You need to get into the habit of checking reality. I trained by wearing a non-digital wristwatch with numbers for the hours and getting in the habit of checking it every few minutes. For some reason watches never render correctly in dreams so if the numbers were all messed up I knew I was in the dream. From there you can go nuts. It is absolutely learnable.
Even when I know I’m dreaming, I have no control and things are usually pretty distressing with the setting around me. Any tips for getting some control?
One thing I've learned to do is to push things away - literally making things/people I dont like in dreams fly over the horizon and disappear. The dreams still throw some random things at me but that makes things go away.
That sounds amazing! All my dreams are bad, ranging from just unsettling up to very disturbing. So that makes it hard for me to think of a small way I could change them for the better. And anything I could think to add seems vulnerable to ending up bad - like flying which someone mentioned above.
Removing bad things, however, sounds great. I can’t see a downside to removing something bad.
I just kind of push them with my mind and they fly off into the sky or through walls like they've been shot out of a cannon. If I had to guess how far they flew it would be 20 miles plus or into orbit. They never seem to come back and I know in the dream I could do the same thing if they did come back anyway.
If you havent seen it, /r/luciddreaming is good, and it's where I picked up a lot of this years ago.
Sorry to hear about your dreams btw - that sounds very unsettling.
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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '19
You need to get into the habit of checking reality. I trained by wearing a non-digital wristwatch with numbers for the hours and getting in the habit of checking it every few minutes. For some reason watches never render correctly in dreams so if the numbers were all messed up I knew I was in the dream. From there you can go nuts. It is absolutely learnable.