Creating characters is not harmful at all. Good authors use similar methods to create vivid characters for their books all the time! I’m with JorgeLTE; CALD won’t affect you unless you are already mentally ill. You are in control of your mind, and you can send the characters away if they are making you too uncomfortable.
Thanks, that definitely makes me feel better! I think I will give it a shot 
no problem. If you have any other questions let me know 
Nice to see all of our new faces. I’m back again after LD4all forgot to tell me there were new posts. Actually, I think I’ll change my notification settings a bit, see if that helps. To Threthedj, as was said, CALD won’t make you go insane or give you any push in that direction. Your character is a sentient being that exists in the mental plane, and just as long as you don’t get the mental and physical worlds mixed up you won’t have any problems. Also, as Tiny pointed out, authors do it all the time.
@Jorge: That technique is definitely worth a try. I think I’ll go ahead and give it a shot when I get a chance. Thanks for sharing it.
Things haven’t been so good for me with CALD lately. As of a week or two ago, I suddenly lost my connection completely to my characters, and I’ve not been able to get it back. I’m sure it’ll work itself out with time, though, and I still have Chameal (who isn’t a character designed for CALD, but rather a roleplay character who ‘came to life’) to work with in the mean time.
How does one mix up the physical and mental worlds? Is it a common occurrence? I’m pretty level headed so I probably shouldn’t worry about it but I am curious haha
Welcome again Wolvendeer.
I hope you can recover your connection. Im sure about you can do ti.
Is when you can’t distiguish the worlds anymore.
You can’t tell if what you see is physiscal any more.
Obioiusly this is very uncommon if your mind is healthy. So don’t worry. 
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Alright sweet
Is there an official guide to the actual character creation process?
Of course. Here it is:
ld4all.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t … r=asc&&sta rt=30
Scroll down that page until you see huge post of Talon, thats the tutorial.
Uff it was hard to find.
Does anybody knows where can I request or help to make this information appear as a individual topic in the main FAQ & TUTORIALS page? 
I would love to help extracting information from forums and compiling them into solid tutorials so everybody can acces them quickly 
There is also this. As far as extracting information, it should be a regular function of the Scribes. If you want to, you could create a CALD summarized thread like what used to be done with some of the “big” threads. I’d be more than happy to work on that or help work on that with you if it was something you wanted to do.
Yes, I’d be happy to become a scribe but I only have 14 posts and I need at least 50 “usefull” postos to become a Scribe.
Of course!! I wold love to create an important thread.
I like this forum and making important contributions would be great.
So yes, I want to 
Well, see what all interests you in the forum and make some posts with your opinion and whatnot. You’ll get there before you know it. In the mean time, I’ll see about getting some projects set up for this and other relevant/important threads to be summarized.
Ok wolve, thank you. I’ll contact you as soon as I get there.
I would love to see a CALD FAQ with some of the individual posts like Talon’s character-creation overview that JorgeLTE linked to! I don’t have a lot of spare time, but if a FAQ was started as a group project I would help when I could.
So I think I might be on the verge of gaining another character. I was talking with Jet while trying to WILD last night, and for a moment I had a perception of a definitely masculine character. I asked Jet who it was, and apparently he parks his spaceship in the docking bay next to hers. She said that he’s not much of a talker, but she’s going to try and find out more about him for me. (And she didn’t react vehemently like she normally does when I suggest a new character.) I’ll have to see where this goes…
Also on the topic of WILD, I’ve been experimenting with counting most of the time and then starting a conversation with Jet when I start having an uncontrollable urge to move. I haven’t succeeded in WILD at all, but I’ve noticed that I feel the urge to move (and swallow) less when I talk to Jet some instead of counting the entire time.
I will check with Q about getting it started and make sure she has no problems with it, but in the mean time, if anyone who isn’t a scribe wants to help out, we could use a list of all of the questions that need to be answered here.
Oh, and another thing is that thanks to that tecknique, Chameal managed to make an appearance in my dreams. It was short, and I don’t really remember it, but I’m about 90% sure it happened. 
Thanks, Jorge!
No problem Wolve, keep it up.
Also I think that you should try to autosuggest yourself in order to, when you reach a goal in a LD or a ND (like talking with chameal) you wake up so you can have nearly perfect dream recall.
Now that Chameal have appeared in your dreams, you can ask him to make you lucid too!!!
That might be a good idea. Tried again tonight with little luck, but I didn’t put as much focus into Chameal as I had the night before last. Will try again tonight and see what comes of it. Also, Chameal’s a she. 
Ohh sorry.
I’m sure that today I had a dream were Victoria appeared, BUT I CAN’T remember anything!!! Its so frustrating…
Do you know about any teachique to recall dreams during the day?
The only thing I really know is to expand the scene around any imagery that you remember. Like, ask what was going on around the person or image in the scene. What happened before? Why did something happen?
This may not help you, especially if you don’t remember anything, but you can take the fact she was in your dream and expand around that. Hope this helps.
Haven’t had any progress with LDs for a while 
I’ll talk to my characters about it, and hopefully they’ll give me some advice.
Can’t remember where I got up to with the daydreaming, though.
I remember that me and my charatcers went to a city to find the PSR General. He went to do a speech in that city to tell them that that city is now under Erehwon’s rule. We managed to catch him, interrogated him but he escaped, using magic that put us to sleep.
When I woke up; I was back in Eden. Lydia; Blaze and Hyperion were nowhere to be seen, so I was alone.
I went back to Erehwon to see if he had taken them there, and to my surprise they were there. They were all being manipulated by the General, and he threatened to “do something bad” if I interfered.
Hyperion (possessed) escorted me out of the Erehwon area, and threw me in the moat surrounding the city-like structure. I was back in the slum areas again…great.
And alone.
Something tells me that I won’t be seeing my characters for a little while. That is, until I heard two familiar voices in the distance…
It’s really exciting to see what scenarios my mind comes up with. I usually don’t think up the scenarios, they just happen when I get down to interacting with my characters.