Can you control your dreams?

Question

Can you control your dreams ? I do not know if you can, its confusing. I struggle to control my dreams in my dreams but at the same time I am telling my mind that I struggle. So that is what happens . If you can control your dreams I do not know how because dreams seem extremely temperamental and unbalanced to me. They are like hyper active thoughts if you ask me. What if I was more confident or ....something....could I control my dreams ?

Or are dreams just manifestations from the mind ?

I do not even know if you think you are controlling your dreams if you are actually doing so. I know that sounds strange, but I am so confused here. IS controlling your dreams possible but done all outside of dreaming ? Do I need to change my life style and live differently to "create" my desired dreams or will my dreams always spawn from repression and hidden psychologies. ?

I think I said , asked enough, this is about sleeping dreams but aspirations .

Answer 1

i agree with mary p. i don't know if its that you're half asleep or what but i think of good things and end up dreaming what i want. i like it. you just need to go to sleep in deep thought about good and positive things.

Answer 2

Yes. You can control your dreams, i manipulate mine all the time. I have a dream, but heres the thing. No matter how rediculous the dream may be, theres a 50-50 chance i will realize its a dream. In the event i dont realize its a dream, i follow it out as if it was something i was doing in real life. If i realize its a dream, i manipulate it into whatever i want (im a teenager so....). Heres how i do it. In my dream, i will close my eyes, and imagine something. When i open my eyes, it will appear.

Answer 3

Since childhood, I have been able to control my dreams....I would have a dream, wake up and think of what I wanted to happen, go back to sleep and it would happen...

It just takes practice...you can also pray for an answer to a problem, thinking about it before you sleep. your brain will give you the answer you seek...BUT you need to know how to translate it....Just takes repetition and perservance..FUN!!!

Answer 4

I'm not sure if this is what you are looking for, but if you check my profile, (especially my "best answers" section) you'll see I'm a MAJOR pusher for Lucid Dreaming. This may or may not be the way you'll choose to control your dreams, but it's what seems to work for the most people:

WHAT IS A LUCID DREAM?

Lucid dreams are when you become aware that you are dreaming, and henceforth can control your own reactions, as well as the environment, and, effectively, the dream itself.

HOW TO BECOME LUCID:

There are three major ways to become lucid:

-Go to sleep and realize you are dreaming during your dream by training yourself to always be on the lookout for "dream signs" (more later)

-Go directly from awake to dreaming by continuously concentrating on lucid dreams until you fall asleep

-Wake up while in the middle of a dream (any multiple of 90 or 100 minutes after falling asleep,) then concentrate on where you left off and fall back asleep

REALITY CHECKS:

Most people who want to lucid dream like training themselves to do "reality checks" around thirty times a day. A reality check is when you look around for impossible or improbably things, pinch yourself, and try and do things that would be impossible if you weren't dreaming.

I personally find this a bit pointless, because there is always a vague hazy feeling during a dream, no matter how realistic it feels at first. If you focus on concentrating on your surroundings to see whether you are feeling that hazy feeling or not several times a day, you will get into the habit of doing that in your dreams.

CONTROLLING A DREAM WHEN LUCID:

To prepare for becoming lucid, you should have a couple easily-remembered goals of what to do- that way when you become lucid, you won't be completely overwhelmed. Flying is a popular one.

Start by controlling your own reactions- talk to the dream characters maybe.

Once you feel comfortable with that, try giving yourself an impossible or improbable ability. The key trick is to believe what you want to do is possible. If you jump off a building in a dream and expect yourself to fall, you won't fly. But if you imagine a pair of wings sprouting from your back and carrying you off, you might manage.

Then, once comfortable with that excersize, you can try influencing things or people around you in similar fashion. Imagine the house turning into a mansion, your sister turning into a cat, or your enemy bowing to you and declaring your superiority, believe it will happen, and, above all... practise!

Good luck!