I had a LD today wherein in tried to summon and egg in my hand, and failed. How I had intended to do it: Look away and feel (tactile sensation) an egg in my palm. The placebo would take care of the rest and the egg would magically appear. I would look at my hand and see the egg in my palm. I really expected it to work. Why did I fail (does low lucidity have something to do with it?) and can you recommend a technique for next time?
I’ve yet to have a LD, but you can expect to find an egg behind a door for example
Yell “Egg!” when you are LD. That worked for me once… but I didn’t use an egg. Low lucidity could have been it. I can’t fly well or at all when I am not highly lucid.
Wish I could come with particular help, but I’ve never failed to summon a small thing in my hand. But I haven’t tried that much either. It’s just natural, don’t even have to think about it. I want this thing and look in my hand and there it is. You sure you weren’t overthinking it? Or “overtrying” it?
I’m pretty sure if I had stopped everything and thouht to myself. “okay, i’m going to summon thins thing now, I’ll just, put my hand out of view and when I take it back I’ll hold my desired object.” And then made it this dramatic thing with the tension and anticipation building, knowing that it’s the moment of truth, will i the object or not? My expectationRANGE would have a LOT of time to build up a multitude of different outcomes and doubt would set in as I realise the small probablitiy of the exact thign I want being in my hand instead of any object in that size that exists or does not exist. Could be a battery instead. Or a handfull och spacefishcaviar. A bead of sweat rolls down the side of my head as I concentrate to push back any doubt, Quite knowing that I don’t really know what’s coming until I look at my hand again. (Why do I not see myself but Jack Black going through this instead?)
Sorry I was sort of, entertaining myself there. But, If you got anything out of it then, good.
I doubt I was overthinking it, but then again most of the dream’s details are gone now and recall wasn’t so good in the first place. Maybe it was subconsciously expecting it not to work. Could be any number of other factors. As for an expectation range… I’m not that imaginative. I want a dreamworld that I can shape exactly as I see fit, not one that is borne out of my imagination. That’s why I always go into LDs with specific goals and purposes.
I’m going to try Smiffy008 and Dreman’s suggestions as soon as I can. Not that I’m obessed with the egg, I just see it as necessary practice for summoning bigger things… like rocket artillery and fortresses.
I summoned a million silverback orangutans (I know it’s really silverback gorillas in RL, but it was a dream 
) to battle my SCs million elephants. It was pretty cool 
Such multitude! In my dreams, things are fewer.
Hmm, wow i guess im a natural at LD 's then.All i do is think “ok I’m going to fly” or “I will make an egg appear”.I just do it without thinking about it.
I managed to summon something by believing that it was behind me and when I turned around it would be there.
Previously I failed when I tried to manifest directly in my hand, or in my pocket (in my dream pants!).
It was funny, i just started lucid dreaming last week, and i’ve gotten a few already. I’m 14. Like i was running and i wanted a gun and i didn’t even have to think about it really because it was in my hand instantly.
Definitely, keep up the habit - I used to lucid dream as a kid and had such control that I really miss those days. I only got back into doing it recently. Being young makes it much easier.
Try thinking of what kind of dream you want before u sleep and see if u can get there. Ｉused to be able to do that as well as return to the same dreamscape the next night if I liked that dream. While dreaming just remember that your god and u can do anything.