Summoning dream characters (so hard!)

**salsashark** · 11-26-2013 08:20 PM

My most effective (so far) method of summoning DCs is to kind of 'shape' them out of air. I visualise the air in front of me getting thicker, forming into the shape of a person and then I try to give it specific features.
The problem is,the more I wanna see someone in my LD, the harder it is for me to summon them.
So I have a kind of hierarchy. I start with someone I wanna see most and if it doesn't work I try shaping someone I wanna see a little less, which when I now think about it, is really mean.
'Hey I wanted to have someone in my LD, but since I cannot summon them, I have to stick with you'

**MaestroKitty** · 12-07-2013 01:35 PM

Very recently I had a faintly lucid dream in which I was able to summon a ten-year-old Harry Potter without trying too hard. Though considering that I was only partially lucid I'm not sure if this counts. I just gestured with both hands and said to somebody, "I can even make Harry Potter appear right... THERE." And he walked around the corner. So I'm not really sure how that worked. I'll have to experiment some more if I can get into another lucid dream sometime soon (still just a beginner).

**Box77** · 12-07-2013 01:57 PM

Perhaps one important thing to take into account is the way one becomes lucid, if it's a WILD or DILD. Basically, if it's at the beginning, the middle or the end of the REM stage. I don't know for others, but in my own experience I've noticed it's easier for me to perform any dream power (including summoning) when I become lucid in the very beginning of the REM stage, because of if I fail, I don't tend to wake up so easy. When I became lucid apparently when the stage was about to end, I wasn't able to do that much.