I've been wondering, if dream characters are projections of our own minds can we use them to learn about ourselves? Or are they simply flashes of our untamed subconscious? How much of our personality is portrayed through our characters?

Today I took a nap and had my most vivid lucid dream yet, the problem was I went lucid while sitting with my boyfriend in a park. I was very excited so I told him that we were in my dream and that we could go anywhere or do anything. Immediately his character became sad, started acting like my boyfriend does in reality when something's on his mind and he doesn't want to share it.

I wanted to appease him so I took him to fjord and we walked on water, during that time he was fascinated. But back on shore he was quiet and downtrodden. I tried to talk to him about it and the second he started to explain my dream world became engulfed in shadows. I've been thinking about this and I think the shadows were a symbolic representation of my own emotions. I also think that they were being expressed (maybe even felt?) by my DC boyfriend. Note: There was another layer after this part of the dream that I won't write about because this post is getting long, but if you're interested feel free to message me. My mind definitely played some tricks on me.

I won't expand on what I think the experience caused me to feel, but I will say that we live five hours away, and I think I subconsciously projected feelings relating to that through the behavior of his DC. This can be supported by the fact that he wasn't upset until after I told him we were in my dream and by fact that the shadows appeared when he was going to speak about how he felt.

So now I'm asking you all questions about DCs in relation to the dreamer. Do you guys have any thoughts or experiences to share? Do you think this is a good way to learn about oneself? Or do you think it's complete rubbish?