Thread: Communicating With Dream Characters

Man. . . I'm kind of surprised some of you are taking this quite lightly. Who the hell are these Dream Characters? I'm quite freaked out about them, but am very interested. Is dreaming really by our own mind? Where do these people come from and what is this place we connect to when we 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.

Among the questions I would like to ask a dream character I think the most important one for me is going to be "What can I do to become better at lucid dreaming?"

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?

Feel free to share your experiences and suggestions for questions you might want to ask a dream characters.

I haven't thought much about questions. I think thats a good question to ask though. I heard of an idea of having like a slot maching where you go up to it and you can change how long u want to b lucid, for instance 1 hour dreaming = 1 month lucid. May work. Haven't thought of doing it when i'm lucid though.

Originally Posted by Otto Grainer

Man. . . I'm kind of surprised some of you are taking this quite lightly. Who the hell are these Dream Characters? I'm quite freaked out about them, but am very interested. Is dreaming really by our own mind? Where do these people come from and what is this place we connect to when we dream?

Who these dream characters are is a good question Otto Grainer.

I personally think they come from a variety of sources, from the dreamers own mind, from other dreamers, from former human beings who have passed on to the other side, from various spirits from the other side.

Of all dream characters, I think the ones that may come from the dreamers own mind would probably be the most helpful, although there may be some who may be spirit guides or angels who could also be very helpful.

I guess there is only one way to find out, and that is to get out there and communicate with as many of them as possible, and try to find out where they are from.

>>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...<<

They know what they care about, and nothing else.

>>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".<<

That is correct.

And you can't "torture" them. But the fact that anyone would want to is more than a little disturbing to me. Anyone who would want to do that would probably enjoy torturing animals and people too.

Besides, you shouldn't touch them.

Communicating with dream characters is what my Yahoo Group is about. Join up and see what goes on:

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

communicating with DC's is one of the things I look forward to in my dreams. I really enjoyed reading everyons DC interactions.

I have only been shooting for LD's consciously for a bit now and only managed one conversation with a DC.

I was asking why it was hard for me to stay lucid; and she informed me that my mind wasn't used to a consciously lucid state and that the longer I spent in a LD the quicker my mind would get used to it, but for the first bunch of them they weren't going to last super long.

~~~~~

Some other memorable conversations I've had in the past both ND \ semi-LD are;

Rare: Which do you prefer, the dream world, or the other world.

DC: Well it's pretty nifty over here, but where you are, in the other world, you're free.

~~~~~

Rare: Why aren't you all out having a good time instead of just hanging out in this house with me.

DC: We know you only have a limited amout of time, so we figured we'd come visit you here.

Another DC: So when are you coming to the other side!

