So, I've been trying to lucid dream for quite some time. Lately, I've been trying something new — a hypnosis video that I listen to every night — and my dreams have been so much more realistic and lucid. After having no lucid dreams for an entire year, suddenly I'm having three a week.

But! During these dreams, my dream control has been... shabby, at best. When the ability to summon a pen from thin air is exciting, you know you've got a lot of work to do. Anyway! There's one thing I've been able to do without any trouble whatsoever, and it was a pretty cool technique, so I figured I'd share? Maybe this'll help someone else, who knows?

So, a few dreams ago, I became lucid when I realized that I was in my childhood home (which I'd moved out of when I was 11). I knew where I wanted to go in the dream — to a place that I'd gone to in my very first (and the most vivid, to date) lucid dream, a library called the Library of Eden — but I couldn't figure out how to get there. My brother walked up to me and handed me a piece of chalk, and instructed me to draw a door on the wall.

I grasped at the little circular doorknob I'd drawn, and suddenly the wall caved in, revealing the Library right behind it. For someone who's only ever been able to summon small objects in lucid dreams before, this was huge.

Even in the first dream I tried this in, where my lucidity was shaky at best and I could barely even think straight, it worked absolutely perfectly. And it's worked in every single dream since then, no matter how lucid I am (or, in my case, how not lucid I am; most of the time, I'm not very lucid) so I figured I'd share. I thought it was pretty cool.