Thread: lucid dream help

I need help with controlling my dreams. I can remember 5-7 dreams a night when i wake up but i don't remember controlling them. i started lucid dreaming in the beginning of July and iv remembered like 3 or so dreams a night but from the mid of October iv been remembering 5-7 of my dreams a night. How can i perform reality tests if i cant control my dream?
Thanks for any help.

I remember controlling my dream only once in october. I got out of bed, looked in the mirror and i had no reflection, i knew i was dreaming so i went outside and started to jump like 100ft. and fly. Theres more to the dream though.

Woah, woah! You're going too fast! Don't try to do everything at once. The first step to controlling your dreams is to realize you're dreaming. That means you must first have a good reality checking schedule (or, if WILDing, a good technique). Once you start becoming lucid, be an observer for a while. Soak up the dream for a good five minutes before trying anything. After a few lucid dreams like this, then you should try controlling stuff. The key is expectation. You have to expect it will happen.

How can you perfrom reality checks if you can't control your dream? Most people would argue that you must reality check before controlling your dream. I'm going to assume you mean "How can I perform a reality check if I can't control my actions in the first place?" The answer is simple: routine. You must reality check whenever something is wierd in your life, and consciously ask yourself if this is a dream, and tell yourself how it could be a dream. If you reality check in this manner, the reality check will begin to appear in your dreams, bringing along the awareness, resulting in lucidity and control (well, control of yourself, at least!).

From experience, I'd say that you shouldn't try talking in your lucid dreams. Atleast, not yet. Talking can sometimes wake you up because you start talking in real life.
To controll your dream, start by realising that you're dreaming, and that everything around you is not real. Try accepting that you're there, don't think about waking up. Then concentrate on changing your surroundings. If that works, then it means you could also controll your movements. Try moving around slowly.
You will know when you are able to do anything inside a lucid dream. Then you can start experimenting, and do crazy stuff. Controlling is easy, as long as you take it slowly.

Edit:

Damn, Abra beat me to it.

But it is true, realise you are dreaming first!!!

so if i walk through a doorway(while awake) and every time i walked through a door way i would say to myself (i just walked through a doorway) would that be a reality check?, im confused on the reality check part

No, that would not constitute a good reality check because it does not show whether you are dreaming are not.

Why did you choose doorways? Do you go through doorways often in dreams? For the best reults, people usually combine reality checks with scenes or occurences that happen often in dreams (example: I look at my fish a lot in dreams, so I do a reality check whenever I feed my fish or watch my aquarium).

I explained good RCs in the other thread, so I won't repost it here.

Hope this helps!

I thought it was very simple to check if you were having a lucid dream. Maybe because I have them naturally. But anyway, I'd say you should just concentrate of bending/moving your surroundings or talk to a dream character. Tell them they aren't real. When I do that, they normally ignore that statement and talk about normal things I would expect them to.

Also, YOU BEAT ME AGAIN ABRA