Wednesday 3rd January - "puppet Master" ( A Failed Experiment )

[Tom Charlton]

Hi readers, I'm new to the forum and I thought now would be a good time to share my experiences whilst in my last lucid dream. First of all, the dream was sort of a traveling dream as my dreams usually are. I found myself on a long adventure which led me to one of my good freinds ex-girlfriends house. When I got to the house the door was locked and I wanted to get in when I suddenly realised " Hey wait a minute, what am I doing at this girls house and how exactly did I get here...I dont think her house even looks exactly like this?" at this point I realised I was dreaming and became lucid. So I decided to walk through the wall of her house and go inside to see what characters or interesting things might be in there. I encountered a number of characters but I was only really interested in trying one thing whilst lucid: I wanted to try being the puppet master of one of my characters. When I tried to make the character move or make it say certain things or basically controll it at all I found that it just was not working. The character had its own agenda and wouldnt do anything I was trying to make it do. Shortly after this, not yet knowing of the spinning technique, I began to lose lucidity untill I lapsed back into my normal seemingly non-sensicle dream storyline. I was wondering, can anyone out their controll their characters? Or was my failure (although I view even gaining lucidity as a sucsess in my book) a result of my fading lucidity? Should I put this failed experiment down to a lack of experience? What are your thoughts? What have been your experiences what this experiment? Is what im talking about possible? Thanks for reading - Tom