i think i had my first lucid dream last nite. it was off of another dream that was ending before, and i saw someone who, for some reason i can’t explain, made me realize i was dreaming. when i did, i didn’t panic, i looked at my hands several times to make sure i wouldn’t wake up (i’ve lucid dreamed before i even knew what lucid dreaming was, but it would be quick and i would be in a rush to do all that i could before i woke up).
anyway, this person, after walking with me for a while, suddenly turned against me and started to throw rings of fire at me. i stopped them (which gave me an amazing feeling of control in the dream), but i still thought it was weird they turned against me.
well, then i went to meet a friend of mine (who is also trying to lucid dream…right now we’re trying to meet each other to exhange code words) but the place we met wasn’t exactly as it should be. and he kept changing forms.
so my question is…in a lucid dream, are some things in your control and others not? can you lose control? how hard is it to keep control? etc…
even tho i basically controlled the flow of the dream and certain things i did and places i went to, the people there seemed to be, somewhat, out of my control. usually i wouldn’t lucid dream for them to shoot fire at me… is that normal?
oops…sorry about the other posts. you can delete them, since they’re the same thing.
The amount of control you have varies from dream to dream, and can also change mid dream.
For example, in my last LD I had very little control, cos it was a low level one (I’m new to all this, it was only my second LD).
How you can tell it is an actual LD and not a fake one (dreaming about being lucid - yes that can happen [or so I hear…]) is by the ‘feel’ of the dream (LDs feel different to NDs, at least, in my experince). So whether or not it was an LD, only you can say .
definitely. for me, flying is easy, 9 times outta 10 i can fly with no problems in a lucid dream. walking through walls though… i’m still working on it, i succeed sometimes–fail others, even had a dream where i succeeded once and then couldn’t do it again
some people, it appears to me at least, are bent on this idea of TOTAL control of their dreams. i’m not sure that’s possible, and if it is, desirable.
let go.
let your subconscious show you something new, something you didn’t expect, something you can’t control, then use it, that what makes dreams fun, at least, that’s what i think makes them fun
congratulations on your first LD
Learning to control your Ld’s takes work and practice like anything else. You have to realize that the laws of physics and all that other jazz is still deeply implanted in your brain. You have to let go of that.
Its like trying to walk through a wall in your dream. Why would you be able to walk through the wall and not fall through the floor. The mind must be trained.
By no means am i an expert however…