Thread: Why are some actions so hard to do and others are a snap?

Last night I had a nice, long lucid dream. It was great. Not so great was how difficult it was to perform what I thought should be simple tasks in a lucid dream.

To get anywhere I either had to go through a ceiling or walls. In other people's accounts of LDs and OBEs, doing this is practically automatic. When I tried going through a ceiling, flying up to it was easy but I kept bumping my head. I couldn't get through. I was almost ready to give up but then a pair of hands came through the ceiling and when they spread apart they created a hole I was able to fly through.

For the rest of the dream, I had to go through walls to change locations. Even though I knew I was in a dream and had control, going through a wall was difficult and remained difficult the entire dream. I must have gone through walls five or six times. While going through the wall didn't get any easier, the more I did it, the more I realized how difficult doing it was going to be so I was more easily able to summon the determination, intention and brute strength to go through it. So by the end of the dream I was able to go through the wall more quickly but not more easily.

Another thing I thought would be easy to do was change my hair color. I have no idea why I wanted to do it but I saw myself in a mirror and decided I wanted to see how I would look as a blonde. When I set that intention, I saw somebody else in the mirror as a blonde. The image in the mirror didn't even move. It was just a picture of some guy. When I decided that I wanted to see myself again, it happened in an instant. Then I decided I wanted to see what I would look like with green eyes. Immediately my eyes were such a bright green they almost glowed.

Why are some things so easy to do in a lucid dream while others are such a struggle? Should this happen again, does anybody have any suggestions on how make the difficult tasks easy.

Thanks.

Rob