First Lucid Dream

[ANewLeif]

I started a dream journal when i woke up this morning, and came across this website today...enjoying it so far. In the forum spirit I thought I'd share an interesting tidbit from a dream last night: I walked up to a plant in my dream and put my hand up to it, closed my eyes, sent a sort of love/light energy into the plant and made it grow quickly and abundantly. I then realized how unusual what i had just done was and tried my super power once again. It did not work. I seemed to stop myself by questioning myself... hmmm

[seeker28]

It is pretty common that questioning your ability to REALLY do those things in a dream will stop you from being able to do it. If that makes sense? You may want to check out the thread called The Nature of Dream Control. Here is the link: http://dreamviews.com/community/showthread.php?t=57283 It has a lot of really good information that ranges from advanced to basic techinques. Good luck!

[ANewLeif]

Thanks, Seeker. It's nice to have a place like this and people like you to help out.

[ninja9578]

As seeker28 said, that is a common problem. In fact, this morning I was easily levitating things, then I questioned my abilities and everything fell.

[Beeyahoi]

I've never had a full-on lucid dream, so could someone please tell me if that is how they usually are? Do you do things without thinking about them normally?

[seeker28]

There are different kinds of lucid dreams -- ones in which you are really clear headed, as if you were awake, and ones in which you are still somewhat caught up in the illogical world of the dream. Most lucid dreams are the somewhat illogical kind. In these it is usually easy to have a lot of control and cool dream powers because you are so caught up in the dream and all that that you don't ever stop to question your ability to do them.

[imj]

I started a dream journal when i woke up this morning, and came across this website today...enjoying it so far. In the forum spirit I thought I'd share an interesting tidbit from a dream last night: I walked up to a plant in my dream and put my hand up to it, closed my eyes, sent a sort of love/light energy into the plant and made it grow quickly and abundantly. I then realized how unusual what i had just done was and tried my super power once again. It did not work. I seemed to stop myself by questioning myself... hmmm What you experienced is a mild form of lucidity/conciousness. You were unsure if you really could do that because you were a little concious of it. Once you are concious it breaks the illusion and you loose control because reality based ideas and concepts start to trickle in.....you can't do that in reality... and naturally you can't. IMJ

[Beeyahoi]

Thanks @ Seeker