How do you control what you do in your dreams?

Question

I've done it once or twice before, but when usually when I'm falling asleep and I try to remind myself that I want to control my dream, I end up having a dream that I cant fall asleep because I'm concentrating too much and then I wake up.

Answer 1

If you are controling anything in your brain, you are not asleep, you are still conscious and thinking. Dreaming only comes from the subconscious mind and as long as the conscious mind is awake, you are in control of the brain activity and it is called thinking. Dreaming only happens in levels 2 through 4 of sleep and that is because the subconscious mind never shuts down but you are not in deep sleep. Deep sleep is level 5 sleep and is the closest thing to death you can get to without dying. You do not dream then. When you are in levels 2 through 4, it is beacuse something has interruped your level 5 sleep and has sort of woken up you but not completely. This causes whatever sounds you are hearing to be dramatized in your subconscious mind and it pulls stuff out at random and makes a movie for your brain to watch. Thus, you dream. You cannot control dreams because the subconscious has no ability to do so. It is merely a storage vault of your thoughts. That is why dreams are so wierd. It is because what has been stored in there is picked out at random depending on what the subconscious is hearing in levels 2 through 4. The key to your statement is 'concentrating too much' because if you have the ability to concentrate then you cannot possible be asleep. You may be daydreaming so that your mind has wandered off on a thought but you are still awake.

Answer 2

This is called lucid dreaming. Look it up here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucid_dreams

I do it quite often. Usually it is in the morning after I have woken up then I drift off into a shallower state of dreaming. I am aware that what is happening is a dream and I can control what happens next. It is very easy to wake up once this is happening though, so it usually doesn't last very long. Iit is certainly cool though. Check out that wikipedia article. It gives some tips on how to achieve a lucid dream. Although I do not think that everyone can do it.

Answer 3

Very very few people have the mind for it. But you have to fall into a shallower state of sleep while you dream you can do it. last night i dreamt i was in a room of spirits and the bad spirit tried to get me to quit breathing but becuase i was able to control my dream somewhat and i fought the bad guy off. Ive only been able to control my dreams somewhat about 3-4 times in my life. Like i said you have to have a special type of mind to do so.

Answer 4

I used to have nightmares. I don't know that I learned to control my dreams, but I could talk to myself in my dreams. Like I would remind myself that it was a dream, that I would wake up soon, and whatever was happening wasn't real. I don't know how I did it. I'm sorry.

Answer 5

I don't kow about that if you want you can Try posting your dream on Dreamcrowd for a free interpretation.

Answer 6

You can't control your dreams, it is not to your ability to control.