Rare: I don't know yet. They won't tell me.

~~~~~

DC: Can you guess my mothers name.

Rare: *thinks* Marie (Mary)

*DC gets excited and starts following me*

DC: How did you know that!

Rare: Lucky guess.

*DC follows me to a gate; and stops me*

DC: So I just have to ask, which do you think is better, the christian religion or the jewish religion.

*Another DC appears that looks like a priest and stands next to the first DC*

Rare: Well, honestly, I feel that as human beings we were not created with the ability to understand the nature of god and the divine, and therefor any explanation that we create to define that essence to ourselves is neither right nor wrong. They are equal and neither one is better than the other.

*They both look at each other and nod their heads*


!~thanks iadr for the great thread~!

I'm not to active on lucid, I've only been lucid two times in a short period time. So I haven't had time to explore and talk with dream characters while I'm conscious. In my normal dreams my dream characters seem like they're real people that you see everyday on the streets. They don't necessarily pay attention to me that much and I don't either. If I'm engaging in a conversation with them, to me it seems like I know them very well but at the same time I don't.

After meditating for about an hour I suddenly find myself flying around in a dream.

I remember that I had wanted to try to contact some DCs during my next lucid, and soon afterwards find myself in a couple's house.

The house I am in seems to be from an earlier period of time as they have what looks like an old console TV in their living room, which when I look at it closer I am able to see that it is a color TV.

The rest of their furniture and appliances also appears to be from an earlier period of time.

Even the automobiles on the street outside seem to be from about 20 years earlier.

I talk to this couple with great interest trying to learn everything I can about them, telling them that I am a person who is currently dreaming, after which they give me a tour of their house and ask me several questions about where I come from.

When I ask them what year it is, they have a different name for their years, as they do for everything else in their house also.

A calendar they show me shows the year or whatever cycle they use to measure time with to be 27,092.

I am thinking at this time that I must be in some kind of parallel universe where their progress is just a bit behind ours here on earth.

When we go outside there appears to be something like a jet flying in the sky, which noise seems to scare them as they seem to have no idea what it is.

I tell them not to worry, that they are just airplanes, and that I hear them all the time where I come from.

When I decide it is time to leave I can tell that they would prefer that I stay and talk with them, so I tell them that I will come back and visit them again, which they seem pleased with.

After flying off and landing again in a different place, I see a middle aged man with a beard doing some kind of weird dance.

He ignores me until I start doing the same kind of dance that he is doing, after which he invites me to meet some of his friends.

As we enter a place where he appears to live I meet several people who seem to be the age of college students.

When I tell them that I am a person who is dreaming, and that I am from the year 2008, they become very interested in me.

I notice a calendar laying on a table that says the date is 2003.

When I begin telling them about things that have happened in the past few years such as who the Presidents of the United States have been, and which teams have won the National Championships in football each year, they become very interested in me, and say something Wow, how do you know all of these things?

When I get ready to leave I can tell that they would prefer me to stay, so I tell them that I will come back and visit them again, which pleases them.

I then find myself facing a door, so tell myself that when I open the door a beautiful woman will be on the other side of the door.

After opening this door another door appears, and then another. I go through a total of about 7 or 8 doors before I find myself in someplace like an apartment with older furniture.

When someone asks me to sit down on an old couch I sit down.

I then see a gal come into the room, but am more concerned about the huge, muscular guy walking behind her who starts coming toward me.

When he gets right in front of me I try to protect myself by hitting him with my fist, but my fist goes right through him.

I decide at this time that it would be in my best interest to leave, so fly out of the place as fast as I can.

Originally Posted by iadr

Whoa...you just made my hairs stand up Oneiro. No I have not read about it, but on another site where I posted the dream, the moderator told me that it was a technique that is also taught in a Phychic Development book that he had.

Here is the dream the way I recorded it. Guess I should probably start paying more attention to these dreams and trying these things shouldn't I. It has only been about 3 months since I had the dream.

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Dream:

Although this dream was not a lucid dream, it was a very interesting dream where I was being taught something.

I am sitting in the back seat of a limosine with a successful lawyer who tells me that he contributes his success to a buzz saw that he bought which caused a certain kind of vibration in his head when he used it.

When I ask him how many years he had to go to school to become a lawyer he avoids my question and continues telling me that the reason for his success is what he learned from the buzz saw.

He then touches my forehead and shows me how to hold my tongue against the top of mouth when doing a chant to create these kind of vibrations within myself.

