Portals in LD's?

[RealShift]

As my latest DJ entries suggest, I've had a couple failed attemps at making portals while being lucid. Does anyone have any suggestions, tips or experiences?

[Aledrea]

A few months ago I was terrible at making portals too, but I tired out a few things and this finally worked for me. I looked at a wall and just imagined an image being projected at it and said it would take me to the place I was trying to get to and a random image projected onto the wall and I walked up to it and I teleported.

[spencer1519]

I actually stumbled onto portals accidentally in my second LD. I didn't even realize I had done it at first. I had decided I wanted to be somewhere else, turned around, and noticed a door in the middle of the parking lot I was in at the time. The door took me to a small room with another door in it, which took me somewhere else. Since then, all my portals start off as a brown wooden door in an open area, which always leads to this small yellow room. From this room I can restructure the dream world outside. Then I step through and I'm there. This is the only way I've ever been able to actively change my dreams. I've never been able to alter a dream too severely without waking myself up. Only inside the yellow room can I make major changes to both the "landscape," the "people," and the "rules."

[mcwillis]

Cover your eyes with your hands and say where you want to go. Handy as you always have your hands with you and don't have to manufacture a door !! Make sure the lucid is stable or covering you eyes can wake you up.