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I've had the same problem and it's really frustrating. And if the person ever does appear, most of the time they never look like who they're supposed to be and they end up disappearing. I'm going to try your advice, Pyor and I'm also going to try to ask another DC. We'll see what works.
Oh and Shadownet, that's really sweet what you said about your girlfriend. Good luck :)
On my first WILD I made someone appear. In the dream I remembered some on DVs saying that if you expected them they would appear.
So I knew they were going to be on the other side of the door, and when I opened it they were.
I usually try to shout the persons name and look around expecting to find him/her...to me its very effective...the problem is not really getting the person to appear, but keeping him/her from disapearing! Usually, the moment i turn around, or even while im talking to the person, he/she becomes another one, or simply vanishes... :)
I believe expectancy is the key feeling here...just EXPECT the person to be around the corner, and they will...keeping them around, though, is what separates "men from boys" in LDs... hehehe and im still a boy there!
Oh and BTW, that story about "McDonalds giving LD the attention it deserves" was simply the funniest thing i've heard this year!! You sure want to slap your face after missing such dream sign!! "Yeah, i'll have a McLucid and extra large Lucid Coke to go, thanks" :) hahahahah
is it possible to summon someone that I don't know in real life?
If you mean like an actor or singer.. the answer is yes.. you can summon a DC that resembles that person.
I had some success the other night. I wanted to summon someone so i asked a customer at Asda to go around the corner and get the person but she kept returning with some random girl but i'm nearly there (just got to work on making the right person appear).
no i mean like an imaginary character that does not exist at allQuote:
Originally Posted by Clairity
Aren't all DCs imaginary characters that don't exist at all?Quote:
Originally Posted by heyy
lol I wrote the previous post in a hurry, but what I really meant was to create a DCs character like I do in The Sims.
This is doing my head in. The last few lucids i have remembered i wanted to summon somebody but i can't make them appear! I tryed expecting them to be around the corner, behind a door, behind me but nothing.
I have a new plan to summon for my next lucid which i'm confident will be tonight, hopefully that will work. I am going to pretend i heard them in the kitchen for example and therefore i will expect the person to be there which should result in them being there. (Hopefully)
i try to summon them by turning the corner or openening a door and hoping they are there...... didn't really work though.
I say good old passive control.. always works for me... Or maybe trying going to their house... Say the person you want to appear is batman... Go to a place where you would expect batman to live.... Or spin and imagine wherever you end up that person will be there.
That hardly ever works for me. I have learnt that you have to believe rather than hope they are gonna be thereQuote:
Originally Posted by Gez
Going to the person's house works very well for me but i have a problem with passive control in general because you have to think of a reason that they would be in a certain place so i waste half the lucid thinking of a reason.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jamal
Ha ha! That's true!
I feel like in my LDs (or in any dream) most of my ram is creating the dreamscape, so there's not much left to make me smart.
I've had LDs since i was very little, and i have yet to summon a person.
Actually, expecting them to be in some place, or passive control almost seem cheating to me. But what the hell, i'll try that.
But what i REALLY want is to wish someone to appear, and watch him appearing within the next half of a second.
My summoning ability isn't great but i have summoned quite a few people. What happens alot is that the wrong person appears or if i ask somebody to bring them to me they bring the wrong person.Quote:
Originally Posted by wisp
Wishing someone to appear doesn't work for me atall, i have to expect them to appear.
I've only had two successful summonings, both of the same character. They've happened by changing my scenery while keeping my goal in mind and remaining optimistic. I flew off to find this character, and then looked for whatever seemed most similar to him in wherever I ended up when I flew. (The first time, the "most similar character" was an animal! Somehow I managed to get him to turn into a human, but I don't remember exactly how it happened.)
Perhaps with practice. I mean, passive control, expecting them to appear for some increasingly lamer reason. :PQuote:
Originally Posted by mylucidworld
Like "If i toss a coin, he/she should appear". And eventually for no reason other than our mental command.
There are lots of things i want to try, but i'm not becoming lucid anymore... :(
I've tried for the last 3 nights, and nothing. I'm a little impatient.
My last lucid was several months ago.
Yeh perhaps once you get better at dream control you will be able to make themm appear just by demanding them to appear.Quote:
Originally Posted by wisp
Several months ago, thats rough.