Anyone with a dream 'alter ego'?

[Astra]

Like the character you create when you're going to play a MMORPG, but for your lucid dreams. That is, your avatar. If so, can you describe it?

[iThousandSunny]

Sounds interesting,but no,I don't, lol I use to try to dream that way though. Before going to sleep, creating all these details of what I'd be wearing,and what I'd look like,etc ,that,well didn't matter once I ever became lucid. What you're describing seems more inline with having a persistent realm in a sense though,otherwise,your lucid self,is already sorta an alter ego.

[JadeGreen]

This happens to me regularly. Though I never really had any conscious say in how I looked like character creation; the formation of my appearance in dreams has been built upon various dreams, though they often offer deeply conflicting information and explanations for why things are the way they are. Even more strange is that dream-me misses the mark in a lot of major traits that define me both in waking life and traits that I would find in an idealized version of myself. There is also a good deal of inconsistency in how I look. When I draw my dream self, I draw a sort of blending of the common traits from across many dreams instead of trying to nail down one specific dream. (Same goes for when I draw my persistent DCs) ~Dream-me has one blue eye and one brown. The blue eye is almost always to the right side and the brown eye is almost always to the left though very rarely they are reversed. This seems to have some significance as I have fire projection abilities and flames generated from my right hand side are blue while flames generated from moving my left leg or arm are the regular yellows, oranges and reds. ~Dream-me has black hair. Sometimes this meshes with my waking life hair color (light brown) and I have calico hair in streaks and stripes. I generally draw the hair as very long and pure black in a braid but its been in all manner of styles and lengths. ~Dream-me is very short. Some inconsistency here. IWL I'm taller but Dream-Me tends to be about four and a half feet tall. Presumably this has something to do with an age lock, and my dream-body stopped aging shortly after I started lucid dreaming. Admittedly the form of the character that I have used has become an umbrella persona. I have paranoia about people finding and tracing me online, so my profile pictures are always of my dream-self. I'm not about to say that I really look like or post my picture, but I do tell people it's just a persona. Things get even muddier since at one point I attempted to make a lucid dreaming themed webcomic using my dreams as inspiration. The comic idea evolved a couple of times and moved away from lucid dreaming and the character that was 'me' started becoming his own separate character with a personality very distinct from mine, because the comic became much less serious and much less tied to my own experiences. So now there's essentially two characters with identical appearance and differing personality but one of them is me and another is the character from my comics. I really should change the comic version of his appearance to be something different.

[Verre]

In my NLDs I sometimes find myself taking the role of random characters, either male or female, young or old. It doesn't feel like having an avatar or playing a character, though, because this happens when I'm not lucid and so while the dream is going on I have no sense of being "someone else." I am who I am in the dream, and then when I wake up I'm regular me again. The transition doesn't feel strange at all: actually it feels very similar to getting caught up in another character's narrative while watching a film, and then the film ends and my self-awareness comes back. Sometimes I even shift from being one character to another during the same dream, but this also feels very natural, like when I'm watching a movie and the camera shifts to another character's perspective. In the same way, during some dreams I'm not even playing an actual role, but watching events unfold from a disembodied perspective like the viewpoint of a movie camera. That said, since I did spent countless hours playing WoW in its early years, one of the tasks I once attempted when lucid was trying to become my main WoW character during a dream. That turned out to be much more difficult than I had anticipated! I'm not sure why, maybe because there's a big difference between piloting a tiny character on a screen and actually inhabiting its body... especially when it is an undead rogue prone to doing backflips while stabbing things with a pair of daggers. I don't have a lot of real life experience to draw from in that department.