Tips on dream control. Use the dreams rules.

I found this out a while back. If you want to control something in a dream, use the dreams rules.



Example: Say you were in your house. There are some zombies outside. You think "I'll throw a fireball at them" NO. Use something from the dream itself. Like find a can of lighter fluid, and a lighter from inside your house and spray the fluid through the lighter making a blowtorch.


Here's how I figured it out. I was being attacked by a giant spider machine. It had pinned me down, and I couldn't get up, or move. I looked up at the sky, (it was night) and imagined there was a spaceship up there that I controlled. I gave it an order, and a huge white beam fired out of the sky, and destroyed the spider machine. It tied in with the sci fi aspect of the dream. Giant machines... spaceships can't be too far off.


This is one of the reasons I don't like lucid dreaming as much as I would. It's too real and too hard to get things to do stuff. I'll try thinking I'm a wizard or something, and throw fire, ice, wind, lightening out of my hands but it won't work. However, i had one dream, where I had a playing card that gave me those powers and I was doing it just fine.


Use the DC's if you have to, say something like "I'll give you ten bucks if you bring me a sword of unimaginable power" and they'll probably do it.


Good luck :)

Yup. Our awakened minds have a hard time coping with spontaneous... Anything. As long as there is a cause that can justify the effect, however, our dream will bend to our original will. The use of tools external to the person's own body help produce the desired effect for this reason.

That's good advise for those who struggle with dream control.

I'll have to call that idea up to memory next time I find myself having control issues.

Oddly, it's the opposite for me. The dream's rules almost never work for me, if I want to control things, I usually have to use direct control. I've had tons of dreams where I'm supposed to have some superpower, or I'd have some magic artifact or something, and these things would almost never work, even though I was sure they would. Even in lucid dreams, sometimes I'd try to get a dream character's help with doing something, and they'd try to cast a spell or show me some action that I could use to achieve what I'd want, and it would never work. When I use dream control, there rarely seems to be any justification to it at all, often not even that I'm dreaming, since I've had plenty of dreams where I used powers learned in lucid dreaming, without actually remembering that I was dreaming, or that I've used those powers before.

However, this is a big inconvenience when trying to do a lot of things, like summoning things, and getting to places. It would be a lot easier if I could summon things just by knowing that they were in the next room, or go to somewhere by simply expecting it to be behind a door, rather than by willpower and visualization, which tend to destabilize the dream, especially for really large things. Any idea on how I could learn to use this mode of dream control?

"Oddly, it's the opposite for me. The dream's rules almost never work for me, if I want to control things, I usually have to use direct control. I've had tons of dreams where I'm supposed to have some superpower, or I'd have some magic artifact or something, and these things would almost never work, even though I was sure they would."




Hmmm, kinda sounds like you want to go "real" instead of fantasy in your dreams and want to do it yourself, not have anyone help you. You said you can do some things but objects/ DC's won't help you, so that might be it.




"Any idea on how I could learn to use this mode of dream control?"


Go for real things, like guns, find a science book and read from it what you want to do in the dream. If you do find an object you think can help you, make sure you did something to earn it, like pay for it with something. I think that might work.

I dunno wat u mean by learn
if u know ur dreaming
just dont get over excited n do watever the fuck u want
I think reading posts about people havign tried things that havent worked is very discouraging
I mean obviosuly not everything u wanna do is gonna work every time
but I have tried the coolest thnigs that worked
n all u have to do is act upon impulse and visualize
AND WATEVER U DO DONT THINK ' THIS MYT NOT WORK I CANT DO THIS'
dont over think
just do watever flows

I didnt know other people cld LD and DC b4 b4 I found this site
and Ive found a lot of cool tips and read about a lot of cool experiences
it encourages u to try new things u havent even thought of
but dont let it discourage u
its a dream
ur in control u can do watever u want

start ur dream like that n u will b unstopable
with basic basic DC
all I can tell u is dont get over excited
that will end ur dream
n feel like u have all the time in the world
dotn try everythnig at once take ur time with things
n do things instead of think about what u can do n it will come to u
to prolong ur LDs Ive read sugestions like spin as if u were trying to get dizy
or concentrate on soemthing in ur LD
like focus ur atention to ur hand or ur surroundings