A Door To A Better Dream (How To Create Any Landscape You Want)

This technique is great for turning a negative dream into a positive one. Therefore it can loosely be considered as a method to escape from dreams, since it can so drastically transform the current one. It involves what some may call "The Door Method" I originally posted this in my first blog almost a year ago on 10-28-08.

A technique that I've found which works well is demonstrated in the following post.

Recently I had a dream in which I was outside on some type of patio with a handful of people. The patio was outside of a house which was overlooking a river and the scenery was fantastic. After a while of talking with some of the people, I looked up and saw that it was getting really overcast. Then it started to rain.

We went inside the house, and here's the kind of crazy part. I had just become lucid. For some reason my boss at the time, Kevin, was there. I thought "I might as well tell him it's a dream and see how he acts".

I started to tell him how I knew it wasn't real, and that's when he started to act like "Oh, now come on, this isn't a dream", but he was trying to be nice about it. (After all, lucid dream characters will always try to convince you that you're awake. I think this is really just your subconscious making sure you don't wake up from becoming too aware).

That's when I said "Oh ok, I'll prove it. You know how it's raining out there right now? When I open this door, it's going to look nice outside with a clear sky. All I have to do is think of it, and then I'll open the door".

I concentrated on the sheer thought of the beauty of a clear sky with a few nice, high clouds. Then I opened the door and lo and behold, there was a great looking sunset, and some wispy clouds in a clear sky! I remember seeing my boss sort of stick his head out of the door and look up at the sky astonished. Here's the best part... he said "My goodness! You were right, this is a dream. Well isn't that amazing"!

Now what I'm getting to is, this is a perfect example of one of the most powerful techniques in my experience for gaining more control over the dream environment. It's the idea that if you want to change the landscape in your dream, you need to have it hidden from view first. Next, you just imagine what you want the scenery or situation to be and pull the curtain, open the door, or round the corner, and there it is.

This of course will also work with dream characters as well. If you imagine that a certain person will come around the corner or into the room, your mind will make an effort to make it happen. It will create what you expect. Just remember that!

Now the next time you're lucid you can use this technique to escape the current set of circumstances and hopefully create a more pleasant dream.

Dream Spinning To Change The Dream

Here's an interesting way to end a dream. It shouldn't be used with the intent of waking yourself up; instead it can transport you into a different dream scene.

So what is this method? Well, it's called dream spinning. What you do is just simply spin around, and do so as fast as you can. Yes, it's simple. Just remember though that this can be like hitting random on a CD player. You will change the dream environment by doing this, but you could end up anywhere, in any type of dream. Therefore, you may not want to do this unless you are either adventurous, or really want to escape from the current dream.

You also may or may not remember the previous dream after performing the spinning (though I usually seem to). That said, this is a somewhat usable method of changing the current situation. Just remember, it doesn't always work on the first try. I would suggest doing this several times in a row if you don't change the environment on the first spin.

So the next time you become aware of your dream, remember you have this at your disposal. Hopefully it will help you as it's helped me.

How I Ended My Nightmare Last Night

Let me just start off by saying that I ate the wrong dinner last night, and I also ate too much. I thought I would be ok for sleep, because I went to bed way after eating, but I still had nightmares anyway.

They were the really vivid, strange type of dreams that had a lot of different plots from one moment to the next, always changing. I remember I was at my parents house and it was raining. I had made the remark that I didn't think there was going to be any really bad weather or anything.

Just then, I looked up at the sky and saw a huge thunderhead, and almost instantaneously, a tornado started to spin out from it. It moved really quickly and destroyed a neighbors house, a house which doesn't even exist in real life. Later, I saw the damage and almost the entire house was gone.

Then, the dream abruptly changed, and the sun was out. All of a sudden I heard a noise like a really loud, low growl. I looked over to my left and saw a big, black bear coming straight for me. Somehow even though I thought it was real at the time, I knew I could fly so I started to float upwards to try to escape. But the bear either bit me or grabbed me, I can't remember which. It was a really miserable experience!

Then later on, all I can remember is that I was in a room that looked a lot like my home, except there were these strange people I didn't know walking into the room. But the weird part was, I felt like one of them was supposed to be my brother, and I was freaking out because he looked totally different (yes, I know my dreams are odd).

So it was at this point where, out of a feeling of sheer necessity, I shook my head back and forth quickly, as if saying "No!". I guess it was just a natural reaction; perhaps deep in my subconscious mind I really knew it was a dream and had decided this was all I could handle.

After shaking my head, I woke up instantaneously. So give this method a try if you're ever in a dream you need to escape from.

Reasons For Escaping A Dream, And Overview Of Methods

Welcome to the first blog post on How To End A Dream. The object of this blog is to help readers who have had the experience of realizing they're in a dream, but didn't know how to end it when it became a nightmare.

I have had this experience many times, especially in my childhood. I'd be stuck in a dangerous situation that felt real, and even if I had discovered I was in a dream (which is referred to as lucid dreaming) there was still no way out and I felt trapped.

What many people don't seem to realize is that discomfort experienced in the dreamworld can feel every bit as unpleasant as it would in real life, though the effects do not last in the same way of course. I've experienced dreams that had such a level of realism that I had to keep convincing myself it wasn't really happening. Also, many times you can end up in a dream that you just really want to end.

You know, like those dreams where you're stuck at the office, and the clock never makes sense. Or my all-time favorite never ending dream: the one where I'm back at school and don't know which class to go to! Ughhhh!

But how is it possible to end dreams at will?

There are several methods for ending a dream that I and others have discovered over the years. Some of these methods will work better for you than others. As a child, my favorite method was to simply run as fast as I could, and then jump as hard I was able to. The sensation that this caused was many times exhilerating enough to break the dream apart. However, it wasn't without it's flaws. It's funny to me when I think about all the time I spent full well knowing I was in a dream, and spending a fair amount of time running and jumping.

Basically the object is to do something that you know your brain won't be able to process. This will cause too much brainwave activity, and force you to wake up.

As I got older, I came across other methods for escaping dreams. One method I learned about is called spinning, which I will detail in another post. Another method involves flying. There's something I just found out about, which I like to call "The Mirror Method". There's even one method where you simply open a door!

In the future I plan to post in much more detail on all the ways to escape from dreams and nightmares. Keep checking back, or subscribe!



The author of this blog has been a lucid dreamer for 20 years. Learning lucid dreaming can increase your chances of gaining control over your dreams! Head to the Lucid Dream Realities blog to discover more.