Thread: Changing Your Self Image In Dreams

my usual look is me when 13 - 16 (changes time to time) - that means the same of now (20) but thinner and shorter.
i can change it a little - hair colour or so - if i have a mirror and "change " things one to one - sometimes deep changes "feel " painful, but luckyly i never feel pain too real in dreams.

I have a question! *raises hand*

For anybody who has changed self image in an LD; can you actually feel any change, or is it all cosmetic like a mirage or a hologram?

Actually, that's also been one of my questions. But, from what I've read, it feels 'real' and you can experience said animals senses.

I'm just wondering how you can be, say, a dragon, or any creature with more than four limbs (wings count, too). I mean, how would you know how to control the wings for example! Or a snake, how do you know how to slither?

Anyway, but I think it feels real if you do a proper change.

BTW, any ideas on those questions?

A couple nights ago i had a dream it wasent lucid but i had turned into a girl of about 13 (no clue about any of the features becuase it wasent lucid and i dident really pay attention) but i remember the feelings of the dream and you do feel diffrent from forms, its not like a mirage.

Ok, very interesting! I had a dream where I changed, and I would DEFINATELY like to have it again. Unfortunately, since the dream was non-lucid (at that point), I remember it kind of... fuzzily? Is that a word?

Anyways, now the only trick is actually becoming lucid, and then incubating the dream... That's it, nothing to it!!!...

Life, boy, on the other hand... *does reality check*

Originally Posted by Metroid48

Actually, that's also been one of my questions. But, from what I've read, it feels 'real' and you can experience said animals senses.

I'm just wondering how you can be, say, a dragon, or any creature with more than four limbs (wings count, too). I mean, how would you know how to control the wings for example! Or a snake, how do you know how to slither?

Anyway, but I think it feels real if you do a proper change.

BTW, any ideas on those questions?
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When I've shapeshifted into animals it feels very real and you can actually feel the difference in the bodies and how they work/move. Like the very first time I shifted into a lion I gave it a test run to check it out. I could feel like difference straight away between the lion and the wolf.. it was like the lion ran lower and used its claws for turning.. it was a fast turner compared to the wolf and it really kinda dug its nails in when cornering. It also had a faster starting speed. Anyway none of these things I had really thought about before hand, they were just things I noticed straight away after shifting so it really does seem like a taste of the wild life.

With controlling wings... its like if you dream you have them it just seems to come naturally on how to open them. Like when I first turned into the lion I looked over my shoulder to see my body and tail but inorder to do so I had to fold my wing in the right way, which just seemed to come naturally. My wing came out from the side of my rib just under my arm and not from my back, and when folding it it was like flexing the muscles around the ribs. It was weird though because the wing was like there but not there.. like it was a brigher light and not as solid.. so it was like a wing of white light and not really a solid thing. Kinda hard to describe. Like having a solid animal with added light.. its not really winged but it is.

Anyway thats the only time I've had wings and they wernt really for flying, they ended up kinda helping me to corner better when running ,that and the claws.

So yeah, its like after you shift the rest just seems to come naturally.

Hm, thats really intresting Kazahel. next time im lucid im going to try becoming a lion and stuff like that.

I have appeared different in a dream,but it was beyond my control i think,I also had a different personality but I was still Lucid.I was far more aggresive in the dream,and I was leading others that were also Lucid.very strange

Originally Posted by bendstringz

I have appeared different in a dream,but it was beyond my control i think,I also had a different personality but I was still Lucid.I was far more aggresive in the dream,and I was leading others that were also Lucid.very strange
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Wow, thats weird, never heard of anything like a personality change happening.

when you say self image do you mean the body or the mind?

me and my friend transform a lot in dreams. weve finally come up with a solution that works best for us. rather than imagining what we want to be, we look at our dream body and imagine it changing.

like if you want to become a lion, first try to grow fur over your body, lengthen your nails into claws. stand on all fours and lengthen your feet so that you walk on your toes/paws. and so on.

The way you change you image is very unique and certainly interesting, I haven't tried to possess a DC before and to change my appearance, I tend to just convince myself that I really do have whatever features I want, it works and its quick.

In the most accurate transformation, I became a dog in one of my dreams, but did not purposely transform into that. The dream simply began with me being a canine. In that dream, I was aware I was dreaming, but had no control over my surroundings or even me (which is happening to me alot now). The feeling of being a dog was pretty different in how my body felt, but of coarse my vision and mentality was that of a person. In another dream where I was actually lucid with dream control, I walked to a door, closed my eyes, opened then door with my eyes still closed, and transformed into a dog on the other side- though my control stopped simply seconds afterward. The door trick works for me, whether I want to see a person, place, or event on the other side.


