Thread: Telling Dream Characters "This is a Dream" Extreme Reactions

All the observations posted here are valid and point to a pattern. Yes, most often DCs will only offer skepticism, anger, confusion. And sometimes DCs will be supportive or subservient. Some here have concluded that this similarity is the sum of expectation--i.e how we expect the DC to act based on 'real life' examples will be made manifest. Logical. Probable. But i disagree. Based on the notion that lucid dreaming is meant to illumine the Dream nature of our own reality, that just as we can awaken from the dream of sleep we can awaken from the dream of life, then it follows that interrupting the flow The Dream only produces friction and resistance. I'll copyright the term Dream-Tact right now. As it is impolite and tactless to talk to people about what they cannot understand (like how everything is but a dream), it is without tact and foresight that one tells a DC that they are one. Their response--positive or negative--will only distract you from your state of lucidity. I think this scenario offers advice to reality as we know it: have faith in your Action and do not seek the support of those who cannot support you. -keep on flowin

Originally Posted by kx20

In one of my lucid dreams i went up to a class of 6th graders and asked them if i was dreaming and their eyes turned red and they started chasing me down the stairs trying to kill meXD as i slid down the banister i ended up in a smoothie factory and my mom was there. I asked her if i was dreaming and she just stared at me, walked away, did a backflip onto a couch and went to sleepXD

holy shit this is the funniest damn thing i've read in a long time...sounds like a legendary tale to tell your kids when you are 80

Originally Posted by Dannon Oneironaut

lol. You got mad at a dream character?

not mad, maybe frustrated... the last time this happened my brother was a DC that i was trying to convince

i said " look i am flying this has to be a dream "
and all he said was

"so"
and in my dream i did not understand why he would not believe it was a dream

Ooh, I had one of these.

I was in a conversation with someone, and we were both wondering about something that didn't make any sense; we'd met earlier in the dream, in a different city, but in exactly the same room/space as where we were now. So I start telling her, thinking it for the first time myself as I went: "There is one explanation..:

THIS IS A DREAM

Except that the "This is a dream" part of the sentence didn't come out of my mouth (everything else did, specifically); it was imposed on us from all directions at inevitable volume by the dream-universe itself, like what being immersed in a MMORPG and getting a server message might feel like.

She didn't really respond, because I went lucid right as I said that, and being aware that I was creating her reactions kind of scrambled the rest of the conversation.

It was really a rather intense experience, and mildly unnerving, to have the universe shout at you.

I'm really disappointed. I told a succubus that it wasn't real, fully expecting a tremendous hissyfit, but it just faded away. I, on the other hand, tend to lose my temper in dreams, even when lucid. I dropped the f-bomb on a DC the other morning because she wouldn't stop chatting while I was trying to concentrate on a dream goal I was working on.

Once I took a DC best friend flying as proof that it was a dream. The classic "too heavy" mindset came over me and I stiffled the disbelief in my ability, telling myself he was lighter. It worked but when I looked back at him, he was now a bag of groceries and I laughed so hard It must have woken me up. Another time I was in a concert for my favorite band and I came to lucidity. The music stopped and the crowd moved out of the way so I could take stage. I told the vocalist this was just a dream and he should come jam with me and make a band with me on the side. The crowd and bands cheered for me when I announced the dreamality we were actually in. My hopes were that he dreamt and my message was sent. Just waiting on that phone call...

I've become lucid with DC's of friends I have in real life who are also interested in lucid dreaming, they usually get excited and thank me for letting them know. Once I got a DC friend to think of a random number and I'll message him the number once I wake up. When I did eventually wake up I realised it was a stupid idea and never messaged him haha. In another dream I was in a backpackers hostel with strangers and became lucid, I told them everything was a dream and they didn't believe me so I sat down and made huge bolts of lightning come out of my hands. They didn't seem that impressed and told me it was a stupid trick.

Yesss!! I've been having this and I'm trying to figure out how not to let them figure out I'm aware I'm dreaming lol. it drives me crazy because the moment I say "I'm dreaming this isnt real" they all stop and look at me like "she found out" and in some cases they will point at me and then I'm sucked out of my dream because of that. I wonder what that means ??? I want to continue the dream but dont know how

Imagine all the trouble they have to go through to convince you that you're experiencing reality, and you simply reject everything and say "It's just a dream." They must be really frustrated. It's like having people prepare a surprise birthday party for you, they go into your house and wait for you to arrive, and when you enter and find them all smiling, with party hats and gifts, you tell them "Today is not my birthday.", then you turn your back on them and go do something else.

Lucidity should be discrete, otherwise it could disrupt the whole dream, and they can get angry, yes.

Once I told the dream people that I had died and ended up in their world. Their response was that I was crazy, or drunk.

I just had an experience like this a few weeks ago actually. My first time lucid in monthsssss. I decided to tell a DC that we were just in my dream, and well, long story short she freaked out and turned into an accidental poltergeist and broke physics. Things started flying across the room and I got stabbed with knives sailing out of drawers. The DC was apologizing about it.