Quote Originally Posted by CanisLucidus View Post
Awesome, congratulations on the lucid! This is great. Just the effort to remember your dreams seems to have gotten your awareness right where you need.



Like you said, lacking the presence of mind to formulate a plan does make this tougher. Dream control is always toughest when you a) encounter some novel situation and b) don't have the highest level of lucidity.

My primary dream control tip is to imagine in detail what you wish to happen. Don't just think that you want the zombie to go away. Imagine the sounds and sights of it collapsing into a tired heap of bones and fading into the ground. Generate every last detail you can think of in your mind. Fill every sense and every corner of your mind with the images of what you want.

Essentially, you are trying to drive out any thoughts of failure by focusing all of your energy on thoughts of success. You're the dreamer, so you the source of everything that you see and experience. If you overwhelm yourself with the details of your success, you'll have way less capacity to imagine failure.

My second tip is to try, whenever possible, to flow with the dream in any way that you can. I've often made the mistake of (unwittingly) going to war with the elements of the dream when I should have been using them to my advantage. An example is a windstorm that keeps me from flying where I want. Fighting against this storm with my own counterwind wound up creating a ruinous (though kind of awesome) hurricane-style storm that tore the dream apart. And ripped off my pants, incidentally, heh heh... A more successful tactic was to imagine that this new wind was trying to help me find where I was trying to go.

Anyway, those are my general observations about dream control. The tough part is gaining the experience and presence of mind to actually do these things, which is something I'm still feverishly working on.

Congrats again, and good luck!
That is actually really helpful, i have never thought about it like that. I didin't tell the whole story about the zombie situation thought.

-I got to a ruin of some sort, like ancient maya and in there i met a bunch of zombies. I kinda slashed them with my arm by some sort of invisible sword. Some i just punched to death, or shouted to death(kinda like skyrim) But then i met a zombie who would'nt die from any of my attacks, so he got me and the dream ended. I wish i'd had you there guiding me at the point , cause i could not focus enough to kill the zombie.