Thread: newbie here,with 2 questions!

Hey there,

Like the previous poster said, it's a matter of finding a balance between getting a good night's sleep and doing various techniques, recording dreams, and what not. You don't have to record all your dreams, just as many as you feel comfortable with (perhaps only those you remember in the morning). One of the most important things, in my opinion, is to always ensure that what you are doing is fun and pleasant, and doesn't become a chore, or a task that you dread doing. If you find yourself in the second situation, it'll start negatively influencing both your waking life AND your dream life.

As for your second question. Firstly its important to realise there's many levels of lucidity. While the official term of lucid dream groups them all together, there are huge differences between lucid dreams. In some you're barely aware you're dreaming at all, in others you have as much consciousness as you do while reading this.

Additionally, the same counts for control. While lucidity and control do have an influence on one another, it's not an exclusive influence. There are other factors which influence the control you have in a dream, even in a lucid dream. Your own expectations, your beliefs, your capability of suspension of disbelief, your fears, your desires, you worries, your loves, your hatreds. All these things combine to create a final effect, and either make the control you want to do work, or fail, or end up having a different effect then expected.

One thing which i find useful is to analyse my moments of dreamcontrol. I tried this and this happened? Why? What could be factors that have aided me in succeeded? What could have stopped me from succeeding? How might I have done things differently?

And ofcourse, remember that it is, ultimately *your* dream, pretty much anything is possible, it's simply a matter of overcoming the obstacles.

Hope that helps,

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