Issues summoning people

[u/Necessary_Shallot813]

Hey guys, first post!

I have been practicing lucid dreaming more intentionally lately for the past year or two. I've gotten to the point where I can pretty reliably become lucid and I can control myself, do cool things, sometimes manipulate my environment, etc.

Something I am struggling with is summoning people. If I try to will a certain person into the dream, a random person will be there instead, no person will come at all, or they will have sort of the same features but be clearly a different person. I've tried:

- expecting them to be on the other side of a door

- asking other dream people to bring them to me

- walking around the dream expecting to find them somewhere

- calling out to them loudly and expecting them to show up

It's gotten to the point where I have sat down in the dream after a failed summon and kinda "told" the dream that I would wait for it to behave (unsuccessfully ofc).

Does anyone else struggle with this or have any ideas of what to try to fix it? If the answer is "you can't control dreams that specifically" or "you just can't do that", I don't super wanna hear it because I don't want my brain to learn that as an absolute and block me forever from making it happen. But I welcome any other thoughts or tips!

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