Thread: Summoning dream characters (so hard!)

I've always struggled with summoning DCs but had success last night by taking an entirely different approach. I've been wanting to try this for a while but was waiting for a decent LD to do it.

I was in my back garden on my own and simply stated to myself that a DC is behind me. I neither stated nor expected anyone in particular, I left it to the dream. When I turned around, a middle aged man who I do not recognise was several metres away from me. I ended up chatting with him for a couple of minutes before he moved on and I went back to the same spot, and did the same thing again, which also worked, though this character was an empty shell.

My thoughts are that if you're wanting a specific DC, it's probably easier to doubt it or lose confidence because the result is important to you, where in this case, whether my call for a random DC was of very little significance and worked. But with me I have now demonstrated that I can do this and it should build me up better for next time.

Maybe its worth trying. Instead of trying for who you want, try for anyone, then maybe go a level up and try for someone you wouldn't mind seeing in a dream but isn't as important as who you want, and go up step by step like this. This is going to be my approach.

I'm still struggling with summoning people, but there's one technique that's worked twice for me already (however, once it also failed to work, but two out of three is pretty good).

I find a mirror on a wall or door and I look into it and look behind my reflection. Then I move away from the mirror's reflection, usually by angling the mirror away from me or by leaning off to the side, and I imagine that when I bring the mirror back to me, the person I want to see will be behind me in the reflection. I move the mirror back so I'm in front of it and the person I want to see is standing behind my reflection! Then I turn around and he's actually behind me I'm not sure why this works sometimes, I think it's because it is easier for my mind to summon up a 2D reflection first before summoning up its 3D counterpart.

I find it extremely difficult to summon dcs too. There was this particular dc which I really wanted to summon (in my case it's from real life), and every time I tried, I failed. Whenever I try to, it takes too much concentration and wakes me up. It has happened so many times, that I stopped trying in order to save my lucids. In my experience, I never even see dcs unless they were already there, before I became lucid
Anyway, I'm still a novice and I know I've got a lot to learn

Originally Posted by Miguelinileugim

...do you have any idea on how I can do it?

Have you asked another DC to tell you where is it? Or perhaps you should command a DC to turn into the one that you're looking for, it worked a couple of times for me, I wanted someone to appear behind a door and it was another person, then I commanded it to turn into who I was looking for and after some sparkling, it turned into this person.

The simply doing nothing actually worked for me, started a thread like this a while ago (all the way to call DCs), here are the tips I received from paigeyemps:

"As for your original question, here are some ways I call out to my DCs which I've done (remember it's all about believing your own ideas!):
-Simply yell out for them.
-Cast a summoning spell, perhaps use an incantation. You may also draw some kind of demon trap/chalk circle that prevents him from getting away.
-Pretend you are at a prison and he/she is an inmate there inside a cell. You just come up to the cell and voila! Imagination plays an important role here.
-Call him via cellphone/telephone. Once, I even had an answering machine take my message because apparently the DC was "doing the laundry". Lol
-Pretend you had an appointment with him/her and go to your meet-up spot.
-Bribe her with chocolates (or any food or object really, i used chocolates). I just held them in my hands and said Come out and these will be yours! It worked. Works better if you're summoning a young DC.
-Pretend the DC has a priority number and it's his turn being called out.
-Post a 'wanted' poster and have another DC tell you where he is (useful if he's trying to get away from you). Or just simply ask another DC where he is.
-Shake a bell (the one for ice cream) and watch him come running to you to buy. This one was quite funny, the DC was disappointed I fooled him into thinking I was selling ice cream.
-Simply press a button that supposedly zaps him right in front of you. This worked best for me.


Hope this helps, good luck!"

Originally Posted by Box77

Have you asked another DC to tell you where is it? Or perhaps you should command a DC to turn into the one that you're looking for, it worked a couple of times for me, I wanted someone to appear behind a door and it was another person, then I commanded it to turn into who I was looking for and after some sparkling, it turned into this person.

I would see it as really awkward to turn another person into my character, way too awkward sorry.

Originally Posted by Miguelinileugim

I would see it as really awkward to turn another person into my character, way too awkward sorry.

Yeah! I know what you mean, I thought that once when I was starting to induce my lucids. Now I think they're just DCs at the end. And what about if your DC is hiding in the shape of another one like some sort of wizard or so?

Anyway, but it wouldn't be a bad idea to ask another DC to tell you where the one you're looking for is hiding or so.

Originally Posted by Box77

Yeah! I know what you mean, I thought that once when I was starting to induce my lucids. Now I think they're just DCs at the end. And what about if your DC is hiding in the shape of another one like some sort of wizard or so?

