Thread: Changing the location/scenery in your dreams?

Is there a good way to change locations in a LD?

I am still very new to this and have only had a handful of LD's but I find that I am always wandering around some building with lots of doors and hallways. I tried asking my dream to take me to other locations, but it doesn't seem to get me very far. One time I specifically asked to get to Paris and the first person I ran into spoke a non-sensical version of French (I understand French) and it threw me off and killed the dream. In fact....so far my LDs have been pretty darn boring, aside from the excitement of becoming lucid.

I guess I am also wondering how do I make things happen- its all just walking and searching and trying to think of things to do. I am sure that I need much more practice but wondering how much other people manipulate the locations?

Hey man I've had about 50+ lucid dreams and well what usually works for me to change scenery in dreams is I imagine a picture of the place I want to go behind me and I then turn around and see the picture. I then proceed to jump into the picture and bam I'm in the new area. The important thing to remember here is that you have to believe you can do it or you'll just hit the picture and fall. Possibly even wake up. Good luck and you may not get it your first try just persevere and you'll get there!

From what I've heard, and from my little bit of experience, expectation is the most important aspect of dream controll. Also for teleportation it helps to spin around.

If you're finding that your lucid dreams are boring, then it's time to take control! You are ultimately the person who decides whether or not you have fun in the lucid dream. It's all to do with expectation: if you expect to ride an awesome roller coaster, then you can go do it. If you expect to just wander around aimlessly, then that's what you're going to do.

What you're doing--just walking around--is often done by people who aren't so much having that lucid dream to have fun, but to explore the dream world. What do you want to do? Perhaps it would benefit if you if you have a lucid dream intention first.

For example, my lucid intent is to . . . travel to Venus. If I had one of your lucid dreams then I would imagine a rocket ship behind one of the doors, go through, board that rocket ship, and fly to Venus. You can do the exact same thing, and you can switch it up. Currently you're acting very passive in your lucid dreams, so be more aggressive, and remember to have fun.

Thank you for the replies! Yes, I guess I do need to take more control. I guess I need to sit down and decided on some things I'd like to do in my dreams so I have a little direction. I have looked at a few of those lists of top things to do in a a LD, but I am not really interested in most of that stuff. Yes, I'd love to play around and do some fun things, but I am much more intrigued by the personal growth side of LD- exploring my subconscious, working on self development, learning things, trying to converse with family members who have passed or live far away etc. I really haven't seen many people talk about these kinds of things and so I am at a bit of a loss about what any of that even looks like. Especially when I am so new to it all and even getting into a LD and staying in it is still a challenge. I guess I need to start with some of the more fun and playful things at least until I get better at it.
Some of the few things I've thought of doing include going to Paris to learn couture sewing techniques, traveling back in time to different eras, and meeting my grandmother who I never knew. I know expectation plays a big part, but when they are things I've not seen others mention, its hard to have that expectation that it can happen.

One other thing- I notice that in my most recent LD, I didn't do a RC. I just had the thought "is this a dream?" and then the super weird tingly feeling that I got the first time I blocked my nose in a dream happened and that was all I needed to become lucid. To be fair- this was a DILD that happened right after a very short regular dream I got into while trying to WILD. Does that happen to other people? Thanks for the help!!

Reality checks aren't really what make people lucid--it's the awareness that they provide, and in other cases we can use them for stability. I think only a couple of lucid dreams I've had actually spawned from RCs. You can read this article about them here--there's a short section if you scroll down called "The truth behind 'I never RC in my dream and yet I get lucid. So RCs are not needed,'" which touches on what you're talking about! ^_^

Anyway, you don't need to start with fun activities if you don't want to! I said the Venus bit as an example (well, traveling to Venus is one of the things I want to get around to doing, don't get me wrong); my true intention is to talk to the man I love's dream version and ask that DC how I might cope with what all is going on. Other things I want to do are: ask the dream how to be a better me, go on a date [this is not for fun like it sounds, but to help soothe anxiety], ask the dream for ways to calm down when I get worked up, and go to a garden so that I can meet up with some kind of "higher power," to see what kind of wisdom can be passed on.

A lot of this is dependent on your imagination, so maybe try to step away from what other people are doing, and just focus on yourself. Though, another tip is simply to ask the dream to do everything for you. In which case, even if things don't come out exactly as you would have pictured it otherwise, the dream will show you what it wants to show you--and also what you need to see, even if you didn't or don't realize it at the time.

Thank you VenusDreamer, you've given me some good stuff to think about. I actually fell directly into a LD this morning in my usual morning WILD attempt- the most direct transition I've made. I was a little more active and in control, and was pretty happy with how it went- albeit a little short.