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    Controlling Lucid Dreams

    by , 06-27-2015 at 09:01 PM (515 Views)
    My experience with lucid dreaming has been a difficult one.

    I was able to lucid dream as far back as I can remember (I guess around 3), but I am always unable to control them, I just realize I'm dreaming. Also, anytime I attempt to purposely induce a lucid dream, it doesn't work, but if I just go to sleep as normal, I will often have them. It's really confusing.

    So, what would be a good technique to induce lucid dreaming? Most methods that I have tried, failed.

    Also, does anyone have advice to better control my dream when I become lucid? Because they often go like this:

    I realize I'm dreaming and think, "oh cool, I finally had a lucid dream", then things go bad (more on that in a minute), OR I'm in the middle of an extremely surreal dream and suddenly become conscious of everything being so over the top, I know I must be dreaming, and become lucid.

    Now, when I say "things go bad", every time upon becoming lucid, my dream takes a turn for the worse. It will turn into a scary dream of some sort either with a psycho murderer suddenly appearing in my dream and trying to kill me, zombies chasing me, or a demonic entity attacking me.

    I will repeat to myself repeatedly "this is just a dream" or "I'm in complete control" and will attempt to change the dream, but to no avail. So I end up becoming so freaked out by my dream induced "monster" and try to "wake myself up".

    It's a never ending cycle that I have tried for years to break and it's beyond frustrating, so any advice on why this is happening or ways to change it will be GREATLY APPRECIATED.

    Thanks for reading.
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    1. Psionik's Avatar
      My approach to dreams is similar to my OBEs- I'm mostly passive indifferent observer. I'm calm. If something tries to do harm I study it in detail. I look at it like it is a film. It also stabilizes the experience and allows for longer LDs and OBEs. This is my first approach, I used firstly, but I use it even now. The second approach lies in training to work with your inner energies. I don't have confirmation if it is only imagined thing, but in dreams and OBEs it functions. I concentrate inside and take my inner energy outside. It looks like aura. It can have different colors. It can hug your body, or it can be expansive... in dependance of what you need. It may be possible to shot it as plasma balls, but I use it mostly as field, passive weapon to clean my surrounding of everything what can disturb my peace.
      In my opinion, your problem is belief, that what attack you will do harm because it looks real. You may suggest yourself that it is just a dream, but you, your subconsciousness believe that it can. And therefore it can. You have to stand to your fear. If there is zombie or something which is attacking you, you have to stop run. Defeat your fear.
    2. Psionik's Avatar
      I use the same technique for WILD as I use for OBE. The difference is in using of imagination. For OBE I don't use imagination.(Possibility remains it is subconscious imagination... but after about 30years of training my subconscious mind is much better known. I feel my subconscious mind working)
      I made my exercises out of schultz autogenic training with some shortcuts and modifications. It needs some time to learn them, but not so long.

      a) Relaxation of striated muscles- I concentrate on weight of my hand, I feel it and I make that feeling as strong as possible, and again stronger. I let that feeling of weight progress through whole body. When all my body feels heavy, I concentrate on deepening of that feeling... This relax skeletal striated muscles.
      b) Relaxation of smooth muscles- Concentration on warmth in my hand. It feels like I have my hand in warm water, and water is warmer and warmer... liquid fire in my hand. Very pleasant and very hot. I let that liquid fire flow up my hand to other hand, and when my hands are warm, I let that warmth flow to my feet... At last I let spiral that warmth from my hands and legs into solar plexus. Now, I don't do it because of third chakra, but because warmth leads to relaxation of smooth muscle tissue.

      With this two things I can reach quite quickly sleep paralysis state after years of training. If I want a WILD I look for imagination. I don't need to go as far in relaxation as for OBE. It is enough to relax and concentrate enough to melt disturbances in body and mind. You don't need to leave thinking processes.
      1. flash pictures- you can use them to make your dream world... Concentrate on that flashes. If they are real enough there is probability they will take you into them. You will dream in that picture.
      2. imagined pictures- harder than flash imagination pictures, you prepare your picture for longer time. You make finer touches to your picture and at some point it is good enough for starting dream inside of them(picture will pull your mind inside).
      3. Imagination of tunnel. That one I use most often. My tunnel starts as ring, inside ring, inside ring... I let ring grow... then second one inside first, then third... and I let them grow. It creates illusion of flight in tunnel. At some point your mind will feel the flight. And your tunnel will be more refined as time goes, till you fly at the end of it and into larger country.
    3. CrystalSugar13's Avatar
      Psionik, thank you so much, I'm going to begin trying these methods.