A trick that has worked for me: pull on a finger. In a dream (probably because I’ve conditioned myself) it will stretch like taffy which was enough to indicate that I’m dreaming.
Interestingly, after a while seeing my finger stretch wasn’t enough to convince me that I was dreaming: I would question whether it was stretching enough. Like “oh, it’s only double it’s normal length, so this is probably reality.” This has also happened with other tricks I’ve tried, like try to fly (“I’m only hovering; probably not a dream”). It’s almost like you build a tolerance for particular abnormalities.
I don’t sleep well enough to get lucid dreams anymore, but when I was younger I did. I never really had full control of the dreams though, mostly myself in the dream. You could fly around and whatnot. On the rare occasion that there were other people present in the dream when I became lucid I could end up having some interesting conversations with what is essentially parts of myself.
If you do this - e.g. pulling your finger - regularly during the day you will remember to do it in your dreams. If you wanna try lucid dreaming be aware of sleep paralysis.
Usually it’s recognition of the dream that let’s me manipulate the dream more actively.
Keep a dream journal, do reality checks often in waking life and you can maybe start realizing mid dream that you’re dreaming. Usually it’s at that point I’m able to take more control of the dream.
I say more because it’s rare that I have full control of a dream. Like I might make myself fly in a dream, but might lose grasp of the setting that I’m actually flying in.
A trick that has worked for me: pull on a finger. In a dream (probably because I’ve conditioned myself) it will stretch like taffy which was enough to indicate that I’m dreaming.
Interestingly, after a while seeing my finger stretch wasn’t enough to convince me that I was dreaming: I would question whether it was stretching enough. Like “oh, it’s only double it’s normal length, so this is probably reality.” This has also happened with other tricks I’ve tried, like try to fly (“I’m only hovering; probably not a dream”). It’s almost like you build a tolerance for particular abnormalities.
Sorry, that was longer than I meant for it to be
How are y’all controlling your dreams?
I don’t sleep well enough to get lucid dreams anymore, but when I was younger I did. I never really had full control of the dreams though, mostly myself in the dream. You could fly around and whatnot. On the rare occasion that there were other people present in the dream when I became lucid I could end up having some interesting conversations with what is essentially parts of myself.
If you do this - e.g. pulling your finger - regularly during the day you will remember to do it in your dreams. If you wanna try lucid dreaming be aware of sleep paralysis.
Usually it’s recognition of the dream that let’s me manipulate the dream more actively.
Keep a dream journal, do reality checks often in waking life and you can maybe start realizing mid dream that you’re dreaming. Usually it’s at that point I’m able to take more control of the dream.
I say more because it’s rare that I have full control of a dream. Like I might make myself fly in a dream, but might lose grasp of the setting that I’m actually flying in.