Anyway, but it wouldn't be a bad idea to ask another DC to tell you where the one you're looking for is hiding or so.

For now I'm trying to summon her via portal in the ground, I'll use my magic telekinetic powers, apparently my brain thinks it can do magic as long as I try hard enough, to the hell with physics.

Of course, making purple smoke appear and eventually a person is a bit beyond physics, but who cares it's a dream!

Being late to post this, youve probably already heard the same thing, but anyways, its all about how much you believe. Once you realize that you are dreaming and that you CAN do anything and everything and you fully understand that, all the logic and other stuff leaves and your brain will accept it and then whatever character you want to summon will appear. Its all about how much you believe. Just KNOW that you CAN and always have the ability to do whatever you want and focus on summoning whoever or whatever. Its all about belief, because it is your mind.

I agree with Oneupboy. I just remind myself that is my dream, and if I want to see someone (anyone), then I can. I keep saying 'I will see [insert name here]' and visualizing them until they turn up.
You can do ANYTHING you want, remember, it's your brain that is creating everything you see.

Originally Posted by OneUpBoy71

its all about how much you believe

I agree with Oneupboy.

Sorry but this is just a beginner's myth. Having been through close to a decade of sporadic lucid dreaming I've seen things work when I either didn't believe or had no idea they would and had methods true and tested fail repeatedly even when I was fully convinced they'd work. You can scout around the site and find plenty of confirmation of this both from dream journals and people who work on and use methods that factor this in.

Well actually I disagree with you, blacklight. I have been lucid dreaming since I was a teen, so about 20 years. That is how I do it, so obviously it works for some people.

You may find Dream Narration useful (I think that's the name of the technique, I could be wrong).

Think of the dream like it's a book that your subconscious is writing, and you're in that book experiencing the events, as a character. If you say out loud what you want to happen, you take control of the dream's events by feeding your mind what you want to happen, said in a way like it IS happening, or about to happen. Your mind can't help but make what you're saying happen, since it's being said as if it has happened (or WILL happen). The only problem with this is you need to believe, like any of the techniques, that it WILL work. For a while I had doubts, so it didn't work perfectly, but I saw that even with the doubts it still did work to some extent. The more faith you have the more flawless the Dream Narration becomes, until it's literally exactly how you wanted it to be. It worked for me after about two attempts that didn't entirely work as planned.

Here's an example of the technique:

Desired Event - You want a certain DC to walk through the door of a room you're in.
Narration - You would say something like "I looked at the door, waiting for (DC name) to open the door. Suddenly the door handle shook, and turned". The door handle would do as you described. You'd then continue with something like, "the door slowly opened, and I saw (DC name) on the other side".

To put things into perspective, I actually had dreams of me searching for a particular DC for about a week, each night. I tried this technique with two different types of events I wanted to happen and it worked. Then I attempted with the DC I had been dreaming about searching for but couldn't find. I successfully dreamt of the character last night, and the character was exactly how I remembered. I suggest giving this technique a try if you're still after trying to dream about that one DC, or you just want giant robots to emerge from the ocean's depths and battle with Godzilla.

Good luck!

Originally Posted by ThestoneLion

You may find Dream Narration useful (I think that's the name of the technique, I could be wrong).

Think of the dream like it's a book that your subconscious is writing, and you're in that book experiencing the events, as a character. If you say out loud what you want to happen, you take control of the dream's events by feeding your mind what you want to happen, said in a way like it IS happening, or about to happen. Your mind can't help but make what you're saying happen, since it's being said as if it has happened (or WILL happen). The only problem with this is you need to believe, like any of the techniques, that it WILL work. For a while I had doubts, so it didn't work perfectly, but I saw that even with the doubts it still did work to some extent. The more faith you have the more flawless the Dream Narration becomes, until it's literally exactly how you wanted it to be. It worked for me after about two attempts that didn't entirely work as planned.

Here's an example of the technique:

Desired Event - You want a certain DC to walk through the door of a room you're in.
Narration - You would say something like "I looked at the door, waiting for (DC name) to open the door. Suddenly the door handle shook, and turned". The door handle would do as you described. You'd then continue with something like, "the door slowly opened, and I saw (DC name) on the other side".

To put things into perspective, I actually had dreams of me searching for a particular DC for about a week, each night. I tried this technique with two different types of events I wanted to happen and it worked. Then I attempted with the DC I had been dreaming about searching for but couldn't find. I successfully dreamt of the character last night, and the character was exactly how I remembered. I suggest giving this technique a try if you're still after trying to dream about that one DC, or you just want giant robots to emerge from the ocean's depths and battle with Godzilla.

