Quote Originally Posted by Ctharlhie View Post
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.
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"