Thread: Some queries on controling my dreams(MY 1st post)

If I were you, I would 'train' myself to wake up after an alotted time period. Think about waking up at a specific time, and concentrate on it before sleeping. It always helps me. And welcome to the forum![/i]

hi again,
how wil this help me to control and realize I'm in a dream?
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McLoone

Well, helping yourself awaken after a certain amount of time gives you the opportunity to be able to record your dreams and figure out your dream signs. When you do that, you are able to identify when you are dreaming (with enough meditation and concentration that is). This enables you to attain lucidity. You should worry about control, when you have mastered LDs...

Hey McLoone! Have you ever had an LD before?

Whenever you a reality check, look around you and identify anything that you would not expect to find there, and question why it is there. If you can't come up with an answer, then you may be in a dream. Also, think of what you were doing in the last few minutes and how you got to your current situation. If you can't think of an answer then you are porbably dreaming.

For example, I saw a pink inflatable chair in the hallway when I went to get breakfast. I knew this was not something you normally see everyday, so I thought about what I was doing in the last few minutes 'I was reading a book in bed'. Then I question where the chair came from 'It is my sister's chair which I inflated last night'. I did a reality check along with this and came to the conclusion that I was awake.

After a while you get used to doing this, and it becomes almost instictive to question any wierd stuff that goes on around you.

This should help you to discriminate everything that goes on around you, so eventually you will start to reconise the weird stuff that goes on it your dreams.

When I said i cant control my dreams I mean it's as if I'm watching my dream through my eyes and I cant make decisions, if i could make decsions,I could tell if i was in a dream or not so how do I make decisons and know if i'm in a adream
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McLoone

thats the thing Dudesuperiour, IF a pink elephant comes rolling in my house, I don't find it odd or not normal, so what do i do to make myself realize I'm dreaming?
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McLoone

Originally posted by McLoone
thats the thing Dudesuperiour, IF a pink elephant comes rolling in my house, I don't find it odd or not normal, so what do i do to make myself realize I'm dreaming?
Thanks
McLoone

If you question what is going on in the real world enough you will begin to do it in the dream world too. Therefore you question what is going on around you in the real world, and you will eventually do so in the dream world.
As for doing reality checks often enough, there are many cheap digital watches that can be made to beep every hour. Whenever it beeps you should do a reality check.

Nobody really makes decisions in non-lucids. That's why they aren't lucid...It all goes with training your mind to recognize the dream state.

Thanks Guys,
But doing reality checks during the day, I've ben doing that for a month and nothing happens in my dreams, is there any other way to question/do a reality check in my dreams? Dudesuperior, you where saying about those watches, what would I bee looking for in the item description(I'd probably be buying on Ebay)?
Thanks Again Guys
McLoone

Originally posted by McLoone
Thanks Guys,
But doing reality checks during the day, I've ben doing that for a month and nothing happens in my dreams, is there any other way to question/do a reality check in my dreams?

Oh yeah!- here's another method:

If you think about doing a reality check enough before you go to bed, it may trigger you to do some in your dreams. In a way you are proggramming your dream to include reality checks.
You could do it in the same way as a MILD, but replace the words "I will wake up after every dream period and I will remember my dream" with the words "I will do a reality check in my dreams". Also visualise yourself doing a reality check whilst doing this, and it would have a higher chance of working.

If I were you, I'd try the MILD method combined with WBTB (click on the links to read the tutorials). As you are trying to go back to sleep, just repeat to yourself "the next thing I experience will be a dream". It may not work the first few times, but eventually you should find yourself in a dream with the awareness that it is only a dream.

MILD sorry?
And what type of watch would i be looking for, or even something that bleeps every hour, can you think of anything?
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McLoone

A MILD:http://www.dreamviews.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2047

As for the watches...My watch was called a Casio illuminator. It's not the fancyiest in the world but it does beep on the hour. I think a lot of Casio digital watches beep every hour. If you're doing it on ebay contact the seller- he might know what it's functions are.

thanks mate,
wish me luck tonight, whats your MSN and i'll take to you directly there?
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McLoone

Originally posted by McLoone
thanks mate,
wish me luck tonight, whats your MSN and i'll take to you directly there?
Thanks
McLoone

Yeah good luck McLoone! My MSN: [email protected]- I don't go on it very often though, mostly I'm on here!