Lucid dreamer since age 14...
yes, i've been having lucid dreams for the last 11 years (i am 25 now)...
right now i can pretty much control anything in my dream but i rarely do things that
are impossible to do in the real world because i often end up waking myself.
last night, i had the best lucid dream in my life and i felt a certain level of accomplishment
when i woke up, and so i googled "controlling your dreams" to find out if other people
have been successfull in controlling their dreams. i ended up in finding this great forum.
let me start by telling you the story behind my 11 years of dream control...
when i was 14 years old, i suffered an overdose of unexplainable nightmares. i get
them everynight and even when i am having a catnap during my lunch break.
basically, it was the same thing over and over again... i hear a very strong wind
and suddenly i can't move and this mysterious faceless "thing" approaches me
in my most vulnerable state. trust me, there is nothing more frustrating than not being able
to move or run in your dreams when the "monster" is coming for you.
this string of nightmares continued for 2-3 months, and suddenly one day it wasn't
scary anymore. it's just like watching a really scary horror film over and over again
until you have memorized all the scenes and all the thrill has dried up. this was the point
when i realized that i was already "conscious in my sub-conscious" (lucid dream). i was
no longer scared about this nightmare because i already knew what would happen, how it
would start and how it would end, and most importantly is that i knew i was only dreaming.
soon, the nightmares disappeared, but my ability to remain "conscious" still lingered
in some of my dreams. almost always, i wake myself up immediately after i realize
that i was having a dream. i think the reason being is that my mind starts to rationalize
and thus raising the level of brain activity and eventually leading to full consciousness.
i was very unsuccessful in controlling events in my dream and it just ended up with me
waking up 3-5 times in the middle of my sleep. but because i was very much interested
in controlling my dreams, i practiced whenever i can and through the years i was able to
master my technique.
to cut the long story short, here is the first step i practised to achieve "consciousness" in
my dreams:
1. try to read something in your dream, start with license plates on cars... at first you will
might find it difficult to read in your dreams, but with practice it will be easy. You can also
try to check your watch and see if you can tell time in your dreams.
why read in dreams? for me it helps you in becoming conscious in your dreams.
when you read something in your dreams, it raises your brain activity and thus raising
your awareness and rationalization as well.
i will discuss my other techniques if people are interested.
sadly, the more conscious i had become in my dreams, the fewer feats i can do when
i am in them. for example, i can never force myself to fly because i know it is trully
impossible in real life. what i usually can control are the persons involved in my dreams
and the situations that we are in. i try not to be conscious 100% of the time in my
dreams as would just end up waking up again. i try to balance the conscious and
the unconscious, for example: i just choose the persons i want in my dream, but i
do not control their actions or the turn of events. it sometimes feels like i am in a
movie with actors and actresses wherein everyone already memorized the lines that
they would say... everyone but me ;-)
dream on!
B.R.
Linus F. Hernandez
