Thread: Different powers to try?

So I'm fairly new to LDing and trying to come up with different powers to try out in an attempt to stretch my abilities and learn greater control.

Last night during my LD I was having much better luck holding the dream stable than previously, so I thought I'd start trying out some different abilities to see what all I could do. In the dream I was in a fight with many gun-wielding enemies, so most of the powers I attempted were related to fighting.

During the fight I was able to; throw energy balls, shoot lightning, create earthquakes, and heal myself by touching my hand to the wound. (For those that know the show I was watching an old rerun of Charmed on TV shortly before going to sleep so thats where some of the power ideas came from)

When I eventually awoke after the dream my 1st thought was along the lines of 'idiot, why didn't you try flying' so after DEILDing to return to dreaming I flew into Earth orbit. (actually I tried to land on the moon, but my aim was off and I kept missing before finally coming back to earth)

Anyways, since I was able to successfully use all the powers I attempted I was looking for some other suggestions for things to try. (I have also had some luck with teleporting in previuos LD's but my record in that is not as good)

Telekinesis and summoning objects are already on my list of things to try next time (As well as shielding myself so I don't have to use healing so frequently ), but I was wondering what suggestions others might have for abilities to try out. Any advise you may have in better harnessing abilities is also much appriciated.

Flying of course...

Fireballs and energyballs are fun for explosions...

Epic battles are great too.

A good one for fights is blood/DNA blades, so useful if you get hurt lol

Blood/DNA blade? I guess I'm not exactly sure what that is. Is it like when your arm/hand morphs into a blade?

Yep, morphing these 2 things into blades + telekinesis is a fav of mine when I get hurt lol

A challenging power to try is walking through walls or melting through floors. It is very difficult unless I am very familiar with the place I try it in, like my house. Otherwise, I get lost in a black abyss until my mind renders a new place, making it more like teleportation. The easiest seems to be walking through doors in my house, since I already know what's on the other side. Good luck!

Kinda like flying but just hopping around/floating is a fun thing to do


Also this isn't a power but just explore the dream world. It's amazing!

Originally Posted by Nathan-kun

A challenging power to try is walking through walls or melting through floors. It is very difficult unless I am very familiar with the place I try it in, like my house. Otherwise, I get lost in a black abyss until my mind renders a new place, making it more like teleportation. The easiest seems to be walking through doors in my house, since I already know what's on the other side. Good luck!

I find walking through walls to be pretty easy. However, you are right, it oftens turns into teleportation rather than actually passing through walls, since you can't really know what actually is on the other side

As for new powers, I've always wanted to try and melt, or you know, become liquid. Shapeshifting also sounds cool, like morphing into a bird.

Originally Posted by Yarg

I flew into Earth orbit. (actually I tried to land on the moon, but my aim was off and I kept missing before finally coming back to earth)

You should try flying into the sun next time, should be easier to hit. Plus there is this girl who lives in the center of the sun who is really, really hot!

If you have heard of a show called avatar befor, try being him, if not, he can control the elements,

rg. make giant rockbals from the earth, mould the battle field to the way he wants and shoot fire and wind and control water, basic elemental power

Or..try being iron man !

OR A NINJA TURTLE!

Originally Posted by Dil

If you have heard of a show called avatar befor, try being him, if not, he can control the elements,

rg. make giant rockbals from the earth, mould the battle field to the way he wants and shoot fire and wind and control water, basic elemental power

Or..try being iron man !

OR A NINJA TURTLE!

This is a fun thing to do!

I only mastered water though : /

Well most of the decent things have been listed already

pyrokinetics-the ability of setting things on fire using your mind
cryokinetics-the ability of freezing things using your mind
duplication-this might be hard but fun
invisibilty-very fun but sometimes tricky

here are just some of the things you can try

(the only one here I have tryed is invisibilty so I don't know how hard the other powers are)

x-ray vision

making tornadoes

causing lightning to strike

super-speed

time travel (travelling to distant times)
OR
making the enire world stop/pause, go in reverse, slow down, or speed up

turn into a ghost and haunt a family

having a voice/scream/laugh that can shatter glass/destroy building

become a giant

jumping really really really high

limb stretching

morph your arm into a machine gun

create a black hole

spiderman's powers are always fun

USE NO SUPERPOWER but your mastery of martial arts/fighting technique

melt into liquid

shrink to the size of a toy

the power to possess bodies

just a few

You can also look through the Lucid Task threads, those have some good ideas. You wont get anything for completing the older ones now, but it is still good practice.

Those time manipulation ones sound fun.

I've actually been having trouble realizing I am in dreams lately though because some on the common indicators aren't working anymore for me. Technology not working in dreams being the big one. I've actually watched tv, used the phone, and even gone on the computer in my dreams over the last week, so I can't really rely on those not working as give aways anymore.

Try having an epic battle with sephiroth from final fantasy or sumthin. I always pictured that to be pretty cool.

I'd really like to try slow motion so I can do badass Matrix stuff

The other night, I somehow created what can only be described as a Halo 3 Killball. I was trying to make an energy bolt, and was doing a pretty good job of it, until the point where I "shot" it at a DC who had been attacking me. It kinda just trudged along, moving forward at odd spurts, before it stopped right in front of him. With a force of will I made the small orangey glowing ball expand rapidly. It enveloped the DC, and vaporized him almost instantly. It didn't dissipate afterward, and I got the feeling that if I touched it I would die too.

Anyways, this was a cool find and seems like something that would be fun to replicate and mess with. Maybe use some telekinesis and throw it into some DCs. . . I don't know, just something I felt like sharing.

Make shockwaves?