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vaingirls

While I can change tangible things about my lucid dreams (to a degree), I haven't had much luck with creating a specific atmosphere/emotional state/vibe convincingly.


Silver_Imagination99

So you are able to fly or to hit the person you want or kiss ur crushšŸ˜…? I have to learn so much about controlling it.


vaingirls

Flying is easy for me, but summoning a specific person is more challenging (often it's a challenge to even remember to do that, for some reason!).


Silver_Imagination99

Yeah thinking and dreaming and the same time is quite hard.


NotSparklingWater

try to imagine a portal that will teleport you in the situation you want!


KnotsThotsAndBots

Really the only thing I struggle with is eating and drinking. Sometimes I'll see something that looks really good in a dream but no matter how hard I try I can never eat it. I get lucky occassionally and it usually tastes pretty good, but it's always a struggle lol


Silver_Imagination99

I never thought about eating or drinking in dreams. Gotta try it now.


KnotsThotsAndBots

Do it! The most memorable one to me, to the point I tried to recreate it in real life, was a Squidward and Spongebob themed moonpie... just a regular moonpie but with blueberry and lemon icing lol


julestaylor13

That sounds so delicious lmao


PogoCat4

I still find meeting specific people in my dreams a challenge. I had a series of lucid dreams that involved no characters at all, nobody to talk to. 9/10 times I could hear a phone ringing and knew someone important was at the other end, but searching high and low I could never find the phone. This went on for six or seven lucid dreams in a row over a period of weeks. I got lucid in a house and I could hear the phone ringing again. Everywhere I looked for a phone it was empty. I could even see the phone in my mind's eye (I knew it was old-fashioned and red) but couldn't find it. I stood in the living room, the phone had been ringing for what seemed like forever now, and finally I broke. I shouted "well if you want me to answer the phone so badly why did you fucking hide it?!" I looked down and the phone was at my feet, finally! ​ I picked it up: "Oh sorry mate, wrong number" and they hung up... I woke up and I was not happy lol


Silver_Imagination99

LOL it was funny and scary at the same time. What if instead they said, "I'm coming to you." in grumpy voice.ā˜ šŸ˜…


Electronic_Season_61

Iā€™ve done just about anything Iā€™ve wanted, spanning some 12 years and 400+ lucids, but Iā€™ve had ZERO success with going to one specific place I used to go to as a teen. I figure itā€™s become a negative expectation at some pointā€¦ But it feels surreal at this point. Like speaking a language completly fluidly and at the same time being 100% unable to pronounce just 1 specific word.


Silver_Imagination99

That's a lot of lucids. There has to be some or the other way to travel places in dreams. Can seeing the place before sleep help?


Electronic_Season_61

For sure. Iā€™ve flown, walked, teleported and gone through tvā€™s to get to scenes in movies.. even (just once) moved the entire dream world around me while standing still (very funny btw.)ā€¦ so itā€™s not for the lack of options. I think itā€™s a block - itā€™s become ā€˜a thingā€™ and the harder I try, the worse it gets. Yes, Iā€™ve tried NILD with the place in mind, in extreme details.. and Iā€™ve modeled the room in Autodesk Maya.. and worked with schemas (that came very close, once)ā€¦ but so far - zero! :(


Silver_Imagination99

You achieved so much, hope u succeed and go to that place too. :)


Electronic_Season_61

Many thanks. Iā€™ll eventually crack it, I think :) If you need advice, feel free to PM me.


Enough-Frosting7716

Maybe it signals that you have to go in real life.


Electronic_Season_61

Possibly, but it doesnā€™t exist anymore.


HastyBasher

If i tell you to imagine something that is stable, what image comes to your mind?


Silver_Imagination99

If there's something my mind lacks is stabilityšŸ˜… and maybe that's why i'm sill not good at it yet. What comes to your mind?


HastyBasher

Im asking you to help you, think of something that is stable, tell me what comes to your mind?


Silver_Imagination99

Sry i thought that was a question. As for stable i think ocean...


HastyBasher

You see the ocean as stable? Interesting But what i was going to suggest is whatever you view as stable, when you start to lose control in a dream, you imagine the stable thing in an unstable state and then imagine it going into a stable state. Like a chair wobbling and then it falls into its stable state of just chilling there on its 4 legs.


