Thread: Dream Charcters

Originally Posted by Geves

opinions, answers, slaps to the face for stupidity?
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SLAP! SLAP!

lol, I don't agree so much with either idea. I think its possible to create entire personalitys and characters via your subconscious, and I think your brain does.

I do think, however, that there may be some merit in the idea of DCs being people, or not people necessarily but "others" much like your dream guide being a "spirit" of some kind. I do believe in shared dreams, although they not that common. I did a post once about blobberwobs, it was my theory on shared dreams, I'll see if i can find it and post it here

well actually, our minds are powerful enough to handle such processes as creating dream characters with unique personalities and habits. there is a post in beyond dreaming about us using only 10% of our brain when we are awake. well, 10% is not that much, and while we dream it seems that our mind is able to do whatever it wants in regards to dreaming. if our subconscious feels like giving us a nightmare of an entire city of demons and zombies attacking us while reciting philosophical rants of what they think the nature of violence is, then we cant stop that. well we can lucid dream and stop it but thats manipulating the dream itself, my point is that we cannot know what dreams we will have before we fall asleep.

the mind is capable of so much, and creating dream characters with individual personalities would be nothing less than creative.

I'd have to agree with the two people above. Virtually nothing is known about how powerful our subconscious minds are... I think they are perfectly capable of creating entire worlds and every character in them. That's not to say that our dreaming minds don't sometimes take people from the back of our memories and make them into DC's, but I don't think that's what happens every time.

As for DC's being "real people"... well, I don't know. I can't say that I buy into the idea of shared dreaming, but I've never seen any real proof either way. Doesn't seem like it would be logical, though.

My vote is, that they are creations of the mind.

On an only slightly related note, I've dreamt of characters I've created in the waking reality for stories and such.

But other than that, I don't think I've ever really created a character schema in dreaming. It's probably more than possible, though. Much more likely to happen in a lucid dream, but not impossible in a normal one.

weird

I'd have to say that, by definition, they are manipulations of other people. However, dreams are yes, by definition, a reflection ultimately of what you experience in the world and how you interpret it. You cannot dream something that you cannot "imagine." By this I mean, if you never saw a face of anything, you wouldn't dream of humans with faces like we have. For example, Helen Keller began by having dreams that she was in a dark room. Yep, that's all. She couldn't hear or see.

However, the people in your dream eventually come to be very very large manipulations and transformation of people who you've seen in your life. They can be a mixture of any and all of the faces you have ever seen in your life, every aspect and characteristic of any and all of the faces you have ever seen in your life, and a mixture of all of that with the aspects, characteristics, and faces of animals and objects that you have seen in your life. Basically what I am getting at, is you won't be able to trace it back to one person, but it is definitely based on someone, or everyone. So basically, it is certainly a recreation, but not just slightly altered in appearance, and a mixture of other people.

But anyways, your mind has much more power than you believe it does. You can walk into a room once and and then perfectly recreate it in your dreams or mind. You can most likely walk through your entire school or house in perfect replication in your dreams. This is what often leads people to believe in "OBEs." The fact that everything is soooo realistic and true-to-life. Especially habitual places like peoples rooms, which can be realistic and exact to a scary proportion. And remember, this true-to-life factor can happen at any time. Some people use the fact that they have never had a dream like that before as "evidence" that what they are having is an OBE.

There are definitely people who believe in shared dreams. I am not one of them.

I believe that everyone in our dreams are either people we know or people we think we know. You either dream about someone you've known your whole life, your best friend, family members, whatever. You draw their personality from experiences you've had with them.

The other type of characters are the ones we think we know, which are usually combinations of people we do know. They usually don't have as much of a personality, and most of their traits are the generalizations the dreamer has about humanity. They are a random amalgam or features we see in others and ourselves. Having these characters in our dreams takes some of the stress of our minds, since there is no preconcieved notion of how they should be.

At least thats what I think.

well, your subcounsius remembers almost everything it sees.
so why would your mind wasit energy creating a new person when it can just extract one from its date bank of billions?
I think they are people we have seen before, even though it could be a actor we saw walking through 300 people in NYC on a movie set when we was 6months old.
-i agree alot with ataraxis

I tend to agree with ataraxis, I don't believe in shared dreams.

I agree with all, especially Shyne.
Dream characters are probably people from real life, maybe seen in a glimpse in your day to day life.
I remember meeting someone once that, at first glance, I've never met before. After a few minutes, however, I noticed something familiar about her. It bothered me for a long time until I remembered that she had been a character (not a main one) in some of my dreams the year before. In this idea, I had probably met her before, maybe years ago, and my memory just tapped into the memory of her at the right time.
Dreams are simply creations of the mind, hence the idea that there are no such things as shared dreams (although I wish there was)..

Most dream characters I met react as I expect them, so I doubt any I have encountered could be a real being. When I'm lucid I will sometimes actually search if there is any being in my dream that is not completely under my influence. I will approach them, tell them to say something I could never expect, but so far they have never said anything I could not have expected.

I also would say that I think our mind is capable of creating people, perhaps they are based a little on people we may know, yet i think on the whole they're not.

Shared dreams always inerested me...Not sure though how it could be done

Yeah, shared dreams are really interesting. Unfortunately I think it doesn't work...

i think that your mind is capable of just making it all up.. however, i think that your theories are very interesting!!