Thread: Theory of dream creation

I enjoyed the read, and have a question. Can your mind make these kind of connections based of attention when your lucid (I.e. You see te gun and appear in your friends house)?

Yes, but when you are lucid you control the percieving aspect of the cycle, and therefore indirectly control the creation aspect of the cycle. When you're lucid, and want to summon say, an airsoft gun, you expect to see an airsoft gun appear, and then your SC turns this expectation into reality. I think most problems with dream control occur when the dreamer is not confident in his/her ability to do whatever their trying to do, and so the SC takes the uncertainty of the outcome and may make that occur instead of what the dreamer originally wanted. So if you are thinking, "an airsoft gun will appear before me" but at the same time in the back of your head you're unsure if that will really happen, theres a good chance that your SC will cause the intended outcome to not happen.

I didn't completely understand your question, so I hope I gave you the answer you were looking for

That's exactly what i was wanting to know, thanks

This is pretty much exactly like my theory of dream creation. It is also pretty much how LaBerge describes it in Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming.

Lucid dreaming and practicing dream control make this much easier to observe, as you describe. I think most people have an idea that your subconscious already has a setting and plot in mind before the dream ever starts. I think it is more like your subconscious comes up with some random images and settings but your expectations related them is what creates the dream.

Perlinfalcon can you tell me what you actually in a dream to manipulate the environment, make objects, teleport, ect. Do you just spend a lot of time breaking your schemas of physics or something?

There are some things that are easier for me than others. I am much better at indirect control, such as finding objects and people rather than making them appear out of thin air. In that case it is just acting as though you "know" whatever it is will be there. I'll tell myself a little story, like, "Oh, I put that in this desk yesterday", or "wasn't this where they said that thing was on the news?"

I have "forced" things a few times, like making something transform into something else in front of me, by actually staring hard and convincing myself that I see what I want. That's almost like I'm in an argument with my subconscious, where it's like "That's a goat" and I'm like "nuh ah, it's a unicorn!" until the thing transforms. Flying I've done in dreams since I was little so that is a schema already built in. Same with transforming myself. That seems easy for some reason.

What I have not succeeded at yet is changing my surroundings. That's my current goal in the Personal Lucid Task Club.

Not sure if this answers your question...

Interesting Perlinfalcon. Do you think you could link me to LaBerge's and your theory of dream creation?

That's exactly what I wanted to know, my next lucid dream I want to either lick EVERYTHIG I see, or look in a miror, which I'm scared to do. I've tried taking a ton of pills, trying to use my schema of gmdoing drugs haha, but nothing happened.