Thread: Creating a dream guide?

I'm also a newbie, who wants to know about dream guides.

Specifically what is it, and why do we all have them?

I mean, I understand that it's a physical (or not) manifestation of our subconscious, but it seems odd that so many people would have their minds manifested into something like this guide, all in the same way.

Like, of all the things our inner-thoughts and workings could display themselves as; for the hundreds of people that do encounter LD's, it seems wierd that we all share a similiar trait amongst them.

Anyway, sorry, I tend to ramble and completely circumvent the topic of the thread. About choosing a DG, I'm not sure if it's possible.

It is our subconscious that decides, meaning we probably have no influence over what it chooses to be.

Think of it like the gender of your child; it is directly a part of you, yet you have no control over it's outcome.

Hope that helped and that I didn't bore you

I don't think we all necessarily have dream guides. I haven't had enough LDs to really know, but one Web site I've been to says that DGs can either appear by chance, or you can consciously create them. (http://www.here-be-dreams.com/lucid/guide.html) Makes sense to me. I figure that if I summon the same dream guide every time I become lucid, eventually he'll start appearing in every dream. If that happened, I think it'd be a lot easier to become lucid. I'd just have to say, "Oh look, it's Cat Stevens. I must be dreaming." Personally, I imagine a dream guide as someone to help keep me calm and realise things about myself that I otherwise wouldn't have figured out. But I don't have any experience with them at all. These are just my speculations.