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I used to have several recurring dreams, but lately they've not been as frequent, maybe because I've not tried to bring them out.
In the past when I wanted to "force" one of them to recurr, I tried various thought processes but never had that work well for me. But then I found that if I lay flat on my back with my arms at my sides and concentrate on a high level of relaxation as I'm trying to fall asleep and work in thoughts of the dream I'm trying to have into my relaxation process, I have had multiple cases of successfully initiating the dream with that method.
When I was quite young I had one recurring dream that was always very scary and I'd suddenly wake up in a fright and even have a hard time falling asleep again. I was walking down a dark alley and at one point out of some garbage cans an ugly hand suddenly comes out and grabs me and then I see it's a very ugly scary old witch, I get terrified and wake up all sweaty and scared.
At first I just noticed the dream recurring after I woke up, but then I even had thoughts while dreaming sort of like "hey, this is that dream I'm having again". This realization, plus my other thought process about dreams that I managed to have while dreaming: "hey, these are dreams and I can do anything in a dream even if it is impossible in real life", led me to take action the next time I dreamed this dream. So the ugly old hand comes out to grab me again but I'm a big boy now and pull the old witch out of the cans and beat her up and walk away satisfied and confident. I never had that dream again.
There are a couple other recurring dreams I like to have so I have not attempted to manipulate those to end yet.
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