Thread: Help me!!

Learning dream control takes time. If you're not having much success with one goal, set it aside, and work on something else. If you try something a lot and keep failing, the failures will create harmful negative reinforcement, but if you try something else and succeed, that will help you find success in many things in the long run.

There is a radio program out there on the 'net somewhere (I forget where I got it from) that is an interview with LaBerge, and he talks about that specific issue.

In it he said that if you want someone to appear, you need to do it in a way that they would normally appear in waking life. So instead of just trying to get the person to appear out of thin air, try instead to have them show up from a logical waking context. So, if you are having a dream where you are at school and this person you want to appear might be in a certain classroom in waking life, go into the classroom and before/as you open the door tell yourself that that person will be in that room when you open the door.

I have never experienced this first hand, but that was the gist of what he said.

Thank you so much I will definitely try it next time

Originally Posted by Serith

Learning dream control takes time. If you're not having much success with one goal, set it aside, and work on something else. If you try something a lot and keep failing, the failures will create harmful negative reinforcement, but if you try something else and succeed, that will help you find success in many things in the long run.

It depends really, I always have full control without trying. The key is not to try

I have yet to have an LD, but I read a very interesting post by someone who claimed that the only thing hindering complete dream control is yourself. It was a very long post, but the general idea was that if you convince yourself you can summon him out of thin air, then you will be able to. If not, I think Val's technique would be easier.

Originally Posted by pyrodemon92

I have yet to have an LD, but I read a very interesting post by someone who claimed that the only thing hindering complete dream control is yourself. It was a very long post, but the general idea was that if you convince yourself you can summon him out of thin air, then you will be able to. If not, I think Val's technique would be easier.

I am pretty sure this is true.

What works really well for me is just to announce in my dream what I want: "I would like so-and-so to walk through that door."

Being lucid is simply knowing that your dreaming. You had a regular lucid dream. You couldnt control because you didnt do any Reality checks, or any other ways to make you control it from what you have said.

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