Ignorant Dream Characters

[Belisarius]

The other night I had a lucid dream. It started out in our school's darkroom which I was supervising and I noticed that the clock wasn't working right and so I became lucid. The first thing I thought of was to talk to one of my friends(who isn't usually in the darkroom) and ask him about the afterlife(I had just seen Waking Life). I asked him what happened to us when we die and he didn't respond. Not fully lucid, I turned around and walked up a staircase to the roof(which usually isn't there) and jumped off and flew around a little bit. I then returned back to the ground and started floating through the hallways. I think I had a false awakening or something because later in the dream I was thinking back on it thinking I was awake. Anyway, I was annoyed that I didn't get an answer out of my DC, so next time you have the opportunity, ask a DC what happens when you die and then post his or her answer here.

[Tsen]

Well, I haven't done it recently, but I have in the past. Heck, I've even died a few times in LD's and in normal dreams. The answer wasn't usually much. Often the DC would just look at me funny and say something weird, like "What'd you expect?". Once or twice I've got good answers, though. Once a DC told me that there was no end, death was just a joke that somebody made up a long time ago, and another told me that there was an afterlife. When I've actually died in LD's, though, I've always experienced the same thing, with only one exception. It's normally just a slow fade to black, then a faint pulsing blue light, then I'm alive again, but on some heaven-type realm. There's a few small variations on that which I've been through. The exception was once, in a rather odd dream, I died, but rather than dying completely, I just got back up and ran to 'heaven', which was my neighbor's backyard. The dream was a while ago, though, so I don't remember the details well.

[glow-in-the-dark]

There was always a God. I could never see it. I think it was a hermaphrodite, because it said, "I am one, I am all." in two voices at once. A male and female voice. It once took the form of the sun in a lucid flying dream. Anyway, I am convinced there is an afterlife, and that's one thing I learned from my dreams/subconscious.

[Joebeta]

You guys are lucky, I can't die in any kind of dream. One time I even got shot in the face, so I said to myself, "Okay I'm gonna die now." and I layed down expecting to die, but nothing happened. So I go look in a mirror and all I see is mangled flesh, teeth, and a bloody tongue hangin' down. Yeah, that was pretty damn lame.

[Merck]

I've never died in a dream either. I shot myself in the head with a rifle once but right as I heard the blast, I jumped up out of bed. This was a non lucid by the way. Yea that dream ruined my whole day.

[sypher7]

You know, sometimes I wonder if the questions you ask in your dream are answered only by what you already know or believe in your subconcious. So asking yourself what happens after death might be similar to what happens when you sometimes try to use a device in a dream: it just doesn't work; perhaps because you don't know how it works? In a way that would be sort of like your analytic concious mind jumping in. Anyhow, just an idea

[Sesquipedalian Dreams]

Sypher, I agree with you a bit, but I think devices work in your dreams even if you dont know how they work in real life. For example: We dont know what it is like to fly? But we expereince flying in dreams. In our dreams, flying isnt how it would actually be, but how we expect/assume it would be if it were possible. We have expereinced being in small planes, jumping off high places, and make a kind of combination between the two. Also, the other night I told a DC that I was in an LD, and he acted just how he would in real life if I had told him I had an LD the night before.

[Tsen]

It's not what you know, it's what you believe. If you believe strongly in some afterlife, you're likely to experience it in a dream. Likely, not 100%. The chances change in LD's, because your conscious mind enters the situation. Either way, the entire theory that LDing is based upon is that belief in something in a dream will induce the something.

[sypher7]

Sesquipedalian, I definitely agree: I think that your dreams are limited only by the limitations that you impose. But if you do not realize that and get caught up in the mechanics of something (even without fully realizing that you are) it might keep the device or what have you from working. That's the idea that I was trying to get across.

[Torcher]

Been shot a few times, always woke up from the fright of it. Never died.

[Remus]

Eh.. I've been shot , stabbed in the head, stabbed in the back... And it always fades to black, and all but one time It just fades into another dream. I think that the only time I actully woke up from getting killed was when I was stabbed in the back during a nightmare a while ago.