TiredPhil, |
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Last night I became lucid in a dream I was having. |
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TiredPhil, |
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You may say I'm a dreamer.
But I'm not the only one - John Lennon
I have never had a dream character talk directly to me before, and suggest an action. Not without some loss of lucidity. |
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Well TiredPhil I'll chime in and be the antagonist here. I've had lots of, i would even say most of my lucid dreams where I run into someone or something completely unexpected that i absolutely was not thinking about during the day or recently (or ever) and am usually pleasantly surprised. Yes even dead relatives. Has there ever been anything of absolute certainty despite how as you put it "This dream was one of the hyper real type. Every detail was crystal clear," that assured me without a doubt that I was actually being visited or visiting someone's consciousness who has passed on? Absolutely, certainly, not. Now having said that, does that make the experience unimportant or not special for me or someone like yourself that has also experienced it? No again. I just want to caution you as I've had to do to myself to stay very objective about the experiences we have. Stay skeptical always of dream characters especially. I've had lots of characters who also claim to be "dream guides, spirit guides etc" show up when i make the request for them to appear. It's never been the same person twice and sometimes I only hear a faint voice talking in my mind that sounds like a whisper from across the galaxy. That's my 2 cents and hoping it keeps some readers and practicers of Lucid Dreaming, astral projection etc out of the looney bin. |
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^ I'd agree with that. Also while I liked your explanation Tired Phil because I do wish you a dream guide if you want one and I now understand why you say that what you experienced is different from what you usually experience; however, I find it fascinating how different people's experiences with dream characters usually are. You say that your DCs never talk to you directly and suggest an action. I have heard some others whose DCs are usually like mindless robots or shells of people. I can see how someone might then conclude that if they encounter a DC that is different than most DCs they encounter, more three dimensional or more active, then they conclude that this DC is special. Personally, I have not noticed anything mindless about my DCs. They are as realistic as waking life people. Because they are, I assumed that that's what DCs are like - clearly though that just applies to DCs in some people's dreams. The way I figure, there is no reason to think that a human mind is not capable of rendering a DC with full blown personality and initiative etc, so I always assume my DCs are creations of my own mind. However, I can understand why if someone usually dreamed of DCs that are not fully formed, and then they encountered one that was, I can see why that person would conclude that this DC was special. |
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You may say I'm a dreamer.
But I'm not the only one - John Lennon
You are both going to think I am mad. |
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There is no such thing as a coincidence, some people say, and I am beginning to wonder whether they are right. Nope, I am not going to think that you are mad. I am after all one who thinks that I have had at least a couple precognitive dreams myself. Small stuff, nothing important, but too weird to make me comfortable just dismissing as coincidences. The world is a weird place, and I am sure there are a lot of things going on for which we do not have nice and tidy explanations. |
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You may say I'm a dreamer.
But I'm not the only one - John Lennon
I think its unfortunate that the word 'coincidence' is generally considered to mean 'random coincidence', rather than just interpreting the word literally. It would be nice to be able to call something a coincidence without assuming or implying anything about synchronicity or meaning or the absence of it. |
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