Good luck!

That seems like a great idea! But is it possible to create a dream character to do the storytelling work for me according to my expectations? I mean, as an advanced technique

That may very well be possible, but we'll have to do some experimenting to find out if it can be done

It's about expecting, not wanting, when it comes to lucid dreams.

I just wanted to take this opportunity to complain after reading my dream notes from this morning. Long story short, at the end of this one dream [non lucid] I was going to call a friend to come meet me. I was walking through a house and opened up this ancient looking flip phone and I assume I found his number. I was just about to hit send when I walked around a corner and looked up, he was standing right there in front of me. Why can't it be that easy in LD? lol

Lately I've been having some fun with attempting to go to them, rather than summoning them to me. I've had some mixed results with it, it usually either works or it wakes me up

I spin around in a circle really fast (this is a great way to change your dream scene according so many people on the forum!) and say out loud "Take me to where (DC) is!" When the scenery stops spinning and I'm in a new place, there's already a strong expectation in my mind that he'll be there, so he usually is since expectation is the most important part.

Originally Posted by ThestoneLion

You may find Dream Narration useful...

Narration - You would say something like "I looked at the door, waiting for (DC name) to open the door. Suddenly the door handle shook, and turned". The door handle would do as you described. You'd then continue with something like, "the door slowly opened, and I saw (DC name) on the other side".

A couple of nights ago I tried this dream narration method (technique?) of dream control, putting emphasis in saying what was going to happen just in past tense as it already had happened and it worked wonders to summon a particular DC which was one of the hardest for me to find immerse in a particular situation. Usually I used to say it in both present and future tense and it didn't work that well. I'm wondering if it has something to deal the fact that saying it in past tense is a way to strengthen the conviction that it will work. I don't know.

The way you suggested worked great for me, thank you so much for this advice!!

To make it easier for you; you need to expect it. As i said earlier. It is possible to expect it to happen right in front of you, but i've heard it's a lot harder for most.
Maybe if you expect to see them arrive on a bus (Like one of the previous posts said), Be behind a door/object, or press a button/ use a remote control to make them appear.
I would assume one of those would be easiest. You should become better at it with practice, like you can with most things.
Good luck to all.

Originally Posted by Tradl3s

To make it easier for you; you need to expect it. As i said earlier. It is possible to expect it to happen right in front of you, but i've heard it's a lot harder for most.
Maybe if you expect to see them arrive on a bus (Like one of the previous posts said), Be behind a door/object, or press a button/ use a remote control to make them appear.
I would assume one of those would be easiest. You should become better at it with practice, like you can with most things.
Good luck to all.

But if I expect them not to show up since I'm always conscious that that's a possibility, what can I do?

Originally Posted by Box77

A couple of nights ago I tried this dream narration method (technique?) of dream control, putting emphasis in saying what was going to happen just in past tense as it already had happened and it worked wonders to summon a particular DC which was one of the hardest for me to find immerse in a particular situation. Usually I used to say it in both present and future tense and it didn't work that well. I'm wondering if it has something to deal the fact that saying it in past tense is a way to strengthen the conviction that it will work. I don't know.

The way you suggested worked great for me, thank you so much for this advice!!

I think you're on to something. If you visualize them showing up, who's to say they wont leave again. Believe they have been there the whole time, so you know they have your back. When you think about it, they are you.

On my first WILD, I'd decided to call my Greeny. A supposedly green glowing fairy that is supposed to help me lucid. At first, I put up the desire to see her. Nothing happened. Then after that I really shouted in the dream world, asking for her. Then she came. A little different though. A green glowing phoenix. Lols.

Originally Posted by OneUpBoy71

Being late to post this, youve probably already heard the same thing, but anyways, its all about how much you believe. Once you realize that you are dreaming and that you CAN do anything and everything and you fully understand that, all the logic and other stuff leaves and your brain will accept it and then whatever character you want to summon will appear. Its all about how much you believe. Just KNOW that you CAN and always have the ability to do whatever you want and focus on summoning whoever or whatever. Its all about belief, because it is your mind.

^This. The exact moment I consciously (and subconsciously) realized that the dreamworld is mine and comes from me and therefore I can do whatever I want in it and to it, my dream control went from exceptionally low to practically near mastery. The same might not go for everyone, but you should see quite a bit of improvement. Realize that the dreamworld is yours and believe that you can do it, because you absolutely most certainly can. Once your subconscious realizes too that you're in control, it'll oblige to whatever you want to do. From there you should be able to summon a DC easily however you want, and as an added bonus, you should see improvement in other areas involving dream control (and perhaps even awareness and self-awareness) as well.