Thread: General Dream rule

I've noticed something like this a few times as well; like the dream is trying to conceal something, or to keep the dreamer from becoming too powerful. I have a couple of theories about this, but I feel like it may be a psychological limitation. If you believe there is going to be a rule to keep you from doing something, if you have doubts about your control, if you think doing a particular task will make you wake up, then the dream will likely make it so. This is also why things chasing you in your dreams almost always find you. It's constantly in your mind that your pursuer may catch up to you at any moment, so you can never get away.

It's kind of like the lucid dreaming trick of rubbing your hands together to "stabilize" the dream. There is really NO NEED of doing this other than its placebo effect. You never have to stabilize your non-lucids, after all. But rubbing your hands together indeed makes the dream more clear, because so many people have told us that it works and we believe that it will work. In the same way, if you get the intuition in a dream that there is some kind of dream rule you need to follow, the rule will hold true because of your belief in it. Sadly, it's not very easy to just *stop* believing in something.

I think that maybe the way to overcome this is to believe in something that overshadows the original belief. This could be any number of things, like a magical amulet that protects you from any "rules" the dream creates. As long as you actually believe it will work, it should short-circuit the rule.

Originally Posted by vasiona

What kind of goals are your dreams trying to accomplish/are you trying to accomplish in your dreams - do you mean particular goals (e.g. finding something or someone or doing a certain task), or more general ones, like making you feel afraid/keeping you from becoming lucid/flying/gaining any control? The dream rule being not to stray off too far from a goal kind of makes sense, but I'm not sure how one could tell what their dream goal was. Or do you just mean getting distracted from the things the dream is trying to show you in general? Do you have any more specific examples of your own?

Yes, it's kind of like a warning at first, it will never throw you out immediately, you feel drifting out of your dream and if you just stop doing it, your dream become as stable as it was before, or just a bit more unstable. Also funny thing, I have been pinned in my bed as well with strings completely unable to move and another time I had a feeling something sat on me, pretty unpleasant feeling.

Mostly the dream rule is always don't stray out of your goal, and it's mostly a general one like if your chore in your dream is go to school, just go to school and there you can do whatever you want, but if I have a very particular quest, I just sometimes simply need to do it. The rule is nothing written or isn't always clear, but you kind of have a 6th sense most of the time of what the rule/rules is.
Also I have had dreams with unlimited power, once I realized that I was dreaming and I began to fly, very fast, then I decided that I didn't like Denmark, so I blew the whole country up, and made a bigger explosion that you could ever imagine, but it still didn't wake me up. Sometimes there is just things that you are not meant to see in your dream, or if you gain control, you cannot just simply create whatever you want and completely change the topic of the dream.

Originally Posted by LolaTheLoner

I think that maybe the way to overcome this is to believe in something that overshadows the original belief. This could be any number of things, like a magical amulet that protects you from any "rules" the dream creates. As long as you actually believe it will work, it should short-circuit the rule.

Most probably it is my beliefs, but I have had experiences with the dream rule as far as I can imagine and the rule is very strong, at least for me, if I made a amulet that could protect me from any rules, then I could probably imagine that the dream would like to take it away from me. I also find ways to use the rule for my advantage.
I had a nightmare when I was young, it was about a witch and her two hell hounds and she kidnapped dolphins, and the part I remember very strong was that she was outside my front door trying to get to me, the hell hounds made off a very scary sound and aura that made me feel terror, and I could not close the balcony door at the back, making the sound and aura come in from there, tough she didn't know this door was open, yet. So then I gained control of the dream, and I immediately knew that any door I could open could be a potential exit from the dream, so I told everyone inside to open all doors, no doors worked, but I knew there was one. So at last I took up a match box from my pocket, and opening that was *kind* of like a door, and it was the exit from the dream.

Lately I don't have much problem with my dream rule as I'm kind of aware of what it is and I also have less limitations from my power, but changing the dreams topic or try and change a old dream too much is mostly a big nono. Tough with Lucid Dreams I kind of have bit more problem with the rules again, and that is why I made this thread. It mostly have to do with flying, and as someone said at another forum, if you open a window and jump out of it you can fly! Doesn't work for me. But I have been able to fly unintentionally or from just standing on the ground having the instinct to fly and then actually able to fly, rather than just wanting it.