I had a lucid dream in what I assume was this morning. I was going to a ballet teacher's house. When I stepped through her house's threshold I did a reality check by counting my fingers. The first couple times I just couldn't count them. Then I took a good look at my hand and saw an extra finger growing on the side of another finger. Here I became lucid. My lucidity didn't last long, though, because I had no idea what I wanted to do. As I was going to bed last night I told myself to consider what I wanted to do in my dreams. Instead I thought about the virtues I want most for myself (homework assignment). It was very relaxing, even meditative, because I fell asleep with clear, focused thoughts.

Anyway, my point is that when it comes to dream control I don't know where to start. When I become lucid, which usually happens several times a week, lots of techniques for enjoying the dream come to mind. Once I teleported myself into a barren, gray plane and tried to build a world from scratch. if I become lucid in interesting or maleable surroundings I'll explore a bit or go on adventures in the pre-manufactured setting. My attempts at control within dreams are usually between these two. But unfortunately, they remain attempts.

I know that an important factor in dreaming is dedication, keeping with the same method for weeks on end. I also know that I lack dedication. A lot of the methods for lucid dream induction are appealing and make sense. As soon as I read about one i set to try it that night. The method that's been rather fruitful for me lately is reality-checking. It doesn't take much effort and it does its job. I'm worried that when I try other methods, either for dream control or LD induction, I don't stay with them long enough and am thus discarding them as not the right methods for me before I get a good sense for them.

Ok, back to what I'm making this post for -I have a lot of thoughts that are related to my main point. I think I'll put in another paragraph or two before I make my proposal-
In my LDs I have a poor level of lucidity, which translate into poor control, and also I never know what to do with myself once I'm in the dream. I think my not knowing what to do with myself in a dream is because of the way I've idealized lucid dreaming as the most amazing entertainment device ever. And of course it is. The problem is that because I value lucidity so highly, I only want to devote my time in the dream to the best activities possible. But I don't know what those are yet, so I spend too much time in indecision instead of enjoying the dream.

I think the whole concept of keeping a log of one's experiences in dreams is fascinating and can be used as an important tool in LDing. Remembering your dreams and writing them down in turn makes you more aware of your dreams. Sometimes when I experience pleasant or extraordinary things in real life I wonder what effect writing down real events in my dream journal, as if they were my dreams, would have. What do I even expect to happen from that?

It occurred to me that I might combine these ideas, dream control and writing down things I've never dreamt. My idea has to do with planning out a dream I might have, and writing it down in my dream journal as if I'd already had it. In a way this seems counterpoductive, writing an untruth about something that supposedly has already happened. But pretending that I had a certain dream, could that act as a sort of suggestion to my mind about what dream it will give me the next night? And what if, alongside my genuine dreams, I wrote the same story every night?
My hope is that it would serve as a familiarization for my mind to how I want it to act. If that fails, planning out what I want to spend my dreams on is still helpful.