I just googled "Dream forum" and found my way to this site. This is my first post and I decided to sign up because I wanted to see if anyone else has ever tried doing this.

For as long as I can remember I've periodically had "lucid dreams" (by that I mean that I'm aware that I'm dreaming.). I never had to practice anything or do "reality checks" or meditate or keep journals or anything special. I just, from the time I was a little kid, frequently would be self-aware in my dreams (and still am).

I can't always "control" my dreams to do whatever I want, but once I realize I'm dreaming I (for example) might get up and walk out of a classroom and explore once I realize that it's okay because it's just a dream. I can never really influence dream character's actions though, it's like they have a will of their own.

I can also make myself wake up when I'm having a scary dream or when I feel like something bad is about to happen by somehow forcing my eyes open (in real life) while I am sleeping. It takes a lot of willpower but I've been doing that since I've been little and wanted to "get out" of a dream I was in.

I also usually dream about people who I have never seen before in my life.

This comes into play with what I've been doing recently, as an experiment.

Last night I was going along with a dream when it suddenly hit me like a ton of bricks that I was dreaming. Sometimes when I realize I'm dreaming I find it hard to stay in the dream. So I immediately began moving fast and trying to explore as much as I could before I woke up while willing myself to stay asleep.

Anyway, in my dream I was at a massive, multi-floor semi-outdoor place that was like a bar. There were hundreds of dream characters. I remember thinking to myself "how is it even possible for my subconscious to create hundreds of original characters simultaneously." It's at that point that I decided to do what I had done a couple times before: ask a dream character if they were real and give them my phone number.

I approached a random red-haired girl and explained that this was just a dream and asked her if she was apart of my subconscious or an actual person who exists and was in this dream as well. She didn't really give me an answer. So I told her to test it out I would give her my phone number and she should call or text me the next day and then I'd know if some of these "dream characters" were actual people.

I chanted my cell number to her a couple times and then actually started to write it down on a piece of paper. This might've been the first time that I've written in a dream lol. For some reason it was freaking difficult to focus and write down my number, it was like I was a using my wrong hand or something. But I eventually got the number out. I think I woke up soon after that.

So today I've been going about my day and was downstairs when I randomly thought of the dream I had had some hours ago. After that thought arose I went back to whatever I was doing for a little bit and then eventually wandered upstairs to look for my cell. I had one missed call from an unknown number that I missed by only about 20 minutes. Unfortunately when someone *67s their number and dials unknown you can't see the number, or text or call back.

I realize this was almost surely just some telemarketer (even though I never have gotten marketing calls on my cell before), but I still couldn't help but smile and find it a little weird.

Sorry for the long-winded post, I just wanted to share with someone. My question is, to you all, have you ever given out your phone number to dream characters?

It's the best way I can come up with to test out whether shared dreams are real or not, but I guess it has a lot of variables. Like whoever you're giving your number to has to probably also be self-aware in dreams, has to remember the number (it seems very hard to recall that many digits from a dream) and has to have the nerve to try calling that number if they recall it.