Quote Originally Posted by Silence11 View Post
At times I think it is the mind expressing all this daytime practice into the dream. Today it is a voice inside your head that guides you, tomorrow it is a dream character, and the rest may all come through your own reasoning. Still, there was something to this voice that made it stand out. Usually whatever message the dream is trying to convey (e.g. that it is a dream) is a lot harder to grasp, unlike this voice which was more upfront about things, more direct. Could it be that the frankness of this voice in your dream made it a lot more personal to you, in a way for it to stick out among other dreams? Say, would you've felt the same if it was another dream character referencing the same things like this voice, without necessarily speaking to you directly?
Interesting thoughts, thanks for sharing. I never doubted the voice was my own in the dream. It felt like me, it spoke like me and I felt it was inside my head and only I could hear it but it felt separate in the way that I didn’t control it or feel like I was forming the words it spoke. That is why I consider it separate from say a DC talking to me as they feel separate physically and I can’t hear what they’re thinking (though I’ve never tried!) I personally think it is caused by how I speak to myself In my head before sleep. When my eyes are shut and the lights are out I usually start making a plan in my head and talking to myself as I plan out what I’m going to do tonight and how I will achieve my goals. “I’m going to wake up and remember my dreams”, “I need to remember to look out for dream signs” I may tell myself. I also do this during WBTBs as well and it feels like that inner monologue sometimes comes back during the dream unexpectedly and takes the form of a guiding voice when really it is just my waking self crossing over with the dream version of me who is in his own little world of thought which creates the split feeling. It explains why I experienced it during a DEILD attempt when my mind was so close to waking awareness and was talking me through the plan as I would do if fully awake.