My ld's are usually populated by crowds and I'm with a few people that I
a)know in the dream but not in real life, b)know in real life, or c)both. Last night I was dreaming that I was with a few people in Japan or South Korea at a hotel with a courtyard swimming pool. The people in the courtyard, a couple hundred were all having some kind of pleasant ceremony, the ones outside the perimeter, another couple hundred were having a very somber memorial service. But I'm always in a crowd, a typical real-life mix of genders but the ages are near mine-- twenties and thirties in ld's. When older people are present, they are few and usually in some kind of leadership role. The crowds seem real. Only one ld where I was alone on the porch of the house where I grew up. Sometimes I try to "find" or make people that I know and haven't seen in awhile, appear.