Trespassing and chaos

[cky464]

The problem I'm having is that I know I control the outcome of my dreams but I still can't tell myself this while the dreams are happening. Last night it was clear as a movie: I was invited to a stranger's house at night, with two girls accompanying me. As we all conversed and drank outside his home I told one of the girls to try to climb his neighbor's house, run across his 2nd floor patio and jump from there into our new friend's patio. She did exactly what I suggested and we all had a good laugh. But then she went over and started to scale his neighbor's house again. Fear struck me, and as soon as I said to stop his neighbor came out of his house and on to his porch. I knew he would be angry with us. He came over to where we were and started questioning us. I started worrying that since there was only one of him he might call his friends over. Well of course this is what happened and soon there were pickup trucks full of big angry men. They got into our new friend's garage and started to smash every car in there. The whole time I was trying to reason with the neighbor who seemed completely calm and understanding now but his friends were the angry ones. It wasn't an extremely terrifying dream but I feel like I had the lucidity to change the outcome. The problem was it was all so real that how am I supposed to tell if I'm dreaming or not? If only I could have attained LD it would have been much less strenuous. Any suggestions?

[CRAZY BONE]

Well from what it sounds like, it wasn't a lucid dream. In order to attain LDs, there's a lot of different techniques, I advise you o to the tutorial section of this forum and read up on DILDs. Also, welcome to the forum

[panta-rei]

Telling the difference is difficult. You really have to question reality constantly. Reality checks can help this. Choose something, or just do them randomly. After a while, they'll carry over to dreams. Then you can practice controlling them better as well. If you have any other questions, feel free to send me a private message at any time.

[cky464]

Well from what it sounds like, it wasn't a lucid dream. In order to attain LDs, there's a lot of different techniques, I advise you o to the tutorial section of this forum and read up on DILDs. Also, welcome to the forum Thanks for the post. By lucid I meant the origin of the word's meaning in that the it was all clear and made sense. Not that I was aware of dreaming. I will try to use the right terminology as to not be confusing.

[trayden]

Try just telling yourself in your head that you are dreaming and then try somthing out of the ordinary, unrelated to the dream, if it works then you are in control. Trouble is it can come crashing down as soon as you know you are in control. My trigger is to just start to feel dizzy in the head a bit and it can last longer.