Hi guys, im new here and literally made this account because i wanted your opinion on what ive recently experienced.
Background info - 18, australian, working, relatively happy and with a big family , saving for a trip to japan, recently started living with my best mate, can lucid dream via WILD but only have been successful around 8-10 times in 6 years.
To comprehend this dream i need you to understanad what me and my friend call ' unintentional dream control ', its something everyone has experienced once or twice and often gets missinterpreted as lucid dreaming. This is the process of your dream self tricking your mind into thinking its in control of the dream, giving the illusion it is. the way this happens for most people is the traditional ' i was in a dream and said some spells and fire really came from my body!! ' - while you are in some way controlling your dream, it is by no means lucid.
Alright, so the actual dream starts here :
This dream occured while i was sleeping on the couch, at about 5 am. the concept behind it was that i was in a game editor with my best mate ( whos house i was sleeping at, we also game dev so this wasnt a surprise ). by being in a ' map editor ', i was effectively in control of the dream ( thats the unintentional dream control i mentioned ). so basically, i created a sky scraper that was underground, with the general rule that the higher up you were, the more civilised it was. The top level was at ground level and had supermarkets, apartments, etc. one thing i took note of here : the people inhabiting these spacecs seemed lifeless, like npcs in a game would.
moving down, we got to police floors deep underground, and at one point skimmed past a prison( take note this was happening as i was giving my friend a ' tour ' of the ' bunker - skycraper ' ). so this is where it gets really, really strange. we reach the bottom floor. my friend looks at me and says ' i dont really feel that safe here ', and looking around i saw why. the meat store was a huge giant of a guy chopping up human body parts, there were people with knives walking around etc. thats when my friend saw a golden door at the end of the room. he asked ' what is behind that '
without meaning it, my dream self stated ' that, i have no idea.. that was there before i arrived here, its always been here, its important. ', so naturally we open it. this is the part i need help interpreting. behind this door was a huge caveren filled with light blue air. we walked into an active hub of community, a city that looked like a modern city melded with something from bioshock. the part that gets me, still, is this : The people in that space, the ' extra ' level to the game, felt genuinely real. My dream self knew my friend wasnt my real friend, but he stated ' Listen, the people here... they are real, they are real just like me, more real than you. ' - its something that was felt, in the same way you intrinsically know a nightmare is a nightmare, my body knew that the people in that space were actual, real people.
i woke up just as i went to talk to one , who was carrying her shopping to her car. i do note that the people of this section seemed genuinely human, in a way that ive never felt dreaming before, while in the actual ' game level ' they felt like npcs. i also get the weird vibe that maybe, ill be seeing that city in the caveren again, it felt alive and happy, and real.. anyway
any interpretations would be appreciated, has anyone ever felt like people/multiple people in their dreams were actual living people?
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