Thread: EXPERIMENT: Using an IRL video game controller to control a dream

This year is really the first time I've been "practicing" lucid dreaming since I was in 5th grade, and now I'm in college, so its been a while. But this time I'm much better at actually becoming lucid, I've actually had about 19 this year, (of varying degrees of quality)!

Problem is, nowadays I'm kind of inept at doing a lot of the things I acutally want to do in my LDs.

In my younger days I was an expert shapeshifter. Now, not so much.

I was also good and teleporting to wherever I wanted to go, not anymore.


All the solutions i've been given to try here are difficult for me to try. For example, for shapeshifting, someone suggested to stand in front of a mirror and watch yourself change, only nowadays I cant even summon a mirror.

I've also been told to summon the person/creature/thing I want to become and possess it, only when I call out for it no one responds or comes.

I've tried using a magic wand to summon, but of course first I have to generate a magic wand, which I've done successfully only once.

As for teleporting, I've tried walking through normal doors expecitng to be someplace new and that dosen't work. I've also tried to summon Warp Pipes as in Super Mario to teleport but in my experience I can only do this successfully If I have a wand to use, which in itself is a problem.

The only things I'm able to use in my dreams are things that I'd actually have on my person or in my house in real life. For example, once I left a brown bottle marked "lucidity potion" on my kitchen table for me to use in an actual dream, whcih worked great.

Another example is the bracelet I wear that I double check the text on to see if it changes or not, that actually shows up in dreams, also, once I left a "magic ring" for myself on my night table, that worked great too. Once I was using a small card with some text on it to reality check and kept it in my pocket all day so it would be there in my dreams too.

Also, in a lot of my non-lucid dreams, especially unfun/nightmareish ones, I'll actually see a "A" button with the word Abort on it appear "on screen" like it was a video game that I somehow "press" that causes me to instantly wake up.


So, what I've decided to do is carry with me a video game controller in my pocket IRL, the idea being that once I become lucid in a dream I could reach into my pocket expecting to find it already there so I dont have to summon it.

Then I could execute all the focus intensive dream functions I have trouble doing manually by pressing the buttons. I think this will work for me since I know from experience that once I have a magic item or potion that will do the desired task for me, I can make it happen instnatly just by using or drinking it.

Here is the controller I'm going to carry with me:




It's a Nintendo Wii Remote.

I'm using this one because its the only controller I have thats tiny enough to put in my pocket, is cordless, and has few buttons to get things mixed up with. Plus, I happen to have a non functional "dummy" model that was used as a display peice at a Nintendo show, so that would be great for this.

I even went so far as come up with a pre decided "control" scheme so I can press specific buttons and expect a set effect to occur so hopefully the outcome will be less random in the dream when i try this.

CONTROLS:

A Button: Point remote at self or any DC and press A to transform myself/DC into whatever creature I am thinking of.

B Button: Teleport to wherever I am thinking of

D Pad - Press to make whatever thing/person I am imagining materialise before me

+/- Buttons: Like "Tracking" on a VCR remote, used to adjust dream clarity (I hope this one works really good )

Home Button: Teleport Home

1: Warp to Train Station
2: make train arrive at platform

(dont ask about thse two )


Hopefully tonight I'm going to see if this works or not.