Thread: Dream Guides

This came up in conversation with a guy I know at work (same guy who introduced me to LDing, actually), he says that he has lengthy discussions with his dream guide, and has actually developed a relationship with said dream guide. Personally, I think that makes him a schizophrenic. What are your thoughts? Has anyone else spoken with their dream guide at length?

No but it's one of my longtime lucid plans to have a conversation with him or her (or it). I don't see how that falls under the category of schizophrenia. That usually involves hallucinations/voices/disorganized thought in the waking world so I don't see a connection between that and talking to someone in a dream. Or is it the fact that there seems to be a 'relationship'?

Sounds to me like an awsome experiance. I can't see it being a problem because its within a dream.
This is my first time reading of a dream guide, now I can't wait to find my own guide.

Originally Posted by Grunkie7

No but it's one of my longtime lucid plans to have a conversation with him or her (or it). I don't see how that falls under the category of schizophrenia. That usually involves hallucinations/voices/disorganized thought in the waking world so I don't see a connection between that and talking to someone in a dream. Or is it the fact that there seems to be a 'relationship'?

Yeah it just seems a little weird, I've heard people say that 'dream guides' are manifestations of our subconscious - developing a relationship with one is like conversing with and treating a part of yourself as a separate entity. I dunno, maybe it is just strange to me.

If having a dream guide means schizophrenia.
Then lucid dreaming, and dreaming in itself must be pure fucking insanity.

See what I mean?

you should really talk to "spiritofthewolf" about this! he will have some helpful info! or just look up his posts on the subject!

I wouldnt call it schizophrenia, I'd just call it talking to yourself in the strictest sense.

Dream guides are just like any other dream character, only they know more about you than you do. Think about it, your subconscious has been with you your entire life, and has seen everything you've seen, experienced everything you've experienced, so it knows you quite well. Talking to your subconscious in a dream is a way to better understand yourself and find out how you really feel about certain things that you may be confused about. If talking to your subconscious as a DC is schizophrenia, then what would talking to the hundreds of other DCs in a dream be considered?