Thread: I tend to start losing the dream, depending on what I control

In my dreams, lucid or semi-lucid (my term for when I have an innate understanding that the dream is not quite reality, but not explicit knowledge that I am dreaming), I can do several things, and never have a problem with them, like jumping forty feet in the air. I can't remember experiencing a dream where I couldn't do that (even when I wanted to jump normally).

Some things, however, like teleportation, require me to close my eyes, and mentally "reconstruct" the dream, but from the new point of view. Often, when I do this, the dream starts to tear apart, lose vividness, and I start to wake up. This is true for a number of different things I try to control, but teleportation has been the most noticeable one.

Any advice?

Firstly, you shouldn't be closing your eyes in a dream, as closing your eyes has a tendency to kill dreams, or destabilize them. You should practice stabilizing the dream and then try controlling it in different ways, to see what works best for you. Try not to close your eyes when doing things like teleportation and other stuff, and have confidence that you can do what you're trying to do, when you do it.

ShockWave.

Snap your fingers, turn around, you have just created your assistant.
Ask him/her to do whatever you want to accomplish (teleport?) in the form of an order, with a "please" at the end. They'll always be happy to help.
Then, realize YOU just did that because it was all in your mind, you don't need any help. Full control from now on

It takes a lot of brainpower to create new scenes, in fact, to fully construct a scene, takes in my experience about 10 full seconds, so teleportation really pushes that. That's why they destablizie when you control too much.

Originally Posted by ninja9578

It takes a lot of brainpower to create new scenes, in fact, to fully construct a scene, takes in my experience about 10 full seconds, so teleportation really pushes that. That's why they destablizie when you control too much.

I should be clear that this is a problem even when I teleport to a nearby place in the same scene. I can understand that this would still apply to some degree, but would that really destabilize a dream that much?