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Dream Control, or the ability to control your dreams is something that is crucially required or finds much importance in the subject of lucid dreaming. A lucid dreamer is that person who can successfully travel to the realm of dreams with full consciousness and a wakeful of mind. Thus, he only lets his body rest while his mind remains wakeful and focused and completely aware of its journey to the realm of dreams.
Thus, lucid dreaming entails the dreamer to firstly be aware of the fact that he is dreaming and secondly, in more advanced stages, have full dream control so as to see, do and experience whatever he desires in his dream having full power to manipulate and change it as required.
A capability which is extremely tough to get a grip on, dream control requires focused effort and continuous practice in order to be able to master the art of letting only your body sleep and keeping your mind wakeful to experience a lucid dream. Maintaining the lucidity stage is highly difficult in the first place, but going beyond that, it must be said that having true dream control where you can actually manipulate and change your dreams requires focus, practice, use of specialized techniques and experience.
The main difficulty in dream control lies in continuing the lucidity part of it. For example, if you are dreaming that you are in a desert you may be able to make small changes like the direction in which you are going, etc. Suppose now, you want to see yourself riding a camel and fighting a huge gigantic scorpion, this kind of manipulation would require more force from you, which in turn makes you wake up. Moreover, in case of failed attempts, go on trying since frustration or distress would make you wake up all the more.
The first technique to maintain lucidity and prevent waking up from your dream is that of dream spinning. Thus, when you are feeling that you are losing grip on your dream settings, or the scenes around you are suddenly fading away, stand in a spot and start spinning round and round like a child. This results in you ending up in a clearer dream setting after your spin. Moreover, if you think about an absolute change of your dream setting while spinning, chances are that after you stop, you'll find yourself in a completely new dream. But remember to also keep in mind the fact that you are in a lucid dream stage so as not to wake up.
The second tool towards dream control is that of verbal commands. Here what you need to do is to continuously affirm your mind regarding the things you need changed which you are not being able to do easily.E.g. If you are seeing yourself in a desert but want to go to the moon, just say it aloud. Hence, whatever you want to see, do or experience, just saying it aloud helps in its attainment of the same and facilitates increased dream control.
Moreover, if you are wanting to manipulate your dreams but are not being able to do so, going around it in a creative way can be a solution. E.g. You want a particular celebrity to feature in your dream but somehow you cannot bring him, you might just try calling him up and suddenly the person comes in front of you.
Lastly, another issue that lucid dreamers need to deal with is that of false awakenings. This refers to seeing yourself waking up within your dream. In order to avoid this, the best thing to do would be to undergo a reality check whenever you find yourself waking up so that you know whether you are still dreaming or you have woken up in reality.
Getting distressed and frustrated over repeated unsuccessful attempts at dream control is what makes you loose lucidity and wake up. So, never get distressed and remember that the above techniques would bail you out from any situation. Moreover, increased meditation would lead to greater control of mind, and the right attitude, that is, a belief in yourself that you can do whatever you are attempting to do, would take you along way in dream control.
Thus, lucid dreaming entails the dreamer to firstly be aware of the fact that he is dreaming and secondly, in more advanced stages, have full dream control so as to see, do and experience whatever he desires in his dream having full power to manipulate and change it as required.
A capability which is extremely tough to get a grip on, dream control requires focused effort and continuous practice in order to be able to master the art of letting only your body sleep and keeping your mind wakeful to experience a lucid dream. Maintaining the lucidity stage is highly difficult in the first place, but going beyond that, it must be said that having true dream control where you can actually manipulate and change your dreams requires focus, practice, use of specialized techniques and experience.
The main difficulty in dream control lies in continuing the lucidity part of it. For example, if you are dreaming that you are in a desert you may be able to make small changes like the direction in which you are going, etc. Suppose now, you want to see yourself riding a camel and fighting a huge gigantic scorpion, this kind of manipulation would require more force from you, which in turn makes you wake up. Moreover, in case of failed attempts, go on trying since frustration or distress would make you wake up all the more.
The first technique to maintain lucidity and prevent waking up from your dream is that of dream spinning. Thus, when you are feeling that you are losing grip on your dream settings, or the scenes around you are suddenly fading away, stand in a spot and start spinning round and round like a child. This results in you ending up in a clearer dream setting after your spin. Moreover, if you think about an absolute change of your dream setting while spinning, chances are that after you stop, you'll find yourself in a completely new dream. But remember to also keep in mind the fact that you are in a lucid dream stage so as not to wake up.
The second tool towards dream control is that of verbal commands. Here what you need to do is to continuously affirm your mind regarding the things you need changed which you are not being able to do easily.E.g. If you are seeing yourself in a desert but want to go to the moon, just say it aloud. Hence, whatever you want to see, do or experience, just saying it aloud helps in its attainment of the same and facilitates increased dream control.
Moreover, if you are wanting to manipulate your dreams but are not being able to do so, going around it in a creative way can be a solution. E.g. You want a particular celebrity to feature in your dream but somehow you cannot bring him, you might just try calling him up and suddenly the person comes in front of you.
Lastly, another issue that lucid dreamers need to deal with is that of false awakenings. This refers to seeing yourself waking up within your dream. In order to avoid this, the best thing to do would be to undergo a reality check whenever you find yourself waking up so that you know whether you are still dreaming or you have woken up in reality.
Getting distressed and frustrated over repeated unsuccessful attempts at dream control is what makes you loose lucidity and wake up. So, never get distressed and remember that the above techniques would bail you out from any situation. Moreover, increased meditation would lead to greater control of mind, and the right attitude, that is, a belief in yourself that you can do whatever you are attempting to do, would take you along way in dream control.
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The author Steve Higgins writes for the popular http://www.luciddreaminginfo.com site. You can enjoy the incredible experience of dream control and you can try it yourself when you get twenty nine Free dream lucid Audios when you visit here.
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