My First Induced Lucid Dream, And A Problem

[Cholokashvili]

In the past, especially in my pre-puberty years, I used to lucid dream without having to even bother trying. I'd simply realise towards the end of my dream that I was, in fact, simply dreaming. Instantly, I'd attain the powers of a god. Once I called down a storm from the skies, or just flew over the sea. It has been a long time since those days. Not too long ago, I started reading about lucid dreaming again. I always used to try and recollect my dreams anyway, so I had a good dream memory in the first place. Nonetheless, I wanted to truly control and restart the experience. I bought a metal pendant the shape of the Maltese cross. Look it up; it's very pointy. I didn't do this out of any belief that it would make me lucid dream! I bought it because of the sharp points. Whenever I moved at night, it would prick me, and I might wake up for a split second or else it would just influence my sleep. It managed to make me lucid dream. My first lucid dream was very brief. I always wake up shortly after. I was standing in a town with architecture much like the old style of my homeland, Malta. The instant I realised I was dreaming, claws sprouted out of my feet and hands, wings burst from my back and I erupted into a demonlike aberration and took off flying into the sky. The scary thing is that I did not make a conscious decision to turn into a beast like that, I just turned into it thanks to the knowledge that I could assume any form I wanted. So it was not actually a conscious decision, even though I willed it. --- I do, however, have a little problem while lucid dreaming. Since dreaming works on the basis that what you believe will happen happens, I have gotten into an awkward cycle. I want something to happen in my lucid dream, but I think that it might not happen as a result of me thinking something else will happen, because I know that what I think will happen will happen. In practice, I could not control my flight as a demonic figure, and kept crashing into things until I woke up. That was because I felt I was not fully in control, as if my doubt was making me believe I would fail for certain, and thus I did. *Deep breath* Does that make any sense?

[Isolove]

Yes, definitley, I know what you mean! This happens to me a lot when I fly in dreams. I start flying, think "oh, I know I'm in a dream, but I could fall" and then I fall, or lose control of the flying completley. the only way I found to stop dreams doing what do you don't WANT them to, but also what you're THINKING is to.. kind of get angry? it sounds silly but I found getting slightly angry and beleiving that for instance, you will win over everything, things go your way in dreams. Tell things off. Shout at them. if your standing on a bridge and you think it will fall, I find that if you shout "NO!, you will NOT FALL while I'M standing on you." (or something like that) and not even letting the thought of the bridge defying you cross your mind means the bridge wont fall... Tell that bridge bad, sista! -(but you do have to reallly beleive it) After all, YOU are in control. No buildings or anything are going to get in YOUR way in YOUR dream... =D it works really well with me. Hope that helps. if it doesn't, at least know that I know what you mean.

[Hot Chocolate]

There are some things you can do to trick your mind in believing something will happen. For instance in the dream you can take a flying-pill. You will believe you can fly because you just took a pill. A different trick is to ask a dream character where you can find a certain person or item. Again you will believe that that you will be there because the dream character told you. It's easier than opening a door and thinking about what will be on the other side. Am I making sense?

[J.D.]

Try to keep reminding yourself that you have total control. In my LD's, I'm always stick pretty rigidly to the physical rules of waking life. Not intentionally, although sometimes it keeps the dream stable. It does present a bit of a problem when I want to do something awesome though. Expectation is everything.