Thread: What if you kill your dream guide?

What happens if during one of your all encompassing rampages of the dream world you accidentally shred your dream guide to pieces with a .50 cal?

can they come back to life

I would say so... They're not really dead right?

i dont know, according to that tutorial by that other guy, he made it sound like they were real people

I really don't know much about dream guides but do you think the tutorial you read meant DG act like people?

yeah, i really dont see the point of them, since they are really just your own mind

but i will try to look for mine if i ever become lucid again

Originally Posted by Hercuflea

yeah, i really dont see the point of them, since they are really just your own mind

i think's because it's a more physical way of talking to your own subconcious so it's easier to know what you're doing

if that made any sense

I personally think they get back to life. I don't know much about Dream Guides but here's how i think it might be.
1st- Dream Guide is in your head, creation of your mind so you can't kill it.
or, 2nd- Dream Guide is some kind of a spirit or a supernatural being so you still can't kill it.

They would have to be living in the first place in order to die.

recreate them, duh. its made by your mind, so if you want them back they'll come back.

Originally Posted by Hercuflea

What happens if during one of your all encompassing rampages of the dream world you accidentally shred your dream guide to pieces with a .50 cal?

I don't know? Shredding someone to pieces with a gun. It must have taken more than one shot! Hence it doesn't sound like an accident to me.

But I'm sure that they would come back.

I guess it depends on how you looked at your dream guide, if they were just some person you went to when you were bored, then they probably would just disappear.

Anyway, kind of off topic, but this thread really got me thinking on the lines of "making something from nothing", it's all just inside your head, vast landscapes that you are conscious in, just inside your head, in space thats clearly not there to begin with. Crazy, huh?

Without trampling people's beliefs here, you seem to believe that dream guides are all in the mind (as do I). They will come back if you believe they will come back, and stay dead if you expect them to stay dead.

I'm not sure what a dream guide is. I would imagine though that they are as impervious to damage as you are..

Lol shredded it with a .50, well jeez (psycho) must have shot it like a billion times.

Anyway, if you believe they are just in your head then you can bring them back obviously. But by the sounds of it you think they are a 'supernatural' or actual living thing. If you believe this then it won't come back alive because you won't believe it can, unless of course you believe that dream guides are immortal, then it will be able to come back.

Hope that made sense.

And dream guides are important I think. The first time I met mine was just out of the blue and it was the most insightful dream I've had. It's in my DJ if anyone cares.

i have a feeling i know where mine is, so if i ever attain lucidity again i will know not to blow the place up for fun

its in this forest place with a train track running through it in the middle of nowhere

yes they can come back to life.

no logic = no limits

Why would you want to do that?

One of two things could happen:

1. You have a psychotic break, like they guy from Rekall warned Quaid about in Total Recall

2. You slip into a coma.

Originally Posted by Hercuflea

What happens if during one of your all encompassing rampages of the dream world you accidentally shred your dream guide to pieces with a .50 cal?

can they come back to life

LOL

By What if , do you mean you already have????? Lol

So far, I thought I ought to mention two things that occured to me:

1. It's possible that, until you are "ready" to have a dream-guide assited style dream on your "own," your dream guide would be invincible in the face of lethal attacks from you. They could be incapacitated, or they cpuld pretend to abandon you to prove a point, buit it seems to me that if they are a construct of one;s mind, they could not be destroyed until you felt your "conscious" dreammind had surpassed them completely. (then again, I could be completely msunderstanding the whole dream guide thing.)

2. There is a way that a dream guide could be "mortal." Think of the philotic beings from the Ender's Game series. Using Jane (as seen in Speaker for the Dead) as an example, the dream guides could have been sort of spirit energy creatures that eventually latched onto your subconscious mind, and were then developed to fit the format of one;s thoughts. If the system rebels, even though it seems to be a symbiotic relationship, it may be possible to completely destroy the whatever-it-isn;t, simply by overloading it in some way, in the way that electrocution* or intense pain could lethally override the human nervous sytem. If the dream guide exists or existed in any form outside of or previous to one;s dreams, that means they have enough existence to be destroyed, either accidentally or intentionally. Either way, I wouldn;t suggest "accidentally" unloading a 50 cal pistol at your dream guide. It;s just asking for trouble.


*Yes, I know it;s typically because the heart stops, and not nervous damage.

hmm i think he's dead .50 cals are strong, maybe if you just destroyed him with a 9 mil, he might live