I remember someone else telling me about this same technique earlier in this dream.

Because this same theme was repeated 3 times, it seems to be something my subconscious mind is trying to show me.

This is a little bit crazy, because I've actually read an account before on this site where a DC showed the dreamer this same thing. It was Leo Volont, remember that user? Anyway, I did a quick search and found the account, here it is:

Originally Posted by Leo Volont

While my father was alive I did not get along well with him, but as the years since his decease have gone by, my relationship with him in Dreams has been improving. Last night we were sitting at the old dining room table. He was at his customary seat, but I was not at my old seat but, significantly, at the seat ordinarily assigned to the oldest brother – apparently I have been promoted. In the Dream my father tells me that he will show me an exercise for communicating without the use of this small device that was set up close to the window. All I could infer about this machine was that it emitted white light. So my father begins this exercise, and it is quite simple – he takes a deep breath and then hisses out the exhale, and then his entire cranium begins to glow with White Light. So I begin to hiss out my breath and my brain case takes on the same glow of White Light. It was like our brains became filaments for the White Light and I could see our brains glowing.

Incidentally, I am a High Initiate of Kundalini Yoga and so I know what it feels like to have an open Crown Chakra. And when I awoke, I had an open Crown Chakra. Then, throughout the day, I tried the Exercise a few times. It is easy to do, but there are a few details. It seems that the proper ‘hiss’ involves having the tip of the tongue positioned close to roof of the mouth at that spot that is the best compromise between the forward position which sounds very ‘sssssssssss’ and the position further back which is more purely ‘shshshshshshsh’. Coincidentally, that sound that you would be making is very close to what they call ‘White Noise’.

It really does seem to open the Crown Chakra.

Sounds like the same thing, with the exception of the white light. Pretty creepy...

Anyway, I thought I would contribute my own experience of a meaningful interaction I had with a couple DCs. It's one of the very first lucids I ever had. Here's the excerpt from my dream journal:

10/26/05
The dream gets a little hazy, but the next thing I know I'm in my brother's room, which is right by mine, except for some reason his room is rearranged. I'm sitting on the edge of my brother's bed, talking to 2 DC's who are sitting on the other side of the bed, leaning their backs against the wall; a white guy and a white girl, both roughly my age.

I ask them, "So what's it like to be a dream character? Just a figment of somebody's imagination?" The girl gets kind of offended at this. She gives me a "look" and says, "We're not just 'figments of somebody's imagination.'" They go on to explain how they have a consistent dream world/community set up. Every time that I go to sleep I visit their world, and when I'm awake they still exist, I'm just absent from their world until the next time I dream. The DC's have complex relationships with each other, jargon that I'm not familar with, the works; according to them, it's like a parallel universe. I ask them if it's the same world that everyone goes to when they dream. They don't really understand my question so I rephrase it. "Let's say that I have a dream in which I meet a dream character named Bob. Then let's say that a friend of mine has a dream in which he meets a dream character named Fred. Would Bob be able to meet Fred in the dream world?" They look at each other. "Eh... I don't know about THAT..." they reply. Basically, 'no.' I mention that it must suck that they can never leave the dream world. They say it isn't so bad.

At one point in our conversation, they are both talking rapidly at the same time, and it's kind of bugging me, so I tell them to stop. They look at me and then keep talking. I know I can control them because they are characters in my dream, so I tell them again, this time more firmly. This time the girl actually says, "No." I concentrate, close my eyes, and them boom, "SILENCE!" They both immediately shut up, but when I open my eyes, the girl is giving me a hell of a nasty look. If looks could kill!

Great information DuB. Thanks for passing that along. That was very interesting that someone else had a DC show them a similar technique for meditating. I'll have to give that another try.

Very interesting conversation you had with your dcs also. Thanks for sharing that.

I'm still trying to figure out what my dcs are, whether they are actually other dreamers, or some kind of characters in a whole different world, but for the most part they seem to get confused when I ask them what or who they are, like they don't know.

I do think though that in an encounter that I had earlier where I visited a guy named Bob, that I was in some kind dc communities, because in an apt building where I was floating around in, I saw my parents and brothers all sitting at a table, but they were almost like lifeless dummies with no emotions. So I am thinking that they may have just been their dc counterparts in the dc community.

Thanks again for such a great reply!

I actually don't ever have dream 'characters', the only people in my dreams are people I know like my friends or family. Or sometimes there will be a famous person but in my dream I know them well.
Is this what you mean by dream characters?
How do I find other people in my dream?

I think that DC's are very interesting.