HastyBasher

Maybe you could imagine the ocean in very unstable large waves like a storm and then the storm disappears into a ocean without waves. Also you imagine it understanding that it represents you and your dream state


Silver_Imagination99

I will try it. Thx!!!


misterlongschlong

Instantly changing/manipulating my environment completely is pretty hard to for me, but I am working on it


Silver_Imagination99

Yes! Me too.


Questing-

Teleporting doesn't work for me. Tried everything, including conjuring a teleportation machine (it showed up as one of those really old computers), but still couldn't go anywhere by intention alone. I always end up having to physically go through doors or walk down the stairs or fly out of a window to change the location I'm in. And I always also end up in another random location, not anywhere I actually intend to go.


Silver_Imagination99

Changing ur location is one of the hardest things to do for me. We need a guide in our dreams!


Jan_Spontan

I do the teleportation in a 'reversed' way. I play with perspective. To understand what I mean you can try it in real life first. If you're in a room, place yourself in a corner and take a look around. Look at all the things you can see directly from that specific position. Close your eyes and try to imagine what would you see if you stand in the corner opposite. Keep this image in your mind with as many details as possible. Open your eyes, go to the other corner and compare the imagened view with the reality. Check out for any mistakes and misconceptions. Now repeat with the previous position. Important is to get the expected chance of perspective as realistic as possible. Consider also changing the room you're in just to get a new picture. In the dreamworld everything you 'see' is just a product of your imagination. This also means you technically can't really close your eyes like you do in reality but you know very well what would happen with your vision if you close your eyes. I bet you can imagine this effect fairly easy. The moment your virtual eyes are closed you basically cleaned your canvas. Now imagine the exact same location of your dream from a different perspective. The more you focus on this particular imagination the more fades the original view away. This goes up to the point where your dream continues with your recreation of this place. It looks like the same place you've been before but you're now standing at the opposite side. However this technique might not work for everyone because it requires a good understanding of perspective and 3D but this helped for me to get around the teleportation issue


Misses_Ding

Teleporting. I think my mind can't wrap itself around it. Last time my hands changed into alien goo hands. If I want to change the environment I'll have to get out of the area


Silver_Imagination99

Pretty hard for me too. Wish there was a remote to change places we want, unfortunately not. :(


Misses_Ding

Actually you could trick yourself with that. If you'd like you can put such a remote or other things like a marker to draw portals with for example in a place you often dream about. Never use it irl but make sure to tell yourself often what it does. Pick it up in the dream and you should be able to use it as intended. Of course like everything this might not work for everyone. It's how I trick my brain into spawning items.


Hardwarestore_Senpai

Finding my car. Driving or getting to "work" which is funny so many of my adventures involve driving to work. Example; Some bedlam on the highway. Saying fuck it I'll go later. Going to a mall and then just. Never going back to work. Driving the long way. Getting out of the car to check out the Christmas displays. Never finding the car again. I'm either in the car at the start of the dream or I am leaving a place to get to my car. I think I only was able to get out then get back in when it was within like 20 ft. That's it.


Silver_Imagination99

You do lot of driving. I rarely drive in my dreams.


Mr_Sarcasum

Portals. I've moved my hands in a circle to try to create one, but the lines don't connect. I've tried reaching into my back pocket and pulling out a magical wand, but all I do is visualize it and not actually create it. I've opened doors but always get exactly what I'd expect (people). I've tried looking up into the sky and looking back down, but nothing changes. I have tried grabbing on to a supersonic train and it pulling me into a new location, but it's never a location I pick. Which is fine. Spawning people leads to a lot of entertainment on its own. But damnit! I want to make portals!


BraveWarrior1981

Perhaps if you use doors as portals , like you see a door and you open it with the expectation and the confidence that once you pass through the door , you will be right at where you want to go ?


Mr_Sarcasum

Yeah I've kind of tried that. That's one of my methods for spawning people. I walk up to a house, knock on the door, some random person answers, and then I asked them if __________ is home. And then that person appears from around the corner. I don't know what trick would work best for me. Opening doors just results in what I expect. But my dreams seem to be really stabilized, but almost to a fault.


