Thread: Hello Everyone

It is pretty common to have no control in any kind of dream, lucid dreams included. If you are serious about learning dream control I suggest you head over to the Dream Control section and check out the thread called "The Nature of Dream Control" by The Cusp. It is the best guide out there on dream control.

I also hover automatically in almost all of my dreams. I suspect this stems from the general lack of focus on our bodies in dreams. I often discover I don't have a body until I look down and wonder where it is. Hovering is also a simplified way of moving. Just compare how walking feels and how your view point shifts each time you take a step. With hovering you don't have all of that. Therefore you get to move around, but a minumum of brain power is dedicated to producing that movement in the dream. Does that make sense?

Many people also don't die in their dreams, even when they get shot repeatedly or mauled by lions or whatever. Obviously, the dream can't kill you. Perhaps in the absence of the physical process of death the mind simply keeps going. I'm not sure why so many people are sort of immortal in their dreams.

I'm also super strong in dreams. My strength seems only limited by my belief in what I can lift. I can carry around a bus, but if I turn around and see something that makes me stop and think -- whoa! No way can I lift that! -- then I WON'T be able to lift it. Is it the same in your dreams?

I'm a writer too. I've also had dreams where I was one of my characters. I love those dreams, they are so cool!

I've read that during REM sleep (dreams) our id (kind of like our inner selfish toddler) is very active, while our ego (kind of like our inner parent) is less active or even turned off. So it makes sense that in our dreams we do all kinds of things we wouldn't do in waking life. Plus if we are lucid and realize that there are no consequences to our actions it is even more tempting to be violent or sex-crazed or whatever. Personally, I only see something wrong with violence and what-not in dreams if it interfeers with your ability to be a law-abiding moral person in your waking life.

Hmm perhaps something I forgot to mention is that I can see my whole body in dreams, in almost all of my dreams I'm actually watching myself from a distance, almost like you watch a movie. In last night's dream all I did was walk and there was actually no hovering involved

1. Why am I unable to affect much of anything during a lucid dream. I have almost no control over anything and when I do it extremely limited which tends to piss me off.

You have mental attachments to what is and is not possible. You have to practice to break these attachments in dreams.

2. I've always been curious as to the reason behind some recurring abilities I possess during 80% of my dreams, both lucid and non.

Because you've broken those attachments already.

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