Does it have to be in lucid dreaming? The skills I first developed in high level lucid dreams and by practicing visuals while awake I make most use of in low level lucids and normal dreams. All the powers I'm about to list have been used in a high level lucid unless otherwise noted:
Floating: I don't walk in dreams, but float (semi-horizontally) above the ground. I think this stems from the fact that I'm aware I'm lying down sleeping. My brother (who regularly flies in dreams but does not have lucids) and I joke around and tell others "Flight comes from the sternum". We also tell people to work out their sternum if they want to fly.
Flying: I fly like a bird or airplane, but only rarely. I prefer to use the next method on this list.
Zooming: I call this zooming because it works like the zoom function on a camera. Last night my dream started with me looking out the third story window next to my bed, and looking down on a small house at the end of our yard (does not exist IRL). As my mental focus zoomed in on that house to the point where I was viewing it from an angle several feet away, my avatar was therefore at that point and I could then walk around on the ground. I use this technique whenever I go into space: Look at the grass at your feet, then imagine looking down on that same grass from a third story window, then from an airplane, then from a satellite, then from a point on the moon, and keep zooming out. This method works very well if you familiarize yourself with these images while you're awake. I havn't tried it, but zooming out on Google Earth might help, too.
Morphing objects (non-living): Changing the size, shape, or other characteristics of a non-animal object. This is another one which practice during the day can help with. Imagine that you're viewing an object (a table, or something), then hold out your hands (both your real hands and your imaginary hands) and make some movement which makes sense to you, and imagine the object changing. This works for rotation, telekinesis, scaling an object, warping it, and molding it into other shapes. Work with it like clay.
Creation of objects (hammer space): I'm not very good at this, and I can't consistently perform it. When I do, it often has a negative influence on the dream world (destabilization). I much prefer to take a small object from the dreamscape, such as a pebble, and then warp it into the desired shape and scale it to size, but this can prove difficult, too. A more reliable (for me) method is described below.
Wiping: Thanks to whoever called it this in the posts above. I had always just thought of these as field of view tricks. Use your hand, a corner wall, or another part of the dream world to obscure your line of view where you want the object or person to appear (or disappear). Change your view back (remove your hand, move back into view, whatever) and the object or person may be there. Like everything else, this depends entirely on your natural belief that it will in fact be there, what other people here have described as 'confidence'.
Limited knowledge of body: Sometimes I'm aware of the workings of my real body. Most often this is related to the "sternum" floating I mentioned above. Often I'm aware of my breathing, and sometimes I've used slower breathing as a stabilization technique. The first completely lucid experience I can remember was when I was around 8 or 10. I was having a nightmare and trying to run (with typical results); I suddenly realized that I could just open my real eyes and wake up.
Superhero, video game moves, and magic: When I was younger I did these things sometimes. I believe your powers in dreams are based around your image of yourself. These arn't things I see myself doing, so I'd generally skip doing a hadouken and just wipe a person from view.
Change of viewpoint: I can't remember a time in a lucid dream where I "took over" a dream character. When my dreams become lucid, though, I often "drop out" of my character avatar (perhaps an actor in a movie, like Harrison Ford from The Fugitive earlier this month). Sometimes my view settles into what I call my "avatar", sometimes I just float in the "director's" position. In my Fugitive dream I became lucid as I realized there was no way to escape Tommy Lee Jones. My solution? Tear open the space a sky scaper occupied, in what I can only describe as a tesseract, and let Harrison Ford escape into it. My viewpoint was left behind to close up the rift, after which I was left lucid and "disembodied".
That's all I can think of at the moment. I may update this should I remember anything else.
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