Potential Discovery for Dream Control

[Invader]

I'd like to share a personal discovery I made whilst dreaming that vastly improved my control over supernatural power and influence of the environment. I had what appeared to be the longest lucid dream I've ever gotten to experience, just last night. I was able to attempt a number of different things that were not related to each other without the inconvenience of waking up and starting a new dream to continue. About halfway through, I was standing in a dimly lit hallway when I was thinking about what next I should try, and I was bringing to mind much of what I had read earlier in the day from the forums for ideas. I remembered the thread DuB made regarding neuroscience and whether or not it will tell us anything about the mind, and how a part of Juroara's reply echoed a thought I had about dream characters. This thought went along the lines of "All dream characters are a manifestation of your mind. They are pieces of yourself that you can interact with. Some of them, however, are more like personified memories of other real life/fictional characters". The idea, of course, was founded upon the fact that a dream occurs in your head and is subject to no significant outside influence while the dream is in play. So, I thought of this while I was lucid and began to wonder how it was possible that my brain could be creating personalities for multiple dream characters at the same time without me being consciously aware of it. Just then, I was struck by an idea. I wanted greater control of my dream, and I knew that my brain was working to keep the dream characters around me speaking coherently. I felt that getting rid of the DCs might be analogous to getting rid of unwanted system processes on a computer so that a desired process could run with greater effectiveness. At that moment, I closed my eyes and imagined the dream characters long gone (I had to close my eyes a second time to make their disembodied voices leave as well). With no observable character in the dream besides just my whole self, I felt a rush of clarity and possibility open up. Things were more easily alterable, or creatable, or destructible. I had wondered then to great awe if I really made a discovery that could enhance dream control for everyone. And that is where my proposition comes up for those willing to experiment a little more with pushing the boundaries of a lucid dream. You can call it an experiment really, since I do not know on how great a scale this will work for others. Erasing your dream characters, even temporarily, may increase dream control. Give it a shot, and don't forget to post back with your results.