I have no clue where to post this, but I’ll put it here.
My characters name is Ali. Ali is a 17 y/o girl who is smart, and easily noticeable because of her hair.
I’ll describe her appearance. Ali has a very fine, skinny nose, doesn’t stick out too little or too much. She has nice hollows in her cheeks, high cheekbones, and nicely arches eyebrows. She has small size of lips but very full. Her haircolor makes her more noticable since she has dark apricot hair with gorgeous golden highlights and tints of blonde. Her hair length is right past her underarms, and she has straight hair and curled at the ends. She is 5"5, and her skin tone is olive.
( I think i’m going to upload a picture of her, I’m drawing her. )
Ali has color changing eyes, which one of them are blue and one of them are a hazel. They change overtime, so the blue becomes a sea grey, and the hazel becomes a green. Ali likes to wear inexpensive clothing and she can renovate what she likes. She is a ‘do it yourself’ girl, and isn’t a big spender. She wears some makeup, and she doesn’t overload it. She likes to wear a champagne colored eyeshadow, some mascara, and eyeliner, as well as some cheek blush and tinted lip balm.
Personality-
Ali is very smart but also at the same time bubbly and likeable. Since she is smart she will find ways to appear in my dreams, and she has never needed an aid- she is just naturally intelligent. She believes in being natural and never being a skeptic so she is open minded, and easy to talk to, so if I ever need a DC to talk to in a dream, she’ll be all open eared.
Name: Ali Joy ( Initials- AJ… Oh gee whiz, wonder where that came from. )
Birthdate- February 14, 1995
‘Birthdate of establishment’- October 3rd, 2012
Alright, thats it for now. I have a good image of my character
Sounds like you’re off to a good start. Having a strong visual of your character is incredibly important, without it you’d never recognize her in a dream.
I hope you’re going well communicating with her. Hopefully it hasn’t been too awkward or forced, but in the beginning that’s perfectly fine.
If you do finish the pic it’d be cool if you could upload it.
A few of us have been discussing the CALD technique outside of this thread so I thought I’d bring some of it back here to share with anyone who might be even slightly interested.
There is a technique known as “Tulpa” that has attracted some attention due to it’s similarities with CALD. A Tulpa is a character you create in your mind and work on building until it is able to talk back to you. The goal of the Tulpa technique is to experience this character as sentient so you can go on to do more interesting things with it.
CALD is similar except here we’ve focused less on making the character “sentient” and more on making the character appearing in dreams and thus more useful for lucidity.
The two techniques in their similarity have the potential to work well together to produce better results but of course that will take time (and will probably mean writing up a new guide.)
I brought the topic to this thread to ask about two techniques used in Tulpa that I’ve never really seen covered in CALD. “Wonderland” and “Tulpaforcing”. Personally I’ve never used two of the techniques to any measurable extent but I’ve read about the success some people are achieving by using them.
A wonderland is another term for a “mindspace” or “dreamworld” that you go to/focus on to improve your concentration among other things. Does anyone have anything to share about the idea? Another article
Tulpaforcing is more specific. You sit down and have a session of focus where all you do is work on building your character. I personally haven’t sat down and had an extended session with my character but instead work with him while I am doing other things. Does anyone work on their character like this? Does it work better for you?
I have a question in terms of talking to you characters via text. This can be done through any method; whether with pencil and paper or a computer? If so, on the subject of computers, should I do my conversation in a writing program or browser like Google Docs? I would like to hear what others have done when talking to their characters through text or words.
I personally don’t type to my character with text but I know that some people find it really helpful. Just find somewhere you feel comfortable typing. Be that notepad or google docs. So long as you’re focusing on your character more than you are on the the program you’ll do fine.
Good luck, hope you have some success.
I just tried typing via an app on my Ipad and it was quite successful. I also talked to my character in my thoughts at a point when I wasn’t typing (don’t feel like putting too much detail at the moment). Our conversation felt really natural and lively; as in it didn’t really felt “forced”, I guess I should say.
I plan on reintroducing another character to my conversations since last time, it was fun seeing the two personalities interact.
