Ever told a dream character it was all a dream?

I did once I think. I was at my friends house and there was he(of course :tongue: ), another friend and my brother. I was lucid from the start = WILD. I just sit there and observe them and enjoying there conversation.

After some time I told them: “Guy, look what I can do!” I put my palms toward the ground and I hoovered up to the terrace of his room. There eyes were like this O_O :grin: and I told them that we are in a dream and then I was showing them how RC’s work and some other things…

It was cool experience, and somehow I prefer that level of lucidity, where DC’s doesn’t know that they are the part of the dream that they are only DC. It’s always more interesting to see with what will they come up…

And I like to quote Speed Levitch from the movie Waking Life:

“And as one realizes that one is a dream figure in another person’s dream, that is self-awareness.”

I don’t know why I had a need to quote this but I did, it seems right!

Heh sounds like a nice lucid dream… Funny to hear everyone’s dream character reactions too!

I told my dream characters a few time it was all a dream but they mostly reacted very offended and I usually felt embarrassed to leave them on their own and their own problems to do cool lucid stuff instead :tongue:. I now prefer to just walk away and not tell them any more, they would not understand any way!

When I become lucid the first thing I do Is tell the people around me that it’s a dream… So I don’t forget haha. The last time I did this, I became lucid and ran over to my girlfriend and put my arms around her and said “you know we’re dreaming right?” and she simply smiled and said “really?” it was really beautiful. In fact every time I try this my dream characters are always all smiles as if they had already known and were just waiting for me to find out.

I’ve only had three lucid dreams since I started trying to induce two weeks ago so I’ll have to try this more :smile:

My DCs all say “Good for you” or “That’s nice” with a bored expression on their face as if they were saying “Why did it take you so long to notice it was a dream?!”

This type of thing happens to me! Telling them that I’m dreaming and that I’m lucid and showing off actually keeps me lucid longer, but when I try to teach them how to fly or ask them to fly with me, but they just seem bored and turn me down. :sad:

I was having this dream once where me (as a character my subconscious apparently made up for the dream) and a bunch of other random characters were being chased through this weird modern looking golden palace by the guards. After a bit, I got a nagging feeling that I should remember something, and after a bit, it occurred to me: I might be dreaming!

I did a reality check, and yes, I was! I turned to the nearest character and told her something like “It’s okay, you can stopped running, this is only a dream.” Her reaction was something along the lines of "Oh, okay . . . :sad: "

I don’t actually consider that a full lucid dream though, since I never quite got past that phase of "Don’t wake up. Now don’t lose consciousness. Now don’t wake up. (Etc.)

I also did this once… He just laughed and gave me a high five as in he was proud that i figured it out :smile:

This is the 2nd thing on my LD to do list.

Anytime I have told a DC that it was a dream they got a weird look on their face. It was a look of confusion and almost hatred. It was like they were taking it as me saying “I don’t care what you have to say because you are not real.”

I’ve done that before and they all said that it wasn’t a dream. That’s all that happend though. There’s not much that I remember becuase it was a long time ago.

I’ve had two dreams where I’ve yelled “I’m dreaming!” to myself and the DC around me (only 1 resulted in a LD though). Both times the DCs just looked at me blankly with no emotion, not even confusion. It reminds me of playing a video game and you walk away without pausing it and the character just stands there idle but not frozen.

Must say I love that comparisson! :rofl: I know that look.

I have, most of the time they aknowledged what I said. I then usually tell them I have to go, they tend to say goodbye, or just look at me.

Haha this is so interesting!

I don’t think I’ve told directly to DCs that I am dreaming, but I do remember laying eggs in front of them just to see their reaction. “What is wrong with you? Freak!”

What is wrong with me…

I did it once …
“you are in a dream!”
“I know.”
She suddenly started to sing…in a melody I haven’t heard for years:
“Whether you believe it or not, I am for real!”

Ugh, that was creepy o.O

A bunch of times. Usually they act offended. Like I’m some stupid tourist who said something i shouldn’t have, but didn’t get it. Sort of as if they hear it a lot, and don’t like to hear it. They ganged up on me once and I felt sort of threatened. Then there are the times when I meet my friend in a LD and I sort of don’t get that he’s just a dream character. I figure I shall teach him how to lucid dream, since were are dreaming together. But he never wants to accept that he is dreaming, and seems annoyed that I am saying that he is. That’s not surprising though, because it fits his personality and attitude towards lucid dreaming. He would like to have them, but fights every step of the way when it comes to learning how.

That will be my dream task for now. :happy:

So, it seems like the most common response is for the DCs to be offended, or defensive. I wonder why that is? I have only had two LDs, and when I tried to engage anyone, they mumbled incoherently and ignored me. I know some people think there is a supernatural element to dreams, and others think it’s purely our own subconscious. I tend toward the latter. Maybe my subconscious is offended by me questioning it, haha! Or maybe the DC’s reaction is a reflection of how we expect people to react to us.

This is the most likely cause. Dreams are formed by our expectations and intentions. That’s the only language our subconscious understands. If we expect DC’s to respond in a happy way, they will. If we expect them to be ignorant, they will be ignorant.

No… I have only had a few LDs, but I’ve heard that you can tell a DC to tell you that you’re dreaming while you’re dreaming, so you know it, but I haven’t tried it. :smile: