Verbal commands are an effective way to drive the dream in the direction you desire. Today, I woke up at 4 Am. Read and meditated for about 40 min and then went back to sleep. This is a sure-fire way for me to have a lucid dream. In this dream, I walked around with my daughter. The first verbal command I issued was “increase lucidity.” The colors became more vibrant around me. I saw some Christmas lights and they started to flicker as if additional electricity was flowing through them.
We continued walking through the town street we were in. I didn’t recognize it, but there were lots of buildings and lots of people milling about. On my list of “to dos” in a lucid dream was to try this verbal command: show me something amazing. I tried it and when we turned a corner I saw a beautiful white marble statue. It is very hard to describe, but it was in the modern art tradition, with interesting faces of child-like faces carved into the marble on one side. In the middle, it spiraled up to the sky. I wish I could “print out” what I saw. But it lived up to expectation.
Try a verbal command in your next lucid dream. For me, next up is “show me unconditional love.” I read about this one in a book and the author said he had one of the most amazing lucid dreams of his life. For the theists out there, will I be experiencing unconditional love from outside of me? The Bible is full of dreams where God speaks to people. For the non-theists, will this be an effective form of self-love? I’ll let you all know how it goes…