People representing other people..

I frequently have dreams of meeting, chilling out and often sleeping with the guitarist from my favourite band (Dream Theater :P)
Now I know that would totally never happen, but the way we interacted in the dream it was like we knew each other so well, and i often wondered that he could have represented a guy in my life who's like 'the one that got away' who's also a guitarist and I guess I kinda look up to him in that respect too. I guess I could spend all day making connections between the two guys, thing is, I should have posted this up a while ago when i did have a chance with the guy, and a second opinion on that situation would have helped hehe.
But anyways, I was just after another's opinion really.. I have rather random or odd dreams which I'll post up for a second opinion on the meaning as they occour.

Does anyone else think that the people they meet in thier dreams could represent someone in life? and any theories on why we dont actually dream about thats person and opposed to a representative?

Cheers
Natalie

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Originally posted by GingGoth
Does anyone else think that the people they meet in thier dreams could represent someone in life? and any theories on why we dont actually dream about thats person and opposed to a representative?

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There are several ways people view dream characters. I personally think that a dream character is your minds own interpretaion of how you think that person or persons would respond to what ever the dream scene would introduce.
Even if you know that person you can't really know for sure what he or she would have said or done in our waking life. But our mind can construct what it believes to be the most probable response for any given situation.
In your case I think it is very possible that your mind is itegrating the two people together. Probalby combining traits of the one you know and also manifesting some creation from its imagination to create the guitarest you speak of.

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There are several ways people view dream characters. I personally think that a dream character is your minds own interpretaion of how you think that person or persons would respond to what ever the dream scene would introduce.
Even if you know that person you can't really know for sure what he or she would have said or done in our waking life. But our mind can construct what it believes to be the most probable response for any given situation.
In your case I think it is very possible that your mind is itegrating the two people together. Probalby combining traits of the one you know and also manifesting some creation from its imagination to create the guitarest you speak of.

Thanks for the insight, I thought I was right, ah well.. cheers anyways.
Just a thought, perhaps the reason why we sometimes dream one person in place of who it represents, because the thought of the situation with the actual person seems most unlikely, or deep down we know it'd never happen, I gues thats where dream control comes into play, accepting the most unlikely event to happen. Or something :|

GingGoth,
If you happen to become lucid or you are lucid during these encounters with this guitarest, this may be one thing you would like to consider.
Although it won't be easy, in a dream you know there will be no real repructions or direct interaction with the DC. So maybe in the dream you can break it of. Cut your ties with this person. It may help you physcologically overcome your true feelings that you have while your awake. Because if you cannot be with either person it would seem to recreate the heartache each day.
On the other hand if it helps you to interact with those charachters because you could not otherwise be with them in a literal sense, then leave well enough alone.

Dear GingGoth,

Dream Characters don't always have to be seen as representing anything. Dreaming is often done for its own sake. A Dream Character is its own Dream Character. He or She is as He or She appears.

One of my sentimentally favorite dreams was with Carly Simon... remember her?... she was hot back in the seventies. Anyway, I took up a minor part on stage at one of her concerts. I even forget whether I was on drum, keyboard, guitar or violin. But most memorable in this dream was that after the concert, Carly invited everybody to her Estate on Martha's Vinyard Island. Everything was perfectly charming. She even tracked me down and sat with me and gave me her attention for 5 minutes with a bit of a little chat. She was a wonderfully attentive hostess.

Now, was that REALLY Carly Simon? Well, yes and no. To be a successful performer, one really needs to project a certain well crafted Persona. Perhaps these Performance Personas can actually take on a certain Life of Their Own.

It puts me in mind of Nicole Kidman, arguably today's most talented actress. It certainly seems that she is able to craft almost completely detailed altar Personas -- the characters she plays in these movies. Then when she comes on the talk shows, she is this thick speeking young lady from Down Under... hardly the same person at all, from all of the Movie Characters whom she has been able to create whole out of almost nothing.

One needs to wonder whether these elaborately created Personas have some real existence on the Pyschic/Spiritual/Suggective level.

When someone 'creates' a character, does that character then exist at some level? Perhaps so.

So your rock band hero may well be the Persona of that rock band hero. maybe not the real self of that man -- the young man that still argues with mom and dad about his haircut when he visits them on holiday -- but the stage persona may have its own reality by now.

[quote]GingGoth,
If you happen to become lucid or you are lucid during these encounters with this guitarest, this may be one thing you would like to consider.
Although it won't be easy, in a dream you know there will be no real repructions or direct interaction with the DC. So maybe in the dream you can break it of. Cut your ties with this person. It may help you physcologically overcome your true feelings that you have while your awake. Because if you cannot be with either person it would seem to recreate the heartache each day.
On the other hand if it helps you to interact with those charachters because you could not otherwise be with them in a literal sense, then leave well enough alone.

Cheers man that helped alot actually, breaking it off in the dream would give me closure, and perhaps I could get that in the other loose end in my past life, I never considered that as an option for LD.

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Dear GingGoth,

Dream Characters don't always have to be seen as representing anything. Dreaming is often done for its own sake. A Dream Character is its own Dream Character. He or She is as He or She appears.

One of my sentimentally favorite dreams was with Carly Simon... remember her?... she was hot back in the seventies. Anyway, I took up a minor part on stage at one of her concerts. I even forget whether I was on drum, keyboard, guitar or violin. But most memorable in this dream was that after the concert, Carly invited everybody to her Estate on Martha's Vinyard Island. Everything was perfectly charming. She even tracked me down and sat with me and gave me her attention for 5 minutes with a bit of a little chat. She was a wonderfully attentive hostess.

Now, was that REALLY Carly Simon? Well, yes and no. To be a successful performer, one really needs to project a certain well crafted Persona. Perhaps these Performance Personas can actually take on a certain Life of Their Own.

It puts me in mind of Nicole Kidman, arguably today's most talented actress. It certainly seems that she is able to craft almost completely detailed altar Personas -- the characters she plays in these movies. Then when she comes on the talk shows, she is this thick speeking young lady from Down Under... hardly the same person at all, from all of the Movie Characters whom she has been able to create whole out of almost nothing.

One needs to wonder whether these elaborately created Personas have some real existence on the Pyschic/Spiritual/Suggective level.

When someone 'creates' a character, does that character then exist at some level? Perhaps so.

So your rock band hero may well be the Persona of that rock band hero. maybe not the real self of that man -- the young man that still argues with mom and dad about his haircut when he visits them on holiday -- but the stage persona may have its own reality by now.

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Cheers also dude! perhaps when i break things off for sure like ^^^ said.. then I can take advantage of who I'm actually dreaming about :D

Hi goth, I think our dreams suppliment what we need and are lacking in our daily lives. Maybe you want intimacy with someone you look up to and respect. I guess the guitarist is a lot less creepy than say it was your grandfather.