Alright well im glad to say my efforts have been fruitful and i have had more then 8 lucid dreams in the last 2 months. Now though ive been having lucid dreams but the amount of control i have is very minimal, for example the other day i could not make a DC dissapear. I told myself numereous times that he would be gone but he wouldnt go, i dont know if this is in my subconscious or not and that i actually wanted him to stay or something but in my other dreams i lost control to. Any tips on helping control your dreams and DC’s. I really enjoy lucid dreams and one of my favorite parts is changing things at my own will. I built my own castle once, but that was the only time that i somehow did what i wanted.
Hi Serene, and congratulations on your lucid dreaming!
I’ve found through personal experience that my dream control appears correlated with my beliefs in my own abilities to accomplish something, many people appear to have drawn the same conclusions.
When you refer to dream control, keep in mind that we usually identify two separate types of control: 1) Control over the environment, 2) Control over self.
You might try analysing your emotions and expectations during the lucid dream, did you really expect to disapparate a dream character? Or did you hesitate? Why did you hesitate or not believe in your abilities to change this part of your dream?
I find this type of dream analysis useful for discovering more about my own belief systems, and how these systems fit with my lucid dreaming abilities.
You could possibly use “shortcuts” bascially abusing the placebo effect, instead of say making a DC disapear you may try turning around picking up a teleport gun/wand/staff/whocares and then give them a hearty zap. Same goes for many things, instead of flying like superman or neo try summoning a jetpack, having trouble teleporting? Aperture Science and the portal gun to the rescue! Miscellanious problem that has no obvious solution that cant be solved by summoning a shortcut? like hell there is! go with the all-purpose “Big Obnoxious Shiny Red Button” (Patent Pending).
I usually ask DC s to help me out. For example, I once was trying to make a certain DC appear, but he wasn’t anywhere in sight. I saw that my pet cat was in my dream and said “Hey, So-And-So is in the other room, could you go get him for me?” and… Tadaaa! My cat marched into the other room and a few moments later came out with that DC.
I’ve also found that turning very slowly can make things appear… I did this in my last LD to alter my outfit. I stood in front of a mirror, put my hands in front of my eyes, said what I wanted to happen, and turned slowly, then I brought my hands down and looked in the mirror again and saw what I wanted!! It was a real joy.
I’ve found that most control can’t be forced. It has to be weaved into the dream rather than just saying “I WANT THIS TO HAPPEN” and expecting it to…
