Do You Believe It's Possible To Control Dreams

Yes it can be done. I do it. It is done in many cultures. It will be an ebook of mine when I get some time to cut loose and finish it. It's an advantageous skill for many reasons and seeing how I am writing it now - that's all I'm saying. I hate typing stuff twice.

BTW - we had a dream experiment forum going on in here for awhile. Not to control, but to see who could connect with each other in sleep. Jared Alberghetti (sorry for the spelling slaughter, Jared) was rather skilled. I don't have the time for such a thing now, but several of us had a lot of fun with it for a few weeks. You might be able to search that thread down still.

This is on of those things where it doesn't matter WHAT the "experts" say. Can it be done? YEP! The only way I have managed to do it, and apparently the way others say it can be done is to realize you are in the dream, and desire to conciously change it without really changing your consciousness, etc...

The differences tend to be how you achieve those goals. Some meditate, some use hypnosis, some try to leverage natural dreams, etc...

I use my alarm clock to start the dreaming process.

If I set my alarm clock to go off a couple hours before I'm ready to wake up in the morning, I dream like a madman all morning.

That's because it's during the REM part of your sleep cycle that you dream the most. REM sleep is when you're in between just barely falling asleep and deep sleep. You don't typically dream during deep sleep, just when you're between it and awakeness.

So by waking myself up briefly via my alarm clock, and going right back to sleep for a period of time, it keeps me in this REM part of the sleep cycle. It works every time.

However, I do always wake up pretty damn tired when I do it, but it does work.

I meditate and do yoga a lot. Still, I can't control my dreams. It's like a horror movie showing in my brain every night! Where's the Ambien...

I don't control dreams while dreaming. But changing behaviors and beliefs while not sleeping causes different dreams. The only trick is they must be changed in your subconscious mind. In other words, you must truly deeply believe in changes, not just think that change happened.

I view dreams as feedback.

Or as psychic guidance.

Dream Moods is a great website that helps with dreams.

I wish, because if I am having a really pleasant dream... I always wake up before the "good stuff" happens. On the flip side, I wake up too right before the worst part of a nightmare is about to happen.

Yup i think it's possible.

This can definitely be done and is well documented. They're currently doing research to see whether dream walking can be used therapeautically to cure mental disorders. (Actual science not new age hippy stuff).

For some really interesting thoughts on this check out Richard Linklater's film - Waking Life

Some other tips
Constantly ask yourself whether you are awake or dreaming during the day - this way you are more likely to do the same in the dream.
Try and focus your energies before bed on one single activity so that it is more likely to invade your subconscious.

Hi! I never thought i can control my dreams...i wish i could but don't bother it too much because the thing is..i always forget my dreams

I think is possible beacause when i am dreaming at night i can wake up specially when it worst dream..but there is something wrong about my dream after i wake u and sleep again it will remains..really hard to tell..

Yes, of course it is. This has been researched and studied for many decades, now.

yes, it is. but i dunno exactly how to do it, i tried but failed :confused:

I wish that I had the ability to control my dreams, sometimes I dream horror dreams that if I had control I wouldnt engage in at the first place.

If you eat Welsh rarebit 1/2 hour before sleep, it's better than purple haze.

Why would I want to control it?




Welsh rarebit all in my brain...

...lately things, just don't seem the same...

Wine can turn them off if that's enough control.

It's a wonderful experience to have control in your dreams.

I've done it a few times and I loved it.

Once I flew for what seemed like an hour all over the sky and I knew it was a dream but it felt so real.

It was great!

TL

I think you can do it but its limited.

I wish i could control nightmares though yuck

I don't wish to have any dream or to control it, just want to have a peaceful sleep

Sometimes. I don't think we fully understand the complexity/infinity of dreams because its too crazy for us to comprehend.

I really want to learn this technique too. Controlling your dream is like having a new adventures life. You can't kill 100s of people in real life, but in dreams you can.

Does anyone have any proven method or formula so we can learn how to control our dreams or know that we are in a dream so that we can do whatever the f*ck we want.

I tried it for a while years ago.
Perhaps the technique I was following was wrong, but I had to stop because I started having difficulty distinguishing my real memories from my dreams.

I have one simple question here. I heard from some comments on the YouTube that if you do this kind of stuff you won't be able to find the difference between real and dream life. Is it true?

In my long experience of engaging different dreams I have encountered, I usually used to control it by means of my skills my movements and so on, but the flow of my dreams I can't control it, but I used to managed the different situations. I think there is no article or stories that will prove to control your dreams, but you have to experience it in your own because your dream is your own personality.

That would mean you were in control of your consciousness at all times, which defeats the purpose of sleep

I managed to have lucid dreams and control them, like jumping from a cliff or flying in the air at will but now I just go to sleep and don't remember dream anymore.

Controlling dreams... haha.. lol.. if that was possible i would have been a god by now... all the methods listed or all the results given by google are fake...

No and never. It is not possible to control dreams. Nobody can control his dreams.

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I've done it with varying success myself. If you're interested in learning how to do it, the absolute BEST resource on the subject is the book Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming by Stephen LaBerg, Based on LaBerge's extensive laboratory work at Stanford University, it's not full of metaphysical crap like some others are. Good background research, and exercises to put to use to learn how.

One of the best descriptions of gaining control of your dreams and dream body I have read is given in Carlos Castenedas works. Regardless of whether people think he is a fraud or not, there is a lot of good stuff you can glean from his work.

For gaining control of your dreams it is suggested that before you go to sleep you command yourself to look at your hands in your dreams.

It could be any object, but as your hands are generally always there, what the heck.

If you manage to do it right, when you look at your hands you become aware that you are dreaming by association. The surprise can wake you up.

If you manage to look at your hands then you should look at the the dream environment briefly, then again at your hands. Repeating back and forth for longer periods until you can maintain the dream scene without it shifting.

Dreams are very fluid they have a tendency to shift and jump around, so the idea is to be able to maintain one scene location or whatever is before you without being pulled off at a tangent.

Once this is mastered then you can start to explore the scene, learning to move around etc.

Next you can learn to manipulate your environment, choosing your dream location real or otherwise.

From there you can get really exotic.

Pete

I have probably done it a dozen or two dozen times in my life. One of the most memorable times was waking up in my dream while I was asleep and dreaming and then deciding to jump/fly through a wall in the house where I was living. I did...

It was weird and neat.