I've read about lucid dreams, and several ways to achieve this state. However I wanted to know if any of you guys was able to fully control your dreams, every night.<p>Can you just go to sleep and then choose what you want to dream this night?
I spent some time practicing lucid dreaming. I wasn't overly successful, but I was able to become aware in a double-digit number of dreams.<p>Usually that resulted in me waking up very shortly after becoming aware.<p>A handful of times I was able to hang on to the dream for a while and do what I wanted, more-or-less.<p>I should spent more time with it, but I haven't done it in a few years now.
I experimented with lucid dreaming many years ago and found it to be quite intriguing. I highly recommend trying it.<p>It took a few months of practice to be able to do it on demand. For me that meant keeping a dream journal by my bed and diligently writing in it every time I woke up.<p>The trick I used to transfer control of the dream to my conscious mind was to "touch my nose"; I had to keep reminding myself while conscious to do so.<p>I eventually stopped doing it because oddly enough I started feeling not as rested as I would have liked after active dreaming.<p>It was not so much the case that I could choose what I would dream, though I suppose that might be possible. It was more like I would be in a dream setting determined by my subconscious mind and then I would take control and do whatever I wanted-- fly, use magic, take the story in a new direction, whatever. But it was always clear that I was dreaming.