Dream characters tell you you're dreaming?

**Urgent** · 11-26-2010 12:06 PM

I took a nap the other day with lucid dreaming in mind. I was going to attempt a WILD, but was to tired, so I just went to sleep. I start having a dream and about midway through the dream I was in a car with four other dream characters. usually I almost NEVER have a dream with dream characters that talk, but these ones started to tell me I was dreaming. I started to believe them by repeating "Ok, so I am in a dream RIGHT NOW?" And they kept telling me I was, but I never became lucid. Why wouldn't I become lucid from something so direct?

**silver2k** · 11-26-2010 02:08 PM

You weren't aware enough I guess. Sometimes that happens, you can be told that you are dreaming but still not care about it :p

**Snowboy** · 11-26-2010 05:00 PM

Meh. It usually doesn't work when DCs tell you. You have to figure it out yourself.

Also, you did a double thread post. Might want to fix that.

**faceonmars** · 11-27-2010 12:26 AM

I've been LD'ing for 30+ years and never had a dream character tell me I was dreaming. It would be cool if it happened but what normally happens is I become aware when unusual events occur. Maybe someday a DC will enlighten me. One can hope.

**elucid** · 11-27-2010 03:55 AM

Did you do anything afterwards, it seems that you became lucid, as you said that you are dreaming. Second, WILDs are the best when you are tired, you reach SP faster.

**silver2k** · 11-27-2010 11:38 AM

Originally Posted by elucid

Did you do anything afterwards, it seems that you became lucid, as you said that you are dreaming. Second, WILDs are the best when you are tired, you reach SP faster.

Technically you have to KNOW that you are dreaming to count as lucid. He was only TOLD that he was dreaming. Or am I wrong?

**Supernova** · 11-27-2010 04:44 PM

Yea, I've heard a number of people talk about this sort of thing happening, it seems that you can actually be told you're dreaming and repeat it back robotically without activating the DLPFC (dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, (part of the brain) assosiated with logic, and almost totally inactive during regular dreaming).

**dakotahnok** · 11-27-2010 06:58 PM

When your dreaming the part of your brain that controls logic is almost un working,

So when there telling you about it you didnt pay attention.

**Velarious** · 11-27-2010 07:32 PM

In my dream my friend once said, bitch u know a trick which u could use to control your dreams with. And i realized that i was dreaming, then my friend asked if i had weed on me, and i said yes everyone started jumping on me out of nowhere to get some weed and i woke up.

**Urgent** · 11-28-2010 01:39 PM

Originally Posted by silver2k

Technically you have to KNOW that you are dreaming to count as lucid. He was only TOLD that he was dreaming. Or am I wrong?

It was weird. In the dream I was told I was dreaming, and I agreed and said I was dreaming, but I never actually be came lucid.

**mcwillis** · 11-29-2010 12:10 AM

Originally Posted by Urgent

It was weird. In the dream I was told I was dreaming, and I agreed and said I was dreaming, but I never actually be came lucid.

Have you done any work to create these DC's?

I missed a corker this morning. I was with a friend and I said to him, "If I was dreaming I would realise that this is a dream."

**whiterain** · 11-29-2010 12:36 AM

Originally Posted by mcwillis

Have you done any work to create these DC's?

I missed a corker this morning. I was with a friend and I said to him, "If I was dreaming I would realise that this is a dream."

hahaha i keep telling other people its a dream without getting lucid myself! doh...

**gregroberts** · 12-07-2010 04:26 AM

As far as i can remember, the only lucid dream I've had was when my girlfriend told me I was dreaming, and once it sunk in I had control over my surroundings. does anyone know if there are any posts on increasing the likeliness that a DC will tell you you're dreaming?

**Puffin** · 12-07-2010 04:29 AM

The same reason you sometimes end up in a spaceship, or flying - you're not aware enough to notice things.

And usually, if you do your RCs properly, you can become aware without a cue.

**electriccure** · 12-14-2010 09:03 AM

Something I've tried in the past few days is have my boyfriend tell me I am dreaming whenever he happens to think about it. When he tells me this I seriously evaluate the experiences of my day and do a RC (I have hematite magnets that wobble on each other when you try to spin one). Last night a DC told me I was dreaming I realized I had no idea who this man was and did a RC like a light switch it was instant lucidity. This was the first time a DC had helped me attain lucidity.
I was somewhat surprised this worked when I woke up... but maybe a DC telling you that you are dreaming just doesn't sink in because you are not used to it.

**Hailord65** · 12-18-2010 10:17 PM

Happend to me last night the king of some castle told me "Screw this, just become lucid and control your dreams." But the thing is, all it really did was make me DREAM or think I was lucid dreaming, then agian, maybe it REALLY was a lucid dream, I woke up right after it ended so Idk and that never happened before...

**ShinodaCM** · 12-20-2010 08:33 AM

This one time, I had this guy I don't know showing me a power point presentation on how this was a dream, the weird things happening and showed me this website. We started arguing about this. It didn't even occur to me to try a reality check. When I woke up, I was like "DMANIT! You were right!" in my head.

**Seraphik** · 12-20-2010 08:26 PM

I dreamt I was teaching a class on how to WBTB, and the other teacher said "We could be dreaming right now" and I didn't do a RC or anything. FAIL. It's pretty funny that we miss stuff like that.