Would you like to learn
HOW TO CONTROL YOUR DREAMS
, but you don't know where to start?
Well, in today's video I'm going to share with you the basics of dream control.
So let's get started.
Hi Dreamers.
Does this sound like you?
You find yourself in the middle of a lucid dream.
You have a dream goal, but whatever you do, however you try to control the
dream, it just doesn't seem to work.
What should you do when you want to control the dream, but nothing is working?
Well, in today's video I'm going to explain to you the very basics of
dream control, the principles that underlie all dream control techniques.
So before we go any further, let me clear up a common misconception.
LUCID DREAMING DOES NOT EQUAL DREAM CONTROL
just because you're aware that you're dreaming and you have a clear and critical
mind, doesn't mean that you'll be able to dream and do whatever you want.
Dream control is a separate skill that runs alongside lucid dreaming.
So in order to master dream control, you first need to understand the foundations
upon which dream control operates.
And it's nothing to do with techniques AND ALL TO DO WITH MINDSET
so let's take a look at the three basic principles of dream control.
NUMBER 1 EXPECTATION expectation or belief is the core foundation of dream control.
It is what everything else rests upon.
Now, this is a tricky one and it's going to take a long time to
master because you've spent your life here in the waking world.
Gathering expectations and building beliefs about how the world works.
Simple rules, like the rules of physics have all been programmed here
in your mind, giving you limiting expectations on what is possible.
So when you enter the dream world, you take with you the
baggage from the waking world, the expectations of the waking world.
So things like being able to fly are not as easy in dreams because
they're impossible in waking life.
So in order to get around this, you need to come up with clever
psychological tricks to convince yourself that what you're going
to do in the dream is possible.
The entire process of dreaming basically runs on EXPECTATION AND
BELIEFS let me give you an example.
Imagine you're having a non lucid dream where you are walking down a dark
alleyway and you think to yourself, Oh, I think there's someone following me.
And so you look around and sure enough, someone is following you.
You expected that to be there and that occurred.
Then you think yourself, I wonder if they're out to get me.
I think they're going to chase me.
And just as you say that, just as you think that they start to chase
you, you have created a nightmare because of your expectations.
And this happens across the dream world.
in many subtle ways.
Essentially, dream control is all to do with how you think and what you
believe about the world you are in.
So, how on earth do you take your expectations and beliefs from the
limited waking world and apply them in a more suitable way to the unlimited
possibilities of a lucid dream?
Well, that takes us on to the next principle.
NUMBER 2 REFRAMING now, reframing is a very simple concept, but easy to
misunderstand, and the most basic version of reframing is thinking to yourself
at the beginning of a lucid dream.
This is just a dream.
So anything is possible.
Now, many people find that that is enough, that that works for them.
And if that's you, your very lucky dream control will come easily to you.
But for most people, their expectational baggage holds them back.
So they need to look at the dream world in a different way.
Reframing is a very personal thing, and it depends greatly on your
experiences and beliefs about the world.
But what you're essentially doing is taking your expectations and reframing
them to give you more possibilities.
The best way to explain this is, through example, so here is my personal
approach to reframing the dream world.
So back in the day, I used to be a huge fan of Star Trek, the Next Generation.
And in that show there was something called The Holo Deck, which was
essentially a virtual reality system.
And in that virtual reality system, all you had to do was give a voice command
and the computer would change the scenery or make things appear as if by magic.
Now, if I can convince myself in the dream world that I'm on the Holodeck, then I
can use voice control to change anything.
So here's a more down to earth and simple example from one of my students.
She was in the middle of a lucid dream and found herself in a bustling
crowd, impossible to get through the hundreds of people, and she
thought to herself, how can I reframe this so that the crowd can vanish?
She did so in a very clever way.
She imagined that she was on a film set and made herself really believe that.
And then she shouted, Cut, that's a wrap!
And suddenly the crowd were actors who all went their merry
way to have a lunch break.
It was a simple change in mindset and belief that allowed
the dream control to occur.
Reframing can be boiled down to a simple concept, changing your
belief about your current situation reframing what is going on.
You can find out more about reframing in my book.
Are you dreaming?
The nice thing about reframing is that every successful dream control attempt
that you make reframes your expectation about what's possible in the dream world.
So as a lucid dreamer, just by having many lucid dreams and trying lots of
different dream control techniques, you will slowly convince yourself that
anything is possible in the dream world.
NUMBER 3 DISRUPTION now, often in a lucid dream, you'll be trying to control
the dream and nothing will happen.
Your expectations will just be a big barrier to change, and even
if you reframe, sometimes your expectations will still limit you.
What's going on here?
. Well, often when you make a dream control attempt and it fails, what you're
actually doing is convincing yourself that your expectations were correct.
So you're basically bolstering the negative expectation, and if you keep
trying and keep failing, what you're actually doing is convincing yourself
more and more that it's impossible.
So in these instances, You need to disrupt what you're doing.
The most basic way to do this is to stop what you're doing and go
off and try a different dream goal and then return to this later.
That's the most basic disruption principle.
So disruption is exactly as it sounds.
You are stopping what you are doing and giving your brain a little room
to breathe, allowing yourself to truly convince yourself that you are
in a dream that anything is possible.
So this is a very important piece of advice if you've tried to
control the dream and it's failed more than, let's say, three times.
Stop doing what you're doing because otherwise you're
doing yourself a disservice.
You're convincing yourself that it's impossible.
Go do something else, disrupt the process.
But you can also use other disruptive techniques.
So these are often perceptual disruptions, such as spinning around closing
your eyes and opening them again, or imagining what you want behind you.
Anything that disrupts your current train of thought.
Another sneaky disruptive practice is to try to do the opposite of what
you're trying to do because many of us have self-limiting beliefs or
low self-esteem, and our dreams will use that negative energy to give us
the opposite of what we're trying.
So if you do the opposite of what you're trying to do, sometimes you
can use your negative self-perception to actually achieve your goal.
So those are the three basic principles of dream control, the underlying mechanics
behind them, and if you want an easy way to remember them, think R.E.D.
Reframing Expectation and Disruption.
every dream control technique is a variation on these principles.
But what it really boils down to is a very personal dive into the
psychology of belief and expectations.
Your personal psychology is absolutely unique.
So it's your job to learn to understand how you think, what
you believe, and what to expect.
And remember, some of this goes very deep, almost to an unconscious level.
So you are going to have to spend a lot of time thinking about how you think.
Learning how to control your dreams is really learning about yourself,
learning how you think, learning about what you believe, and learning
about your inclinations and instincts.
These things take a long time to fully understand possibly an entire lifetime,
because we're always changing, so don't expect perfect dream control overnight
because that's highly improbable.
The human brain is far more complex than we give it credit for.
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That's if for today, I'm Daniel Love the Lucid Guide.
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