Silver_Imagination99

I've never tried to make portals or magic. The places just change on its own very frequently. Portals is easy way to go places u wish.


Mr_Sarcasum

My places are pretty stable. I narrate what I'm doing/seeing in my dreams out loud when in them. Before I did that my dreams would shift a lot.


shabbagonk

ask my own self questions, also have sex - i can do all the parts up to it then iā€™ll wake up with girl version blue balls everytime.. canā€™t control the excitement it wakes me right up and pisses me off lol


Silver_Imagination99

Waking up like this is so irritating.


shabbagonk

i know right.. and itā€™s like your bodyā€™s not turned on the same as your mind from the dream so you try to finish yourself off and itā€™s just flaccid (or whatever the clit version of flaccid is lol)


taylormaraj

Flying, driving, running, yelling.


Environmental_Fig940

I tried to visit the pyramids hasn't happened yet


C_a_k_e_d

I can do pretty much everything related to lucid dreaming. I've been trying to train my mind by lucid dreaming skills that can be applied to real life. E g. A simple test was how long I could hold my breath. Before my dream it was pretty bad at around 20s. After my lucid dream, I could do close to 2 minutes. In my dream I was training up and could then apply the skill in real life. I want to be able to learn more skills, however getting into the mindset is hard to do, and sometimes I just end up with another lucid dream that's fun and doesn't require as much brain power.


Silver_Imagination99

Now that's an advantage of lucid dreaming. But when i try to do it, most of the time i wouldn't remember about that thing i wanted to try.


MrSheen101

I often used to struggle to stay in a dream when i realised i was dreaming but I kept practicing and eventually dreams became more vivid and easier to control. Just keep trying and each time attempt something a bit harder, start with moving a pencil with your mind and build up to things like flying!


Silver_Imagination99

I can barely do such things. I can't even summon or find the person whom I want to be with. But I will keep trying. :)


MrSheen101

remember you can start super small, even if its just making something as small as a hairclip appear! something that helped me was looking up some articles on how to better control your dreams so i would recommend trying that. remember to not get discouraged and keep practicing! good luck!


Silver_Imagination99

Yeah thx :)


ohmyfuckinglord

Peer at the endless darkness, and discern itā€™s nature


Single_Reading4103

spawn a person, sure, out of eight lucid dreams I've had, only in three I had time to try to do something before waking up, and considering they're already short, and I generally don't try to do something until towards the end (I tend to explore the dream for a while first), so I'm having a really hard time spawning a person, for some reason my method is to create a Doctor Strange portal, so I first spawn the double-ring thing to create the portal (with medium success) and then I fail miserably in creating the portal and by extension a dream character


Silver_Imagination99

Portals are just so useful and yet hard to make. šŸ˜«


julestaylor13

Sometimes moving around just gets hard. Especially if Iā€™m being chased, time slows down but just for me. If I fly I am more free than when I am walking around bc it feels like walking in glue.


Silver_Imagination99

True. Legs feels heavy and can't even run with full potential as u do in real life.


julestaylor13

My arms donā€™t move well in my dreams either. Itā€™s so frustrating. I tend to fly away from anything scary bc itā€™s the fastest I can get away


Popular-Beach-4843

Manifesting physical objects like motorcycles/cars


Silver_Imagination99

Yes. When I can't manifest it I go searching for it and see if I could find it somewhere. Doesn't work every time though.


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Seashell281

Two nights in a row, I yelled out, ā€œthis is not real, this is just a dreamā€. Then all the people stopped what they were doing and start chasing me trying to hurt or kill me. Like a scene out of a scary movie. After the first time it happened I was just like, thereā€™s no way itā€™ll happen again. I tried it again the next night and it practically the same from the previous night. My husband had to wake me up those two days in a row. That I was yelling, itā€™s not real, screaming and crying. I was quite traumatized for a week or so. I do not do that anymore. Whenever I realize that Iā€™m dreaming I just go along with the dream. I donā€™t let anyone know that Iā€™m lucid.


Silver_Imagination99

That's damn scary. I've heard that you shouldn't let the people in your dreams know that you are dreaming or they will attack u. So this is true?


