Thread: did u meet a "smarter" DC?

I've never met a DC smarter than I was per say, my DCs definitely have taught me a few things though, mostly about myself.

I've had conversations with DCs that were so intellectual it was really hard to believe that it wasn't in fact a real person I was talking too.

I've never met one before, but I'm definitely going to try tonight now. Lol that would be awesome learning stuff in lucid dreams that you didn't know before.

Sadly I've never met a DC that was smarter than me.. but then I've never really tried to have an "intellectual" conversation with one.

I had arguements with me and a dc once. We were discussing which is more dangerous a leg or an arm amputee. I said leg because u are more likly to lose blood. He said arm because it's closer to where the blood is being pumped. I'm right of course but still in my mind I was able to find a reason for both pro and agianst arguments.

Two dreams have had information I've not consciously known. The first was that a Harpy, being of the underworld, is made of the body of an eagle and the head of a woman (I thought it was a vulture's body until I researched it upon awakening). The second was that my friends and I correctly knew the names of the moons of Mars (Phobos and Deimos), when in waking life, I could only remember Phobos.

I've studied the moons of Mars once, so I could that information returning in a dream. But I never remember having heard that the harpy is part eagle.

A DC could seem to know things that you don't, using information that you forgot that you knew.

its cool, still i was thinking if you could find the "rain-man" in a dream and he will do 2329x23820 in like a sec...
that would be really

Does this mean that if you were revising for an exam, you could simply go to a LD and find a DC to help you revise? Because from reading this thread it seems like DC have access to information you have forgotten about. It would be a fun way of revising

Originally Posted by Vegan

I've never met a DC smarter than I was per say, my DCs definitely have taught me a few things though, mostly about myself.

I've had conversations with DCs that were so intellectual it was really hard to believe that it wasn't in fact a real person I was talking too.

reminds me of the film "waking life"

its a great movie

its an amazing movie

Originally Posted by psiiiijay

its an amazing movie

yes it is

My DCs are usually idiots. They are slow and only do things if I tell them too. The have to think about things that I ask them and most of the time give a dumb response.

one of my goals is to have a intelligent conversation with a DC but for the few LD's i have had most of them are normal (except for that crazy gun slinging midget)--ohh that lucid was a scare.

I've experienced Dream Characters who thought they were both smarter and stronger than me and I had to show them who really was boss. Sometimes it wasn't very pretty.

I had a dream where someone was pointing out my faults. He said things that i didn't even know i did.

Waking Life was OK, its nothing special. Definitely not a masterpiece.

That would be really nice, really.... deep. Yeah there must be a way to coax your mind to tell you all the secrets of life and such.

But how do you know that they're talking about a coherent idea? The mind might just be playing tricks with emotions to make you filled with awe.

Originally Posted by Abra

Two dreams have had information I've not consciously known. The first was that a Harpy, being of the underworld, is made of the body of an eagle and the head of a woman (I thought it was a vulture's body until I researched it upon awakening). The second was that my friends and I correctly knew the names of the moons of Mars (Phobos and Deimos), when in waking life, I could only remember Phobos.

I've studied the moons of Mars once, so I could that information returning in a dream. But I never remember having heard that the harpy is part eagle.

These are very cool, and similar to dreams I have had (such as Dcs correcting words I've mispronounced my entire life). So how can we be sure we didn't already know this information and, like others have mentioned, simply forgot it? We forget all kinds of things, but maybe the unconscious mind doesn't.

However, I totally believe our dreamworld is smarter than us, and learning in dreams is not only possible, but an essential feature of dreaming. Our dreams are one of the few places we can learn by having experiences that are not possible in waking life, and it would be no surprise if this was true for information too.

I've had many dreams where I'm listening to lengthy lectures and they always contain information new to me and that turns out to be true (i.e. tomatoes are a better source of potassium than bananas, artificial scents are toxic, etc.). However, most of these are simply things the body figures out and uses dreams to tell us. Maybe our main goal as lucid dreamers is to cultivate a communicative framework for learning the most we can from our dream world?

Sort of. I've seen DCs at my university solve problems that dream-me can't solve, but dream-me understands the solutions afterwards and thinks, "wow, he's a genius!" Then when I wake up, I realize that the solution, and oftentimes the problem, too, were just total nonsense!

I don't recall ever learning an unknown or unremembered fact from a DC.