Both extremely excited but extremely dissapointed.

**skullgunner1** · 05-18-2013 03:19 PM

Last night I had two main dreams. One non lucid and one lucid. The non-lucid was me at a friend's house, and that means my entire family. I'm not sure, but our entire family was there. That dream ended, and shortly after the Lucid started. I was on my couch at home, with the family, looking out the window (We have an awesome view, so it's easy to see where I'm at.) and I realize: "We aren't at my friend's house. Why is that, dad?" He says, "Nothing." I press him on it, gaining Lucidity rapidly. I storm off, 99% sure I was in a dream. I took note in the dream that everything was REALISTIC.

And when I say realistic I mean REALISTIC. I could feel the cold stone beneath my feet and the gush of air when I moved. I was eccentric. It felt so REAL. I ultimately realized I was lucid when I heard my brother moving around in the house, saying stuff, etc, and the doorbell rings. Who's there? My brother. I flip out and for sure realize I'm in a dream. I run outside barefooted and decide my first thing to do is move a try. Explode it, I'm not sure, something of the sort. I concentrate on the tree, trying to make it move, and making ridiculous hand motions like Aaang. NOTHING happens. Finally I try to close my eyes and open them, which then I realize that fatal mistake one second too late. I open them, and I'm in bed. Damn. I try to DEILD, getting the dream I just had and refocusing on the scene. Nothing. I'm starting to breathe really hard through my nose, (I'm a big guy) and it's making a shit ton of noise. I try and breathe through my mouth and it's getting dry, like really dry. I could feel the dryness. Of which then, after 2 minutes, I gave up. I tried to FILD, Nope.

How can I increase my dream control?

**realdealmagic** · 05-18-2013 03:51 PM

With practice and being creative.

It's difficult. Trust me, I know, I still have a lot of trouble with it, but with practice in getting into the mindset of, "This is my dream, I know I can do whatever I want." Check out this Dream Control Class Thread, it will help you to understand what a dream is, and how you can learn to control it by learning this simple fact. It's all you.

Congratulations on the lucid, I hope you have more!

**Zoth** · 05-18-2013 04:03 PM

To add another word to realdealmagic excellent post: with confidence.

Dream control is nothing more than a result of your expectations. This means if you believe something will work, it will. If you have doubts (even if at some point you may think you don't), most likely the result will be different or you will get no results at all. It's just as much an art as it is a question of practice. Once you start building confidence by performing some exercises, you'll realize that the fact that you're in a dream, lucid, means you can do everything you want. Understanding what lucidity means can help you loads, because as you will realize, there's a big difference between knowing you are dreaming and knowing the extent of the implications from that fact. Good luck!

Moved to Dream Control.