Ah! ^^; I’m so sorry. I’ll remember that!
Sometimes it’s necessary to take a break, so it’s good you’re back. C: I’ve been much more passive with LDs myself lately, but Naknus and I wanted an LD (there are some LD goals that include him and his wants) and we set intention last night. It was a fun long LD C: I’m sure you’ll have fun adventure yourself once you get to it, if you haven’t already.
Actually, when I interact with my characters I don’t visualize them. I used to when I was younger, but for the last year or two I’ve just had plain thought-conversations. However, because of the level of familiarity between Naknus and I, we don’t even do that anymore, it’s more just… knowing each others intentions.
So to answer your question, when I did visualize my characters, I didn’t go into a hypnagogic state. I just visualized them in a scene with me, as if someone asked me to imagine a scenario.
Also, Mindscape isn’t usually used in this context for me, it’s… different ^^; .
As a note, a majority of character interaction for me happens well before bed time. I mostly do character development and interaction in waking time, but as one of the ways to induce lucidity, I interact with a character before bed C: .
Best of luck with your lucidity! It’s March Break over here, so hopefully you’re having fun wherever you are as well C:
This is a split topic, the next part is Character Assisted Lucid Dreaming…CALD part VII