Is there a way to control dreams?

Originally Posted by StarCrossedSoul

Things that had an impact on you throughout the day could be a key to dreaming about them, however since there is no control, the dream obviously turns out foolish.

I've had few lucid dreams, and in most of them all I ever did was try to get myself awake, which I couldnt, and was quite maddening. (Ironic too, since I should stay and control my dreams) However, whatever monster, lurking in my dream, chased me down because of my awareness, to give an example.

But then, people tell me it could be an astral projection, that is, when I dream in a "real setting"... and not that I want to get off the topic, I'm just giving a thought...

I know quite a bit about Astral Projecting. However, most of the time you have to focus or concentrate in order to do it. If you don't, then the concentration breaks and the cord pulls you back to Earth. I'm not from the Navajo or Hopi tribe, but that's how my research told me it works.

I have a hard time controlling my dreams as well. I know I was once able to control this one nightmare I was having, but it was like a chess game. My conscious would move a piece, but then my subconscious (the part I couldn't control) would do something freaky. Also, outside forces can control a dream as well. I once dreamed that I was driving "the loaner" from The Mask and when I woke up, that movie was playing. I once had a dream that whenever the lights went off someone died, and the lights went off in my dream and I almost died. When I woke, I discovered that the person I'm living with turned off the light.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Flyzelle

One night i was driving late, and trying not to fall asleep at the wheel...so trying to keep myself awake I fell asleep, but I was apparently dreaming while driving, and I thought that i was still awake cause I was talking to myself in my head or I could hear myself I should say rather...and I crashed the car, and woke up. That's when I realized that I was dreaming...

SO what type of dream is that? Besides fucked up....

I don't know if there's a technical term for it, but I do know that we have dreams sometimes b/c we need to live out our fantasies. For example, let's say you have an evil boss and you want to kill him. Dreams work like a psychologist where you can dream about killing your boss so that way you don't actually go out and do it, yet you still feel some of the satisfaction without keeping all of it bottled in. At least, that's how it's suppose to work.

It sounds sort of similar in this case. On the one hand, you didn't want to pull over and wanted to keep driving. On the other hand, your body needed sleep, so your subconscious came to a consensus and decided that if you dream that you're driving, then you can get the sleep you need while fulfilling the desire of driving. I still believe, like some of the past dreams I may have mentioned in this thread, that outside events can control what we dream about as well.

There's nowhere I can't reach.