Many times we have wished we could change the outcome of our lives or certain situations. Unfortunately, physical human experiences sometimes cannot be changed, but in dreams they can be. Energy can be changed, which releases the emotional tensions that may be lingering from human waking life experiences. Also, outcomes of dreams can be changed as well. If you are unhappy with the outcome of a dream, you can change it in a lucid dream. This empowers you to feel more in control of your inner actions and reactions. For instance, you can practice dealing with a difficult person in your life by trial and error conversations with the person in your dreamtime. You can try different angles and approaches until you get it right. Then you can take what you have learned about how to handle the situation, or how not to, and apply it to your waking life. Being able to dream lucidly gives you the opportunity to learn about yourself and improve in how you work with the laws of cause and effect. In a lucid dream you can test your actions and see if they are really the right thing to do, or the right way to handle things, by seeing how it goes in a lucid dream. Below are some pointers on how you can set up the ability to change a dream and its outcome.

Pre sleep: Incubate dreams about specific topics or places by thinking intensely about them before sleeping.

Wishing: Alter the course of your dream simply by wishing for certain things to happen, disappear, or appear. If it helps, create a dream genie who can grant you wishes!

Inner State: Change your disposition or responses—it will affect the characters and events of the dream. Change your moods and feelings or change your expectations, even if your first reaction to a scene is negative. Change fear to curiosity. Change repulsion to compassion or change anger to forgiveness and tolerance.

Looking: Whatever you choose to look at becomes the primary focus of your attention. Threatening characters can be tamed by looking them in the eyes, giving rise to courage and openness.

Speaking: Talking is a way of focusing your attention, talk to the monster, remind yourself you are dreaming and you have the power to change the scene at will. Express your love and compassion toward the monster.

Action: This is, of course, the most obvious means of controlling events and affecting the dream's outcome.

Ask For Aid From Dream Characters: Ask dream characters to remind you that you are dreaming now or in future dreams. Ask advice from dream characters on how to change the outcome of the dream or the scene. All dream characters are likely to be sources of knowledge and wisdom. Ask them where the secret door is, or where the key to this or that is, or ask them to tell you something about yourself.