I have been doing this almost 60 years and have devoted much time to DC's. When I encounter one that I want to interact with I first try to determine how close it is to my own consciousness. If it is really close, I look at them as my creation. I can have them say what I want and appear or disappear as I wish. If they are far away from my consciousness then it seems like I can't control them at all and they are the interesting ones. They have information that is hidden even to my deepest subconsciousness.

They may or may not know anything about me or my circumstances here on this earth plane. But some of them have given me really lucrative stock tips and other meanful info about life the universe .. you get what I mean. My "creations" are like talking to myself or if I quiet my mind they say nothing at all.

BlessU
Sam

I've asked DCs questions related to LDing, but either they ignore me, say something rude and completely irrelevant, or come out with a string of random words I've never heard before in my life.

Originally Posted by dallyup52

I think that DC's are very interesting.
I have been doing this almost 60 years and have devoted much time to DC's.

They may or may not know anything about me or my circumstances here on this earth plane. But some of them have given me really lucrative stock tips and other meanful info about life the universe.

BlessU
Sam

Welcome to dreamviews dallyup52 and BlessU!

It's great to have someone with your experience join us, and I look forward to hearing more about your experiences should you ever be inclined to share any of them.

Peace be with you!

iadr

Originally Posted by lagunagirl

I've asked DCs questions related to LDing, but either they ignore me, say something rude and completely irrelevant, or come out with a string of random words I've never heard before in my life.

I hear what you are saying lagunagirl. A great majority of the DCs I've encountered seem to have no idea who or what they are, although there are a few who not only seem to know who they are, but also seem to have valuable information they want to share, which DCs seem more like spirit guides than just DCs.

I asked a DC who I think is my dream guide why we dream and he answered with some complicated answer that I don't even remember.

I had a dream 3 or 4 months ago where I was back at school (took some time off from college at this point I had just decided to go back) in a particular building on campus. It suddenly occurred to me I wasn't in school and must be dreaming. I became lucid, and when I do there is always a count down that starts and usually ends with me either waking up or dissolving back into a regular dream, so I started looking around for something to do. I saw a DC so I said "hey who are you" and he sort of shrugged and walk off, then I found another kid and asked him the same thing but he only shrugged. I then ran up to him grabbed him by the collar, pushed him up against the wall and said again "Who are you?" His answer "Uh, Your head." Then I woke up.

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 have done this twice that I remember. This is a bit long winded but I like to tell complete stories so bear with me.

1. I was in bed with my girlfriend and was false awakening. FA content was that I woke up and started to kiss her + make love but at penetration I would then really wake up for a second or two and realise it was FA and then fall back to sleep and repeat (damn!). This happened at least 5-6 times then I went into an LD and I saw a woman behind a desk. I asked her who she was and she said I am your subconscious. She then gave me relationship advice - advising that the relationship was a bad one and my gf didn't really love me. She then told me she had to go. I asked if I would see her again and she said maybe and then I woke up. It was so awesome but I have yet to have another LD that vivid. Our relationship was on my mind all that day so that is why this happened. Anyhow, DC/subconscious told me the truth that my heart didn't want to accept. I followed the advice and broke up.

2. I appeared in my parents house in my old room (haven't been there in 16 years- but my parents weren't there. (I often appear at the start of dreams in my old room) There was a unknown lady there so I asked what year it was and the lady said 2080. I told her my surname and asked her hers - don't remember what she said but it also started with a D like mine- it wasn't the same anyhow. Was pretty cool we went outside and I opened the garage door by psychokinesis. She seemed amazed so I told her I have an implant that can control electronics. I guess something like that would exist in that time frame. The garage was filled with all kinds of bicycles. The bicycle content of the garage most likely it is cause my BMX bike that I kept asking my parents to send to me for years was kept there (I finally got my BMX the following year).

I find the biggest problem have with DC's is the fact that they keep changing form, last night I was helping a girl fix her deck, at first she was someone who I recognized from elementary school, as I was "fixing" the deck it almost collapsed... she was sun-tanning beneath it and when she came back up she was a totally different girl, this happens often in my dreams, but it could be because I haven't had a lucid one in a long time... although last night I had SO many dream signs that I wished I had picked up on... like the fact that the deck was the only one on the building and it was about 50 metres in the air... I remember warning the DC to watch out and she just ignored what I was saying.

Here's a dream I had last night, which although being only a vivid dream, was a dream where I had a lot of awareness, and had a lot of communication with DCs.

The Room:
I am in a room with a group of people when I notice a young gal I had been with sometime earlier hanging all over some other guy.
I just ignore them and keep doing whatever it is I am doing.
A bit later the guy leaves and she comes over and starts hanging onto me.

In The Bleachers:
