Tips for Shapeshifting/Bodyswapping in Lucid Dreams

I’ve lucid dreamed of being a bouncy ball, a point of light, an expanding star, and a float­ing eye, and I’ve had many entirely bodiless lucid dreams. [...] On rare occasion, we can even find ourselves inhabiting two different dream bodies simulta­neously.

- Excerpt from Llewellyn’s Complete Book of Lucid Dreaming by Clare R. Johnson, PhD. PDF found here.

It can be hard to change one's human body in a lucid dream. Some LDers find that their LD body won't forget their IRL body, leading to dissonant situations such as looking different in a mirror but feeling their old body's limbs. The brain may not be used to the sensations it would have to give the dreamer from the new body.

However, there are LDers who find it easier to change into something inhuman because it's such an extremely different body that their brain finds it hard to slip up into a human one. In addition, many dreamers (lucid or not) can be inhabiting a different body from the start of their dream, no effort for changing needed.

The methods for fully changing one's body depend on the person. More of those methods:

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Many of these tips are meant to induce a degree of dissociation. If this is not wanted, the last 2 bullet points are ways to change the body without needing much dissociation in the process of obtaining the body.

There are no limits to lucid dreams. "The sky's the limit," doesn't apply here either, since one can change their body into the sky. Changing one's body in a lucid dream will never be impossible.

Lucid Dreaming Tips

These tips will not appear on the reading page.

During this week I'll add tips for shapeshifting/bodyswapping, creating an object/living creature, and transporting oneself into a fictional world.

The basics to lucid dreaming will be explained before delving into dark fantasies, but these tips may also help for those fantasies. Regardless, the reason behind not putting them on the reading page is because I want to center the tips that are related to dark fantasies.

Regardless of lucid dreaming experience, there are some abilities that can remain difficult for certain people. That's why, whether you have had 100 lucid dreams or 0 lucid dreams, these tips can still be useful.

If interested, check back later for the posts.

The shapeshifting/bodyswapping tips are linked here!

Tips For Creating Objects/Living Creatures are linked here!

Intro / Navigation

This account is a showcase of how to have lucid dreams, especially for those who want to have realistic dreams of illegal or dark fantasies. Thought crimes do not exist and using dreams as an outlet can be useful for venting or simply having fun.

For now, the basics of lucid dreams are being explained, but later posts will center dark themes. Read with discretion.

Main Posts:
Lucid Dreaming: What Is It & Why For Dark Fantasies (Works as a continuation to this introduction)
Basic Definitions for Lucid Dream Terms
You Already Had a Lucid Dream: Dreams & How They Work

Tips:
Keeping Afloat: How to Dream Journal + Longer Lucid Dreams
Tips for Shapeshifting/Bodyswapping in Lucid Dreams
Tips For Creating Objects/Living Creatures
Emergency Dream Rescue Methods

Tips For Creating Objects/Living Creatures

Creating things out of thin air is one of the most used lucid dream techniques due to the variety it can add to dreams. Here's a few simple methods for creating living or nonliving things:

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Expectations are key to finding what you want in dreams. If you find something you weren't looking for and are having trouble, don't hesitate to try the emergency dream rescue methods.

Emergency Dream Rescue Methods

Excerpt from Lucid Dreaming: What Is It & Why For Dark Fantasies with additions:

Nightmares are one concern that many beginner lucid dreamers have. What if they become lucid in a nightmare that they can't escape from or use their powers in? After all, lucid dreams mean you're more aware of those scary things happening.

Rest assured, that is unlikely to happen given that a lucid dreamer is on godmode. But, like all things in dreams, something like that could happen - in those cases, many other lucid dreamers have brainstormed ways to have an emergency exit.

Willpower is key to doing many things when lucid and is a requirement for the emergency exits as well. These exits range from:

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If those sound silly, it's on purpose. Silly things are meant to diffuse the tension in nightmares and prevent the scary atmosphere from gaining any more power over your dreamself. With less tension, your dreamself is more likely to regain that godmode ability and be able to wake yourself up.

It's recommended to brainstorm your own emergency exits since personalized dream tactics can make it more memorable in the face of tense dream situations.

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In addition to these letting one escape a troubling scene, one can also use it to teleport to someplace more pleasant. In those places, one can get the bearings for what lucid dream activities they wanted to try. For example, if trying to find a dream character leads you to finding a monster, you can teleport to a location to take a break (perhaps use methods to stabilize the dream if the monster had you waking up a bit), and then go back to trying to find the dream character.