Thread: Anybody else sometimes think of dream characters as "real" while lucid?

As a writer, they're just as real to me as any other characters that pop outta my head...

The other night i was in a lucid dream, and in it i was talking to my best friend james, and i was trying to figure out if he was really james, or if he was just a figment of my mind. i was very convinced that it was actually him, and that somehow we as people were connected cause we were both asleep. I asked him what his favorite video-game was, to try to see if he was real. He said "quake 2" and that convinced me that he was real, since i wasn't sure what his favorite video game really was, and we had never played quake 2 together so i couldn't have come up with it myself. So basically i duped myself in the dream, although i now know that quake 2 isn't his favorite game, thus proving him a figment of my imagination haha

I usually consider DC alive independent of my own mind, even when lucid. However, there have been many times were I've thought of them only as figments of my imagination. I actually enjoy dreams were I think of and treat DCs as "real" more than the other kind.

When I was much younger, I had a dream where when I was waking up I heard a voice in my head asking if I wouldn't mind giving him a lift. My response was "Sorry, I don't pick up hitch-hikers in my head." Then I woke up a bit, and forced myself back to sleep so that i could say "Sorry, though. I hope someone stops for you."

I told a friend and he said that its a good sign if you are polite to parts of your psyche. They have a reality, even if they are only really synapses in your head. Dreams allow you to practice virtues and learn lessons. Both I find easier if I treat dreams as real to some extent.

Of course, sometimes I don't do this.

Yeah, I've had a couple of experiences like that!

In my very first lucid, I had no idea that it was possible to LD and so I thought that my friend had to be real. I realized that it was a dream, but I thought that he had somehow managed to be in my dream with me and give me consciousness. He's into that magic and witch stuff so I thought maybe he'd actually found a way to use it to enter my dream, because that was the only logical explanation for what was happening. I think once I saw how illogically he was behaving I realized that wasn't it, though, and that he was just another dream character.

Here's a bit from one of my best lucids:

I got up and went into my sister’s room. My sister is a natural LDer, and we’d had a long conversation right before we both went to bed about WILD and LD and prolonging LDs. “I’m in a dream!” I told her, and she responded, “Yes, I know. So am I. I’m having a lucid dream, too.” I realized that I couldn’t discount this.

But again, she started acting too irrationally for her to actually be a person in a lucid dream. Even considering how irrational you sometimes are in LDs

Recently I've started trying to be nice to my DCs and treating them like real people, instead of letting on that I'm in a dream and know they are just a figment of my imagination. But I still know that they are DCs.

Originally Posted by Shift

Recently I've started trying to be nice to my DCs and treating them like real people, instead of letting on that I'm in a dream and know they are just a figment of my imagination. But I still know that they are DCs.

I did just the same thing last night, when I had a lucid dream. I started exploring the forest with a DC, who is a friend of mine in real life. We explored the woods, and I didn't tell him that I knew I was dreaming! I treated him like he was real, instead of thinking he was another DC.

yep all the time. Last night I thought my dogs were somehow linked mentally to the real waking life dogs. Like I had powers to communicate with them and they would know in waking life as well.

It really gets weeeeiiiiird in there sometimes.