Thread: Beginner Questions

Well a couple of ways to gain more control is to do reality checks in your dream. This will help you realize more and more that you're dreaming and give you better control.

And also just getting to any area and go fishing could take some practice... But it doesn't for everybody.

You could use the absence of pain as a dream sign.
There are a lot of different methods for changing the dream scene.
Picturing something on the other side of a door and then going through it works for some people. Thinking that something will be there when you turn around works. You just have to mess around and see what is most reliable for you.

As these guys have said, yea you can really manipulate the dream to mind-boggling degrees. You've gotta have a bit of confidence to get things like that to happen. But if I wanted to go zebra fishing in Uzbekistan I would've opened a door expecting Uzbekistan to be on the other side, walked around looking for a lake, found it, and asked the DCs present how the zebra were biting.

I always get really excited when I hear about really practical uses for lucid dreaming. I'd really like to see it progressing for use in therapy of people with both mental and physical problems, who could greatly benefit from the ability to LD. If you learn the skill, you can get that same feeling multiple times a week, while simultaneously doing whatever in the world you want to do. Let me know if you need any help attaining this, I'm glad you joined DV because I think you're going to like lucid dreaming a LOT

Originally Posted by Shift

As these guys have said, yea you can really manipulate the dream to mind-boggling degrees. You've gotta have a bit of confidence to get things like that to happen. But if I wanted to go zebra fishing in Uzbekistan I would've opened a door expecting Uzbekistan to be on the other side, walked around looking for a lake, found it, and asked the DCs present how the zebra were biting.

I always get really excited when I hear about really practical uses for lucid dreaming. I'd really like to see it progressing for use in therapy of people with both mental and physical problems, who could greatly benefit from the ability to LD. If you learn the skill, you can get that same feeling multiple times a week, while simultaneously doing whatever in the world you want to do. Let me know if you need any help attaining this, I'm glad you joined DV because I think you're going to like lucid dreaming a LOT

Thanks for the explanation, I can't wait to be able to dream more often. For me it is a lot more than just being able to act out fantasies and do what I want. The feeling of no pain is....more than I could ever describe to someone who hasn't had pain constantly for 9 years. It was better than any drug, any amount of therapy; it made me cry when I woke up :\

Welcome to Dreamviews, Mentor. I'm sorry to hear about your condition. I hope you definitely get better at lucid dreaming soon! You'll like it quite a great deal!

Your first couple of lucid dreams are always short, that's just how it is. They get longer with time though, I've had lucid dreams that I was bored in because I couldn't think of anything else to do

Some people get good enough at contorlling their dreams that they can do anythign that they want instantly. I don't practice that kind of control, so I've never done it myself.