Can I live in star-wars, or travel to hogwarts??

Thought I would comment on this since this is what got me into lucid dreaming in the first place.

As the other's have said, it does require a huge amount of control in order to fully change the landscape of your dream and that is frustrating. You see people talking about their lucid dream adventures and want to join in, going to Hogwarts, Starwars, or even their own D&D world (that last one is where I would like to go) like it's a piece of cake. And yet, it's a lot harder than it seems sometimes.

I just want to say one thing first - believe in yourself. It may take a while, but, after each lucid dream, you can reflect on it, see what happened in it, and try and pull apart it. I do also want to point out that beginner's luck may be a factor as in my second ever lucid dream, I was in reach of being able to be my favorite light cleric (D&D terms again), but, I lacked experience to fully fledge what I wanted/expected. With that being said, there are factors that may be helping/hurting your chances of successfully allowing this to happen (I am just theorizing from personal experience, so, don't take my word as the full and absolute word).

In multiple videos on Daniel's channel, he says that lucid dreaming may be easier for younger people to do (those under 25 I believe he said in a livestream). This could be why "shifting" is more circulated through teens/pre-teens - it could be because lucid dreaming is easier for them. This would also explain why some people accidentally "shift". This could also explain the accidental "shifts" as the person is lucid dreaming but are in the wrong setting. Another thing I would like to point out is that Daniel has said in a video (maybe a livestream before, can't remember) that shifters may be convinced that they are in another world based on expectation, so, if they expect themselves to wake up in the Ravenclaw common room, their brain may be more likely to assume that they will based on the expectation that it's another universe.

Again, this is all theories as no one knows exactly how the brain functions. In my second lucid dream, my brain was firing in different directions and I wasn't able to become my character, but, in a later lucid dream, I became him in an instant! Also, I'm in the same boat that I would much rather be able to manipulate the dream around me than to wake up and remember a non-lucid dream about something vaguely related to Hogwarts, but, think of that as getting closer to your goal! I have dreams where I'm my character and I remember those dreams fondly as I was, in an essence, in what I wanted to happen. Also, they make for some great dream retelling!

What I'm saying is don't give up on it. My second lucid dream - the one where I was so close to my goal - happened months ago, but, I've gain a slight bit of experience so when that opportunity comes around again, I'll be ready to finally shoot fireballs out of my hands. It may take a while but even with my failure, it was still a success that I managed that control and that I was lucid in the first place. You got this!

Although eventually you may be able to create dream scenes that somewhat resemble places from films and books, can you expect it to be 100% perfect? As Andy says above, it's no small task. The subconscious is amazing, but it's not magic.

I have long-term goals which are similar to this; I want to use magic like in Harry Potter, wield a lightsaber and use the force, and so on. But those are very, very long-term. If I want to do any of that, I need to lucid dream first. Before I can feel like a Jedi in a dream, I need to recognize that I'm dreaming and that's no easy task.

I once dreamed of going to Hogwarts in a non-lucid, and I would like to have a lucid that is set there, but as Kikorangi and Andy G. have said, that would require a ton of dream control!

I suggest the main problem is that for your mind to recreate the set of Hogwarts or Star Wars is a tall ask for anyone! Of course it doesn't have to create much of it for you to think you are there, but even so...

I do not consider myself to be a very accomplished LDer, with only about 100 LDs so far over quite a few years, but in all of those I have only managed to create a deliberate new scene a few times, and those were always just very simple. In one instance it was just, "this is boring let's go somewhere else!, and the scene changed to an outdoor shopping area/mall. For me, if I allow my thoughts to drift off just engging with the dream, I find it evaporates.

How many accomplished lucid dreamers can conjure up such a scene as you describe? Probably 0.1% ?

I've been pondering how to reply to this, and I'm still not sure if this is the best way. But I'm going to make a guess -- of course, please do keep in mind that I can only speak for myself, and that I can only speculate here.

With the mandatory disclaimers out of the way: My personal guess would be that these kinds of lucid dreams are something that many choose to set as long-term goals for themselves, rather than something they jump at trying to achieve quickly. My reasoning here is that those types of dreams will require rather impressive dream control, which, for most people, will probably take quite a long time to perfect. As Daniel Love so often says: Dream control is a separate skill from lucid dreaming itself, and for the vast majority of lucid dreamers, developing dream control beyond the "basics" will take quite a bit of time and practice.

This is the case for myself, at least -- I know my dream control is currently nowhere near what it needs to be in order for me to be able to achieve something like visiting a universe from fiction that I enjoy, etc.

And yes, I definitely agree that lucid dreaming is a much better way to work towards achieving this than "reality shifting" or similar concepts. For anyone who may be reading this and have yet to watch Daniel Love's videos on the topic, I'll include links to some of them here.

• Reality Shifting - How to Shift Realities - Dimension Jumping Explained

• The Science of Reality Shifting - How to Reality Shift

• The Ultimate Reality Shifting Technique - Desired Reality Made Easy?

• Reality Shifting FINAL PROOF - Part 1/2

• Reality Shifting FINAL PROOF - Part 2/2

It's interesting that this topic, which should be so incredibly appealing to so many, has zero comments in the 9 days prior to this response since it was posted. I have been absolutely fixated on exactly what you talked about, for the past 14 months. I have read plenty of accounts of spontaneous time and/or location jumps, and from that it was only natural to presume that with a supposedly infinite number of timelines, physical relocation to a place I would consider my ultimate timeline must be possible. A distinct lack of progress and/or results led me to rethink my approach, and I decided LD was the way forward. And so I am here.

My thinking is that if I can ultimately shift over there (wherever "there" is) physically, then I have to be able to visit there in a lucid dream. I've had lucid experiences before but always spontaneous so now I'm focused on developing the skill so that I can start controlling things better.

Intent drives the universe. Remove all doubt that it can be done. That's the perfect starting point. Then just keep at it!