I think the Cusp makes a good point, ThisWitheredMan. You might simply be asking too much of your DC's.
When you are lucid, especially strongly lucid, you instinctively know that the DC's in your dream are constructs, and can be literally no deeper than the state of your current expectations. So, if you attempt to get them to speak intelligently to you or perhaps surprise you with some new chunk of wisdom, or even spontaneously behave like the people they resemble, your unconscious might just get confused, have nothing to give you, and offer up gibberish from the DC's. That could be unbalancing indeed, especially because a part of your waking awareness also knows nothing important can really come from this DC, unless you put it in first -- but then you wouldn't have needed to hear it ... Bye-bye balance.
Not so ironically, non-Lucids are often crowded with "wise" DC's, but that is mostly because, without your waking-life self-awareness and memory present, you are unable to question the validity of the gibberish that gets poured upon you ... And, by the same token in NLD's enough gibberish gets tossed around that eventually something sounds deep!
I tend to be like the Cusp and shoo away my DC's, as I've never gleaned anything of any real value or novelty from them that I hadn't dumped into them a few seconds earlier, and I think there might be more efficient tools for dipping into the waters of your unconscious chaos. As the Cusp notes, working context is a good idea, as is messing with schemata and metaphor, both of which often cause DC's -- and your unconscious -- to "adapt" to your higher expectations and help you form new ideas, feelings, or perhaps just cooler scenerios. But even then the DC's won't "tell" you anything new, clever, or be just like the folks they represent ... Unless you're not lucid!
Sometimes, I suppose, LD'ing can be a lonely business...
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