Thread: Dream Control

great tutorial - thanks

I agree with calielizabeth to some extent although I would frame it differently.

There's levels of lucidity and to some extent you can choose where to place yourself on a scale from:
simple awareness that you are dreaming but still being a pretty much passive character in the story
to god-like control where you can entirely rewrite the story.
I like the whole spectrum of lucidy - and feel delighted and blessed whenever I find myself in one whatever the degree of lucidity!
But when I can, i.e. when deeply lucid, I often choose to dream somewhere in the middle of that range.
That is:
I realise I'm lucid,
maybe change the setting,
or ask a question,
or ask for an oportunity to learn about XYZ,
or perhaps 'allow' a rule or two of science to be broken (like flying)
then, as with a Sci-fi film, suspend disbelief to let my subsconscious resume control of characters and the environment whilst maintaining the minimum lucidity needed to act consciously so that for example I don't run away from my fears. I like surprises and sometimes the subconscious can weave a story framework for my consciously dreaming character that has a twist-in-the-tail type ending, the clues for which were there all along but even lucid I don't always spot them! (Isn't the mind truly amazing?!)

As to moral actions.... hehe - I do believe anything goes in the dream world - but I'd be concerned if I was constantly drawn to act immorally in dreams.