Thread: In Need of an Ideo Locator

Originally posted by sciboy1190
My ability to control, however, is strange. It's usually me spotting something, thinking \"what the heck?\" and then sending NPC sciboy to inspect the 'disturbance.' That's all the contol I have. Everything else is scripted per se...

I'm wondering if I do have control, but It's subtle to the level I don't even know I have it....or something....bleh....

Well, you're on the right track if you're lucid all the time. You're what we call a natural, in that you haven't really had to work at becoming lucid and it just happens. If I'm wrong, then oh well.

As for your control, it seems subtle, like you said. I think that one of the best signs that you have control over your dream is to not move. Don't worry if there's something going on that is out of the ordinary. While building control, try to decide ahead of time what you would like to accomplish, so that when you become lucid you don't have to do the same thing over and over again. Just start with something simple, like jumping higher than you normally could in real life, or picking up a heavy object as if it were nothing more than a pencil. And if something happens that you don't like, just yell out "Stop!" and once everything has frozen around you, move on to another place where you can practice.

The main thing is just having confidence that what you want to happen will happen. You'll get better at it.

Welcome to DV! Sweet lucid dreams, friend.

-Amé

I don't worry about out of the ordinary things in my dreams....I'm just curious. Dreaming for entertainment, bascially.

And then there's that control part....when I dream, I don't seem to really be thinking. I found out that I was curous and thus controlling 'NPC sciboy' after I woke up and found the patterns. The most controlled thing I've ever done, if I even did it, was make a hellicopter crash...and me check out the parts... Previously in the dream, if I remember correcly, I was in a boat....fishing....with Mario-esque bait and fish and such. (Yet I think the dream ended with me in a boat in the water...)
Also in that dream, which I know I did...was accualy pause the dream, pull up an invetory system, and check out the information of one of the fishes....(looked like Gordo only without the eyes and with spikes in all directions.)

I think that I need to find a way to 'think' whilst dreaming....usually it's distant, or that's the best I can describe it anyway.... (distant, foggy, resources being used for medical research, ect)
I did have one dream where I asked a question, and received an answer....but disembodied voices served as me and the responce....and I wasn't even in that dream as an enity; untill right before it ended...heheh...

i would recommend while awake you write out a short paragraph.


first, put the question "AM I DREAMING???"

then, write the implications of a situation where you asked that question, and actually were dreaming.

for example:

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AM I DREAMING???

yes. and because i am dreaming it means i am capable of thinking as clearly as when i wrote and memorized this answer. there is no reason i cannot become fully awake this very moment, within this dream, and experience it as clearly as waking life.
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or something to that effect.

basically the main idea is that if you do this simple memorization, all you have to remember is to ask yourself the question "AM I DREAMING". and if you have an answer memorized, it will be readily available when you are dreaming. this should help you dispel fogginess.

hope this helps.