Discussion Thread - How do you control a lucid dream?

[EzioAuditore]

For me personally, it goes like this. You realize that dinosaur over there flying with a jetpack made out of unicorn bones and spraying colloidal liquids is unrealistic, and probably a figment of your imagination. "This is a lucid dream!" You valiantly cry out. Now what? You're responsible for everything that happens in the dream. Not accountability, since cops aren't going to beat you to death with a nightstick in your home if you fantasize about Megan Fox and Jessica Alba in a threesome with you. Not that kind of accountability. Everything. Everything created before you were lucid. You have control over it, but with great power... you know the saying. You have to be able to justify to yourself why you want to fly around. How will you get around? If there are any gaping holes in your dream that you know about, the dream can't create it itself, you have to create it for the dream. Otherwise, dreamworld.exe has stopped working. This is because when your logic capacitors wake up, the ones that helped you attain lucidity, they also are fully aware. You're also responsible for making textures [The colors and shades of objects] look realistic. Think; What would this telephone look like in real life? However, your subconscious creativity helps you work out models. Just imagine what it might look like in real life, and BOOM. There you go. Some textures become preloaded with your dream. If you don't spawn things into your dream that often, and just use your surroundings for your endeavors, your logic capacitors will convert them into something usable without you losing synchronization. For things you spawn in, you'll need to answers some questions you have to ask yourself. This jetpack, for example, flies because of propulsion. Dreams [I]do[I] have to make sense to you if you become lucid. If you don't know what a rainbow tastes like, and you try to lick one, what will happen? Most likely, your dreamworld will become unstable, and you'll have to resynchronize with it by telling yourself it tastes like skittles. You're also responsible for your own sensory input. See, your mind is a great thing. Your pre-planned dream was carefully thought out by your subconscious. It didn't expect you to take over like a robot prior to leading a revolution. It knows how comfortable the jetpack will feel on your shoulders. You, however, are in charge of making that feeling. You have to craft it according to synchronization in reality. This won't feel ice cold or burning hot, because it's cotton inside a black mesh fabric. It doesn't make sense if you make the black mesh coal-blazing hot, and you know it. This could create even more problems. What happens to your shoulders? Do they start on fire? Melt off? How will it feel when they melt off? Hurt like hell, or grow back? See, if it's unrealistic, it creates a chain-reaction with assistance [or lack thereof] with the logic that helped you attain lucidity. You have to keep things to a logical minimum. Imagine telling Albert Einstein why this is happening. "Why are you blasting off into space with nothing strapped to you to give propulsion?" "I'm a sorcerer. The propulsion is created by tiny micropockets full of fire energy that spontaneously combust beneath my shoes to blast off into space. You have to tell yourself that this is logical according to what you know and your self skepticism. That doesn't mean you can't have fun, it means you're limited by what your logic thinks, since your logic is fully awake when you become lucid. That's lucidity itself. Finding a logical flaw in a dream. Unless you've somehow mastered it and every dream is lucid, and you're a genius with this sandbox game called dreaming, and default-ly enter dreams lucid. This, however, if possible, is an even bigger responsibility, and therefore problem than the people who have trouble even becoming lucid. You have to preload everything, and it seems no matter what lucidity skills you have, dreams are EXTREMELY FRAGILE. If I had this ability, I would start with a plain of grass with a clear blue sky. It's enough of a template to start you off.

[Hukif]

What? A lot of people just use "to hell with thoughts" control and it works them lol I am more of a "yes, how this world works", since I created a persistent realm and all need to learn how each world I visit works and then adjust my control towards it. Once I am accustomed to it will proceed to walk around, look for fights and destroy things accordingly. Have yet to find my dreams being extremely fragile though? I prefer extreme settings at the start so that I can go chill to a random dream forest somewhere in space next.

[Mellanhavande]

For me it is enough to just believe in everything I want to do in LD. Flying? I believe that I have super powers so I can fly. Eating rainbow? I believe that it is eatable. Having sex with famous actors? I believe. I dunno, for me there isn't need to make logical explanations about everything.

[MisakaMikoto]

That quite depends If i were to spawn Dream Character i'il tell myself that x person is in my kitchen because i invited her over to talk about... and so the story goes on. When i want to go to different place i'il just find nearest doors and tell myself that behind those doors is maybe beach on hawaii

[OneUp]

The key to Control is knowing that anything you want to do will work. I disagree with the "licking a rainbow" part. Unless you expect it to de-synchronize it will not. The only thing that will happen is that your subconscious mind, along with its schema's will create the outcome, whether it makes the rainbow taste like ice cream, brownies, or anything else all depends on your subconscious. Of course you can control the outcome with expectations as well. Dreams are not extremely fragile AT ALL. Maybe for you because of your expectations and past experiences, but do not place that mental block on other Lucid Dreamers, because it is not true. Dream Control is all based off of how much you believe. If you simply "know" anything will work without a doubt, it will. That is the logic; that it is your dream therefore you can control all of it. There doesn't have to be any solid reason. What you are doing is creating a huge obstacle if you do feel there needs to be good logical reasoning. It isn't called the "Dream" world for nothing. It is a place where you can do anything, and where you are limitless. You set the limits, you make the rules.