white vampires are very subtle, they only marginally are part of the dreams. their principle is to stay in the shadows and they never seem to be talking to anyone. they blend in even though their dress-code is all about trench-coats and such. I learned about them from a dream-character who once had contact with them and was about to become a member. from that dream-character I learned that there exists a particular ability in dreams which dreamers usually don't notice at all. and the worst property of this ability is that it can only be trained while awake and not in dreams. I have learned many more dream-abilities that can only be trained while awake, but this one seems to be the most useful for a lucid dreamer.

I learned the basic subtext on which this ability is based. they believe that the reason why some lucid dreams are longer than others is because of being intended to be longer by the surrounding dream-characters. the idea is that we create our own dreams and this way we expend our most important ressource, our raison-d'etre, our intent. the more complicated the dream the less reason for the actual dreamer to be part of it. so logically one possibility to prolong the dream is to reduce details, so the whole dream revolves around the dreamer. but what's the point of lucid dreaming then when you cannot see anything? so the other logical possibility is to force the environment to give back some of that "intent" we so readily have put into creating it. now that's an extremely abstract concept, and one has to be careful not to confuse "someone intending me to be there" with "someone wishing for me to be there". basically a large crowd cheering for the fighters in an arena are merely wishing for the fighters to be there, after the fight the fighters are expendable and not part of the audience's intentionality. you could put up puppets into the arena and the audience would keep on cheering. however, to prolong a dream you must make people of that dream expect you to be there, the real you and not whatever hallucination or archetype. the more you are entangled into their reality the longer your dream will last. there is just one minor caveat to this: most dream-characters are not able to actually perceive you! they might be monsters seemingly chasing you or they might seem to be talking and otherwise interacting with you, but all that is just sort of a hallucination you made up to make the dream less dull. all dream-characters can is to sense the emotions you feel to them, but for lack of other perception they often believe those emotions would originate from other dream-characters or from themselves. they instinctively follow you because of those emotions, and thereby lucid dreams in which you are chased are among the longest. but it is possible to make the dreams even more stable than that simply because the creature chasing you might not be totally aware of actually chasing anyone.

so there is a simple method for training this ability. all you need to do is to fulfill wishes of people, while you are awake. of course it is more polite to only do that when people explicitely allow you to fulfill their wishes, and in my experience this is also sufficient. and that's the reason why white vampires are calling themselves that, they are sort of angels from the point of view of people, but in their own interpretation they are stealing something. it isn't blood they are after, but something equally valuable: real-life experience! if people would actually fulfill their own wishes, all alone, they would have obtained life-experience. but since the white vampire did do that task, it's the white vampire who gets that experience and it's the white vampire who then gets perceived by people as a means to an end. i.e. by doing that you will expend "intent" for the very activity of fulfilling someone's wish, and in return you get back "intent" from that person. the activity of reaching a goal is much alike to creating a dream, your whole perception is preprogrammed in a certain way so that lateron you are unable to see things as something else. for example take the saying "if all you have is a hammer, then everything will seem to be nails." by the activity of perpetually solving various problems with only one and the same tool over and over again, you shift your perception to focus more on how problems can be solved by that tool. so this tool becomes more strongly "intentionalized" by you to be there where it is. this will sort of force that tool to be in place whenever you need it. similarily, by repeatedly fulfilling someone's wishes you will be forced into a situation where that person often has you at hand whenever a problem needs to be solved. so the exercise is to balance that wish-fulfilling with the freedom to leave whenever you want. (otherwise you'd be stuck in your lucid dreams with recurrent dream-characters.)

another thing one must take into account that the very ability to fall asleep might depend on similar mechanisms. to put it into a metaphor, when all your life you keep on using a hammer for everything, then don't be surprised that the only way for you to fall asleep is to knock yourself out with it. that's why white vampires always stay hidden and always try to blend in. excessive use of one and the same tools will give the tools too much importance and thereby tie you up in one place. your intentionality about the tool not only binds the tool to wherever you are, it also binds you to wherever that tool can go. if you aren't careful with that training, you might lose the ability to actually lucidly dream or to remember your dreams. if you stay in the shadows all your life long, it will be impossible for you to keep on using one and the same tools, it's an effective protection from that danger...

once you have some training with helping people in real life, you can start trying to touch dream-characters in your lucid dreams. the idea is to touch them in the very same way as you touch the lives of people you help while awake. talking to dream-characters is also effective, or better yet combine the two. touching the dream-character will enable better communication with it, you will see the world through that dream-character's eyes. also you must pay attention to how you touch the dream-character, much alike to paying attention to how you touch a real-life person you want to comfort after whatever loss. a symmetric touch wont work at all (except for creating a connection) and asymmetric touch bears the danger that this dream-character gets more from you than the other way around. (symmetric means both touch eachother in exactly the same way in exactly the same positions of the body.) the way how to touch people can be learned both in the dreams as in reality. basically you just observe how you react to being touched in particular ways. some ways of touching you make the other person more important to you than others. in the dreams one must be careful though, the way one is touched also alters the intensity of emotions passed on this way, and too much emotions will remove the person's attention from the actual person touching to those emotions. in a lucid dream that means the person you touch will completely disappear, overwhelmed by your emotions and lacking your own support by the one-sided transfer of ld-time. but in general it is inevitable that the person you touched will eventually disappear, so you'd better keep an eye for another one. some white vampires have told me how to touch people and what to avoid, but there simply is so much to learn that actual real-life experience is much more effective.