Gaining Awareness

[Dreamshards]

Good morning everyone. I will give you a quick background of myself: I have been able to lucid dream ever since I can remember. In the past couple of years I have become more successful at AP. Now spontaneous OBE's occur constantly, especially if I perform the priming method of waking up early then falling back asleep. I am still not satisfied though. I have had a few very realistic experiences but most of the time I struggle with the experience.

I will make an example by my experience last night. I woke up early then waited till I was tired and drifted off, staying consciously aware I was projected in a dream-like environment. It was hard to see and I kept shouting things like "It will be light!" without many results. I did my best create a more vivid experience but nothing worked. I even made a door appear because for some reason I thought that if i opened it and stepped through things would be much more realistic. Eventually the dream took over. I was still aware I was dreaming but struggled with it. So I guess my main question is how do I gain more freewill and awareness? I wish my experiences were usually realistic. I feel like I am usually just trapped in this dream environment where nothing important or exciting happens and I am just wondering around trying to find things to do. It gets boring honestly.

[Xanth]

http://www.unlimitedboundaries.ca/2012/07/22/how-to-stabilize-and-strengthen-your-projection-experiences/

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[Dreamshards]

I was looking for an older post like that, I appreciate it!