Thread: New To The Site But Not To Controlling Dreams

Originally Posted by waving

I like Oneiraunt's description. Its a lucid dream by simply knowing your are dreaming, even if you cant change things. There are dreams where you can control or influence whats going on, but still be under the impression you are in the real world. Thats something I am just starting to get- LD and DC are related but very different.

cloudy- the dream you described is the type I am hoping to learn to manifest. I often have dreams where I can affect the surrounding or fly or do crazy things...but have only flshes of lucidity. I often cannot have long, drawn out, complex thoughts in dreams like you described. Sometimes I can, like realizing Im wearing the same shirt I had when I fell asleep while I am dreaming- just before leaping over a terkoiz lake and running into some crazy character which grabs my attention. For a moment I can recognize im in a dream, but its only a flash. The type you describe is what I am trying to get to- bringing my aware thinking mind into my dreams. That seems much more "solid" or "meaty" of an experience.

How do you bring your daily consciousness into your dreams? If your a natural this probably sounds like and impossible question I guess what I mean is, can you describe how the dream feels different before you go lucid to after? What changes...
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Iam not exactly sure what the question means entirely.. Ya I am natural and never had any books or (anything to help develop LD.
I guess if your question means, is there any difference in how I remember the dream while I am LD before I was LD? Uhmm usually not really, I can remember both parts fairly well. And If I do end up LD'n, it usually happens before I get to deep into the dream.
When I LD I choose whether or not to control what is around me. Its not a matter of if I can do this or that, its a matter of if I want to.
I usually do not put much thought into my LD when I did it before, but up until recently, and me finding out about this site and what I am doing is actually called. I now think about my experience while I am LD because of this site. Not because of something I learned, I havnt read enough, but because I now think about certain things while I am dreaming. Like last nite I was thinking.. "Ok so what I am doing now, being able to control my dream, is called Lucid Dreaming? Hrm ok, oh ya my account just got activated on the forums so I can post about this when I wake up." LOL that is pretty much a word for word thought I was having while dreaming.
Oh and one of the things that I remembered while I was dreaming was, that people constantly said that once they realized they were LD they would wake up.
Just because I thought about reading other peoples experience in waking up, I wanted to.. But I kept myself from waking up. It was weird, I never had to do that before.


So what is it called that I do?
I am able to recognize that I dreaming. I am able to completely control everything around me in any sense what so ever. For example, I was having a dream where I wanted to fight off these lil monster type things, they really looked like the Nuclear mutants in 'Hills Have Eyes'.) I was in complete control of the dream, I was aware I was dreaming, I was able to do whatever I wanted. So I was basically fighting off a whole bunch of guys by throwing fire balls at them (Fireballs seem to be my favorite thing to do), and then I just got surrounded by these guys in my dream, like there were to many. So finally after constantly fighting them, and there was just to many, I told myself ok forget this I am tired of it. And I made them all disappear.

So is this just called LD with complete Dream Control?

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"Ok so what I am doing now, being able to control my dream, is called Lucid Dreaming? Hrm ok, oh ya my account just got activated on the forums so I can post about this when I wake up." LOL that is pretty much a word for word thought I was having while dreaming.

Perfect example, that type of moment by moment though is very hard for me. I can control my dreams and be somewhat lucid (like i know i am dreaming) but it isn't solid where I could have such a linear thought. I mean I do have those moments, but as soon as I do I feel this sinking back into the dream thing. For some reason when I start thinking in my dream, like say "Ok I want to do this." By the time I am doing it my mind is already off and away. i wouldn't be able to plan something out or connect different thoughts. For example: I had a lucid dream where I was sitting on a grassy lawn behind several houses, the lawn connecting them. I was sitting with my friend Dustin and surrounded by other people my age. There was a professor there teaching something. I was talking to Dustin when I turned to the other students. They had disappeared. Then I looked to the Professor, he was gone too. I got a funny feeling, so turned to Dustin to tell him about it: Poof! He was gone too. I knew I was dreaming. Suddenly I went from sitting to standing in a blink of an eye. I looked down at my feet as I saw them lifting off the ground. "Ok im dreaming, and now I am going to float up." As I did I could not stop my mind from rushing, I felt this pulling down while also rising. I could recognize that beacuse i was talking to myself my thoughts were holding me down. I rose up to just above the roofs and trees before slowly descending down where I found an antique silver phone resting on the grass where I had floated up from. Beind "aware" of thedream changed from an exhilerating thought to a dense awareness which brought me back down. I guess the message was "Pick up the Phone!" I immediately woke up.

I would love to bring my daily consciousness into these dreams, yet the matter-of-fact type thoughts you describe would be very hard for me to produce and sustain while dreaming. It almost like my daily awareness throws off my DC, creating some sort of dream friction. When I am not so "lucid" and aware of myself as dreaming is when I have the more colorful absurd dreams.

Im still trying to figure out the details, Practice Practice huh?