Thread: Communicating With Dream Characters

Dream characters are creations of your own mind, they have no intention of their own besides the intention you give them. For this reason, they don't know anything which you don't (at least subconsciously). You will never learn anything from a DC that you didn't already know, although they may be able to bring things to your immediate attention of which you weren't consciously aware.

My intentions in lucid dreams lately have been to talk to DC and see if I can bring back anything useful to my waking state. So far all they provide me with are nonsensical statements and useless "dream objects". In an LD I had last night, a DC gave me a bottle of vaseline in response to my question: "What can I do to increase my lucidity?".

Originally Posted by Moonbeam

I met one with intense blue eyes like that; he told me his name was "Fuse". We talked for a moment before he became hostile.

I didn't get to talk to him but he seemed friendly enough. He sort of telepathically said a friendly "hi" but non-verbally

In this dream that I had last night my DC communicated with me which helped me find a place where I could be alone with her.

After floating around enjoying a lot of different landscapes I find myself with an attractive gal that I would like to be alone with.

Unfortunately everywhere we go there are either a lot of people, or else the landscape is just not romantic.

One place we end up is an oriental village where there are a lot of people walking around and a lot of small shops.

I enter a small restaurant with her where I see the prices posted on the door.

The prices for items are very cheap, 3 cents for a cup of tea, 5 cents for something else.

The lady who manages the restaurant seems a bit upset with me for not staying and ordering something, but I am still trying to find a secluded place where I can be alone with the gal I am with.

I then find myself in a room full of people, mostly guys who are all talking.

I am having a hard time getting out of this place until the gal I am with whispers in my ear that I just need to concentrate on the kind of place I would like to alone with her at.

So I think for a while and decide that someplace where it is nice and grassy like a golf course late at night after everyone has gone home would be a nice place to go.

As soon as I concentrate on this I find myself spinning slowly in a counter-clockwise motion while I float up in the air.

Finally, because of her suggestion, I find myself alone with the gal in my dream, in the kind of place I wanted to be at.

Originally Posted by iadr

The prices for items are very cheap, 3 cents for a cup of tea, 5 cents for something else.

You've reminded me of a session from a couple of weeks ago.

I'm standing outdoors in what I quickly realise is a Wild West frontier town.

People are lined along the main street, selling goods from wooden tables.

Something makes me look at my hands and my lucidity kicks in..

I slowly walk along the line of tables, and my attention is drawn to a table of odds-and-ends and bric-à-brac. As I peruse the goods, I realise that what I am seeing is some of the most collectable stuff that I have seen in a long time: superb glass and ceramics. One piece in particular was stunning: a glass bowl commemorating the first silent film, with brilliant etching and painted scenes.. worth at least five figures.

My lucidity slips at this point, but the dream continues..

I pick up a small Lalique rose glass stopper, and I drop it and it breaks. One of the men says "That's okay Sir. Just give us 60 cents and we'll be happy with that.." I am relieved. I thought that it was going to be expensive. It dawns on me that there might be more bargains on this table, so I ask "Can you do me a price for everything?" "What? Everything?" replies one of the men. "Yes, everything.." I reply.

The men look surprised, but they look at all the stuff on the table, and then one says: "Five pounds.." I say "Five pounds?" and he replies "Yes.. five pounds."

This is the bargain of the century. I pull out my wallet and lo and behold, there is a five pound note, but of the type that went out of circulation some 10 years ago. I offer it to the men, and they are not sure.. they show me another five pound note of an even older circulation. One of them asks "Is this five pounds okay? Legal tender?" I assure them that it is, and they accept my five pounds.

As I walk away with my goods, we share some good-natured banter. The dream fades and I wake up.

Originally Posted by jedimind

My intentions in lucid dreams lately have been to talk to DCs and see if I can bring back anything useful to my waking state. So far all they provide me with are nonsensical statements and useless "dream objects". In an LD I had last night, a DC gave me a bottle of vaseline in response to my question: "What can I do to increase my lucidity?".

Now if that had been me, lucidity permitting, I would have asked it further questions about what I was supposed to do with the "bottle of vaseline"..

Anyone who is capable of interacting with dream characters is invited to join my Yahoo Group:

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/luciddreamingtasks/

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Hello, Arne!

I asked a few DCs who they were. They replied that they were aspects of my personality. Has anyone else asked DCs who they were?

Originally Posted by Silviiro

I asked a few DCs who they were. They replied that they were aspects of my personality. Has anyone else asked DCs who they were?

I've only asked a couple of DC's who they were.

