[The David]

Over this last month, I've become very disciplined about keeping a dream journal. As a result, I've remembered at least one dream from about 90% of the last fifteen days. I've even started having lucid dreams with alarming frequency.

My problem? I can't do anything. I don't feel like I understand the concept of lucid dreaming enough to use my true power. Take last night, for example:

I was at my mom's house. I was talking to her in the living room, when I suddenly became lucid. This was the longest and most stable lucid dream I've had in years. The problem? I was trying to convince her that it was a dream, and I wanted her to become lucid as well. Now, sometimes it can be fun to interact with people in this way. However, I'm not sure I was doing it for fun. I was very serious about it, and it was very frustrating that she wouldn't 'get it'. I asked her questions like, "What were you doing before this? Do you remember the events leading up to this point?" I did the same thing with my sister, later on in the dream. For whatever reason, I can't quite figure out that being in a dream means that it is not real.

Now, this is just a minor problem. The real problem is that I can't do anything in my dreams. I went in the bathroom and looked in the mirror (a favorite hobby of mine, though it's scary because I never know what I'll see, and the dream can quickly dissolve into a nightmare). I basically looked like myself, except that I had a buzzcut. I decided to change my appearance (which worked a little better last time), and it kind of worked, but not very much.

Afterwards, I decided I wanted tiger lilies (if you knew me, you would understand why). I knew it was easier to manifest things behind me, so I told myself that there were tiger lilies behind me. I looked around, and there were no tiger lilies whatsoever. I did this over and over with no success. Eventually, I looked back at the mirror and saw a flash of colors resembling the colors of a tiger lily, but that was all. It's as if I'm getting what I ask for, but not in the way I'm wanting. My dreams have a mind of their own.

Later, I tried to manifest a person, but I couldn't do that, either.

On a happier note, I did set a personal record for 'most reality checks' in a single night, making for the longest and most vivid lucid dream I have ever had. That's quite a bit of progress.

I'm sure the solution is something simple like 'just keep trying', but I would appreciate any advice. It occurred to me that my vibration might be too low, since I felt a little creepy and the dream was constantly on the verge of becoming a nightmare, but I've been having this problem for a long time.