Thread: Impersonating your dream guide.

To quote one of my other posts. Dream guides aren't something that's fundamental to dreams, like a science or anything. They're just another fun thing to do in a lucid dream, like flying. Like most things in dreams, it's an "it exists because you expect it to exist" sort of thing. Many people like to think of it as their subconscious speaking to them. But that's just their opinion.

Originally Posted by SystemsLock

To quote one of my other posts. Dream guides aren't something that's fundamental to dreams, like a science or anything. They're just another fun thing to do in a lucid dream, like flying. Like most things in dreams, it's an "it exists because you expect it to exist" sort of thing. Many people like to think of it as their subconscious speaking to them. But that's just their opinion.

Well, if you don't make them say specific things (and the same goes for any other DC), doesn't that mean your subconscious is making them talk? And therefore, you are talking to your subconscious.

Originally Posted by Kafke

Well, if you don't make them say specific things (and the same goes for any other DC), doesn't that mean your subconscious is making them talk? And therefore, you are talking to your subconscious.

A lot of people tend to take the term subconsciousness out of perspective. When you dream, despite the illusion of consciousnesses, a lot of the logic centers of your brain are still asleep. This disconnection creates the illusion that your own thoughts aren't coming from you. Much in the same way a dog can bark at a mirror, not realizing they are seeing themselves. It also has the double effect of allowing thoughts and ideas, which may normally be suppressed by logic, to come to you unfiltered. If that's your definition of a subconsciousness, then yes, a dream guide is your subconsciousness. But so is everything else in a dream. A dream guide is just a familiar face your mind has put on this manifestation of thought.