I'm new in here but I think I reached a point I have to comment my dreams and research I've made until know. Since I was very little, I normally dream of me being in other worlds or realms, I rarely dream of real life events that happend to me. I think this is normal, but what is weird is that most of the times total different dreams end up being interconnected. For example characters that reappear, mentionings to things that happend in other dreams, and the most weird of them all, seeing how the the maps of different dreams are connected. For example, there was a time that I looked in a telescope to space and I saw the planets corresponding to other dreams I had. Or having a recurrent dream and rather than following the route I did before, I go somewhere else and end up in the "map" where other dream happend. I have good image pattern recognition and visual memory so when I see some of these things, even if over 5 years have passed I recognise it.
I also want to talk about some "achievements" I did in my dreams and how to do them:
Self recognition in a dream (lucid dream starting): I was told that in order to know you are in a dream, you should pinch yourself and see if you feel pain or not. These doesnt work on me, I don't know why but when I harm myself in a dream I have like a ghost pain recognition. Like forexample, if I get hanged, I wake up with neck pain, if my arm is cut, I wake up with a weird sensation in the exact place and direction my arm was cut. But there is something that always work for me, inside a dream you dont breath. If you get your hand closer to your mouth/nose, you dont sense any air coming out. I discovered this by accident and since then it is a way for me to enter in a state of lucid dreaming.
Ways of waking up instantly from a dream: Say this is a dream, the characters around you look at you shocked and you instantly wake up. There was only one time when they literally said "we know" and the dream continued without me waking up. Typical things like dying or falling from a high place. Normally the saying "this is a dream" works perfectly.
Flight: Something that I hate in dreams is that when you fall from a high place you wake up automatically. I've never been able to literally "fly" in my dreams but I've created variants to it. For example swimming in the air, start moving your arms in a breaststroke swimming way and you will start swimming in the air (I think this one is funny). Grappling hook, this one is one I'm always able to do for some reason, I imagine I have a grappling hook that comes out from the palm of my hand and rapidly makes me rise to the surface or element I threw the hook. I dont really know how to teach it, just imagine a line comming out of the center of your palm or from the intersection between fingers, its a weird sensation but it always work. Gliding: put your arms in a T pose and fall horizontally from the high place, at the beginning it didnt work for me but with time it ended working always. Don't do this one if you are carrying a relatively heavy object or it wornt work for some reason. Slow Floating: this one is the more inconsistent, it is literally beleave you can fly in the middle of your dream and you may sometimes start floating. It will never work if I'm falling, just if I'm on land and want to fly. It sucks because I can't control the velocity of ascension or descension. I only use this one to go outside of a planet or something like that. If you have more ways of flying tell me.
Weapon creation: For some reason I can only create white weapons. Dont matter which: swords, knives, halibards or lances. I can also create guns and projectiles but for some reason the bullets that come out cant harm, kill or affect in any way the dream characters or objects. However, if I use the gun's butt to hit someone it can knock him out. From what I've been experimenting, the objects you create will only affect the dream if they are in contact with you. If you found a way of creating functional guns in your dreams tell me please. For me just wanting said object in my hand works to create said object, I suppose it will fork for you too.
Esper-like abilities: Move your finger in the direction you want the object or person to move and it will go there if you phocus very hard on it. This always works except for certain entities that are very powerfull for some reason according to the "lore" of the dream (monsters or gods). If you put your hand together and phocus on your objective you can also crash it. I've tried to use this also for simulating flight by standing on an object and moving it upwards but never worked. I'm actually investigating this one in more depth cause it is very weird. For example, if you move an object using this ability to hit someone, it wont harm it because the object isnt in contact with you. Post data: I forgot to say it, but I have also been deflect attacks, beams, proyectiles, etc, by just slaping it, for some reason if you return someones proyectile back to them, you can hurt them or even kill them that way. I suppose that happens because its a dream created object rather than a self created one.
Resurrection and Reincarnation: Ok this one is the weirdest one. Reincarnation is pure randomness and normally is part of the story of my dream. It is weird to be in a different body but normally I rapidly get used to it. On the other hand resurrecting in a dream can be controlled. Normally when you die you will wake up, but if you phocus on your eyelids being closed for some reason you sometimes dont wake up and just continue with the dream even if you died in it. If you woke up and this didnt work, dont open your eyelids, continue with them closed, mantain the same exact position and start reimagining the scene that happend and how it can continue again and again and then you will start dreaming with the same dream from the exact point when you died. This always works for me since I randomly discovered it. For one dream I even did it 3 times, it was very recurrent dream where I had to defeat a "god-like" almost lovecraftian creature that I always died to. The last time I had that dream I was able to defeat it and since then I haven't had that dream again.
My most op achievement: I have only been able to do this 4 times in my life. If I concentrate very hard in the space around me I create a "sphere" around me that desintegrates anything around me. The radius of said sphere can be varied too. It is like a sublimation sphere that evaporates anything it comes into contact. I used this ability to kill the aforementioned lovecraftian creature. I'm trying very hard to find a way of consistently being able to do this, but I still haven't find it. When I do I will post again. If you want me to talk about some weird recurrent dreams and lucid dreams I had tell me.
Hope these tips are helpfull. Sorry for the length of the text.