Thread: Creating a dream guide?

I'm not sure if a dream guide can be a real person or not. This may sound dumb, but I'm thinking of summoning Cat Stevens as my dream guide. The young Cat Stevens of the past. I know I'll never meet him in waking life, at least not looking young as he would in my dreams. But would it confuse or hinder me to see pictures of my dream guide or to hear his music in waking life? Is there any reason not to use a real person as a dream guide? I know it's not very imaginative, but to me he just seems so friendly, wise, open-minded, and expressive, all the traits that I think a dream guide should have.

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.