Thread: Hello

Welcome Med0

Interupting the sleep like that is a very effective way to get more aware in the dreams, perhaps even an guaranteed way.

I used to do that as well, but when it's school days it makes me tired for the rest of the day so I stopped using it.

But I am a glad to hear that someone can use it without that effect. When it comes to dream control you should find ways to get more aware of what is going on in the dream, also called awareness.
Awareness is knowledge of something and sometimes in our dreams we are not aware of things like that the dream situation is not important, that dream characters aren't real, that you have control or that you have a sleeping body in a physical bed. When you are aware of all these four you will have more awareness in the dream and it will be easier to control the dream.
When I get lucid my first goal is actually to wake myself up so I can return to the dream and be aware of these four factors immediatelly with the help of the DEILD method, also called Dream Chaining.

For general dream control you can either explore the dream yourself and learn totally by yourself, or you can go to the dream control section on this forum and get some inspiration, but remember to see it as guidelines and not fact.

When it comes to fear of WILD or anything really, you should take this quote into consideration "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more imporant than fear". Consider your fear and get an answer to what is stopping you, and see if you really want to let that stop you from getting a lucid dream. And if you can direct the fear to something good.
If you are for example afraid of Slenderman, try to see him as a good guy and if you meet him in a dream make him your friend and your guide.

This is of course only possible if you realize one key thing: Nothing except yourself and your own fear can hurt you in a dream.

Enjoy your stay and sweet dreams