Thread: Hey is lucid dreaming true, can I control my dreams and dream what I want...??

Yes it's true, in fact it's even been scientifically proven by recording pre-agreed upon eye signals that volunteers made while dreaming.

Lucid dreaming is really a simple concept.
A lot of people like to describe it as something very new age and mysterious, but the only thing a lucid dream really is, is any regular, ordinary dream where you happen to realize that you are dreaming.
And since dreams are created by your thoughts, expectations, desires etc, and are always based on things that you can imagine, you can also - after some practice - experience things very vividly more or less on command.

Think about this - you can daydream that you are walking down the street and hear a lot of traffic noise, and that you suddenly meet someone you know, and the enter a shop, and so on - and daydreams are technically a form of dreams, although obviously not nearly as vivid as dreams you have during the night.

The reason why dreams can feel so realistic is because your brain makes up models based on what you expect from waking life.
If you see a barrier in a dream, then you expect it to be solid and impenetrable - so therefore it will feel solid as well.
And you cannot easily walk through it in the beginning, because you are not familiar with how it feels to walk through solid barriers.
Same thing with flying - if you jump into the air in a lucid dream, you will expect gravity to pull you down.
So it might feel just like jumping in waking life, because you are most used to that feeling when you jump.

All these obstacles can be overcome with practice, and by changing your way of thinking about the world.
If you want something or someone to appear in a lucid dream then it's often a good idea to "cheat" by imagining that things will appear around corners, instead of trying to conjure them.