I have had mixed success in the past getting my dream characters and dream environment to bend to my will when I become lucid. Sometimes I am able to expect an outcome and it will manifest. Other times, my most focused efforts are met with indifference.
But recently I have discovered a method that gets the attention of all dream characters and really increases the clarity of my lucid dreams as well:
Turn your dream into a Musical!
Being a multi-instrumented musician and singer, I feel I have a very deep contention to music. I hear such incredibly beautiful passages in my dreams that sometimes I wake up with tears in my eyes. So when I was trying to get dream characters to interact with me in a lucid dream and was continually being avoided, I burst into song, a la “West Side Story”.
I started with a stream of conscious melody as it came to me and made the lyrics something like “Hey everyone, come gather round” to get them interested.
To my amazement, I was drawing a crowd around me. Then I began a dialogue with one of the dream characters, still in song. And she sang back to me, expanding on my melody and even rhyming the end of her line with mine. Other exchanges continued and began shaping an entire musical number. Then the other dream characters joined in a chorus of voices and I just felt so incredibly elated! I had them hooked now, so if I wanted something to happen in the lucid dream from this point on, I sang it and it would manifest itself.
This technique has worked wonders when trying to:
Flying higher and faster instead of just that annoying float.
Getting certain dream characters to perform certain acts.
Create objects out of thin air…
I continue to use this method now, since trying to “command” things into existence was failing so miserably for me.
And a huge bonus is these “lucid musicals” end up being much more entertaining, stable, memorable, last longer, and are down right more fun than most of the other lucid dreams I have had before.
I hope some of you may have the same success I have had.
, the next time I get an LD I’m going to try this. It sounds hillarious! I can just picture the scene… It reminds me of when my friends and I worked on the lightboard and spotlights at our school play. When we didn’t have to light anything, we would dance around and lip sync the actors. It was incredibly fun.
Why haven’t I thought of this? Anyone who knows me in real life would be surprised that I haven’t come up with this idea myself, if I were to know anyone who was into lucid dreaming. 
You see, I’m known by many for singing and dancing like a complete kook. In fact, plenty of people have suggested that I be in a school musical. 
, definitely trying this out in my next LD.
