Dream characters are conspiring against me!

[thebishop]

I had a lucid dream breakthrough last night. I was at a wake of a person that had died that I did not know. Also at the wake were people that I did not know, but there was a friend there that I have know for 15 years. In the dream I kept asking myself "Is this real?". I was pretty convinced in the dream that it was not. Then I asked my friend in the dream if it was real and she said "Yes, of course it is real". After that I believed that it was real. Part of the reason I think that I was not able to realize in my dream that it was NOT real was that the dream of the wake was part of another dream that I was removed from. It felt like a dream that was layered, a deeper dream state. My question is, how do you ignore the input of other dream characters that conspire to make you believe that the dream is real?

[Arch]

This is because that is the response you would expect in real life, so your brain will re-enact this by telling you this is real. My advice, go over it in your head a few times before bed, it probably won't happen again. Good Luck!

[siuol]

Before you ask someone else if it is a dream, do a reality check and know for sure first.

[faceonmars]

I would not advise talking to a dream character while lucid. The process of speech is abstract, requires frontal lobe brain activity, and therefore is counter-productive to the lucid dream experience. Sometimes they talk to you, but I would never respond ( I say never but even I get sucked into talking to a few)