Thread: Dizko's Guide to Ultimate Dream Control

Dizko's Guide to Ultimate Dream Control
The answer is out there, and it's looking for you, and it will find you if you want it to.

There are many theories on how to achieve control over dreams. We often have trouble trying to do great things in our dreams like flying or lifting massive objects. Some people will tell you to think of an alternative method of achieving the wanted result, i.e.: "Okay, I can't fly for some reason, so ill will summon a huge gust of wind that will blow me into the sky and carry me around".
These methods are good and can often lead to some great lucid experiences, but what do you do when they stop working?

People will often tell you that to become master of your dreams, you just have to 'believe' that you can do anything. This is true; however people often interpret this wrongly. Because of this, we hear stories like, "I did believe I could fly, and it worked a little, but then I just fell and hit the ground... "
Before the 'believing' method will truly work with 100% success, you must first understand why it works and more importantly, why it sometimes doesn't.

Here’s a statement that might interest you; there is but one thing that hinders our dream control. Yep, just one. This thing makes it hard to do all those great and wonderful things in our dreams. Why couldn't you fly? Why was walking on water so difficult? Why could you not make someone appear? It is all because of this one thing. And that thing is 'attachment'.

In the waking world, can fire lasers from your eyes? No. Over your lifetime your brain has come to accept this fact. You can't fly, you can't teleport and you can’t shoot fireballs from your hands. Your brain accepts these 'rules' and carries them over into the dream world.

...yet their strength and their speed are still based in a world that is built on rules. Because of that, they will never be as strong or as fast as you can be.

Even so, some of us can, and have, flown in our dreams, and others of us fall after a while or can only fly slowly. Why is that? What is the difference between someone who can fly around the world perfectly with no difficulties, and someone who plummets to the ground after a few seconds?
The difference is, 'attachment'.

Let’s take a real life object as an example. Think of a table. You know a table is hard, flat, and probably made of wood. In real life - can we chop through a table with our hand? Probably not. What about with our mind? No way. So when we attempt to do something like this in our dreams, the following happens. We see the table, we walk up to it. Our brain's thought pattern is: "Table -> flat -> Hard -> Strong -> Hard to break with hand -> Cannot break with mind".
That thought pattern is the attachment your brain has made to the object.

The key to understanding what this whole guide is about is to understand the following statement; it is impossible to break a table with your mind, even in your dreams.

I thought it wasn't real - Your mind makes it real

Let me explain.

In order to achieve ultimate dream control, you have to learn how to un-attach yourself from these previous attachments to real life things.

Picture a car in your mind. No really, do it. Picture the car sitting on the ground. Now picture yourself making the car float into the air. Easy, right?
The reason it is impossible to break a table in your dreams is because, there quite simply aren’t any tables in your dreams. There are not any objects, people, places...anything. Everything in your dream is just a thought. And from that little experiment we just did involving the floating car, we have established that thoughts are easily controllable.

I can think of loads of dreams where I would have great control. I'd be throwing cars, flying around, jumping really high, and doing loads of cool things. Then I would see my friend. I'd go over and say "Alright mate, how you doing? Hey check out the cool things I can do". I would 'attach' myself once again to dream world things. The 'friend' in my dream is just a thought, but I 'give him space' if that makes sense. I once again attach myself to the thought of my friend. I then get embarrassed because my dream powers have vanished and my friend is laughing at me (I think we've all been there =P). Why is this? Quite simply because I started to make my brain 'attach' itself to these pre-recorded rules of waking life. My brain brought back whatever attachment there was to the friend, just like the table. They're age, personality, attitude towards me, etc. And that's when it spreads throughout the dream. In my dream, my friend was standing in the street. My brain then makes the attachment of 'heavy->cannot lift' to the cars, working its way through every object in the dream and then finally to me. I cannot fly, I cannot shoot energy blasts, and I cannot throw cars.

This is why it is very important not to become attached to thoughts while dreaming. Doing so does not make the dream feel any less real, because the 'feeling of realness' in a dream is something which is controllable, as it itself, is only a thought.

You must therefore, in your dreams, remember that everything around you is just a thought. In effect you can use this 'attachment' thing to your advantage. Remember when we did the 'Picture the car thing'? Your brain made an attachment then. You were able to imagine a car sitting on the ground, and then you imagined it floating. You know for 100% certainty that the car is just a thought, not a real car, and your brain has established that you can make a 'thought' car float off the ground. Your brain has come up with this kind of thought pattern: "Car = Thought. Thought -> not real -> can be made to float." Now any time in your dream, all you have to do is establish that things around you are thought's and your brain will overcome any previous attachments to real life objects and instead use the "Thought -> Controllable" attachment.

I was thinking of ending this guide with another cheesy matrix quote, but i wont, i think i've bored you with enough matrix quotes . Pitty too, cause i really like this quote:

All im offering is the truth, nothing more

See wut i did thar? ;D