Communicating With Dream Characters

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Originally Posted by Matt5678

i have heard that Dream Characters are really impressed by teleporting. i wouldn’t know first hand because i have not had a good lucid dream yet.

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In one of my dreams, I teleported my sister (as in, I made her appear in front of me) and said, "Oh yeah, I so just did that" all smug. (Hey, I thought it was cool! :D) She wasn't impressed. :? She gave me this look like "Yeah, everyone can do that..." :roll:

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Originally Posted by seeker28

I, too have been contemplating the nature of the dream world and DCs. Hopefully, after a few more years of religiously keeping a DJ, I will feel like I have a better understanding. So far, I am starting to notice a trend (which would be interesting if it continues) that seems to place DCs into four distinct categories:

1. Constructs made by my mind to play specific and limited roles. These DCs seem shallow, and have a very limited range of responses and actions. I generally have a great deal of control over them. I can change how they look and act. I can banish them. However, sometimes I can't do much to them at all. I figure that is my mind being stubborn.

2. Representations of my subconscious mind. They are lively and dynamic. They tend to be either hostile or very helpful. If hostile and I ask what I may do to fix the problem, they always tell me something like I have been too critical of myself or too self-doubting.

3. People I who I think might be other dreamers. They generally are totally uninterested in me and may even treat me like a DC. They appear to be persuing dream adventures and dream plotts of their own.

4. The weird ones. I am begining to wonder if they might be real, in some sense. They are the most complex of DCs. They don't have that "flat" feeling I associate with constructs; the familiarity of my subconscious selves; or the warm, fleshy sensation I associate with the "other dreamers." They get really angry when I go around creating havoc and destruction. Last night, in fact, when I did the advanced task of the month and made it winter, one DC confronted me about the damage unexpected winter had caused. I told him it was just a dream. He said, "Well, I have to live here." I've had DCs do stuff like that before, but there was something about him that felt quite off.

Okay, and this is something that freaks me out a little: in some dreams I go places that later turn out to be real. And they are places I could have never been in waking life, or ever seen pictures of, or even heard about. Anyone else experience this?

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All of the above. Actually I have a list that I have from a past post below.

These are 5 types that I will usually see:

Dreamers. These are people dreaming and are not lucid. You usually see them reenacting typical things like working or watching TV. They are hard to get the attention of and do not disappear when you remove your attention.

Replicants. These are imaginary characters (and things) created by you and will disappear the second you remove your attention. They can fool you easily as they know how to fool you being connected to you. They have an existence all their own and can not be uncreated but once you remove your attention they are on their own.

Between Lifers. These are people between lives who for whatever reasons inhabit areas where dreamers hang out. They are like dreamers but are not so difficult and are easy to get the attention of. They are almost always goal oriented and on a mission of some sorts.

Recent Dead. These people usually are still holding on to their past life in many ways. They may seem sick, or trying to do something but never having it work, or seem lost or to have amnesia. You can get their attention pretty easily but are usually hostile or uncooperative.

Spirit. This type was usually never human and a little distant emotionally. They are usually summing up the human experience and/or seemingly deciding if they want to become human. They are ADHD-like types but are not hostile and seem just a little distracted. They seem pretty rare and usually don't make much of an impression unless they have decided they should be helping you like a dream guide.

Most of these seem to inhabit the dream world sometimes acting out whole lives there.

Last night, as posted in my DJ, I was being an a-hole and a DC threatened to kick me out of the area I was in at the time. At this point in my development such DCs are little more than entertaining, there is absolutely no way they can harm me. Still I try to be respectful of all beings.

Dream Telepathy
Also I think dream telepathy is the cause of a lot of problems with people and their DCs. If you say something nice to a DC but are thinking 'your a tool of my subconscious' they are going to be angry at you, they're not going to like you. Basically you're saying "Hey tool, help me" and they react just like if you went shopping tomorrow and did the same thing to some stranger, hostile. In everyday life our thoughts are kept so separated from our verbalization's that it can be hard to synchronize them. I'm going to have to write a tutorial on this but for now just think the nicest thoughts you can towards them AND say nice things to them to get good results.

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Originally Posted by pj

I've had a lot of interaction with DCs - deliberate interaction with the intent of learning more about the dream state.

What I have come away with, (which is not what I expected,) is a questioning of exactly what the dream state is and whether DCs are really creations of our own minds. They seem to be MOST unhelpful about becoming a better lucid dreamer, making it clear that they don't much like us.

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To this, I think it's because being lucid isn't completely natural, I don't think our minds want us lucid, whenever I become lucid my mind tries to distract me.

I talk to DC's all the time, mine are pretty nice until I bring up that we're in a dream

I dont come across DCs that often probobly due to my subconciouse desire to be a hermit. A dream charracter that looked like my mom noticed i had trouble going through solid objects like walls and she gave me great advice. She told me that i was bracing my self for impact when i walked to the wall instead of just moving through. So then i decided to just pretend the wall was not a solid and i got through it with no problem. I guess the message the DC gave me was that if I expect something like going through a wall to hurt or not work that it wont and that the secret is expecting it to work without resistance.

In my experience, dream characters always try to make me believe I'm not dreaming.

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Originally Posted by Jakob

In my experience, dream characters always try to make me believe I'm not dreaming.

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That's so true.
IT'S A CONSPIRACY!! :panic:
Last night in a dream I asked my mom if I was dreaming and she was all like "Psh. No."
I am way too gullible. :bang:

You believed her, lol, if ou look up, my subconscious has the same problem

I never interact with DC's as much as I do with animals in my dreams... And the animal I see always tends to turn my dream in to a terror. it can be a dog, squirrel, or a cute kitty. EVENTUALLY I tend to notice something, and the dream turns sour, whatever animal it is tries to kill me, but every time, I'm able to grab it by the throat... and boy do I feel so bad having to squeeze, but I strangle it with all the strength I have, and it doesnt die, but it gets smaller until the animal vanishes. This happens all the time. Recently I hacked off a lions paws with a machete from a brazilian company called Tramontina. The lion killed everyone in my work place, and I was next, and I hacked off his paws. And it somehow managed to get away.

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Originally Posted by Abra

Please understand that "you" are a dream character, too. All of it is the same halucination. You can have third person perspective dreams, and dreams where "you" are someone else.

Dream characters
are just
subprograms.

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I have to agree with this. :/ I've had dreams where there wasn't even a 'me'. Kind of like watching a movie.

I am not denying that a spiritual world exists, nor that dreams can have spiritual significance. But for the most part, they're characters, not people. If they're 'out to get you', maybe the problem is something entirely different, to do with the dreamer's view of themselves or other people.

though i havent tried this much, they love to contradict me, and are fucking CRAZY at playing hide and seek :)