Could this possibily be my dream guide?

[pepsibluefan]

Here's my dream journal from last night (or this morning since it lasted so long) Could this be my dream guide? immortal asian girl. - Dream Journals - Dreamviews Lucid Dreaming Community & Resource The reason I ask this is because I am just really curious. She stood out from all the rest of the dream characters, there was just something not normal about her. So what are your opinions on this? Also she was out of this world beautiful, I couldn't believe just how beautiful she really was. It wasn't the fact I was in love with her that made her stand out..but it was her age. She was old I got that but she didn't look it.

[Ctharlhie]

I don't know much on the subject but from your dream journal she sounds like your anima, so it's possible she may be a form your dream guide will take. I had a very similar dream recently in which me and my parents met with family friends I'd never seen before and their daughter was just amazing, I was immediately infatuated (despite having a girlfriend who I love very much IRL) she was a redhead (apparently significant in female DC's) and seemed to understand what I was thinking, she had a sentience much higher than most DC's. So yeah, very similar experience to yours.

[insideout]

Possibly. You could try meeting her again and asking her if she is your dream guide, or ask her to be your dream guide.

[Ctharlhie]

or ask her to be your dream guide. Does it really work that way? Doesn't your dreamguide have to be a product of your sub-conscious, surely you can't impose that on any DC with your conscious mind? And if you did, surely it would be false?

[pepsibluefan]

If she is my anima, then is she dangerous? I am sure she is just not another DC. I read that anima both has a light and a dark side and anima can actually cause physical death or possession. Is this true? Anima and animus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Its at the bottom.

[Ctharlhie]

While the early psychoanalysts got a lot of things right, I would take that kind of thing with a pinch of salt. I don't believe that (in a psychologically healthy person) there is anything in your mind that could kill you or take over your personality. I don't prescribe to the psychodynamic view that all the sub-conscious is a malevolent, chaotic and violent abyss, because then all dreams would be a kind of Freudian nightmare, full of penises and traumatic childhood experiences, and they're not . Most accounts I've seen on Dreamviews of members finding their anima/animus have had a profoundly positive experience.

[pepsibluefan]

Yeah, you're right. I will ask her who she is the next time I sleep. I'll try to lucid some time today.

[insideout]

Does it really work that way? Doesn't your dreamguide have to be a product of your sub-conscious, surely you can't impose that on any DC with your conscious mind? And if you did, surely it would be false? Honestly, I'm not sure. It seems to me, though, that if a dream figure is conscious enough, and you have a strong connection with him or her, then the figure could potential adopt the role of dream guide. I wouldn't think of it as imposing it on the DC, but asking and letting the DC decide. I've tried this a few times and so far the DCs have said "no" or not responded at all.