Hello.
My mission is to program my brain (literally). What I mean is - creating sets of algorithms. The brain is a universal Turing machine (a computer); so any kind of a "program" is possible. Few examples: savant abilities, painting\drawing directly from the mind, experiencing anything (including drug induced states and enlightenment), having conscious (lucid) dreams, making mathematical models like in a 3D program etc. Anything mental that is possible.
There are three ways I so far found I can achieve it:
1) To (literally) see something from my imagination and then continuing to control it more and more. This is the best method.
2) To stay conscious when sleeping, so I can enter my dreams consciously. Much less good; for some obvious downsides compared to the first; mostly that it's very rare, easily possible to be waken, can't work with things in reality etc.
3) To have a very vivid, regular, imagination. The least good method; though I had once also experienced it. I didn't literally see something, but there was an image and I knew quite a lot about it. Never mind too much details about this one now.
The thing is I need a real method. The problem with those kind of things, like conscious dreams, is that the methods that are normally used are playing tricks on the mind. Even if they seem like genuine methods the way it actually suppose to work is that I practice something and then suddenly it just happens (by magic).
This doesn't work for me. What happens usually is that it starts to work very soon after I start practicing, and then also stops working very soon. My mind is very logical; so these methods are bad for me. Probably very good for some people.
A real method is simply like anything you learn; you start from the smallest step and gradually achieve better and better results.
Meditation already seems to be that kind of a thing. I achieve better and better results and learn many interesting and deep subtleties and intricacies.
So far I didn't succeed in my goals with meditation.
I had conscious dreams, about 65, but rarely, with bad control, and they stopped for some time now; because it was always dependent on tricks on the mind.
In the first of my methods - I had a single success I was able to see a square from my imagination, by the method below; but this method didn't work for anyone in the thread eventually. You can read my first post on the third page, with the same nick.
The thread - http://www.dreamviews.com/dream-control/80879-advanced-vision-control-tutorial.html
So if anyone heard of something like this, I'll really appreciate it; and eventually the world will.