Does anyone else find that it can be quite hard to control your actions in LDs?
The other night, I had my sixth spontaneous LD.
The dream:
I am sitting at my dining room table with Nick, at a bright hour of morning (most likely around 11:00 AM). He is wearing brown shorts and a black band shirt. We are discussing/laughing about something. I suddenly feel as though I am dreaming, and I tell Nick this. He starts laughing, but he believes me. And I become fully aware that I am dreaming. Nick is gone, and I am still in my dining room. I stand silently. The room “feels” empty, and it is. I notice that my mother’s bedroom door is shut. I think to myself, “Since I am dreaming, I can do whatever I want.” I demand that I am shown my spirit guide (this is something I am very eager to experience), yet nothing happens. I scream aloud that I wish to see him/her, but my attempt fails. I then try a bit of magick, but nothing happens. While I am trying to do all of this, I am screaming very much. I knock on my mother’s door. She is apparently inside her room. I begin to worry that I am not dreaming and that I had just caused all of this noise while my mother was sleeping… The dream fades.
The strange thing about this is that I didn’t exactly want to be screaming/acting like an idiot, yet I was aware that I was dreaming and that I was in control. Is this common?
I’ve been having trouble summoning a spirit guide too. I wonder if anyone can shed some insight on why they don’t appear when asked. Are we not at a certain spiritual level yet or what?
Hmm, or perhaps you shouldn’t demand that you want to see your spirit guide, and ask nicely. As for having trouble controlling actions in lucid dreams in general, I once had difficulty shouting out commands in the first place - it’s an odd feeling, being unable to talk when you want to.
I often have difficulty controlling my imagination in dreams, if its a LD then I have to devote half of my concentration to remembering its a dream and the other half trying to achieve something and keep my mind in control. Usually what happens though is my mind runs wild and I start seeing everything that enters my mind (for better or worse). Its a tricky task though, no doubt about it.
I think this is a very common problem, I’m sure almost everyone has experienced a lack of control in their dreams. I know I have, more than once, and I’m still struggling with it. Only thing I can say is, it does become easier with time and experience. You find your own little tricks to make things work.
I spent a lot of time screaming and shouting at lights that would never go on, until in one LD I just calmly focused and concentrated hard on the lights, and told them as calmly and as “reasonably” as I could “lights - on” and voila, they went on! No need to yell.
ok, i used to ALWAYS have this problem in dreams, i used to do stuff and then be really worried that it is not a dream and freak out and lose my lucidity, i got over it by, everytime i had the slightest doubt in my mind i did a quick RC just to remind myself its my dream and i can do whatever I want.
ok when u want something to happed i.e. such as summoning a spirit guide or turning the lights on, don’t want it to happen, don’t yell at it to happen, dont even will it to happen. KNOW it will happen, when u say “lights on” u automatically know the lights are going to be on with not thinking about it.