Lucid Dreaming

What To Do In A Lucid Dream

What did you learn lucid dreaming for?  I personally learned it after accidentally using WILD to enter one (I didn't feel like moving and went into sleep paralysis without knowing it) and having a lot of fun there.  If you're serious about lucid dreaming, it's likely that you have some kind of goal.  But after you achieve that goal, you don't have to stop!  There's still plenty to do.

Dream commands: I talked about dream commands briefly in my previous entry.  Dream commands are when you shout something out loud at the dream itself.  If you truly believe in your dream to obey your command, it will.  Lucid dreamers often do this to gain lucidity or to help them achieve feats they're struggling with.  You can also use these in the form of a question, thus learning something new about yourself.  However, be careful what you tell the dream.  For example, don't tell the dream to scare you or trap you, because it will respond accordingly.  Even though your dream can't trap you, if you tell it to, it'll make it feel that way.  It's your subconscious- take caution with it.

Mirrors: Be careful with this one!  I'd recommend dedicating a specific dream to this, so you'll be mentally prepared.  If you look into a mirror while you're dreaming, it's not unlikely that the figure staring back won't look like how you appear in reality.  You might end up seeing a mangled image, dependent upon your self-esteem (I refuse to do this, since I lack self-esteem).  You want to really be careful around mirrors, as it could show you some terrifying images.

Practicing Skills: You can always use lucid dreams to practice life skills, assuming you've done them once in reality.  One of my main sources actually used his lucid dreams to practice driving, therefore passing his driver's test much quicker than if he hadn't practiced it in his dreams.  It sounds silly, but it can work.

Summoning/Manifestation: I'm grouping these two together because they essentially are the same thing.  Basically, if you're fully lucid, you can create things out of thin air by simply believing you can.  That's manifestation.  However, you can use the same exact technique to summon people or objects from your waking life and put them into your dream.  A suggestion if you're struggling with summoning is to locate (or manifest) a door first, close it, imagine that the thing or person is behind the door, then open it again.  Sometimes, seeing is not believing.

Flying: Don't lie.  If you're a lucid dreamer, you either have attempted this or plan to attempt this.  Similarly to manifestation, believe you can fly, and you can.  There are a couple different descriptions of the flight itself, though.  The first is that you're hovering or gliding through the air (think of it like levitation), probably the flight you're expecting if you haven't tried it yet (this is the type of flight I was doing in my first lucid dream).  However, I've also heard that it can sometimes be like walking on an invisible staircase.  Maybe it's just about your technique.  Personally, I can't tell you how to take off, since I've only flown in one lucid dream, and I entered that dream in the air already.  However, I will tell you that there will most likely no difficulty with it once you're airborne.

Teleportation: This is one of my goals.  I want to learn flight, teleportation, and dream commands.  In order to teleport, you have to either spin around or imagine yourself spinning (I've heard both, although I've attempted the second one and never got it to work), then picture a location.  The reason this works is that, when you're spinning, your vision will fade for a moment.  That's when you'll teleport.  Don't do this until your dream is relatively stable, though; making yourself dizzy will only wake you up, and teleportation won't work anyways until your dream is stabilized.

Talk to dream characters: You can always speak to the dream characters if you want to.  One interesting idea is to make a dream character become lucid with you.  They may start acting independently of you, and some dream characters can even start using the same powers of a lucid dreamer, which can result in some interesting interactions (a story I once heard was that someone met a dream character wielding the powers of a lucid dreamer, and that character told the lucid dreamer that they didn't know the power they were messing with.  It seemed creepy, but cool).