The first one who was a friend of mine who looked at me with a puzzled look on his face as if I should know who he was, and then told me what his name was, which was my friends name.

The second one who I had a nice conversation with told me his name was Bob.

I look forward to communicating a lot more with DC's in future lucids.

In my last lucid, my DCs, which I never saw, communicated with me.

When I had figured out how to fly better after hovering about a foot above the ground for a while, I heard some DC's congratulating me.

And when I met a mean DC at the top of a very high mountain that I zapped by expanding my whilte light out until it zapped him, I heard a bunch of people or beings applauding from above me in the sky. (First time I've ever experienced anything like that before).

Hi,
Sorry if i sound random (and more so if this is the wrong post) but i was just curious, I have never done lucid dreaming and it was only recently (as in to day) i started reading about it, though i have been interested for a while.

Sadly, i am one of those paranoid people, like i believe in ghosts and what not, and often scare myself from my overly active imagination and having read this post and the negative experieces some people have had with DC's, i now have a kinda 'scared' perception of learning how to control dreaming which leads me to my actual question...

though i doubt i would be communicating with DC's on my first go, like are many actually mean and can they actually hurt you? and if i have a negative perception, will that affect my experiences, cause i dont want that to happen.

anyway if you could answer one (of my many questions ) i would appreciate your help

with many thanks,
Leshokink

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.

i want to ask my Dream Characters what they do while im awake.
maybe invite a few to go bowling.....you know...good fun

Last night I asked a whole group of recurring DCs what it is like to be a DC. They just looked at me really confused. Then, suddenly, in the front row (we were in a class room) was this strange, exotic looking girl. She hadn't been there before. She told me that I was a DC and should be able to answer my own question. I tried to explain that since I was the one having the dream I wasn't a DC. She asked me how could I be sure I wasn't just a DC in someone else's dream. I didn't know how to answer. The next thing I knew she was just gone.

It was an interesting dream.

Originally Posted by leshokink

Hi,
Sorry if i sound random (and more so if this is the wrong post) but i was just curious, I have never done lucid dreaming and it was only recently (as in to day) i started reading about it, though i have been interested for a while.

Sadly, i am one of those paranoid people, like i believe in ghosts and what not, and often scare myself from my overly active imagination and having read this post and the negative experieces some people have had with DC's, i now have a kinda 'scared' perception of learning how to control dreaming which leads me to my actual question...

though i doubt i would be communicating with DC's on my first go, like are many actually mean and can they actually hurt you? and if i have a negative perception, will that affect my experiences, cause i dont want that to happen.

anyway if you could answer one (of my many questions ) i would appreciate your help

with many thanks,
Leshokink

With the way dreams work, the more afraid you are of something, the more likely it is to happen, so if you decide (even subconcously) that DCs are dangerous and mean, you will have a lot of mean and dangerous-seeming DCs.

I'm not afraid of DCs, even the weird ones. And I have found most DCs to be extreemly helpful. Occasionally I get a mean, annoying DC, but that seems to connect to when I am feeling frusterated and out of control in waking life.

I'm not sure what to believe about the dreaming world; wether it is real on some level and populated by beings with lives and drives seperate from dreams or not. I have had some strange experiences. So, every night before I fall asleep I pray that I will be safe on my nightly voyages. And I have been. If you don't pray, but want protection, you can simply meditate on being safe during your dreams, or do some ritualistic something to focus your mental abilities on that outcome. That will have the same result as a prayer.

Last night I had a dream with another "different" DC. This is the second dream of mine he has been in in a week (I can't remember much about the first). I was lucid and for a while I have been trying to induce a shared dream with m friend, so I called out to him and turned around. This DC was there and he looked like my friend but a little paler and I, thinking it had worked, asked him "Are you another dreamer?". He replied "No" so I thought "so you're a dream character" but I immediately got the impression that he disliked that name, another word then came to mind, he was a "construct", a being created in the dreamworld for a specific purpose. The dream fades a little while after that but next lucid I am going to try and find him

Thanks Seeker

This was not a lucid dream, but last night I was watching a young girl who was always late every place she went.

She went to a dentist in this dream and was late as usual, for the second week in a row.

As I approached the dentist office where she was sitting in the dentist chair I heard the dentist and his assistant complaining about her always being late for her appointments.

I then approached the dentist and apologized for her being late saying that it was my fault that she was late as I had been running behind.

I then felt the most awesome and heart felt mental Thank You come from this young gal as she thanked me mentally for helping her out. It was such a strong feeling I felt like crying.

So mental communication is another method of communicating with DCs.

