I thought I would share a rather interesting experience as of late... In a recent semi-lucid dream, I came across a character, a female, who seemed to realize that she was a dream character... Upon further conversation with this girl, she identified herself as a sort of "hitchhiker" that moves from person to person, living in their dreams... She told me about her previous "host", a woman who had recently died, whom she had been with for a number of years... As we continued talking, I noticed an aircraft carrier in the sea (we were seated on a cliff over looking the ocean). I told her about how I had often attempted to dream of flying fighter planes, but how I was never able to get above tree level... She told me to "just do it", and I found myself quite high in the air, unfortunately with no airplane... I was immediately overcome with massive vertigo and forced myself back to the ground where I had been previously... This isn't the first time I've met a character who seemed to be aware of their non-existence outside my head, the previous being a man who stated that he'd simply become another character in another dream when I asked him what would happen if I awoke... I've often wondered if maybe these characters really are concious, or are just a concoction of my sleeping brain... The funny thing is, even if there were hundreds of concious entities living within the dreamworlds of our minds as we sleep, there'd be no way of ever knowing...
Now to the point (yes I did have one!), has anyone else had experience with dream characters that are aware of the nature of their existence? If so what do you think about them, and what'd they say?
