hi Mathias. Talking to my subcs is one of my main goals too. I have only once had a talk with what felt like my 'real root' subconscious - it was a 50 year old mexican/indian man. I asked him how I was doing and he said I was kind of jumping from here to there, but headed in generally the correct direction. Otherwise, whenever I talk to the characters in my dream, they shut up really quickly, especially the more shall we say "elementary" they are. (For eg. if they are clearly representing some nasty childhood/parental aspect of my ego, then once I address them directly they have nothing to say). So I'm going to try conversing with these "non-root' subcs characters a little less directly, and more gestalt-like. I want to get at what they want / why they're in my dream a little more gently rather than asking directly ....maybe they will speak then.

I also seem to create a lot of great stories in my dreams but when I wake, the plots are forgotten I have also asked my subcs to generate people from work so I can discuss a technical problem... unfortunately my subcs didn't seem to know anything, because they gave me crap answers!!

Anyways, my main goals with lucid dreaming is to chat more with my subcs and use it as a tool to understand deeper things that may be going on down below!