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Briefly, the realistic answer to each part of this question is, "No, you cannot." Your dreams are produced by your unconscious mind, which is a part of your mind that does not respond to the wishes and desires of your waking mind. In exactly the same way that you cannot really control your sneezes or hiccups or your Allergies, you (meaning your conscious mind) cannot control your dreams.

> Having said that, there are some ways to attempt to influence your dreams that may or may not be effective, just as you can try to control hiccups, sneezes and allergies by holding your breath, putting a finger under your nose and that sort of thing. It doesn't usually work, but sometimes...

> You can try it incubate a dream about the person you want to see. This simply means thinking about that person intensely before you go to sleep. There are many different ways of doing this such as meditation, guided imagery, writing about the person, drawing a picture, staring at a photo, or whatever seems to help focus your thoughts. Then, with luck, your mind may continue along the same path as you drift off to sleep, and you might dream about that person. However, there is no guarantee that you will like whatever you dream.

> You can try to achieve a lucid dream. That means that you attempt to become aware that you are dreaming while the dream is taking place. With practice, some individuals claim to be able to direct their dreams however they choose in this way, making one dream character leave and another character appear, changing the actions of dream images and so forth. (Unfortunately, there is a vast amount of nonsense on the internet about lucid dreaming, as well as con artists hoping to make a buck off credulous people.) Even when successful, lucid dreaming is less like a real dream and similar to a daydream, and one could argue whether the lucid dreamer is truly asleep or partially awake.

> As for talking to someone you know in your dreams, that might be achieved through lucid dreaming. However, it is important to understand that you would not be talking to that actual person, but only to the image of that person, much like talking to a character in a video game. The actual person in the real world would have no knowledge or experience of the conversation, which would take place only in your own mind.

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