How to Control Your Dreams

[whyisitso]

What I mean by Controlling dreams

I do not mean to control dreams in life. They are something that might change by time. With controlling dreams, I mean the dreams when you sleep. It is possible to be aware that you are dreaming and do stuff or change the genre of your dream. Sometimes people like to fly in their dreams. Have you ever controlled your own dreams?

My experience

I have been controlling my dreams ever since I was a kid. Not like I do it every night or so. But sometimes. When I was really young I saw a dream where I jumped and started to fly. It was so realistic that I was not sure if it had really happened so I tried it in reality. Of course it didn't work. But I kept trying it every now and then just to check if I had gotten my superpower back. And because it had gotten to a habit I started to do it even in my dreams. In my dreams it worked. And then I could decide what else I wanted to do in my dream.

As a teenager I started to realize I could control my dreams. I started to think about something/someone before I fell asleep. Mostly I saw a dream about that someone or something. And in the dream I usually knew it was a dream so I was not afraid to do things I would not do in the reality.

How to do it

Control what you are going to dream about

They say writing down your dreams will help you remember what you dream and get a connection to the part of your brain that has created these dreams. I have usually liked to talk about my dreams after I have seen some weird dream, so it does not necessarily require a notebook. Of course writing things down will help some more. Those who learn by writing.

Writing down what you wanna dream, or even thinking about it will help too. You can try to draw pictures too.

Getting control in your dreams

Make reality checks. You should start to do reality checks even when you are not dreaming. Ask yourself if you are awake or not. It will make you pay attention to things that differ reality from a dream. The check can be like the check I did when I was a child. To jump in the middle of the day just to test if you are awake or dreaming. When you have starting to do this in the daytime it becomes some kind of routine and that way you will most likely do it in your dream too.

When you do a reality check in your dream you will most likely realize it is a dream and then you have control over your dream. If you get too excited though it might be you wake up, so that is why you should not take too huge steps in the dream and just try smaller things at first. Maybe after that try flying. Then you can gradually build up bigger activities. (See: Step by step)

If you got interested in the subject and want to read more tips and tricks, you are probably interested in reading this: World of Lucid Dreaming - How To Control Your Dreams

[ThisDudeHere]

I've never really gotten down how to control my dreams but for me it's usually enough to simply remember what was in them.
Lol each of my family members is unique with their dreams. My mom doesn't really ever remember her's, my brother doesn't remember his at all but he has had sleep paralysis, what with the devil sitting on his chest and evil shapes in the room. I on the other hand simply have the most bizarre of dreams, some of which I remember forever but rarely so.
Over the years I've concluded that the trick to remembering is rather obvious and simple but not so simple at the same time. Upon waking up, I have to consciously remind myself right upon opening my eyes to remember my dream. If I so much as get up to go to the bathroom, I've already lost 90% of the dream. And then I lose the rest of it throughout the day.
That I suppose is the reason why the most bizarre ones are the ones I remember the best - it's because that speciffically those are the ones that I woke up with a "now what in the living fuck did I just see?" reaction, or the dream itself woke me up, which is even rarer.
I've only woken up from one nightmare in my life, whereas all the other times I woke up were, strangely, due to the storyline in the dreaming reaching a conclusion.

[ThisDudeHere]

Forgot to mention that my dad supposedly has visions.

[whyisitso]

Oh, I've heard from one person who doesn't remember his dreams that he is scared of sleeping because he feels like he dies every night. That every time he sleeps he loses pieces of his life. I thought that was a scary way to put it. I don't always remember my dreams either and I never really think of it like he thought about it.
Yeah, usually the dreams fade through the day if you don't immediately think about them. And I have heard quite much of this sleep paralysis. It fascinates me. I have once experienced one myself. I couldn't move and the only thing I could do was open my eyes. I didn't see anything but I felt super scared about the fact that I could just lay there and wait for something to happen.
I usually wake up from nightmares I remember. A few times I have even screamed when I have woken up. But that happens only when I have been really stressed.

[ThisDudeHere]

I kinda wanted to know what sleep paralisys is due to curiosity but at the same time, judging by what people tell me, it's not something I should look forward to 😅
Thankfully I have never screamed when waking up but that one time I did wake up, I sharply inhaled air as I literally could feel my heart beat as if I had just done a 100 meter dash.

[ThisDudeHere]

thanks :)

[IlyaTheImpaler]

Thanks this is very useful when I'm too lazy to study when I'm awake

[whyisitso]

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[IlyaTheImpaler]

very funny

[IlyaTheImpaler]

Thank you!

[ScaryCool]

I every once in a while can feel that I've manipulated a dream to help me out but it's only in scary ones or really personal ones. Like I remember not too long ago having some bad dream about being in house in the wood with tons of spiders and a big one was crawling on me but then I guess sort of realize it was a dream or just mustered up some courage there as I started fighting them off a lot. Like it had changed drastically. It was still scary though because me fighting made it even more realistic lol
Most times I don't control what I dream about but when I wake up I try to think about what I was thinking BEFORE I went to sleep to see if that had a factor on it.

[Prankster13]

Cool. I'll have to try that tonight. I always feel like I'm controlled by strings in my dreams. Like a puppet.

[whyisitso]

Yeah, that's how most people feel. But ofc it might not help right away. It might take some time. Try anyways. I want to know how it worked out!

[Prankster13]

Okay. I'll keep you posted.

[GuyWhatRunsThePlace]

I've been able to control my dreams for years. Flying is THE BEST and most exhilarating feeling, it's the main reason I learned how to control my dreams. However it's gotten out of control lately; I lucid dream more than I sleep and it makes me exhausted the next morning.

It's also become a drug, I'm so happy in my dreams that I don't want to wake up and face the depression of real life.

[NYCQuestions1976]

I almost never dream... but when I was a kid, the rare times I would have a nightmare, I would conjour up the Ghostbusters to get rid of the nonsense in my dream...

[whyisitso]

Haha! That's awesome

[LeaLee]

I am a Lucid dreamer, been controlling my dreams since I can remember

[whyisitso]

Cool! 😎

[LeaLee]

Great take btw!

[whyisitso]

Thanks😌

[Anonymous]

Wow, You're so Lucky!

I've tried so hard to lucid dream and came close once...

But I never could do it and then gave up...

[whyisitso]

One has to patient with it. 😄 yeah, I guess I am lucky for starting it at such a young age not even understanding what I did.

[Opinion Owner]

Any Tips?

[Revolver_]

Thank you, with this I will be able to control your dreams

[whyisitso]

Don't make me suffer tonight!

[Revolver_]

I promise I won't make you suffer

[guyuser2]

Wow. Nice post.

[whyisitso]

Thank you! :)

[LegateLanius]

Thank you.

[Smf1989]

nice post

[BOUNTYGUY9]

can't do that

[whyisitso]

Why not? Have you even tried?

[BOUNTYGUY9]

when we are asleep we can't control our dreams think about it

[whyisitso]

Yes we can. I have done it and many other people have done it

[BOUNTYGUY9]

ok cool

[Anonymous]

Interesting