Damn Those DILDs....

[Reality_is_a_Dream]

I am having DILDs almost every day. Sounds great, right? Wrong. When I get lucid, I have very little control, it feel's like I am about to wake up, light headed. I usually do wake up, too... It feels more like a thought than a drea,. not even a daydream. So I have no control in my non-vivid DILDs. I see a possible opertunity here, but I need some help. Any ideas?

[seeker28]

I DILD pretty much every night, too. Most of the time I just hang out and go with the flow -- follow the dream plot while knowing it is a dream. However I sometimes decide to do something else. When I first started to try to take control in my DILDs I had a really hard time. I couldn't control things, I'd become paralyzed or blind (or both), the dream would try to turn into a nightmare, etc. For a while it really felt like I was fighting with myself. I knew what was supposed to be possible, but couldn't make any of it happen. So frusterating! For me I had two major breakthroughs in taking charge in my DILDs. The first happened when I finally got a DC (who I realized was a manifestation of my subconscious) to talk to me about what was going on, what I wanted, and what my subconscious wanted. The second really was when I read the thread by The Cusp on the Nature of Dream Control. Gah... I plug that thread all the time... Anyway, it really has some great information. You should check it out. Here is a link. You don't have to read the whole thing. A lot of it has nothing to do with dreaming, but the basic principles are what is important. Hopefully at some future time The Cusp will decide to write up a tutorial on the subject.

[Reality_is_a_Dream]

I barely have enough control to rub my hands together, and even when I do, it barely helps, if at all.

[seeker28]

Sounds to me that maybe you need to calm down in your dream. Take a few moments to just look at something (like the ground). Or, just focus on something in the dream. Wether that is an object, the background, your dream body, etc. Just focus and see how real it is. Be calm and try to stay calm.