Can you control your dreams?

Try this.

Every time I start to work up the initiative to learn how to control my dreams, one comes along that is so wildly creative and fascinating that I put the urge back on the shelf, remembering once more why some things are best left to nature.

There have been a few dreams where there was sex to be had and I didn’t go there because I’m married. And I could have gotten away with it!

@woodcutter Did you actually use lucid dreaming, or did youor better judgment prevail even within a dream?

That’s a good question @ETpro I honestly have no clue how these scenarios happen so I guess I’ll have to go with better judgment. All my dreams are too weird and make no sense to me those that i can recall later.

@woodcutter Aha. Definitely your better instincts have just permeated every corner of your brain than. You would be absolutely aware of using lucid dreaming techniques to steer a dream where you wanted it to go.

Yes you can control your dreams, I do mine about once a week, it’s a good way to get some of your fear under control, it’s called lucid dreaming as @ETpro has stated, it’s about waking yourself up in dream state, which can be difficult to do at first, you normally need a ‘snap’ something that makes you realise you’re dreaming re: flying, looking at your hands, spinning, all these things are my snaps – and then I sit in my dream for a bit and look around at everything, then decide what I want to do… eg : I am a singer and had a gig coming up, I made a stage and put myself on their with a microphone and sung my heart out, I have a guide that I’ve met in my dreams as well and I can talk to him about my anxiety and to be honest, it’s quite amazing – it’s your subconscious and your subconscious is far more intelligent, empathetic and aware than your conscious.

Try it… if you need some more help message me – I have plenty of things you can try and do, i’ve been LD now for about 1 year – not long but I’ve become really quite fascinated by it’s psychological implications…

I’ve tried “asking” for better dreams before going to sleep, and that seems to work although not necessarily like I imagine it will (just differently than I expect).

@tan235, I’m interested in your practice if you can cc me. Thanks.

Me personally, no I can’t (I have tried often), but some people have had success with exercises to cause lucid dreaming.

Sometimes yes but most of the time no. Personally I think it’s interesting that the scarier a dream gets the more control I seem to gain. I would pretend to be a zombie to avoid them. As for others I don’t know how they react in their dreams in similar situations but maybe it tells us something about what our personalities are. Freud would agree.

I was looking the whole lucid dreaming part up, thanks to all of you guys.
It’s quite interesting. I guess I need to keep a dream journal or something.
I’m going to try it tonight and see what happens. I think I might have had lucid dreams before but I think I woke up early after I realized that I was dreaming.

@tan235 I have very similar dreams and my ‘snap’ is being back in my bedroom . I know I’m lucid dreaming if the bedroom door is on the opposite side of where it should be. I too sit and ponder about what to do next sometimes and I have a guide, he is always by an old stone wall waiting with his wife.

The best part is the control. I have been in a dream where I was chased by a mob with guns I was running and not seeming to get any where. Thats when I can ‘snap’ if I want to. In this dream I decided to just stop and turn around and changed the dream instantly to a pie fight.

This is something that developed without knowing about lucid dreaming initially. It was only when I did some research that I found dream control had a name