Lucid/dream Arch-nemesis?

[Casualtie]

Reading of the un-bolded text is unnecessary. It&#39;s simply a background of what happened last night to help give an idea of what I&#39;m talking about. Last night I got a taste of what the phrase lost inside my own mind actually means. There was a point last night where I was convinced I was waking up from multiple lucid dreams and reentering into them. I went to bed using the MILD (Mind Induced Lucid Dream) technique. Basically, you repeat a specific and constant phrase in you head as your drifting off to sleep in hopes of it carrying over into your dream and inducing a lucid dream. Because I don’t usually remember my dreams when woken up on weekdays. Damn that alarm clock of mine&#33; I told myself I will remember my dreams when I wake up and occasionally I will question reality. I woke up at almost exactly 2:30 AM from a normal dream that I, again, felt no need nor want to write down. I fell back asleep almost immediately. <div align="center">—</div> I don’t remember exactly where or when the dream started or when exactly I became lucid, but the earliest point I can remember up to is being in a field that resembled a baseball field. Baseball players were scattered evevnly across the field and I was sure I was dreaming. It was dark outside with a purple hue to it, but the city was illuminated well enough to see as if it were day. I immediately remembered the creature I had encountered in my previous lucid dreaming and my desire to make it my dream pet. I willed it to appear, and it jumped out of the ground and into the air where it hovered for some time. Noticing the amount of dream control I had, I thought it would be a good opportunity to attempt the advanced lucid task: merge yourself with a tree. After a good five minutes of attempted to phase my legs into the trunk of the tree, I lost interest. I wanted to find my dream guide, and for some reason this dream seemed much more promising for such a goal. I strolled through a crowded street with restaurants and bars scattered to the left and right of me. I shouted at the top of my lungs Where is my dream guide? The crowded looked completely puzzled with the exception of one man. He motioned me to come towards him and pointed to my right. I turned to see him finger pointed to a fat, elderly woman with a hat. Nervously, I walked towards her with secret hopes that she wasn’t my dream guide. I always imagined my dream guide to be much cooler than a fat old lady. I asked the question and was disappointed to hear her answer. I am you dream guide. See started off to a large empty room with a television in the center and motioned for me to have a seat on the chair placed across from it. I complied, eager to see what she had in store for me. Could it be training? A lesson? Though, something about this woman didn’t seem right. She grew increasingly evil looking by the minute. Just as this thought crossed through my mind, she began to cackle. As if I were about to be inevitably defeated, she revealed her sinister plan to me. She had convinced me that she was my dream guide and used me. I’m not sure what for, but it had no affect on me from what I noticed. <div align="center">—</div> This is where the dream began to get confusing. I cannot explain what happened accurately because I only remember bits and pieces of the remainder of the dream. At one point I remember reading a Myspace bulletin from a random classmate that she had had the most amazing lucid dream of her life. I felt compelled to, but for some unknown reason didn’t or was unable to. I remember having about four false awakenings where I had woken up from lucid dreams. I thought that I had mastered the skill. My actual state at this time is virtually indescribable because my mind was so confused and my thought were so lost. Could it be this evil old woman to had caused this? or was it simply the technique I had used to induce lucidity? I can’t be sure, but I will experiment again with the MILD technique tonight. Could it be possible to have a dream arch-nemesis? When I say dream arch-nemesis, I mean a constant person who shows up some time during a lucid dream to purposely screw up your lucid dream.

[Drk Pwnr]

I don't see why not, but if it doesn't come naturally you would have to do it yourself. Like any other dream pet or DC.

[Leven]

I wouldn't be surprised if she forced you to take her as your dream wife.

[bluefinger]

I seem to have two sides of me within me dreams, one a normal, if somewhat more headstrong and fearless me, and the other a cool, but complete psychopath. I've fought with him in an LD I had and killed him... though in other dreams he either takes control of me and brutally murders people, or he slowly turns me insane and makes me suffer before then taking control and committing murders... the perfect evil manifestation of me. If anything, he is my arch-nemisis, the part of me I wish to suppress in my dreams. If I could have LD's, I would at least try to battle him Bleach style... make it epic and enjoyable (in my dreams I do enjoy battles or tense scenes...)

[Lucidbulbs]

I believe that one can exist, but it's kind of like with dream guides, most people don't seem to bump into them on whim. Dream Guides come when they believe that you're ready for them to teach and, obviously, guide. Nemeses, on the other hand, might have popped up because you're just reentering the dream world, you've said that you've lost motivation to lucid dream at one point, but now that you've found it again [or are getting close to], she might be there to stop you.