Thread: Telling DC's they're not real.

I don't really have an answer to this question but reading some of the responses lead me to ask this to myself:

How would someone react to you if you told them that they were figments of your imagination/manifestations of your subconscious etc. in reality? I'll bet most people would react the same way that you'd expect them to

They'd probably disregard the rubbish spewing out of your mouth and continue on through their daily lives.

They might be a bit more surprised if you could prove it (you can have fun with this part. Maybe pretend to shoot at their feet with nothing but your fingers, sorta like they did in westerns, and actually have bullets come out!).

Furthermore...

What would you do if you KNEW you were awake and someone came up to you in a public place or whereever and "proved" to you that they were dreaming?

To me, that'd be much more interesting.

Originally Posted by MakoEyes

What would you do if you KNEW you were awake and someone came up to you in a public place or whereever and "proved" to you that they were dreaming?

Well I hope that never happens to me. I don't think I would be able to handle something like that. : But I know I woudln't want to do that to a DC anyway. If you think about it, these characters were created by your subconscious and it is controlling them. It chooses what they say and what they do, so in a way the characters ARE your subconscious and I think it would be a bit insulting to tell your subconscious that it doesn't exist.

And as we all know, the unconscious mind is just as real as the conscious mind.

Originally Posted by MakoEyes

What would you do if you KNEW you were awake and someone came up to you in a public place or whereever and "proved" to you that they were dreaming?

To me, that'd be much more interesting.

Two possibilities. Most probably I will think it is just a dream (even though it 'is' real life, I would wait ceaselessly to 'wake' up, and try to RC lol.

Or I would accept the fact and do whatever pleases me (maybe ask him to give me some powers or whatnot). In fact,

has anyone been asked by one of his DC to give them something extraordinary? Like a special object or a power or money?

I never tried it, but I get the feeling they wouldn't be terribly surprised. My DCs always seem to know what's going on. So far, I've only come across a dumb one and it was a person from real life. Come to think of it, given the circunstances and the person, that wasn't entirely surprising either...

So many people on here seem to have such interesting answers from DCs. I only have lucid dreams about once every few months, and have very little control when I do.

The last one was about a couple weeks ago. I don't remember if I told my DCs directly that they were not real, but I kept talking about how I was dreaming, and they just went along with it. At one point we were running through a field of flowers, all very excited. I started waving my hands around to get their attention and yelling for them to calm down because getting too excited would wake me up, but none of them listened. I actually managed not to wake up until a later scene when I was having a conversation with one of them.