Personal Lucid Terminology

**Jabre** · 12-27-2012 11:04 PM

I was wondering if other people use their own terms for various dream related things. For example I use:

Dream Police- A factor or character that attempts to stop my lucidity (oddly, usually police men...)
Shadow- Dream Character
Mera- any Shadow with malicious intent
Incubus- reoccurring Mera
Dream Bugs- the colors that appear under eyelids at the onset of HI
Dream Train- Any passageway to a dream that is used in a WILD

I developed these terms when I was very young and didn't even know what LDing was (but I still did it). Does anyone else use any of these?

**Burke** · 12-28-2012 03:43 AM

It makes sense that you would come up with names for the things you encounter in your dreams, both lucid and non-lucid. However, on DV people use the same names for everything ("DC" meaning dream character, what you called "shadow") so as not to cause any confusion. Since I started out here before I even knew what a lucid dream was, I've only used the terminology that's used here.