I rarely communicate to DCs when Lucid. But when I do they seem strange and usually won't answer my questions.

But what I'm going to start trying is summoning a particular character and telling them to show up in all my dreams and tell me that I'm dreaming. But not just tell them, force them into accepting the task. Beat them up if I have to.
I figure if I impress this instruction onto the same DC every time I'm lucid then its kind of like training my subconscious (like repeated RCing does) and maybe after a while it will start to work. This character might start showing up in my non-lucid dreams to make me lucid. Thats the plan anyway... but I haven't had much luck with my lucid plans as yet...

Well, my DCs have been coming in all sorts of shapes and models lately.

Last night in a lucid I found myself communicating with a snake as I was a snake myself at that point, and although it was somewhat of a scary looking snake I was not the least bit afraid of it as I was also a snake myself.

I then found myself turning into a variety of insects after which I was communicating with the kind of insects that I had turned myself into.

Then I ended up being a dot in an office where there was a large map on the wall where I allowed myself to float around and land on the map figuring I would visit the place I ended up at on the map.

As I ended up somewhere that I was unfamiliar with though I decide that something didn't work right, so decided to forget about that idea.

Finally, I found myself in human form where I was able to float around and float back and forth through walls, impressing everyone in the house where I was at.

I've been finding that concentrating too much on trying to do something like summoning a DC to talk to tends to end my dream and brings me back into the physical, while just going with the flow of the dream and allowing the dream to dictate where I go while I just observe, allows my lucid state to continue much longer.

I love my dream characters. Rather, I love the wide spectrum of them I get. Every emotion you can think of! In non-lucids, they are usually either indifferent, or in a deep emotional state. Sometimes they are evil, sometimes they are guardians. Even in non-lucids, they can be cleverly composed and complex.

In lucids, they are much more exciting, because I always make it a point to interact with them. They give me riddles about life and dreaming, but only because I expect them to. Rarely, a hostile one comes up. These anti-lucids may try to 'kill' me, or warn me. Once again, I expect them, and actually enjoy these encounters. It adds spice to an otherwise peaceful realm. When I find one of these DCs, I usually think "Boy, I can't wait to write this in my dream journal!"

Well If that's true you can explore your self

Last night i had the weirdest lucid where i was talking to the Phoenix Suns. I had walked up to their manager and asked, "So, why are the Phoenix suns here in my dream?" he then said, "Well, they're getting ready for a big event down in LA."

This is also when i remembered to ask what my dream name was, this was the weird part. I asked him, and then he disappeared. I then held my breath to increase the vividness of the dream, which really isn't recommended, but i was panicking. The weird thing is that it worked, but i noticed that my watch said i only have ten seconds to ask what i need to know before i wake up. I quickly asked my dream name, but sadly the time was up. I actually didn't wake up, i stayed lucid, but i never interacted with another DC in that dream.

Originally Posted by iadr

Was wondering how many people have been able to communicate with their dream characters and learn something useful from them.

hello... most of my lucid experience involves communication with dream characters. it would go beyond the scope to report everything. most of the time i hardly found them helpful, quite the contrary: the impression that those characters are rather interested in me not being lucid became stronger and stronger. finally i got so bored by the (felt) uselessness of talking to them that i even droped my lucid activity for a while.
anyway there has been good and helpful interactions too - mostely connected to a better understanding of myself.

Has anyone ever asked a dream character a question that has helped them with something, or does anyone else have any suggestions for other questions that one could ask a dream character once they become lucid?

assuming that a dc knows everything that i ever had heard of i once asked "hey, how this mantra ends?" i started to recite it and asked "what are the last lines..?" (which i had forgotten) The respond was very disappointing, i'm sure it never had heard about a mantra before...
another thought was that they just play roles like actors in a play and i asked whether this is correct or not. the character replied "yes" and asked what for he said "energy".

there has been plenty of events over the years and to me it looks just as everything has its space there. they usually embody my emotions and people who play actually a more or less important role in my life.

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once i dreamed to be the queen of fairys but then i noticed that i am real.

I've asked for guidance from dream characters on many occasions, and most of the time I've got it. The biggest problem is I can never remember the advice. I can visualise the scene perfectly but when it comes down to words and writing I suck at memorising.

Originally Posted by Idolfan

I've asked for guidance from dream characters on many occasions, and most of the time I've got it. The biggest problem is I can never remember the advice. I can visualise the scene perfectly but when it comes down to words and writing I suck at memorising.

I'm a bit confused here Idolfan..

If you can't remember what they say, how do you know that you have had guidance?