All right, I’ve had some successes with LD, so I know what one feels like (although I’d love to get more control, but that of course is a practice issue). But the last few times I’ve tried, I’ve gotten a stupid situation wherein I’m dreaming what I WANT to dream (i.e. I’ll go to sleep meditating on what it is I want to dream and then dream some variation of it), but I have no control at all. It’s more like renting the movie rather than acting in it.
It’s sorta frustrating. Anyone else had this and found a way out of it (or rather into the dream)?
Now that’s an unusual situation. Soo before you fall aslpeep you’re visualizing what kind of dream you want and when you fall asleep you experience a variation of it but can’t control it…why?
Do you realize that you’re dreaming when inside such dreams. If that’s the case then it’s just a matter of building up “confidence” that you can indeed alter the dream.
If it it becuse you don’t really realize you’re dreaming, doing what TwilightDreamer says could be a start.
Or if you frequently “Get what you meditate about”, try adding some clear dreamsigns such as huge textlables saying “HEY! YOU’RE DREAMING!” (And perhaps add some nice light effects…to make it more visible).
I have gotten dream scenarios I wanted before like this…and I can’t control them either XD but it seems for you it works better, so i agree for meditating about giant letters saying “UR IN UR DREAM”(lol not really that) or “YOUR DREAMING”