Thread: Help Please

Pastulio is right. Dream control comes with practice. However, time and practice don't always do it. I know, I've been LDing since I was a kid and it is only recently that I've gotten what I'd call "goddess-like" control. For me the difference was not in more time and patience, but when I read and started using the principles outlined in the thread The Nature of Dream Control by The Cusp. You can link to that thread here. It is long and on-going, but most of what you need to know to really take control in your dreams is in the first few pages.

look, if you are trying tonight it's just important that you have a clear idea of what you are trying. I presume you are using a technique to try to get lucid? Make sure you understand it and give it 100%. If you "kind of" try, then failure will occur. Commit and goodluck

I've been lucid dreaming for almost as long as I can remember;

How I do it is ... "keeping a strong grip on reality"

Basically I used to have a fair amount of nightmares when I was a kid but then i stopped them by myself just by remembering where I was (in bed obviously) ... so I'd find myself falling into a pit and be thinking to myself
"wow this is a fun one" (i can distinctly remember that one)

If you like superheroes and things like that try imagining yourself having some sort of power whenever you remember to (even when awake).

That sounds insane I know; but whenever I'm dreaming I can move stuff with my mind/shoot webs/fly even when its not a full lucid dream because I want to even when I'm awake.

As everyone else said, start slow. Use passive dream control for a while until you have practice keeping yourself in the dream. Controlling the dream too much can cause you to wake up.

I tried to become lucid last night which usually isen't hard for me when it happens on accident. I failed at this ... but had many fragmented, unclear dreams. Also something that has never happened with me before since I am a very deep sleeper ... I awoke after each dream. I then tried to recall pieces of each one and fell back to sleep to try again. Then last night when I climbed into bed I noticed I forgot to set my alarm clock to 9 which is when I wanted to wake up but I was too tired by that time to go set it so I just assumed my stepdad would wake me. Then this morning I awoke a nine exactly .... maybe just a coincedence but I have heard of people who can control thier minds enough to wake up at whatever time they need. Does this mean maybe that I have more control than I think I do?

If you have a regular sleeping pattern or atleast one which is fairly predominant then your body will be used to waking up at the time your alarm goes off, so it might just have been that really.

But who am I to say whether you did or didn't?

Just a possibility.

Originally Posted by Balestar

If you have a regular sleeping pattern or atleast one which is fairly predominant then your body will be used to waking up at the time your alarm goes off, so it might just have been that really.

But who am I to say whether you did or didn't?

Just a possibility.

I would have thought the same thing but the fact is ... i usually sleep at 2 or 3 in the morning and wake at 2 or 3 the next afternoon. Thats why I thought this nine o clock thing was a little unusual.