Thread: Warning for new LD'ers

Keep your first goals and dreams simple. You did not waste time, because you have many hundreds of LDs in your future. You were practicing even if you do not realize it. At first just interacting with the dream is good practice.

As far as having a plan and goals keep it very simple and build in steps.

I recommend the following as early goals. They train you and build awareness of how control works.

1) Look at your hands and move the finger. Do your hands seem to respond to your intent? Can you watch and feel yourself touch something? Simply get good enough that you can find your hands, move them by intent, and then feel them touch something.

2) Basic summoning of an object. What makes it basic is that the item you wish to find does not need to appear as if by magic. Basic summoning involves finding an object by whatever method that you intended to find. Pick the object when you are awake. By any trick you can you will have the object appear and you will hold or touch it. My first object was a sword. I simple wanted any part of an LD to involve me holding a sword. This alone took 3 LDs to acomplish. Find the object by telling yourself a made up plot. "I left the sword on my bed," then look on the bed. Or what finally worked for me was asking a DC to hand me a sword. I then reached behind me and a DC put it in my hand.

3) Basic summoning of a DC. Keep the goal simple. You do not want to pick a specific person, you want to pick a basic DC type. Maybe you want to summon "a pretty girl" or "a man on a bike" so you set the goal "In my next lucid I will touch the hand of a pretty girl" You do this by looking around in places and making up a reason you 'know' you will find them. Such as "There are always pretty girls in the lunch room" enter the lunch room planning on it being full and having pretty girls. Any variation on this is a good goal.

4) Cause any object to move using TK (telekinesis). Simple. Plan on doing this in your next DC, then do it. You should start very small, such as just knocking over a glass by picturing it happening.

After you have completed those 4 goals, feel free to make the goals more amazing. Such as jumping onto a roof from the ground. Then flying and so on.