I really like the idea of transforming into an animal, or adding wings (which I have not tried). I want to start doing this alot... after I get over this stage of lucidy without the actual control.

I have transformed my body a few times before. When I had 4 arms, for example. I focused on feeling the arms from my body and becoming aware of how they felt and moved. I have also transformed into a quadrupedic creature using that technique.

I wonder if it would be possible to split into two people? Having not recalled a dream in ages, I'm way short of trying it, but it shouldn't be far beyond what I do on roleplaying forums all the time (once I'm actually in an LD, that is). Maybe I'll split into five people and beat myself to a pulp.

Originally Posted by Brilliand

I wonder if it would be possible to split into two people?
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I'm sure that you could, since you can do like everything in your dream, but it'd be funny to see who's really the better fighter, the normal you or the other 1+ yous

Originally Posted by Lucidbulbs

I'm sure that you could, since you can do like everything in your dream, but it'd be funny to see who's really the better fighter, the normal you or the other 1+ yous
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My evil clone was a better fighter, he locked me in the cupboard

Actually, I was thinking split yourself over two "bodies", experiencing both at once and possibly even using lucid powers on both sides. It could become an interesting battle. But there wouldn't be any question of you versus your clone - maybe you could use different shirt colors to differentiate. It would be very difficult.

I play chess against myself, so I'm used to being two people. I just want to go all the way to a controlled form of split personality disorder.

I actually had a lucid last night that relates to this.

I decided (spur of the moment kinda thing) that I wanted to transform into a girl and see what it feels like. I tried transforming myself a few times but nothing happened, so I had the idea of making a DC girl appear and then kissing them, leaning forward as I do so so that I posess their body, rather like you said. Twice the fun, too =D

Obviously this wouldnt work with animals.....I guess you could always summon a lion and then hug it, or even just jump into it!

Originally Posted by adamL28

I actually had a lucid last night that relates to this.

I decided (spur of the moment kinda thing) that I wanted to transform into a girl and see what it feels like. I tried transforming myself a few times but nothing happened, so I had the idea of making a DC girl appear and then kissing them, leaning forward as I do so so that I posess their body, rather like you said. Twice the fun, too =D

Obviously this wouldnt work with animals.....I guess you could always summon a lion and then hug it, or even just jump into it!
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You can say her... You're definitely talking about a single girl. No need to ruin your grammar to be politically correct.

Originally Posted by John

I've learned through experience that transforming your own body into something else can be quite difficult in a dream, and have only once had minor success in this. However, I had an idea. I have no trouble creating dream characters by saying "such and such a person will walk around the corner now" and lo and behold, the person with the characteristics I imagined walks casually from behind something (has a gun I can take, a dead person I wish to talk to, etc.). So, I figure, since it's quite simple to make things immaterial but still there, it shouldn't be too much of a stretch for one to simply summon a character, turn them around and "jump into" their body, possess them if you will. It might have strange side effects, like accidentally being backwards or struggling to control the body over the will of the DC, but I feel like this would be quite an easy way to transform the self image. Has anybody ever tried this, or tried other methods of transformation and met either success or difficulty?
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Sad to say, since I haven't had an LD yet (but I? hav a feeling I will tonight, but i'm not certain) but I would like to suggest this. Create a big red button and put who/what you want to change into on it, then press it. That's my guess.

Hm, that's a good question. In my second lucid dream I changed my physical appearance without consciously wanting it (but it was minor, my breasts just became bigger). I hope I'll be able to do it at will next time I've a LD.

Wow,

I never thought it was very hard to transform myself in dreams. A few of the things I've changed into:

- bird, the flying part was awesome i might add
- donkey, dunno.. very weird and not very lucid
- cat
- soul (popped outta my dream self and flew around, but thats pretty standard i guess)
- women (yeah, I've actually kinda felt the one form I took was myself in a former life if that sounds weird enough)
- snake (really REALLY weird)
- alternate "versions" of myself that were different ages but looked similiar. I never really thought to look like another person, its just that I take a male or female form in my dreams, and the male looks very much like my real self while the female is very different.

I have possessed multiple dream characters at once however, yet even when i can feel what they feel, i never consider it my dream form.

Originally Posted by TheUnknown

- snake (really REALLY weird)

Actually, I've been meaning to ask that. How does it turn out being a snake? What's it like? It's probably the oddest and most different form possible, aside from something like a jellyfish, so how'd it go?