I need some guidance...

[Psychonautic]

I want to further my lucid dreaming skills, but there's so many directions I should go in, I don't know where to start. I feel like I am always setting my goals too high and never fully accomplishing anything. I'm just looking for some tasks that would help me build my skills a little more, some smaller steps to help me work towards the larger steps. Here's where I am at currently: Things I Can Do: -Stabalize a collapsing dream. -Bring back a dream if it goes black. -Summon an object I need into my hand -Create doors on walls by drawing them with my fingers, but they never lead where I want them to. I always write on them where they lead, and sometimes imagine what's on the other side. They usually just lead to another room in the house, a pantry, and one time the inside of a fridge lol. -Running really fast, jumping really high. Things I've tried and had trouble with: -Flying, I've tried many times. I've been able to hover a little bit, but have very poor control. I always fall. I've tried jumping off of things, but have always fallen on my face. I seem to self-sabotage my ability to fly with doubtful thoughts about my success. I don't really desire to fly all that much, there's easy ways to travel in my opinion, but overcoming my self-sabotage could be helpful I suppose. -Sex, my dreams almost always collapse when I try having sex. I've found some techniques that help, and at the very least can bring my dreams back when they do collapse. I'm not really looking for help with this though. -Getting my doors to lead where I want, although I've almost always tried making them go to weird places: subconscious, my future, and heaven. The only normal place I tried was the beach, and it didn't work either. All of my doors are always created on the wall from inside of a house. Basically, all that I've become really good at is stabalizing my dream and bringing it back when it collapses. Summoning objects that I need into my hand has also become like reflex. Whenever I need to write something on my door, bam pencil in my hand. I use to have to search my pockets for it, but now I don't even need to do that most of the time. What I want to work towards: -World building. I want to be able to create scenes around me. If I want a castle, I want to be able to create it. I just don't know how to go about it, like what thought processes I should go through. Would it be easiest to try and summon it in my current location? Or would teleporting to it be easier? I suppose it depends on the magnitude of what I'm trying to create. Either way, summoning objects that can't fit in my hand has so far not been possible for me. Changing my scene is also something I have yet to do. I can change my scene, but not really direct it. I've whirled in circles before and randomly teleported places. After collapsing a dream, I've brought myself back and into a different location. I tried imagining being in a Colosseum one time after my dream collapsed, but it didn't bring me there. I'm just looking for some steps I could take to help develop my world building abilities. -Trippy things. I have had some really trippy experiences in my dreams, so if there's just any ideas or things that you've done that are really surreal and bizzare, let me know. I'm always looking for new things to try. I am open to anything really. I just want to build my skills and know some smaller steps I can take so that I can reach my bigger goals. I think I try to do things that are too difficult for my level of control. When suggesting things, it would be helpful if you included some tips or some thought processes you go through to accomplish them, thanks!

[Siphorix]

Things I've tried and had trouble with: • Flying: There are a few tricks for this one. Have you tryed jumping as hard as you can, and just keep on pushing up? How about using a remote control in your hand to control your flight, then when you get use to it, you lose the remote. How about imagining that your shoes have Anti-Gravity soles, which constantly push you in the opposite direction the bottom of your shoes • Sex: Usually, every person to Lucid Dreams about sex complain their dreams collapse, or you lose vividness. This is because they focus too much on the sensations, the situation, whats happening. They lose awareness that they are in a dream, they lose awareness of their surroundings, details, etc. Solution: Try looking around you, be aware that you are dreaming and aware of your environment. As hard as it may be, focus less on the sex, and more on the dream. • Getting my doors to lead where I want: When you open said door, you may be "wanting" something to be on the other side. First, you have to have a good idea of what you want, visualize it, think about it if you need to. When you open that door, you have to Expect it to be there. You have to Know that it will be there. Why? Because this is YOUR dream. This is what YOU want. Because what you say WILL happen. Because YOU decided whats behind that door. You say the doors just create a wall from inside your house... Maybe you are soooo use to where this door leads, that it wont open to anywhere else (many people have this problem). Have you tried summoning or making a "magic" door? One that will open to ANY destination the opener is thinking/wanting. How about a programmable door, where you tell it where to open up to, and it sets that destination. ... have you tried avoiding the door(s) all together, and just teleporting there? 90% of EVERYTHING in Lucid Dreams is about Conviction, and KNOWING that you have 100% control in the Dream, that you are the god of this environment. You have to expect and know that what you say, command, want, decide, etc, will ALL happen, because YOU say so. Once you understand the concept that you are the only thing holding you back from getting what you want, that you are the maker of this world, that you control the rules, everything will come/happen as you please. ....there is no spoon?....

[Psychonautic]

• Flying: There are a few tricks for this one. Have you tryed jumping as hard as you can, and just keep on pushing up? How about using a remote control in your hand to control your flight, then when you get use to it, you lose the remote. How about imagining that your shoes have Anti-Gravity soles, which constantly push you in the opposite direction the bottom of your shoes I have tried jumping really hard, but never thought to keep pushing, I'll have to give that a try. I really like the remote control idea, I did actually fly successfully once using a jetpack, so I think this will help me out a lot. • Getting my doors to lead where I want: When you open said door, you may be "wanting" something to be on the other side. First, you have to have a good idea of what you want, visualize it, think about it if you need to. When you open that door, you have to Expect it to be there. You have to Know that it will be there. Why? Because this is YOUR dream. This is what YOU want. Because what you say WILL happen. Because YOU decided whats behind that door. You say the doors just create a wall from inside your house... Maybe you are soooo use to where this door leads, that it wont open to anywhere else (many people have this problem). Have you tried summoning or making a "magic" door? One that will open to ANY destination the opener is thinking/wanting. How about a programmable door, where you tell it where to open up to, and it sets that destination. ... have you tried avoiding the door(s) all together, and just teleporting there? I've only been able to draw doors on an already existing wall. The first time I ever tried making one, I tried doing it in air and it didn't work. I haven't tried it since so maybe I could get it to work now. Typically when I create my magic doors, I believe that if I write a destination on them, it will lead to that destination. It's kind of like a law I believe to be true in my dreams, but I think with repeated failures, I might have sabotaged my confidence a little bit. I also didn't imagine where they would lead at first. I think I need to do some exercises while awake where I visual different places I'd like to go. I'm usually trying to do it on the spot in my dream and I think that might be why I'm having trouble. I haven't tried teleportation as I am not too sure how I would go about it. I figured a door might be an easier place to start, but maybe not. 90% of EVERYTHING in Lucid Dreams is about Conviction, and KNOWING that you have 100% control in the Dream, that you are the god of this environment. You have to expect and know that what you say, command, want, decide, etc, will ALL happen, because YOU say so. Once you understand the concept that you are the only thing holding you back from getting what you want, that you are the maker of this world, that you control the rules, everything will come/happen as you please. ....there is no spoon?.... You've made me realize that I am too direct in my dreams. I rarely think about creative ways to do things and instead usually just try doing them in a straight forward way, which I expect is harder to do at my level of control. I'll try some of the things you suggested and see how it goes, thanks!

[Siphorix]

If non of those methods work after a few Lucid Dreams, let me know... Like i said, there are TONS of tricks you can use, you just have to find the right one that gets you started on path that works best for you...