Thread: Dream characters who won't shut the hell up and listen.

I do have dreams similar to that. But instead of them not listening to me, I am unable to talk. I feel like I have something important to tell them, but no words come out of my mouth and DCs just stare at me...


Stressful!


-Rob

Sometimes my DC's seem like uncaring automatons just going their own way and ignoring me. That is especially bad when I am in a crowd, or if the DC is someone I know.

Thats happened to me before too. Its so annoying. Then I try to fight them or something to get them to shut up and they'll just run away.

As soon as i stop chasing them they turn around and start pestering me.



Worst ever

all my DC fear me lol i in the past month or so i havnt meet a DC which i havnt met in the past somwere or another and ya i had this dream were i was in a radio station adn this guy told me to say somthing in to the mic and i was trying to and i cudnt and then the guy started laughing at me so i walked over to him and snapped his kneck thats how i deal with it

Originally Posted by Oneironaught

Every so often I have a dream where a DC won't shut up and listen to what I'm trying to tell them. It's like they are too stubborn to allow me to say what I want to say to them. It reminds me a lot of when a child puts their fingers in their ears and goes "La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-I-can't-hear-you-la-la-la...". They seem to be rambling obnoxiously just to drown me out and get me to stop talking to them.

I had two dreams in a row last night in which DCs did this to me. It gives me a very nervous feeling and stresses me out in the dream. It also seems to cause me to have a very hard time getting words out in the dream. I have something important to tell them but can't get through to them.

How about conjuring up a megaphone?

Originally Posted by Psylocibin

How about conjuring up a megaphone?

That might work. I could have used one last night in a dream where I was trying to dispatch a crowd of people but couldn't shout. So I had to go around and tell each person individually to get the hell out of my home. Of course, if I were lucid things would have been a bit different.

There could be something very important that needs to be said and nobody wants to listen.

Does this happen in normal dreams or Lucid ones? Or both?

I find my normal dreams are, well normal - I can communicate with all DCs and since I don;t have the control I can't change that. Its like fighting but not being able to hit, or running, but not getting anywhere - I think its like a pscological block in your mind?

On the other hand, I get really frustrated with my DCs in lucid dreams - the buggers just don't want to listen to me! This was from my DJ last night:

Originally Posted by Adam's Dream Journal

There was this big fella, he said he would help me get some and took me outside. So we were walking around and I was talking to various space DC's asking them questions but no one would reply!! "You're all so boring, you're not talking!!" I kept saying to them, they hardly even acknowledged me! There were some really ugly space people too, really weird guys.

I felt like punching one of them, because I knew it was a dream and wouldn't be real, but I couldn't bring myself to do it, so I just kept calling them names instead.

So yeah Lucid dreams, they are asshats normally I have to walk around to find someone nice to talk to normally!

p.s I must add, he was helping me get some cards for the Lucid task, not get some

I had this problem when I first started lucid dreaming. Once I'd got over the - waking up because your so excited your lucid stage, I entered the - pestered by DC's who wont shut up until you've forgot your lucid stage. I tried running away and hiding but that usually ended up with me forgetting I was lucid too. Then I made a great discovery - if you dont give DC's any attention, then they dont exist.

I don't think it's ever happened to me while lucid. If I ever have a situation like that while lucid then I'll just walk away, knowing that they don't matter to me anyway, unless I choose for them to. That's assuming I'm lucid enough at the time to grasp that concept.

Try grabbing a volume dial and turning everyone down or off. Once it's quiet enough for you to speak, tell them what you want to tell them.

Also, if you find that you've turned yourself down, pull out another dial that's meant just for you and turn your volume up as loud as you so desire.

when i have dreams were i find myself frustrated or strong emotion towards something, my dream usually tries to tell me something. the dream reoccurs untill i realise that. when i see what it is all about/find a solution the dream often goes away or becomes less of a bother.

Originally Posted by Oneironaught

Every so often I have a dream where a DC won't shut up and listen to what I'm trying to tell them. It's like they are too stubborn to allow me to say what I want to say to them. It reminds me a lot of when a child puts their fingers in their ears and goes "La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-I-can't-hear-you-la-la-la...". They seem to be rambling obnoxiously just to drown me out and get me to stop talking to them.

I had two dreams in a row last night in which DCs did this to me. It gives me a very nervous feeling and stresses me out in the dream. It also seems to cause me to have a very hard time getting words out in the dream. I have something important to tell them but can't get through to them.

Now, none of you know this (except one) until now but, I have an annoying stutter/stammer issue that comes and goes from time to time. I wonder if that has anything to do with it. I know I've been in real-life situations before where I have had a hard time getting a word out and so everyone else in the crowd just starts their own conversation. It's rude and it really gets on my nerves something fierce. It's rare, mind you. But it has happened to me.

Does anyone else have that dream situation sometimes or is it just me?

Try shutting up and listening to them, maybe they have something better to say.

You know something, Amethyst Star has a great idea...giving your mind a tool to work with may make it a little more beleivable that you can actually make the dream characters shut up. Try what she says, it sound akin to the "Windows drop down option menu" that some people use to perform actions in their dreams.

Let us know if you have luck with this

I agree that a physical object or interface would be a great tool. I also like the megaphone idea.

Luckily, I don't have dreams like that very often. But they can sure be frustrating when they do occur. I think the last time I experienced this was my dream "Meat Puppets", which happens to be in my dream journal. Well, no, that's not true. Because I actually did use Psylocibin's megaphone advice in a non-lucid a month or so after starting this thread. And it did work. Darn, I should have remembered to thank him. Thanks, Psylocibin.

But I think that one was the last time I had the problem (for the time being at least).

Originally Posted by Oneironaught

Every so often I have a dream where a DC won't shut up and listen to what I'm trying to tell them. It's like they are too stubborn to allow me to say what I want to say to them. It reminds me a lot of when a child puts their fingers in their ears and goes "La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-I-can't-hear-you-la-la-la...". They seem to be rambling obnoxiously just to drown me out and get me to stop talking to them.

I had two dreams in a row last night in which DCs did this to me. It gives me a very nervous feeling and stresses me out in the dream. It also seems to cause me to have a very hard time getting words out in the dream. I have something important to tell them but can't get through to them.

Now, none of you know this (except one) until now but, I have an annoying stutter/stammer issue that comes and goes from time to time. I wonder if that has anything to do with it. I know I've been in real-life situations before where I have had a hard time getting a word out and so everyone else in the crowd just starts their own conversation. It's rude and it really gets on my nerves something fierce. It's rare, mind you. But it has happened to me.

Does anyone else have that dream situation sometimes or is it just me?

Ihave that whole stutter problem quite alot daily, goes away and comes back but don't stay gone long and stays with me a long time. I remember one time i was trying to say a few things at once and i was like ahhhblhajdakdh and the other guy looks at me weirdly...i was trying to say alot of things at once and all i could make was the sound of the first letter, then he just goes "you're silly".