zzz - dream

Last night I dreamed that I was in a mansion that was similar to my house, became lucid and tried to find something to do. It was a silent and dim-lighted room, and there was a girl's backpack in a couch. Called out loud to see if someone was in the house, tried to cast the girl, tried with that technique where you imagine someone's voice behind you so when you turn around your brain autocompletes the person in that place but it didn't work. I couldn't do anything so I spilled my soykaf started kicking the backpack around the room.
A similar thing happened the night before, it was pretty frustrating.

>stay lucid
It's a matter of concentration. Remember that your mind is the CPU processing what you feel and your subconscious is like the GPU.
>add/remove/change things and people
>appear in any location you want
I'm not good at these.
>wake up only when you want to
I try to avoid closing my eyes or going to dark areas in dreams, doing that makes me open my eyes in waking life and wake up.

Dream skills work very similar to the effects in Yume Nikki - you can trigger them by invoking them, basically having the effect in your mind and thinking "GO!" Imagine the idea of an A button in your mind, and imagine hitting that button, lol.

I have a few rituals that I do when I'm exploring - If I run into something scary, I pull a blanket out of hammerspace and hide behind it- it makes me invisible! Banishing rituals help, too.
>>1805
If you want to travel somewhere, then take the symbolic representation of the location you want to go/person you want to see, and hold that image in front of you in your mind. Pound that A button and keep focused on the image and you'll find yourself there, your surroundings will fill themselves in.

>>1804
>stay lucid
Staying lucid is mostly presence of mind. If you lose focus of where you are and what you're doing it's easy for your mind to just fall back into the dream.

>add/remove/change things and people
Mostly there's just a knack to it. You'll pick it up. It's like learning to control your throat muscles or something. The subconscious stuff to handle it is already there and working you just need to tap into it. Just practice and be patient. It can feel like you're getting nowhere but eventually it will click.

>appear in any location you want
Teleportation in dreams is actually incredibly common and most of the travel required for dreams to make sense is just glossed over, however it can cause some problems due to the fact that we're not at all used to the idea of teleporting. You can get round this by just using incredibly fast and convenient transport but I think as you spend more time lucid stuff like teleporting just starts to seem more plausible to you.

There's a lot of little tricks like this that can help in one way or another and I do recommend using them, but it's important to remember that they're just magic feathers. Your subconscious doesn't really need imaginary super cars or whatever in order to understand what you want. With that in mind coming up with your own techniques is a good idea. Your subconscious will have an easier time working with them because in a way it had a hand in making them.

>wake up only when you want to
A lot of people wake up right after becoming lucid. It's something that fades as becoming lucid becomes more commonplace for you. The root problem is becoming disconnected with the dream. The person notices they're lucid and starts thinking about that instead of the dream itself. If you notice you're waking up you need to ground yourself back in the dream. Say something to the people around you or do something or otherwise focus back on it.

>>1805
>it was pretty frustrating.
If you find yourself getting frustrated you must always stop and calm yourself (easier said than done in dreams, it's easy to wander off). Your success or failure is decided entirely by your subconscious and when you're frustrated at not being able to do something it will start to expect you to fail. Just relax and let your frustrations go.

I haven't practiced these, but one skill I have learned is
>complete simulation of a surreal environment or situation
I found it's an interesting way to explore thought patterns

>stay lucid
I'm okay at this, mostly because my lucidity is so casual. I've been aware of my dreaming since I was a kid, so it's nothing special to me. Thus I'm not sure if I'm 'staying lucid' in any given dream

>add/remove/change things and people
I've done this - managed to manifest a gun in my hand when some guy was approaching me trying to hurt me
But trying to fire the gun was too cognitive and I Woke up...

>appear in any location you want
Nope, but this is something I really wanna do

>wake up only when you want to
This I've had for many years. If I close my eyes in my dream, I eventually snap back into reality