Dream control should feel natural

[44CalibreSunlight]

Ok so imagine you're having a regular dream and within this whatever universe you've built up some rationalizations about whatever abilities or resources you may have at hand. like say the ability to fly, jump far, telekineses. This could be an action dream. So you're dreaming passivly with no luicidity and ZERO effort, yet you could easily be fighting off zombies and aliens and blowing shit up just by instinct. The reason is because your mind believes the dreams delusion. You believe you have the power, and your actions prove it to you, this could be a big reason why lucidity can be hard to attain. Dreams are so believable, because our bodies respond how we want them too, save for nightmares I guess. and what I'm really getting at is that because of just ignorance, your dream self could pull off any wild stunt without effort. So why is dream control such a challenge? It seems to me that belief is really the only factor in controlling a dream, and I can vouch for HAVING belief, and at the last second, within that lucid dream my one ray of doubt cut me off and I couldn't fly to the moon. k that's it I guess

[Puffin]

In a regular dream, you essentially have no way of thinking about the real world, and you aren't conscious. You're basically living in your own mind's version of a movie. Because of this, dream control is very easy; it's easy to accept things as they come without having second thoughts. In a lucid, it's best to just hold onto this illusion. Personally, I find passive control easy - basically just "knowing" that I'm in a situation that's totally possible, like I'm a part of a movie I've already watched before. It takes practice to not fall non-lucid though, because the fact that you're dreaming isn't reall at the forefront of your mind. Active control is a bit harder because you don't visualize as much as passive (from my own experiences, anyways), and instead you're basically telling the dream to do something. For me, this came with more doubt in my abilities than passive, so I haven't used it much since starting out.

[Purebred]

It's easy to control, because there is no such a thing as logic, when you are dreaming. It turns off, not because it's natural. Dream control is not much of a challenge to me. It's harder to get into lucid dream and deepen/maintain it.

[I U]

There can be many differances between lucid and non, while I can do everything on the first try usually things i've done before are greater in quality yet recently I've stopped being lucid of becoming lucid (weird I know) and even though I understand that I'm dreaming, I still have no need to actively acknowledge it. It appears with enough of one's nature connected to dreaming there is more of a tendancy to interact with it, and in my case instinctually so. I can verify having lucids as long as I can remember dreaming- age two and slowly the transition of my awareness from life to dream is dissolving in noticability while improving in ability.