your CALD characters in a dream, feel free to stop by the CALD DJ and put it up for everyone to read, if you’d like.
I wrote in my DJ about last night dream, it was so long
I was lucid third times : the two first times, I was looking for the character, so in fact all the dream was revolving around “finding the place where I could find him” and of course I never reached that place ^^
The third part was more interesting, I completed a WILD (yaayyyyyy!!!) and I was lucid at the beginning of the dream (and back to the same place I was in the 2d dream). I was smiling because I knew I was lucid and I touched the wall in front of me to see what it would be like. Then I remembered my quest, and I called the character out loud ! and as soon as I said the first syllab out loud, he appeared from under the sea on my left (the dreamscape was a green island with a rock house at the top).
So, this really works !! I can’t wait to be in my next LD to use this more often, instead of spending the all dream looking for a place to find him !! hahaha just have to call him out loud ^^
Well my problem now is that I have the same problem as in two of my previous dreams: the first time, the character I see is a fake (do you know COSPLAY ? the character appears as a real person disguised (often an ugly girl…lol I don’t know why, maybe because he has long hair…) and when I finally see the character (I know he has to appear in a cartoon appearance) he is far away from me, and I have tons of problems to approach him, he always gets away, I can’t go closer to him.
So I have to think about this: why can’t I approach him ? I am not clear with myself, maybe I need to write down a precise adventure I want to happen…
What I plan to do, since I read that new wonderful post in the LD4all knowledge section, is to use the “call for help” trick…and ask another character from the same movie to help me, maybe I can understand better what all of this means ^^
Thanks again and sorry for writing about my life here ^^;
Perhaps you don’t have your mental image of him/her worked out well enough? (Or, perhaps you and (s)he have a different idea of the way (s)he wants to look.) In either case, one thing you can do is spend some time with that character during waking hours. Think about what he looks like, and make sure you have a clear mental image of him. One thing I do that works well is meditate on your characters. That gives you a conscious world you can control and enter. From there, you could talk to that character face to face and work the problems out at the source, so to speak. (The trouble approaching him could be a number of things, but I’d do that first and see if that doesn’t fix it.)
i’ve been spending time trying to bring bobby, jack, and end back. i actually had a dream about them a couple of nights ago, so i hope to hear fromm them again, if i can.
and i gotta say, i love reading about all of your experiences – very interesting.
Thanks for checking in. I’ve noticed that sometimes there’s an ebb and flow of my contact with my characters as well. ometimes I have a hard time contacting them and others I could almost feel them standing in front of me. I’m sure with a bit of effort on your part they’ll come back to you.
yes, i absolutely agree. my mind has been pretty stressed lately, and – since they kind of live there – my contact with them sort of fazed out for a while.
and i really do hope they come back. i love Bobby when he makes fun of the mean kids at school.
Lol. One of my brother’s characters would always yell at my mother’s boyfriend when he cam in early in the mornings and started talking [junk]. It was rather humorous to listen to him recount.
Ooh…that’s interesting, in fact I have usually a chat with that character just before sleeping, or an adventure I imagine, but recently I could not do it (being at my bf’s place), so maybe that’s why I could not get close to him. I had that problem at the beginning of my dream, near christmas time, but in the end I managed to catch him and hug him, and then the dream ended. So I also need to prepare something to do to prevent that ( I have ideas).
But I like the way you suggested it : as a share meditation, let’s try to see what the problem is. And the mental image may also be the problem, since he is a character very hard to draw, but I repeated how to draw his face in december…hmm yes I need to continue this art training as well (and put a picture on my wall haha).
Thanks for the advice ! I’ll see what I can do and report here anything that made me solve this problem ^^
This thread has grown the last time I checked!
Still haven’t had a Character LD yet, despite all the reality checks I did yesterday.
However, I can report one thing - a couple of nights ago, I became lucid and tried to change dreamscene, but all of a sudden forgot what the dreamscene looked like, and I found it impossible to visualise! I woke up shortly after, and moments later I remembered what the location looked like.
Summoning some of my characters should be easy, but summoning all of them would be harder. There’s a few characters I want to see in particular, because I want to see what they look like outside my daydreams (I can visualise them but can’t physically see them).
I know my characters pretty well since I daydream about them for 20 minutes a day, or longer depending on how quickly I fall asleep. If I have a character dream I will be sure to report it in the CALD DJ!
for those who don’t draw, the dollz website or avatar creators can be interesting to use. Then you can show how they look like to someone who will draw them.
Once again, I got very close to having a character dream. This time I remembered how to visualise, but lost lucidity when I couldn’t change scene. I’m off to bed in just over half an hour, so I will be trying CALD then.
Just one thing to note - I am not actually myself when it comes to daydreams; I picture myself 10 years older when I daydream about my characters. I have an alter ego so things will be quite interesting.
Hopefully this will work, and I might be able to see Shadow, Blaze and my other characters!
EDIT: Last night (29/1/10) I had a lucid dream - a decent one in weeks! I wasted most of my time trying something in a dream that I never succeeded in doing. However, I was close to summoning one of my female characters. Although I didn’t have a character related dream, I got extremely close and managed to walk through objects with no trouble whatsoever. I just walked through them and ended up somewhere else.
Wow, a lot ha happened since I last was here ^^ It’s great to see so much activity ^^
Colors:
I wish you all the luck in meeting your dream character C: Remember to think of some things to do once you see him, I often got stuck with what to do ( luckily enough usually it turned into an adventure).
Teraflare:
I’m glad to see your progress, it’s good you managed to walk through the objects, I often hear people get stuck, but perhaps because they’re trying walls and gets stuck in the darkness. How did you try to summon your character, how did you know you were close, if you don’t mind me asking? C:
Crooked&Wolvendeer: I promise that almost everyone here has had the same issue-- times when their character were hard to reach, times when we were too busy to interact. Y’know. Actually, I’m in a phase myself where I’m only really focussing on a few characters at a time-- When I started out with CALD a few years ago, it was pretty even attention… Exam time got me bogged down too.
Yeah, it’s really weird for me when I walk through a wall in a dream. When I pass through, it looks like a video game glitch.
Oh, and about the character thing. I usually summon a person/character by visualising them in front of me, and then they appear in a flash (there’s literally a flash). Sometimes I might use alternatives such as opening a door expecting them to be there, but spawning them on the spot seems to be easier for me.
I knew I was close because there was a person there with some facial features that resembled one of my characters, but unfortunately did not manage to piece my whole character together.
I have a feeling tonight is going to be my lucky night. I’m trying the VILD technique and then I’m off to visit my characters in my dream! VILD mixed with CALD, anyway.
Teraflare8866: Best of luck! I hope it went well, it’s been nearly a week. C: Hopefully you’ve had some exciting dreams in that time.
wolvendeer: Ah… I’d personally prefer it stayed here at LD4All, wolven. I worry that it can easily be misinterpreted and therefore quickly gain a bad reputation-- thus discouraging new-comers from approaching the tech or even just coming to tell about progress. Do you know what I mean?
I’ve given some of characters more details (about their history etc) which keeps the thought of characters on the brain. Hopefully this will transfer over to my subconscious while I’m dreaming. I’ll try CALD again aswell.
