Constant boring/samey dreams

**apsinvo** · 05-21-2011 12:43 AM

Guys, I have the same boring dreams every time - I'm either in my flat where I've lived 2 years, in my parents house where I lived 23 years, or just outside my parents house in the street (where I never particularly spent an extensive amount of time). Often they become lucids, and it's all good.
Why are they ALL the same, every single time. What about fighting monsters, going to cool places, and all the rest of it?!

**slurry** · 05-21-2011 12:48 AM

Well, you said that "Often they become lucids," so if you're interested in "fighting monsters, going to cool places, and all the rest of it," why don't you? If you're lucid, then you can do what you want.

**apsinvo** · 05-21-2011 12:50 AM

How? If I try and open up a new dreamscape, I wake up. I've done some basic techniques in LD such as "when I turn round there will be a big purple ball." I turn round and there it is. I'm very 'aware' during my LDs but for some reason end up stuck doing the same pointless things each time..?

**slurry** · 05-21-2011 12:54 AM

I'm not sure why you'd wake up...maybe you're getting too excited? I have no trouble going to new places or conjuring up objects--they'll either be behind me when I turn around, or they'll be around the corner, etc.

**AL3ZAY** · 05-21-2011 01:10 AM

When you first realize you have become lucid, stabilize the dream. If you instantly try to exert your control, usually the dream will collapse. There are a couple of things that I do to stabilize my dreams once I've become lucid:

1. Spin around as fast as I can. I always spin to my left, and when I stop spinning, everything around me is crystal clear and vivid. After that....

2. I engage all of my senses by touching objects and feeling them while making sure my "eyes" take in as much detail as possible, while listening to any sounds and trying to discern what they are, while smelling the air and feeling any possible wind. I've even walked up to objects and licked them just to bring the sense of taste into full force.

After I've taken some time to do these things, I am free to do whatever I please. Change the dream scene, perform various experiments, etc. If a dream starts to collapse on me, I spin and all is well once I've finished spinning. If the dream collapses before I am able to re-stabilize it, the one thing I have found to work 100% to re-enter a dream is that I do not move a muscle in the slightest, nor open my eyes. The only thing I do is breathe, and within 3 minutes I'm dreaming again.

If you want to fight monsters, fight them, it's up to you to make the dream exciting, or you can call out to the dream itself to make it something exciting and I'm sure you'll be surprised with the results.