Thank you - great thread! |
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How do you summon things like objects and DCs? |
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Thank you - great thread! |
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Objects works best for me. Most of the time it's when the dream gets a little violent. When something or someone is about to attack me, i manage to pull out a sword, or a machine gun or other gun. I just make myself think that i have that object. |
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I find it easier to summon people than objects. In fact, I don't recall ever summoning objects! |
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Hurricane At The Sea (1850) and Shipwreck (1854) by Ivan Aivazovsky
The dreamer formerly known as Angelpotter
I'm able to simply will them into existence. |
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I've done a couple of successful people summons, never tried objects (is light something you summon?). First time it succeeded I commanded a DC which I wanted to appear, "<name>, BE THERE" pointing to where I wanted <name> to appear (while not quite looking there directly). The second successful DC summon was hand-behind-the-back, which I really liked, "<name>, take my hand," (expecting <name> to be there), and pulled my hand around slowly to in front of me, and there was <name>! My very first attempt in LD #2 was a "expect <name> to be around the corner" which didn't work. It was probably more of a wish than solid belief, however. |
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FryingMan's Unified Theory of Lucid Dreaming: Pay Attention, Reflect, Recall -- Both Day and Night[link]
FryingMan's Dream Recall Tips -- Awesome Links
“No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.”
"...develop stability in awareness and your dreams will change in extraordinary ways" -- TYoDaS
Interesting -- I have only successfully summoned people I have seen in waking life, and either know their name or have made up a nickname for them (in anticipation of dream-invading their privacy |
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FryingMan's Unified Theory of Lucid Dreaming: Pay Attention, Reflect, Recall -- Both Day and Night[link]
FryingMan's Dream Recall Tips -- Awesome Links
“No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.”
"...develop stability in awareness and your dreams will change in extraordinary ways" -- TYoDaS
I like to yell commands out to the dream, haha. Something I do semi-often is to command the dream to be more vivid. Sometimes I become lucid and realize that colors, shapes, etc are a bit murky and not really solid. Then I just shout out a command like, "DREAM! BE MORE VIVID!" and stomp my foot down. Haha, and that usually works. |
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You know it's funny: I read the OP and said, "Sure, I could share what I do to summon stuff, no problem." But then I got to thinking... I haven't "summoned" anything in years! I used to do it all the time, but these days it seems that whatever is in the dream is just fine for me -- or, if it is not, I simply leave the dream for another. Oh, wait. Perhaps leaving the dream for another bit is a form of summoning? Could be, I guess. |
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I love this thread, I have difficulties summoning anything because when I yell too loud it usually wakes me up a little, so all I do is just focus on the desire of the thing or person appearing and that doesn't always work. I've tried making people appear behind a door but without much succes either. I am however getting better at making stuff disappear, the unwanted stuff that pops up every now and again. |
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FryingMan's Unified Theory of Lucid Dreaming: Pay Attention, Reflect, Recall -- Both Day and Night[link]
FryingMan's Dream Recall Tips -- Awesome Links
“No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.”
"...develop stability in awareness and your dreams will change in extraordinary ways" -- TYoDaS
In the beginning, my desire was so strong that it actually got in my way. I learned early the trick of visualizing during the day. I would imagine a ball of light forming in my hand, then I would throw it at the ground, and in a plume of smoke the person/object would appear and I would usually add their first action or words to the mix. It wasn't long before this happened easily in low level lucid dreams, and it was just a small step to implement it in higher level lucids. These days I try to be less dramatic and more natural about it by creating dream scenes ahead of time, but I found it to be quite reliable overall. |
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Last edited by Meskhetyw; 01-28-2014 at 02:29 AM.
I've only willfully done it once. I wanted to try out the possibility of throwing a fireball but I needed a target so I told myself there was a gator behind me. And lo and behold there was a gator. I was surprised by the fact it was an albino gator, but beggars can't be choosers. |
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The very first time I got summoning to work took me about 5 dreams. I just wanted to hold a sword in one of my LDs as a goal. I finally had a dream were some people were fighting. I pretended to be confident and yelled over my shoulder to someone I was pretending must be there, "Quick, hand me my sword!" They did! I felt someone press the handle of a sword into my hand. I pulled it forward and sure enough, I was holding a sword. |
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I sometimes try to imagine the feeling of the object I want to summon, then poof! Huzzah! |
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The bird breaks free of the egg.
The egg is the world.
Who would to be born must first destroy a world.
Before I got the sword thing to work, I came close twice. I found a Tarot card in the 3rd dream and when I examined it, it was the Queen of Swords. In the 4th dream I disarmed a bad guy and was holding his buck knife. |
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I summon objects by sticking my right hand into my pocket. When I feel the object, I'll pull it out, and it will be fully formed by that time. It is quite a deep pocket, apparently. |
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Summoning DCs is not my strong side, but often simply expecting someone to turn up around the corner works. |
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So ... is this the real universe, or is it just a preliminary study?
I have read it before - and now in here several times - expecting to touch something/be touched outside of view - like Fryingman with people and Sivason with his first sword - I like it. |
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I forgot to mention on the thread this quote was from--I actually tried this technique in an LD a few nights after reading this. Needless to say, it worked like a charm first try. The results were quite interesting as well (I was painting a door on a wall to teleport, and my subconscious ended up helping me by gradually making a very vivid actual door as I drew around the doorframe). Thank you, sivason! |
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My name is Max. I write ambient music and play video games.
Currently inactive.
65% DILDs, 30% DEILDs, 5% WILDs.
"Man is free at the moment he wishes to be." -Voltaire
I remember once when the Task of the Month was to play an instrument, and I used mantras to remember the goal in my mind. I found myself lucid in the warm golden glow of a beautiful afternoon, in someone else's house. I remembered my goal to play an instrument, but what could I summon? I decided I'd make the Ocarina of Time and play a tune from Zelda. I look at my hands and think. I reach into my pockets and imagine grabbing on to the Ocarina of Time, expecting it to be in my pocket. I grab it, and pull it out and in my hand is a small pig made of carved golden crystal. As much as I had obviously not summoned the right item, I didn't let it defeat me, I simply held the pig's snout to my mouth and blew through it, making a strange forced sounding whistling noise, like a bad recorder. I played the jungle theme on it and laughed to myself. |
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Total Lds - 103
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^^ That's a great story, DarkMerlin, and nice to see you posting again! |
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Wow Maxis - that sounds great! |
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Last edited by Voldmer; 01-30-2014 at 09:36 PM.
So ... is this the real universe, or is it just a preliminary study?
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