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.
Which starts off as a mere awareness that one is dreaming, in advanced stages involves the power to change them as one desires. Thus, an expert lucid dreamer has absolute dream control where not only does he know that he is in the dream world but also changes and manipulates his dream settings in order to so, see, or feel whatever it is that he desires.
If you are a regular in the field of meditation then this rare phenomenon of lucid dreaming may be brought about, but only in its basics. Advanced lucid dreaming with full dream control can only be achieved with increased meditation, use of special techniques, a lot of focused effort and most of all practice and experience.
The problem faced in case of dream control is that of continuing the lucidity in the first place. One might be successful at minute changes at first, like that of changing the setting or scenes of your dream and the like, but when you want to gain more control and really manipulate your dream, it requires a considerable amount of force. Now, the problem lies in the fact that the more force you apply or the more frustrated and distressed you get over not being able to control you dreams as much as you would like to, you snap out of your dream and wake up.
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 technique for dream control is verbal commands. Whenever you find yourself loosing control, simply state whatever it is that you need, loudly. Many a times, you’ll find that the required change in your dream has taken place.
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.
Another suggestion in case of dream control would be to do a reality check whenever you wake up since it may so happen that you have woken up within your dream and not in reality. These false awakenings are one of the hindrance factors that sometimes creep up in dream control.
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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