Quote Originally Posted by elite0007 View Post
I have two seperate questions.

1. I am interested in the level of control an expierenced LDer has over his/her dream. When posting please be very expierenced and give descriptive accounts of the expierience. Can you simply change the seen at will. Can you make anything happen at a moments notice. Additionally, are you able to enter lucidity at will anytime during sleep. I know that Stephen LaBerge could lucid dream at will 3 and 4 times a night.
At the use of the word experience used so much.

To answer your questions...

Yes, anything can happen anytime. You can change a scene or any single thing or anything at all. You can make things appear, disappear, anything in between, do crazy things to them, do crazy things with yourself. Literally anything that you can imagine. It sounds corny, but your mind really is your only limitation. If you end up getting doubts, then you could fail at something, but that's it. Take my advice and the advice of many and don't take very much at all for truth that you read. The main problem that people experience is whenever they create limitations for themselves because they read something online about LDing being hard or flying being hard or sex causing you to wake up or dreams fade a lot. If you read those and actually take them for word, then they will of course happen. If it is created by your mind and your mind thinks that flying is impossible, then it will be impossible to fly. Never doubt yourself and do things in a semi-objective point of view. Nothing is out of reach if will reach for it.


Quote Originally Posted by elite0007 View Post
2. I know that when you first start out. LD requires diligent effort and can affect the quality of sleep due to dream journals. After one has become very proficient in LD, do you still wake up mulitiple times during the night or can you simply sleep all the way through. Also, does the fact that your consious keep you from having the same quality of sleep as when your not consious.
It doesn't really inhibit your sleep very much unless you do certain methods that cause you to wake up. If you WBTB, you'll have to wake up once during the night and stay awake for a bit. WILD is the same, but you may want to stay up as long as an hour if you want to, and it can take a while to do the method. MILD is where you wake up many times through the night to record dreams and try to incubate the next dream.

Those don't really even mess up your sleep too bad unless you're on a strict schedule. Then I would only really worry about WILDing. You can still DILD though, just by keeping a dream journal, practicing the use of RCs, and getting to know your dreams and dreamsigns. Whether you're a beginner or an expert, all of the different methods of induction still require the same things. So you would still wake up for WILD, MILD, and WBTB. While there are others, those are the main methods or categories that require waking up. While it may be easier for an expert LDer to gain lucidity, the methods are the same.

Lucid sleep usually helps sleep a lot! After a good lucid, I'll always wake up refreshed and excited, which carries over towards the rest of the day. It's a great way to start a morning, and it doesn't degenerate your sleep's proficiency on health and revitalization.