Thread: How Do You Act In Your Dreams?

It depends on how lucid I am. If I am in lower lucidity it varies depending on the situation. But idk... I think of lower lucidity dreams as a completely different thing than proper lucids. I recently had an LD unlike anything I've had before, I considered asking about it. But I figured not to. I can't remember too much anyway. But after realizing that I was in a dream I instantly flipped into a complete monster. Insane and completely consumed with bloodlust. Some times I worry that I get punished for being a meanie when I'm lucid. Maybe I do... I haven't been lucid since... But at the same time I've never felt anything like that before... So in that sense I don't really feel like it's my fault. Feels more like something that happened to me... idk.

Usually I'm pretty similar to when I'm awake. Pretty playful, I take it easy, look at stuff. Walk around, explore, talk to people, and see if that leads somewhere interesting. I look for things that stand out... I tend to hitchhike a lot though I have no specific place I want to go... I love to fly... Some times I'll go to space, usually crashing into a planet like a meteor and then taking it from there. There's something thrilling to me about watching the planet get bigger and bigger untill I smash into the ground. I try to avoid sex and fights,(with moderate success) I enjoy both but I tend to get caught up in it, and some times that means I wake up or loose awareness.

I just do what I want, and that's usually pretty simple stuff... Most of any activity, I just walk around. I want to see if I can learn some expert-techniques, so I've been trying to focus more on experimenting like I used to during the first couple of years, getting my skill level and understanding up. Hoping to find my dream guide soon too. That would be nice.

My dream self is very similar to waking self, especially in lucids. However, I'm not always myself in my dreams. Sometimes I play the role of someone else and my personality and characteristics seem different depending on who I am in the dream as well as my dream memories. In lucid dreams I'm very considerate and respectful of others and sometimes go out of my way to make them feel comfortable as a result most of my lucid dreams are harmonious.

Originally Posted by lucidbunnie

My dream self is very similar to waking self, especially in lucids. However, I'm not always myself in my dreams. Sometimes I play the role of someone else and my personality and characteristics seem different depending on who I am in the dream as well as my dream memories. In lucid dreams I'm very considerate and respectful of others and sometimes go out of my way to make them feel comfortable as a result most of my lucid dreams are harmonious.

Are you other people in lucids as well? Or just regular dreams?

Originally Posted by LighrkVader

Are you other people in lucids as well? Or just regular dreams?

Usually when I become lucid I sort of revert to myself If I was playing a role before. There have been lucids where I haven't been completely myself though, low lucidity ones. One example comes to mind, in a dream I was a fugitive who was accused of killing the whole royal family of some sort in a futuristic world. Sure enough I had supernatural powers. In the dream I didn't remember killing anyone, but I assume it must be true since I was on the run and being hunted down. However, in a dream following that I become lucid remembering the earlier dream but I didn't recall much of my waking life and instead recalled the previous fugitive dream memories as actual memories. In this dream I wonder if I'm still on the run but sleeping somewhere and how unlike of me it is to kill. I didn't recall my waking name at all. XD

So you kinda, though maybe not explicitly, assumed that you had gone to sleep during the chase? That's pretty cool. Imagine if you had a false awakening and ended up back in the storyline you thought you were from :O

Funny that you allegedly killed the royal family. The only character I can remember clearly from the murder frenzy dream I wrote about above is Cersei Lannister from Game of Thrones... She seemed to be into it, not that surprising really, with her being all murderous and what not...

In my lucid dreams, I am usually observant, quiet, and impassive, just receiving in and elaborating upon the input given to me. That's how I am IRL, I suppose.
In my non-lucid dreams, for some reason, I've been finding myself to be quite the ass as of recent.

When I'm me in a dream, I am as in real life (by and large). Only, I tend to be more adventurous than I am IRL.
Even during zombie dreams, I feel bad when I have to kill them. I tend to avoid conflict and keep to myself and build things.

I'm especially "me" in lucids. I feel that to know the heart of a person is to know their subconsciousness- their dreams. I try to be a "good person" at all times.

I do have a lot of dreams, though, where I'm not even in it. It's more like dreaming about a movie. I have no active role and merely "possess" some random DC. But even those dreams don't vary much from my core personage- just different people and scenery for the most part

Funny you mention fatigue though. I've had a great many dreams where I was so tired, I could barely move. I know I have to fall asleep to wake up- though not quite in those terms. It feels like being trapped but also like sadness because I have to leave my world for another one (RL) and I have mixed emotions about it. Sometimes I have to find certain rooms in a very large, unknown building in order to wake up. There's never anything special about the room, though. Not that I ever remember anyhow.

Surprised I didn't come across this awesome thread earlier. In dreams, I have developed myself to sort of act like a protagonist from a book or a movie. The way I behave is more like a mature adult but for any interaction with my dream guides, I tend to like the approach of asking questions like a child. Basically, here is the chain of authority in my dreams: Dream Guide ---> Me ---> Other Dream Characters. Just lately, I have learnt to be more expectant when doing reality checks, meaning that I don't get scared when I notice more fingers and rather, I go something like, "Yeah, I was kind of expecting that. Thanks for confirming my lucidity". Regardless of the above, my energy is so strong that I feel that my interaction with every different Dream Character and Dream Guide is unique. Like for instance, Dreamy WB and Murray are both dream guides; I treat them as they are for their position but personally, I don't treat them the same as I rely on their different strengths for different things. Additionally, I rely on Dreamy WB and trust her to guide me as she is the most powerful but when it comes to Murray, I'll still listen to him but I am also wary of if he commits any human errors, so although he is a dream guide, I still supervise him in a way. And then with dream characters, I don't treat my mum as same as my dad; or my cat as same as a gnarling, barking dog on the streets.

