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its never occured to me to ask people about LD
during LD
I usually ask people to do things I want them to do
or tell them this is a dream
like im letting them in on soemthing
but I read a post about someone else having done this
and I didnt notice how sad it wld b if the people in ur LDs
actualy thought they were in reality
n u tell them its a dream
weird
I hope no one does that to me in real life
I wld sure b bummed as hell
Do an RC if that happens. :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by maerd
Whenever i see my friends in dreams they arent that bad. But when it comes to strangers.....
:mad: :pissed: :angry:
they are extreamly anoying :poke:
I haven't had many LD's (and recently my sleep has been too shitty to really be conducive for LDing), but I've always paid a lot of attention to my dreams, about the characters within them, and generally have noted a lot of their behaviour.
I've had dream characters rebel against me the moment I became lucid (and nearly woke up because of it). And yet, as soon as I escape, I meet a DC who then tells me all about how his father used to be lucid dreamer. In some of my non-lucids, I've had to confront evil, psychotic versions of myself, or had one constantly whispering into my ear as I tried to go about my daily routine. In that dream, nobody acknowledged the DC, but all the time, he would whisper some disturbing things, and eventually it drove me insane in the dream. On the other hand, I met this little girl in my dreams (10-11 years old, black hair, pale skin, and always naked... why the nakedness, I don't know), who kept reappearing on many occasions in my dreams, and even taught me how to fly. However, on one lucid dream, I managed to track her down, but it ended with me finding her in the intensive care ward of a hospital. When I asked her if she was my subconscious, she simply smiled and shook her head, stating she was not. After that lucid dream, she has not once reappeared in any of my dreams since.
If only I can get more LDs... I am really intrigued by all that has been said, and really wish to examine things further.
Strangely enough, I've had a few dream characters ask why they've never seen me before. And I tell them something like "I'm not lucid very often." A recent dream character wouldn't continue the conversation until I explained what a lucid dream was!
I've asked if dream characters know they are in a dream (children say 'yes' more often than adults), and where they go when I'm awake (apparently, they dream about real life!). I had the opportunity to ask a certain dream character about the afterlife. "Do we fall into an eternal dream when we die?" He couldn't hear me the first time, so I repeated. However cliché it may seem, I woke up before he could answer!
The plot thickens!Quote:
Originally Posted by seeker28
its CRAZY how realistic the people in my dreams are in what they say. Last night I dreamed of chatting with a girl I know, and today I was chatting with her, by coincidence asked her a question I asked in my dream and her response was DEAD ON what I dreamed she would say.
...PS: what is a DC?
Does anyone really know why some arent helpfull? Some psychological thing maybe?
It stands for Dream Character I thinkQuote:
Originally Posted by RockNRoller123
i find if a dream charactor is annoying and u put them through torture they tend to be nice to u or scared afterwards. Most of them are nice or strange they are like people i guess there is nice, mean, and plan old weird.
I often tell DCs that we're in a dream, and they always disagree or look at me like I'm nuts. One time, to my surprise, I had a DC say, "Yeah, I know."
Hmm, I don't get a lot of good contact with DC's besides the one "dream guide."
The guide doesn't especially like it when I get friendly with other DCs and usually kills them. Normally I just hang around his house, and his friends. Whenever he's not there I just break out of the house and go as far as I can or do whatever I want. Other DCs tend to ignore me or act like fairly normal people.
In a regular LD, I can control the characters without any problem because they're just shallow figments of my imagination. But when an LD begins with me leaving my body (which isn't a false-awakening, it's a really bizarre feeling and the spirit world is much more "real" than this one. Aside from that, you get colors, sounds, and other stuff that don't exist in reality or even a dream), I can't control the characters, and they tend to be very aware of me.
When I visited my friend in my sleep (I got out of my body, teleported to her house and took her out of her body), she insisted that she was dreaming and that I wasn't real. I had to sit her down and waste ten minutes trying to convince her, and finally I was like "Well, we'll know tomorrow." And of course my friend didn't remember her dreams that night so now I'll never know. :disconcerted:
I ask this dream guide about all kinds of stuff, and the creepy thing is, he's almost always right. Or sometimes, it'll just be a random little thing that I find out is real. For example, once he made me some Italian wedding soup, and at the time I thought that it was a made up soup. Then one day I find out that there really IS wedding soup. I actually sat there and argued with him about whether or not I was eating wedding soup (although it was pretty good soup, I have to say) and now I look like a jackass.
