I'm New and I have a few questions

[Ravennittes]

I've always had lucid dreams over the years, but I have little control over them. Keep in mind, they are very real, and are vividly part of my memories to this day (nearly 7 years later). I've always had a few I could do. For instance, I can rewind and replay a portion of a dream that I like (which is very fun mind you). As well, flying isn't a problem to me as I've hovered and flown before. Now that I've said all of that, here are my questions. I can do all these things, yet I can never alter the path of my dream (rewinding being the only thing I can do). Any tips or reasons why? When I do take complete control of my dream which can only happen after the entire story in the dream, I can only manage to be in control for about 10 seconds before I'm awake. How can I gain control earlier and really enjoy my dreams instead of just being able to end nightmares and go with the flow of the dreams? Thanks very much.

[Luminous]

There can be many reasons to why you have limited dream control. Some of the common reasons are strong emotions, especially frustration, often caused by your inability to control the dream, which can turn into a vicious cycle. If you have any doubt whatsoever whether you can do it, then you can't. You may also have become so used to not being able to control your dreams that your dream control problems are keeping themselves up. To find out just why you are struggling with control, you should ask yourself some questions. What are your thoughts and feelings when you try and fail dream control? What are your thoughts when you find yourself unable to? Are you bound by "dream logic" during the lucid dreams where you have to finish the plot? I hope this helps some.

[Luz73090]

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[Chewnie91]

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[Ravennittes]

She's my girlfriend lol.

[5triker]

If you can rewind and replay the LD, can you stop it? I do this a lot to regain (and gain more) control of a lucid dream. When I stop the LD i always resight what a LD is, and tell myself that everything in the LD is in my mind under my direct control. This makes for very lucid and vivid LD's, in which you can alter directly what happens with the dream environment. I've done this with 3 out of my five LD's and its worked very well every time. I've tried to make it a habit when i enter a LD to do this. Hope this helps!

[Ravennittes]

I can't stop it. I can only move through the timeline. I can end the dream by waking up, but I can't ever change it.