Okay, so, I had my first successful MILD yesterday (YAY!) I thought, “okay, I’m gonna test teleportation, after all I can already fly and stuff”, I closed my eyes and commanded my dream to take me where I wanted, but, it didn’t work, so I tried doing it by saying it out loud, I described the place I wanted to go to, and then it succeded.
Does anyone have any idea of why I can’t use “thought commands”? Maybe not trained enough?
Moved from Quest for Lucidity, since it’s about skills in a LD. 
I would say more practice, nothing more, or nothing more special 
, it looks like you were more successful then me, when I tried to teleport I wake up, even though I tried that when I felt like I’m having enough experience… It looks like I was wrong!
And congrats on your LD! 
I actually tried teleport two times, the second one I was close to my family (dream family) but everything felt so real, I was afraid of shouting “TELEPORT ME TO DREAM VOID!” in front of them, that would cause embarassment if it was real, and I wasn’t sure, I pinched myself “I’m not feeling pain, still dreaming” and then I tried teleporting to the void (it’s a place, but it’s nothing, it’s just a blank scenario, in which I form a dream), I tried teleporting there, but I failed again, but this fail was kind of different, because I ended up in a COMPLETELY different place, lol.
Thought/voice commands can sometimes be tricky. Any lingering doubt as to whether they will work or not can really affect them. To help them out, I would suggest strongly visualizing the place you want to go to as you are starting to teleport. Dreams are made up of images in our minds, so using images yourself can be powerful. I also tend to use less direct means of teleportation, such as telling myself that where I want to go is behind a door.
Anywho, I hope that helps. Happy lucids 
Thinking and saying something can help lucid dreaming. But you have to believ. If you don’t believe something is going to happen it probably wont.
I often would try to concentrate on what I wanted to happen, but I’ve been finding more lately that I’m quite often more successful with vocal commands. Once, my SC responded to a question that started to form in my mind, but most of the time lately I’ve been using spoken words, and they’re much more effective for me. I’d want to get a bit more familiar with LDs before I started using thought commands, for the reason that I would then be more familiar with how I do things.
My dream was so vivid and real, I was scared to wake up, I had to constantly RC, while felt embarassed for using voice commands in front of a lot of people.
I also have the embarrassed feeling, but I wouldn’t be afraid to do something in an LD unless there was the remotest possibility that it was an SD.
i too have had an embarrasement feeling too hahah. It seems that not all lucid dreams you are not comepletly aware also like the fact in all of my lucid dreams (about 7) have i ever realized that the dream characters are just dream characters. One time yea i had my friends by me and i was fully lucid and i kinda just turned my back to them and said it softly to my self so they dont think anything of me. Of course for me my first lucid dream i had the most control because i fully believed i could do everything. Now that ive read its possible to fail in a dream— ive failed quite a few times… Ive had some trouble with making people appear-- ive done it about 3 times and failed about 6. I like to say commands out loud and it seems to help if you have something such as maybe ask a wizard for his wand then do something, that tends to help you “believe” more and not just making things appear out of thin air. thats why turning around and believing something is there is better then just wishing for something to appear because it is more logical.
I actually succeeded with a thought today with summoning myself. I didn’t think that it would work, even though I thought that she’d be there when I went back around the corner, but was surprised when I rounded the corner and saw my older self standing there with my mom. (I’d gone back to my 13-year-old self, and had wanted to summon my current self to help… though I’m pretty sure I summoned my 16-year-old self instead of my now-18 self.)
And yeah, at first I didn’t want to use verbal commands because of embarrassment either. I’m still a bit unsure when there’s a lot of DCs, but I’m working on that. I’ve found that verbal commands really do help me, though. It’s just getting myself to use them.
Yes, when I didn’t know it was possible to fail, I was able to do things at will, with these possibilities a little disbelief is planted in our SCs.
I still want to gain power, though. (lol)