Another time I was just having a hard time dealing with him, and I basically had a panic attack. At the time I thought he was just doing it to me somehow, to which he said "I'm not doing anything to you, you're having a panic attack. You always have them when you have nightmares." And again, later on I argued that it wasn't a panic attack, and eventually I went to look it up (in order to prove him wrong) and he was right. That gets really annoying.
Someone mentioned asking about what happens after we die...I remember this one conversation with the guide where I mentioned "the afterlife." He said, "Don't call it that. nobody here calls it that. It makes you sound like an idiot." I said, "Fine, what do YOU people call it?" He stood there silently like he was deciding whether he should tell me or not, and then he gave me some nonsensical answer and I started complaining that he just made something up.
Even though I hate him, I learned most of my control and a lot of other things from him, either directly or inadvertently. Like I learned to teleport really fast because I just wanted to get away from him, and same with going through walls (although windows are much easier).
Wow, dream characters screw with your mind! I need to ask some of these questions. I was lucid in a shop once and the only person who would listen was a little boy but he didn't understand what I was on about. All the adults thought I was crazy, mainly because I was prancing about naked pissing people off! :D
I had some contact with some DC's the other night while doing the Basic Lucid task of asking a DC something about myself which I did not already know, although I think the DC's that showed up were probably manufactured by my subconsious mind.
When I ask the question "Can anyone tell me something about myself that I don't already know?", I was suddenly surrounded by a bunch of DC's, most of which I think were guys, who were more than willing to tell me everything that they thought was wrong with me.
Although they were all talking at the same time, I heard one of them say that I never complete the goals that I start working on, and then heard another one say that I start something and then 6 months down the road am no longer working on it.
Maybe I should pay more attention to my goals, and be more diligent with projects that I start working on. :D
It would have been nice if one of them could have said something nice to say about me.:?
I have to say... that is quite creepy. Having a bunch of DCs surround you and do nothing but criticise. Perhaps rephrasing the question in future might help to not get such a negative response?Quote:
Originally Posted by iadr
I have had a run down with a big, earth colored dragon one time about, two/three years ago. I wasn't Lucid ( I had no idea of RC etc at the time)...Quote:
Originally Posted by Serinanth
Its head, was the size of a small car, It was as long as two buses and a half...It had its wings folded up at the time, A mix of yellow/orange colored eyes. It walked on all fours, The scales were like rocks. It was the only time I've seen a dragon in my dreams it was breathtaking, nerve racking.
It was probally the coolest DC I've ever met, I hid from it ( Not all dragons are friendly, and waiting to find out in the open isn't a good idea anyways )... It looked for me, i remember it walking by head swinging side to side.... Then the dream faded away and I awoke before it could have found me.
I agree with everyone that DCs are tricky bastards. :D
When I first started to explore with LD, the only thing I would do each night (that I had LDs) was to find my dream guide. So, I had to interact quite a bit with DCs in order to do so. I just went around asking them, "Do you know where my dream guide is?" or "Do you know who my dream guide is?"--which were pretty stupid questions, I guess. Anyway, some nights I would meet a DC who actually replied, "Yes." Once, a woman answered yes and told me to follow her, that she would take to see my dream guide, which I did...until the length of travel caused me to lose lucidity. Tricky, tricky.
I no longer look for my dream guide in LDs. I figured it shouldn't be so hard. These nights, I just do whatever the hell I want in LDs. Mostly, I just order the DCs around. And strangely, they seem to do whatever I bid. In my LDs, DCs live and die for me (LOL!) :P
Or it might have something to do with the fact that I went on a murdering rampage one night and killed quite a few DCs. Weird.
i have not had any lucid experiences with DCs
But i am really fascinated by their behaviors and tendencies. after reading over the different posts i can see that there are a few different classes of them. Zombies are the ones that just sputter incoherent nonsense. The deep thinkers seem to like answering questions and are interested in what your doing and then the hostile ones that want to hurt you, or interact with in a sexually inappropriate manner.