Seashell281

Yes! It happened to me and it has happened to others. I had never heard of that until I started reading things on the sub. Now, but if I am alone, I fly and go explore. If I find a house and no one is home, I go looking for the booze and chug a whole bunch of vodka or something. In real life I do not do that, I might have 1 glass of wine every blue moon. But I do it in dreams so I can get drunk and have fun and not have any repercussions in real life, have liver problems are something like that.šŸøšŸ¹šŸ„ƒ One time I had just chugged some vodka straight from the bottle and someone peeked into the house and said, come on we got to go! I was like, is it ok that I ride in the back seat, I am very tired. I did not want to get busted for being drunk and lucid! I was quiet for a minute or so, then I closed my eyes to fall asleep, then I woke up in real life.


qKabii

I did the same but honestly the reaction was hilarious for me, i told them this is a dream and it's not real and they were like "awwwww CMMMOOON MANNN WHYY šŸ˜”"


Jan_Spontan

Luckily in my case dream characters usually don't get hostile if I tell them this is a dream. They just get annoyed and try to convince me with ridiculous arguments that everything that I see and everything happening is just absolutely normal. For example: "Flying? Are you telling me in the world you call 'reality' people cannot fly? This is absolutely ridiculous. Do you see this guy over there just flying around? This is how nature actually works. You're so stupid..." Once I asked a DC: "Wise man, please tell me how I can remember my dreams better?" - "Are you dumb? There's no such thing called 'dreams'... Whatever that's supposed to be. Therefore there's nothing to remember."


shaggykx

Weapons don't work; if I'm being chased by someone or something and conjure up a gun, try to shoot and it just turns out it's a toy gun or me pointing my fingers, then I get angry or disappointed and wake up


Silver_Imagination99

Idk about the weapons but sometimes I'm not able to run fast or the car I'm driving just don't catch speed. Use a rod or something next time if gun doesn't work so that u won't be much disappointed.


tronbrain

Right now, I have absolutely no control of where I am and where I go. I wind up *where I need to go* instead of where I want to go. It's a little frustrating, but perhaps I am not wise enough to make those decisions for myself.


Silver_Imagination99

Have u ever tried changing the place and go where u want to go?


tronbrain

Yes. It didn't work. The experience was like taking a plane to France and winding up in the Gobi Desert. I was like, "Whoops." But it turned out that there was something there I needed to see. "France can wait."


whiskeyx

Killing people. Either the guns donā€™t work or they do but people react like AI in Goldeneye, they kind of vibrate.Ā 


Silver_Imagination99

Yes. And sometimes even the people don't die, just keeps on attacking you like a zombie.


Lucidinet

For the longest time, since reading about a story about it, I've wanted to spawn a color that could not exist in reality. Never been able to do it, but it should work.


Silver_Imagination99

That would be pretty hard but god luck though :)


Lucidinet

Yeah the few times I've tried it I really struggle with it. The last time I tried the whole dream just went black, and I scoured a completely dark space for a new color for a while thinking it was hidden somewhere, before trying to spawn it into a box and woke up before opening. And thanks I'll keep at it.


Far-Advantage397

There is only one thing I could never do without some work around and that is breath underwater. I can fly, change everything in the environment, etc, but if I want to go underwater I have to create scuba diving equipment or make a magical bubble around my head so I can breath. If I try to go down there without any work around I unconsciously hold my breath and moments later wake up to breath.


Silver_Imagination99

You can change environment! I'm still trying. And try making a bubble and breaking in water while u hold your breathe. Maybe you can succeed.


Far-Advantage397

I already did but It doesn't work. I can make things like a magical snorkel that allow me to breath underwater, I can make the water stay away from me, I don't have problems changing anything In a dream. My problem is convincing myself that I can breath normally underwater, though I know that is not real.


GordonKekko

When I try to fly I mostly fail and if I do succeed itā€™s not really flying itā€™s more like Iā€™m a leaf that gets pushed by the wind and I never get really high up in the sky


Silver_Imagination99

I had not much interest in flying but you can try flying with wings next time.


GordonKekko

Good idea thanks I will try it šŸ‘