When I'm lucid, I remember who I am in waking life and that overrides dream-me, if I believed to be someone else. But that "me" is still different from how I would act in waking life, because I know the world around me isn't real.

When I'm not lucid, how I act depends on many things. I've noticed this over the years. If I'm extremely sad and stressed in waking life, I'm a coward in dreams and even if I try to do something difficult, I will fail. If I'm positive and confident in waking life, I will face any challenge head-on in dreams and bend the rules of the world until I achieve victory. If a monster heals from all attacks and grows to cover the planet, I will engulf the planet in flames and carbonize each cell of this monster to prevent it from healing.

Waking life emotions are a big factor, but how I act in non-lucid dreams also changes from dream to dream. I can believe to be a different person or to be nothing and just observe. If I believe to be in a game, I'm probably more ok with killing people etc. Usually I'm close to my waking self and would describe myself as caring and worrying type. Worry brings trouble in dreams, gives rise to nightmares as well. I try to help people in dreams, as long as they are good. I have no issues killing bad people in some dream.

I can't say what my dream behaviour is like in the few lucid dreams I had because they were so short, but in the first couple ones I had since I discovered dream techniques, I was simply somewhat surprised. In those dreams I mostly took on a behaviour of curiosity, seeing what happens when I do certain things.

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A large part of the non-lucid dreams I have are a mish-mash between different parts of my life in the past, sometimes mixing with the present, and in these I generally act as I do when I'm awake, i.e. try to be careful about the things I say, do things with normal care and attention as if they have real consequences, etc. Sometimes these dreams do mix with non-real locations, but more often than not, this is a transition process from "one" dream to "another".

When a dream is in a place that in waking life I know does not exist (such as a dream-generated location, or a game-location), I tend to act as if it were a game, where consequences are usually very low, so my actions are much more free and sometimes outside of what would be possible for me to do in waking life. Who I am physically is usually only constant to my real-life related dreams, where I tend to be "me"; in the rest of the dreams I am whatever or whoever I am, usually from the beginning to the end - for example I've been some of my characters I've played in MMOs, but sometimes random characters that I've not consciously noticed anywhere, so probably dream-generated or based off an archetype.

The only thing I'd add to that is that even in the more reality-like dreams, I'm still much more inclined to do some things that I wouldn't do if I were awake. For example, I tend to keep myself to the psychological boundaries present in the real world, like "NO ENTRY" places, but in a dream I'm far more likely to go into such an area: the psychological barrier simply isn't as strong when I'm dreaming, which does happen in general anyway in waking life if I'm really sleepy.

There are some exceptions to the above but I think that's what my general behaviour is like, in terms of acting and action.

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As for how I feel and react to certain things; it used to be that dreams started as being neutral or whatever, and sometimes they'd develop into nightmares, such as because of insects or spiders appearing from "nowhere", or in some cases something as simple as answering the front door and getting attacked by random people; I'd feel very distressed and jumpy in these dreams and usually woke up at the peak of emotion, such as when trying to shout for help, which is probably within my "normal" reaction behaviour.

Those dreams are pretty rare now, and I barely have nightmares anymore. In the last few dreams with danger situations where I went into reaction mode, I simply stayed calm(ish) and tried to resolve the situation or get away from it, if I couldn't identify a way of resolving it.

I’m similar to how I am while awake. In LDs I’m maybe more brave, more friendly, more curious and confident. I mostly explore, ask questions, fly, and experiment. In regular dreams I seem to repeat a lot of patterns and am worried about doing the right thing, hiding my insecurities or flaws, I get mad a lot and worry about abandoned animals. Sort of how I am in waking life but more insecure and reactive. I’m more sexually confident in both type of dreams.

It depends, since I tend to switch between being a female and a male in my dreams - just like that and quite often.

Female - unfriendly towards men - and vice versa if male. (Only doing it because it's fun and I wouldn't really dare in IRL)

The way I behave in dreams (assuming I don't randomly become lucid as though I were somehow aware I was dreaming the whole time, only to let go of the thought/knowledge about as soon as I got it after reacting to one thing in particular... this isn't me losing lucidity so much as it is me more or less being a very minor level of semi-lucid the entirety of the dream such that I will at times, without really even meaning to, take control momentarily for some reason) reflects how I normally act in waking life, but typically sans any of the irritated/angry thoughts or random pondering. In other words, the part of me that gets huffy about anything and judges everything isn't present, while the basic behaviors of interacting with people and my surroundings is still there.

If I weren't aware that I was actually this way while awake because of the judgmental side being there I'd think I acted almost completely unlike my regular self in dreams, but truthfully the things you think (whether mean or childish or whatever) don't negate the ways you actually act toward others in spite of them. That said, despite quite frankly being a total asshole in my head most of the day, I'm usually very agreeable, nice, and easy to get along with and trust. I'm that same way in dreams, only my tendency to avoid confrontation, among other things, isn't something I seem to be capable of inhibiting like I can while awake, so typically I wind up in some rather weird situations because I completely avoid any confrontation that might result.