My goal is to really interact with the different DC classes. I think DC social skills may be the hardest lucid dreaming skill to master :roll:
I remember my dream from yesterday night... I`ll skip to the end there... So I was playing a videogame(that doesn't even exist...) and this DC came and sat next to me ( I didn't look directly at him ) and watched for a minute then said "I'm gonna get out of here before your cousins get here" and walked out.. A minute later this little girl came running in and a little boy ran across the doorway... And the girl annoyed me with the "I wanna play!" over and over routine... so I told her I was going to sleep and did go to sleep in my dream, waking up in the dream in the same room, I walked out of the room and upstairs, where I came around to a open door arcing in the way... I looked inside and a DC was there. He looked at me and said "You forgot to do that thing." I was clueless and unaware at what he meant then awoke after i closed the door... And it hit me, I forgot to do a RC when waking up!
I haven't gone Lucid yet, but I'm gonna have lots to try out when the time comes :) Including meeting with that DC...
couple times i have gone somewhere and thought "wait, have i been here before?" but i bet its just my mind playing with me, i dont believe in superstitionsQuote:
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?
This was a non-lucid dream in which I had just driven to a town I wanted to visit that was about 30 minutes from where I lived at in my dream.
Once I get to the town I am walking down this street trying to get somewhere when I encounter a very deep hole in the middle of the street that I am unable to walk around as it covers the entire street.
I decide to climb down into the hole and then climb back up the other side of it to get by it, but when I hang down from the side I am unable to find anything to climb down on, so I am going to have to jump, and it is about 30 feet to the bottom.
I get ready to jump down but then notice that there will be no way for me to get out once I am in the hole.
I try to pull myself up but am having difficulty pulling myself up.
When I see a lady standing to the side I ask her what would be the best way for me to get up out of this hole.
She suggests that I use my feet to walk up the side of the hole while pulling myself up with my arms.
I try this and it works. Once out of the hole I wake up.
I almost never communicate with DC during LD but last time I have I got some really useful advice, though its very common sense. Help me nethertheless.
He said that the best way to get to my destination is to never follow the paths of the dreamworld, but just imagine the destination itself. And then my LD became a 2d bullet hell shoot-em-up game. :D
Now THAT is too funny! Amazing what the mind can do :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by jedimind
My wife and I are someplace on vacation when we just happen to wander into someones house, so I think, well let's just explore a little bit while were here.
We wander through the living room, and through the kitchen, and then see a bedroom door open with a bed with the sheets pulled back with no one in it.
When we walk upstairs we see a bedroom door open and see a couple of people laying in a bed.
My wife hurries back downstairs wanting to leave but I catch up with her, put my arms on her shoulders and stop her.
I tell her that I would like to explore this situation further, and find out who these people are, and where we are at.
About this time a guy comes down the stairs who looks like a boxer as his body is well defined and he is wearing black boxer shorts.
I explain to him that we had accidentally wandered into his house, and that I did not want to be nosy, but that I was wondering who he is.
He tells me his name is Jade, and also tells me his last name, although I am unable to remember his last name when I wake up.
I introduce myself telling him my first and last name and shake hands with him.
Because of the length of the dream I begin to get the feeling that I am going to have a difficult time remembering all of it when I wake up.
I then explain to him that we are dreaming and that I am one of his dream characters.
He seems to think that this is odd, but remains very talkative.
When I ask him what he is doing here, he starts off like he is going to give me an answer, but then gets a confused look on his face like he is not sure what he is doing here.
He is holding something like a map in his hand and is trying to read it by using a lighter to provide some light, when he catches his map on fire. :lol:
Another gal in the room helps him put the fire out.
I tell him not to worry about it, that I have a problem figuring that out also when I am dreaming.
I then find myself in a room with Jade and his wife, and a couple of other women.
I tell everyone in the room that we are all dreaming and that I am one of their dream characters.
When I ask one of the gals in the room if she knows who she is she says she does, but then gets a confused look on her face like she doesn't know who she is.
I tell her not to worry about it because it is sometimes hard to tell who you are when you are dreaming.
My dog then wanders into my room and starts whining which wakes me up.
Good one, iadr! I like how you tell them that you are their DC! Good way to confuse them, I think I'll try that. Sometimes when I'm dreaming I get confused which it is anyway.