I then find myself sitting in some bleachers with her by my side in the middle of a group of people.

People are ordering large pretzels from a lady walking around selling them for 50 cents each, and the lady is having them pass their money down to the end of the row they are in where she is collecting it.

Everyone who has a pretzel has their hand in the air which is allowing her to count the number of hands to determine how much money should be at the end of each row.

Somehow the young gal sitting next to me ends up with 2 pretzels which she did not ask for.

Since she had not asked for them, she is thinking about just keeping them without paying for them, so does not raise her hand.

I tell her that if she would like a pretzel I will buy one for her.

Just then the pretzel lady is next to us so I look in my wallet to get some money to pay her for 1 pretzel. All I have in my wallet are 5 dollar bills and 20 dollar bills, so I hand her a crumpled up 5 dollar bill.

I correct her when she tries to give me only 25 cents for change by telling her I gave her a 5 dollar bill.

She tells me that she has no change right now (and I can see that she has no cash on her), but that if I will catch her at the end of the event that she should have some change by then.

I tell her that I would rather just pay her the exact amount now instead of having to find her after the event, so take 2 quarters out of my pocket where I have several quarters and my keys, and give her two quarters.

I have to ask her to give me my 5 dollar bill back because she was planning to keep it.

After getting my 5 dollar bill back I tell the gal sitting next to me that I felt like that lady was trying to rip me off and that there is no way I was going to wait until after the event to get my change.

She then grabs my arm and snuggles next to me and tells me that she has made up her mind and that she wants me now because I am rich.

I am trying to think of a way to explain to her that although I have plenty of money that I do not consider myself to be rich, and am also trying to figure out what to do about my wife.

Although I am enjoying being with her, I decide that I am going to need to go back home to my wife after this event is over, so am trying to figure out a way to tell her that.

I seem to have enough awareness that I am in some sort of different environment where it is ok to be with this gal, as all of the people here are strangers to me.

I then wake up with a smile on my face.

bump

this is a great thread

I read this whole thread and

I have noticed that DCs are not "free" and they know it

Originally Posted by Rare

Some other memorable conversations I've had in the past both ND \ semi-LD are;

Rare: Which do you prefer, the dream world, or the other world.

DC: Well it's pretty nifty over here, but where you are, in the other world, you're free.

Originally Posted by DuB

10/26/05
The dream gets a little hazy, but the next thing I know I'm in my brother's room, which is right by mine, except for some reason his room is rearranged. I'm sitting on the edge of my brother's bed, talking to 2 DC's who are sitting on the other side of the bed, leaning their backs against the wall; a white guy and a white girl, both roughly my age.

I ask them, "So what's it like to be a dream character? Just a figment of somebody's imagination?" The girl gets kind of offended at this. She gives me a "look" and says, "We're not just 'figments of somebody's imagination.'" They go on to explain how they have a consistent dream world/community set up. Every time that I go to sleep I visit their world, and when I'm awake they still exist, I'm just absent from their world until the next time I dream. The DC's have complex relationships with each other, jargon that I'm not familar with, the works; according to them, it's like a parallel universe. I ask them if it's the same world that everyone goes to when they dream. They don't really understand my question so I rephrase it. "Let's say that I have a dream in which I meet a dream character named Bob. Then let's say that a friend of mine has a dream in which he meets a dream character named Fred. Would Bob be able to meet Fred in the dream world?" They look at each other. "Eh... I don't know about THAT..." they reply. Basically, 'no.' I mention that it must suck that they can never leave the dream world. They say it isn't so bad.

At one point in our conversation, they are both talking rapidly at the same time, and it's kind of bugging me, so I tell them to stop. They look at me and then keep talking. I know I can control them because they are characters in my dream, so I tell them again, this time more firmly. This time the girl actually says, "No." I concentrate, close my eyes, and them boom, "SILENCE!" They both immediately shut up, but when I open my eyes, the girl is giving me a hell of a nasty look. If looks could kill!

Now I am afraid!

Oh my... DCs appear to seem very real; I feel as if in the Matrix. xD"
This is now scaring me. *lol*

Yes indeed they are real.

And the people who believe they are killing or controlling them are fools.

My common questions are:
How does silicona-667 supports the impact of a nuclear weapon?
Answer: Its the fusion of polymers with some titanium making the carbon-carbon union better into carbon-titanium-carbon, with the durability of a diamond and the flexibility that polymers provide, tough thats not the complete formula, you actually have to be fusing the titanium with some liquid metals or alike to make it enter perfectly in the polymer you may choose, thats a perfect form of doing armors you know?

So I generally ask about science to them... so I can improve my skills, tough they answers things I don't know about, that question was 4 years ago when I barely knew about chemics...

Once I become lucid I'll talk to a DC. Only one. Maybe. These people sound scary but I don't know why. What I'll do is find my Dream Guide.