how do you control dreams?

Question

i want to know how to dream about the stuff i want to dream about.

Answer 1

Easy.
It's called lucid dreaming.
To be able to control your dreams, you first have to realize that you are dreaming.
A technique that lets people do that is really quite simple. The technique involves conditioning yourself to check if you are dreaming or not and involves asking yourself many times a day (not sure how often ... maybe on the half hour) if you are dreaming. When this becomes a habit (maybe after a week or two), you will do it in your dreams. The answer you give yourself in your dreams is that YES you are dreaming.... you will then be able to control your dream.

Answer 2

Good Times, Happy Times is right.
Lucid dreaming is about modern man's obsession with controlling everything. While you may experience dreams in which conscious thought become influential, any serious, long-term working with dreams will eventually teach you that the dream world is not at your beck and call. In fact, if anything, you're the one who should be learning where the dreams want to lead you, not the other way around.
Freud put it best when he said the human mind was like an iceberg; nine tenths are underwater. Trying to control the unconscious through the conscious is an impossibility. The conscious is the smaller part of the mind.

Answer 3

First of all, watch the film 'Waking Life' (written and directed by Richard Linklater) - it may have some answers for you. I am not sure if we can control the content of our dreams, but we can become lucid and know if we are dreaming or not. A character in this film tells the protagonist to switch the light on and off to see if he is dreaming - apparently light control is not possible in dreams. I had a dream shortly after watching this film and tried the light switch test and it worked! The light remained on, I could not adjust it, confirming that I was dreaming.

Answer 4

There are some people that remain in a prolonged lucid state and for some reason seem not only to be aware of what they are dreaming but to also control what they are dreaming.

I wish I had that ability. Every time I realize that I am dreaming I wake up...but some people can realize they are dreaming and actually run their dreams as if it were a play they were putting on. I knew a friend who could do that and she'd tell me of all the things she would do in her dreams like fly or make whoopie etc...there's one girl who enjoyed her sleep.

Answer 5

Check out Robert Moss' website. He has a book called Conscious Dreaming. And yes, it's possible to control, shift, change, or go back into a dream that left you with one of those "shaken" feelings, and change it. My father taught me how to do it when I was 12 and was having nightmares--and I haven't had too many difficult dreams since. It's a practice, like any other personal development practice. A little discipline is required. When you document your dreams over, say a month, and go back for a review...the emerging patterns are phenomenal. Sweet dreams!

Answer 6

I am Rational Spirituality,

You can daydream about whatever you want, because it is your choice, your decision and your mind.

When it comes to dreams that appear just before you are waking up, these are likely to be communications by spiritual entities guiding you, or helping you. If this is the source of your dream, it is likely to contain colour and may be quite vivid. The language will almost always be symbolical, but the message can be of a profound meaning and importance to you and your path at a particular point.

These dreams are chosen by beings of a superior intelligence compared to an incarnated human, but are conveyed with his or her highest interest in mind. I would advise you not to belittle, or ignore them.

Have fun with the dreams that you have.

Answer 7

Controlling dreams, this is called Lucid Dreaming. "Dreaming while knowing you are dreaming" Look up Stephen LaBerge, a popular author on the subject. Sweet dreams, bludevil2...

Answer 8

Dreams rely on things that you perceive when you are awake, and what your personality is like.

For example, assume an introvert and an extrovert have nothing to do for one day.

The introvert will probably think about thinking and will have less to dream about than the extrovert, who will probably dream about doing interesting and fun things.

That's it in a nutshell. Theres no true introvert and no true extrovert; there's more attributes to a personality than that.

So it all depends on your personality, and what you see/think/hear. It doesn't necessarily have to be on your mind when you go to sleep; theres this layer of mind called the subconscious, and it controls a lot of your actions.

Answer 9

I think lucid dreaming is a bunch of BS.
Unconsciousness is unconsciousness. Just because you wake up later and remember the dream doesn't mean you were conscious during the dream. Consciousness and memory work differently and in this case, independently of each other.

Answer 10

Spirita explains your dreams
Visit http://spirita.blogspot.com/ and post your question as a comment. You'll get your FREE dream interpretation (as a comment, too) shortly. Just remember where you posted your question, your dream interpretation will be under the same section.