Remember what you see or create there in a dream is a projection of your thoughts raised from your subconsciousness. Now most lucid dreamers , especially beginners battle with mastering the skill of dream control. The thing is, one should always remember that no matter what happens in a lucid dream, it is just a dream and nothing more but your projection and you're in control.
Dream Control however can be an easy thing to learn by simply using what is called the "Dream Incubination". Well this is actually a prerequisit that you do. Before even sleeping, tell your self that you gonna have a dream a bout "So so So", whatever it is that you wish to dream about. But you have to repeat this a couple of times before you sleep so that it can sink in.
Now this is very beneficial, you'll notice that as soon you start having the dream immediately your awareness will come into play since you aware of the fact that you told yourself that you were gonna have that kind of the dream. Hence making you realise that it is a dream and you're in control. Now this this gives you confidence and control to manipulate the dream. With that in mind you're surely gonna have a pleasant lucid dreaming experience.
5 Tips And Steps To Master Dream Control
1. Recording Your Dreams.
Well this is by far the most important thing to do for anyone who wants to master the notion of lucid dreaming. Having a journal or any form of a recordin device is an essential thing to do. If you do not prefer a note book you can simply have a voice recorder or even a video recorder that you can use to record everything about your dreams immediately when you wake up. This is without any doubt a very good way of mastering dream control.
remembering your dreams is very important and having a journal or any kind of a recording device will help you train your mind to remember dreams and improve your memory. Before one can have control over the dreams, they need to have the ability to remember the dreams first.
The recordings can help you improve your lucid dreaming skills and even help you trace similarities in your dreams and things that you need to change to have a better lucid dreaming experience. See our post on Dream Signs for more information on the importance of recording your dreams. By having this always next to your bed will also help you measure the progress of your lucid dreams and with frequent practice you will have no problems in remembering your dreams.
2. Plan Your lucid Dreams
Well I can't stress the importance of pre-planning your dreams. This alone is a great shortcut to achieving the state of lucidity with ease. But you might be wondering Why right?. Simply put dreams are influenced mostly by our daily thoughts and experiences. You might not notice it but the things we dream about are things that are rested and stored in our minds. This haapens to everyone that they find themselves dreaming about things that they were thinking about or have seen during the day or even before they sleep.
The same principle applies when it comes to pre-planning your dreams. You need to right down in your journal exactly what you wish to dream about. You can also use any recording device to do this. This will help you get the idea in your mind before you sleep that you need to dream about a certain topic. You need to say this to yourself outloud to make sure that it sinks in so that it can be stored in your mind. You will notice with enough effort you will get the exact dream that you wanted.
But i also need to highlight the other importance of doing this, when you pre-plan your dream not only do you get to store the idea in your mind but it also helps as a way of easily realising that you are having a lucid dream immediately after you see the same things that you had thought about before you sleep. Some people have had lucid dreams without them knowing that they are lucid and that's why pre-planning your dream is so important.
3. Have Time to rest Before Your Dream
Resting , when i say rest i dont mean just rest and do nothing but rather start from practicing to channel your brain while you resting with your eyes closed. Basically this helps you gain control over you thought and maintain focus. You will notice that consistant practce of this will eventually give you control of creating scenes within your thoughts. Try getting a quiet place that makes you feel relaxed, it does not have to be your bed, it can be at the beach , under the tree or any where wher there is not any external disturbing factors. Afterall Lucid dreaming is about being in control and this will help you get there.
4. Choose Your best sleeping Time For dreams
You might not think it is that important to know which is the appropriate time to sleep, but it is actually one thing that a lucid dreamer should know as one of the basics. But you should also understand that dreams normally occures when your body is completely relaxed. so by this i mean you obviously won't have a lucid dream right when your body is physically tired. I have observed that for most people it's easier to achieve the state of Lucidity just before they wake up in the morning. I advise you to start try waking up 3 hours before your normal waking time in the morning and get back again to sleep with the intension of inducing lucid dreaming. At this time your body is more relaxed and it makes it easier for your consciousness to take charge unlike just after you go to bed and you tired.
5. Do Reality Check
It is vital to learn the skill of reality checking. As a dreamer you will find that since you can be able to wake up and take control of the fantasy world in your dream and still feel the same as whe you're awake it can be problemetic. This means that you can end up confusing your dream with reality. It is advisable for people practicing Lucid Dreaming to have somekind of an object that they can always carry at times which can help them distinguish between a dream and reality since these two experiences end up being the same. It can be anything that has got a different behavior in a real world and in a dream. For examole, you can have a coin that you normally spin, if it does not stop spinning then you know that cant be real. Always remember to have that piece with you.
Now that you have the steps and tipos to master dream control, try doing it everyday and you will definitely get it right
Most people seem to think that mastering the skill of dream control is just a walk in the park. It's actually not as easy as one might think it is. Well what do i mean by this?, basically i'm not trying to imply that it is rocket science or impossible. What i'm trying to say is simply the fact that a person has to learn and master the skill of controlling lucid dreams by making use of the above steps and tips.
As you apply the above mentioned skills and techniques, you will notice that to control your lucid dream becomes more easier but also requires frequent practice. The key here is mainly the fact that your mind needs to get used to the notion of lucid dreaming first. You will find that as you're lucid dreaming it becomes quite challenging to change the scenes and the nature of your dream in the early stages of learning dream control. This can be very frustrating and a person needs to focus on the goal of gaining control and foreget about the frustrations as this can lead to loss of focus.
Having control over your lucid dreams becomes less frustrating when one has a positive attitude. Why am i saying this?. Well it is smple, you can exert control over your dream quite faster if you're confident about the fact you will get it right. Having confidence and believing that you will get it right is the key. Remember Lucid dreaming is achieved with concentration and focus and without confidence and a positive attitude it is impossible to maintain focus.
The ability to manipulate your dream and gaining control over your lucid dream can also be easily achieved by using simple tricks like dream spinning and verbal dream commanding. Well basically dream spinning is when you create a different scene in your dream. This can be easily achieved by just picturing or imagining a different scenario. This can be a place or a situation which is different from the current one.
Most people find it even easier to use the skill of verbal command to control their lucid dreams and i also believe this is the less challenging method of mastering dream control. Verbal command basically refers to saying outloud exactly what you want to see in your dream. When verbal commanding your dream, you need to repeat it atleast a couple of times so that the idea can sink in you mind and immediately you'll notice that the dream changes to what you recited.
Dream control is really an essential skill that lucid dreamers and people willing to learn must definitely have. It is without any doubt a positive mindset and attitude that can really help you get it fast. This exercise can be very frustrating and most people end up giving up on lucid dreaming due to the fact that they are unable to master dream control. A lucid dream is really nothing much without the ability to control it and no one want's to be in a dream with random scenes right?.
Make sure you gear you brain and your mind and have patience. It can never be that simple and easy but if you follow my advise you'll get it faster then i did.