Thread: Killing Dream Characters

Originally Posted by Loaf

I'll say, third person view is simple in lucids.

Sometimes I feel like I'm watching a short movie of myself.

Originally Posted by Puffin

But personally I would never be able to kill a DC

What's funny is that in my normal dreams, I'm usually extremely violent (if my environment is also violent). I've killed off loads of dream figures in normal dreams, and it's quite common for them to try to kill me as well.

However, in my lucid dreams, I'm not normally like that. Sometimes if I become lucid while someone is trying to kill me, I'll use a mental power I call "Override" and kill or otherwise incapacitate them, or just render them harmless. But, there was this one time - in a lucid dream - where I grabbed two F16 fighter jets out of midair using telekinesis and smashed them together (and thereby killing the pilots). After I realized what I'd done, I started crying uncontrollably and I couldn't believe what I'd just done. "They were just doing their jobs," is what I said to myself. The more I am in control of myself and my intentions, the less violent I become.

I will start by saying this. Whatever you believe your dreams to be is what they are. I personally believe that dreams are manifestations of other realities, and that makes everything and everyone in them singular entities. I believe in infinite possibilities and an infinite number of dimensions or realities, which I believe is why we are able to take control and do or even make others to whatever we want. Because that is just one possible scenerio. I have killed others in a dream, but only when they were attacking me or in some way threatening something I hold dear. In one instance, there was a woman intruder upstairs in a house that I lived in. She appeared at the top of the stairs and I knew that she intended to harm me or someone else in the house. She started coming at me, but I met her midway up the stairs and and engaged her in combat. It was a very close quarters combat and soon turned to grappling. Then I grabbed her and we both fell over the railing to the bottom, where I locked her neck in my arms and twisted violently breaking her neck (Which took a great deal more strength than I anticipated it would). It was a very disturbing dream for me, but in this dream I held the same values I do in waking life. I have no quarrel killing or attempting to kill if in defense of myself or something I care about. It seems to me if this figure meant you harm, real or not, destruction is not the worst thing you could have done. Besides, if you believe that all beings are one entity experiencing life subjectively, and I do, then you're really only killing a part of yourself anyway. And when you consider that you felt great upon waking, that says to me that it was a part of you that was unneeded, indeed even unwanted.

People often say "if you kill a DC you kill part of yourself". Since DCs regularly respawn and reappear, I don't think I care so much. Besides, probably wouldn't hurt to lose the bumbling idiotic side of myself...

Besides, probably wouldn't hurt to lose the bumbling idiotic side of myself...

I could stand to lose the creepy stalker side, apparently.

Aw heck, lets all just kill anything we see in dreams!

lol Right?

Could you repeat that, I was just reincarnating corpses so I could kill them.

Excellent! Reincarnation in place of resurrection makes for more corpses!

Granted, there are fewer opportunities for zombie jokes. Decisions, decisions.