personally, I don't really believe in a dream guide, which is probably why I have never seen anyone in a LD claiming to be him/her. I think all DC's are just projections of your subconscious, and it could be a possibility that your dreamguide is a subconscious representation/projection of a special figure in your waking life. If DC are really projections of your subconscious and if your DG is a DC, then obviously it is possible for this "DG" to know everything about you and all about your personality and beliefs, which are ingrained into your subconscious which is what the characters are made of. |
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Thanks for your fascinating post, you explain it with a passionate enthusiasm. When you spoke about the hairs on the back of your neck standing up, I could almost feel it. |
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Sweet Dreams are made of this
I don't know if this counts, but I always seem to be with someone in my dreams who just comes along with me. Like I know they would be there, and it would make sense them being there, but I never look at them directly nor do they have a face or name. They never say anything either. |
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It is possible to consider every character in a dream as a guide in some way. It is also possible to consider every being and everything as a guide in some way, and it is possible for you yourself to also be a companion and guide to all of everything else. In fact, I think this is the way it was designed. |
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That is assuming there is a design in the first place. It is either a random hallucination of the mind, or actually your subconscious taking steps to further itself, i.e. you. |
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Yes! You are on to it and now it can be an Avalanche. When the subconscious and the conscious minds meet, there can be an Avalanche. So perhaps that is how you came to be. The thing to do is to bring this to all, because the all is the one and the one is the all. Done internally, this is for once and for all, and a point of no returning. |
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So then there are no dream guides. Or rather dream guides do not exist until after a dreamer wakes up and decides that a particular DC was a dream guide. That makes sense to me, I suppose. It's also encouraging to hear, since I've never understood why people think they need someone to hold their hands and/orr properly herd them around their own dreams. |
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Whether or not we can find them doesn't prove they don't exist. They could be hard to find but hold information for us, or they might just be a window to our subconscious, or they might just be an idea people believe and that's it. |
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Okay. But why bother trying? Why not instead build your own self-awareness and self-knowledge, and learn to guide yourself? Why depend on some etheric guide to tell us what to do? |
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Rather than a desire to have their hand held, people are drawn to the notion that there is some separate and intelligent element in their sub-conscious, particularly when the dream guide is seen as an attractive and idealised figure of the opposite sex, people seem to want to conflate dream guides with the anima/animus; the ideal of a dream guide is romanticised, even more so if you care to speculate about the possibility of 'spirit guides' and other external influences (which I don't believe in). |
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Mindfulness - An Alternative Approach to ADA
Intent in Lucid Dreaming; Break that Dry-Spell, Escape the Technique Rut
Always, no sometimes think it's me,
But you know I know when it's a dream
I think I know I mean a yes
But it's all wrong
That is I think I disagree
-John Lennon
I think your definition of Dream guide is different to mine. I see them as possibly being a representation of our own minds (as dreams are what our subconscious creates when "we" are asleep). If they are in a human form, meaning they can speak back, then in theory you can talk with your conscious mind to what you subconscious mind has created. The dream guide is more of a prestigious title for what really is a subconscious manifestation. I don't believe the DG has super duper secrets for me to tell me how to unlock my true potential, but I do think it would be interesting to speak with something in your mind, not made by you. |
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Well said. I was actually using the generally accepted dream guide definition out there, and not yours specifically. In truth I am myself in search of that connection to my "subconscious" -- as I've said before, I hate that word -- to consciously tap and understand the basic nature of my being, of my soul. I suppose using the metaphor of a dream guide -- as long as you are able to remember that it's just a metaphor -- is as good a tool as any to make the exploration. As long as you are able to maintain that it is just a metaphor, and don't drift into a belief system that there really is an external being there to do the work for you. |
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You can either- |
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My Lucid Dreaming Articles/Tutorials:
Mindfulness - An Alternative Approach to ADA
Intent in Lucid Dreaming; Break that Dry-Spell, Escape the Technique Rut
Always, no sometimes think it's me,
But you know I know when it's a dream
I think I know I mean a yes
But it's all wrong
That is I think I disagree
-John Lennon
First, I don't reject the subconscious, I just don't like the use of that word to describe the part of my mind that takes care of all the nattering details of consciousness and gets me through my waking life (and goes nuts during my dreaming life). It's not "sub" anything -- it's part and parcel to my mind, and a fully functioning -- if not occasionally dominant -- component of my consciousness. Also, just because a part of my mind that contains a vast wealth of information and wisdom is difficult to directly access does not mean that it is not a part of my consciousness, or of my self. It's all still me. No "rejection" intended. Subconscious is simply the wrong word for the "concept.". |
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Last edited by Sageous; 10-24-2011 at 04:04 AM.
Do you believe in transmigration/reincarnation of souls, then? Or some other afterlife? For me I'm not quite sure what I believe, for there to be a soul then I think that our conscious thought, our mind, would have to be something more than a bundle of neurons in the forebrain firing off at random, it would have to be more than simply a physical, neurological construct (which in of itself is just astounding, and should be seen as a miracle of nature). |
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My Lucid Dreaming Articles/Tutorials:
Mindfulness - An Alternative Approach to ADA
Intent in Lucid Dreaming; Break that Dry-Spell, Escape the Technique Rut
Always, no sometimes think it's me,
But you know I know when it's a dream
I think I know I mean a yes
But it's all wrong
That is I think I disagree
-John Lennon
I wanted to add a bit to the soul talk. Souls seem to work outside of time and space. My opinion is that a soul is an accumulation of lifetimes of experiences and responses to this. Reincarnation isn't a factor here as souls never really die. What does die is the body or whatever form the soul decides to take. That's my two-cents. |
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Last edited by Kaomea; 10-24-2011 at 11:36 AM.
To be honest I think as with many things in lucid dreaming, dream guides become unnecessarily over-complicated by people. To me a dream guide is a more than usually aware, knowledgeable and cogent dream figure that the dreamer is able to project certain characteristics on. |
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My Lucid Dreaming Articles/Tutorials:
Mindfulness - An Alternative Approach to ADA
Intent in Lucid Dreaming; Break that Dry-Spell, Escape the Technique Rut
Always, no sometimes think it's me,
But you know I know when it's a dream
I think I know I mean a yes
But it's all wrong
That is I think I disagree
-John Lennon
I'm not a big fan of reincarnation -- I simply don't see a need for a soul, after being energized by its maker's consciousness, to "go back." Since something like transmigration happens once in the form of uniting with your soul after death, I suppose that might be a concept to partially "believe in." And, of course, obviously I must believe in some sort of afterlife, since that is what the continuation of consciousness in the soul after death of the body is indeed afterlife. No rapture, heaven or hell or what have you, but still an afterlife. |
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That's exactly it. Where people go astray is the "guide" bit. Saying they are a guide means they have a role or a task to guide or help you through whatever. This has never been proven or confirmed, and there is no real reason to back it up, save the name, which was made up to glorify the image, rather than saying "Better dream character who can actually talk" |
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I can b a dream guide if you can find me, but this Spiritofthewolf is not a good dreamer and will never find a real dream guide by this sort of bs. |
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Dream guide won't you be? |
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Now, if you replace "dream guide" with "random dream character" they don't seem half as cool or mystical. |
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How does a DG decide if it's ready to appear to you? I'm kind of young, in my early teens (prime dreaming years!) anyways is it all related to your skill as a dreamer or would maturity level and other personal factors be part of if your DG is going to appear to you? |
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