Also, I apologize if I’m not being too descriptive with my characters. I’d be glad to tell a little bit about them if anyone is interested.
Sure, you can tell us anything you like. Along with a description I’d like to know long you’ve had your character because it sounds like you already quite a ways along.
If you haven’t already said anything you should let your character(s) know that you want help with lucid dreaming. How you decide to have your character(s) help is up to you but have a look over the thread and see if any particular method stands out. If you forget to do anything like this then you might end up doing the C part of CALD really well but completely ignoring the ALD part.
My character’s name is Avalonia (Avy for short). She is a black fennec fox who is around 3 feet or so. She’s in a semi-chibi style (aka her head is quite big, although her huge ears make it seem smaller) and wears a blue sci-fi suit. She has blue hair with big bangs that curl up. Her weapons are random but she enjoys carrying a Seburo-esque pistol. There also another aspect about her but I’m a bit embarrassed to say.
In terms of her personality, she tries to be positive and cheerful. Although it isn’t in a way that makes anyone, especially me, feel uncomfortable. She also is a fan of 80s sci-fi anime and manga (as well as the music from that time).
It’s nice having her since she’s able to piggyback on me in certain scenarios.
Also, I’ve had this character since around 2010 or so but only recently have I actually talked to her.
Just tried CALD last night for the first time and it seems promising, although I never had a LD.
After the full night of nothing and waking in the morning before my alarm, I just checked with my character, fell asleep, dream, alarm went off, talked with my character, hit snooze and fell asleep for 10 more min, alarm, talk to character, snooze, sleep. After a few rounds of this I got my character in a false awakening helping me choose my clothes! If they weren’t a lazy butt and reminded me to do a RC I would have been rocking it!
Worth working on this one, I got really quick results and having a dream buddy will really be a big help in becoming more active.
Reading another topic about the realism of DC’s I remembered this topic. And now I’m wondering if any of you are still using this technique.
I’ve been skimming through serveral topics and Im wondering if this technique is something for me. Some of you experience things that I’be heared before, but from writers working on a novel. It’s like the characters come alive when typing or writing.
I’m wondering how many of you actually made the connection with these characters in a dream?
I do still use the technique to an extent. The Second Doctor, who I chose as my character, now acts in the place of a DG. I have had multiple dreams with him, and once or twice he has helped me become lucid.
Wow this sounds really cool! I’ve always loved making up characters and stories and having imaginary friends as a kid so the fact that I can have a mind character to help me with lucid dreams is exciting! I’m having a little trouble visualizing her though. I think I got the hair, eyes and skin color down but I can’t think of her clothes and everything else. I’m kind of making her someone you would see out of a TV show/cartoon/video game, so I don’t think looking at pictures of other people would help. Do you have any tips for me?
I created a character named Ocean, but I call her Penny She’s the girl that tried to help me fly in my first LD. She has blue and purple hair but sometimes blonde depending if it’s night or day time in the dream. Her personality is kinda weird. Although she’s very wise and helpful, she tend to be quite naive and even disrespectful at times.
I usually talk with her before I sleep and we often discuss dreams and her existence in my mind.
Next time you talk to Ocean as you fall asleep, why don’t you ask her if she could help you become lucid in your next dream. I bet she’d be happy to help if she’s already been with you in LD’s before.
Hey, I’m not sure if we’re not supposed to post here anymore, as it’s been inactive since 2014, but I’m interested in trying this. My question is whether I can do this with characters that already exist. I don’t feel that making up my own character will be very effective compared to using a character I already know and love, such as characters from a show or game. Alternatively, is there a thread for flushing out your characters with other people? I’m sorry if there are and I did not find them. I searched CALD in the google search as well as the forum search, but mainly I found the closed discussions that existed before this thread.
She’s the girl that tried to help me fly in my first LD. She has blue and purple hair but sometimes blonde depending if it’s night or day time in the dream. Her personality is kinda weird. Although she’s very wise and helpful, she tend to be quite naive and even disrespectful at times.