I’m curious, why is it that several people seem to be ejected out of a lucid dream when the begin questioning too much?
I don’t have personal experience with this (although I have woken up from lucidity from being too excited), and I’m not sure how often this happens either, but I’ve seen several cases where this happens.
For instance, in the “testing the ‘realness’ of dream characters” topic, it seems to happen rather often, that when people would begin asking DC’s various questions, they begin to lose lucidity and wake up. This isn’t the only case, but like I said, it seems to happen often when people are too “nosy”. Why is that? Any ideas?
I had a DC tell me that I wasn’t “ready” to hear the answers to the questions I wanted to ask him. Another one gave me a lecture on why I shouldn’t, so apparently I was ready to hear why I wasn’t ready but I wasn’t paying much attention They didn’t boot me out, though, and they didn’t even seem to dislike my nosiness, it just seemed to be their job or something.
Hmmmm. Well, yea, I figured it wouldn’t boot you out every time (and I imagine for some people, not at all).
But that’s another thing, whether or not they “dislike” your nosiness, it seems that dreams try to keep information away from you sometimes. The way I see it, its your subconscious, and information within your dream shouldn’t be hard to get, should it?
Its almost like your SC is trying to act like a “wise master” or sensei of some sort.
Yeah, it really does.
Maybe because it doesn’t have any answers, tho. Does our SC really know the answer to life?
Anyhow…someone could just ask a DC, rather than any human. Like, ‘‘Hey, why do my dreams end when I’m asking questions’’, or ‘‘Do my dreams end because I ask questions?’’.
This is so interesting. I wish I could LD already haha!
But I wanted to add something… This topic reminded me of what happens in the movie “Inception”, i hope you’ve seen it, when the dreamer becomes aware that he/she is dreaming their SC will start and attack any intruders (in the movie, these are the people who are in your dream but aren’t your SC but real people). It’s like in your dreams, the DC finds out you know you are dreaming, so he/she kicks you out of it.
Haha well, I don’t expect your SC to know the answers to those kinds of questions, but sometimes even simpler questions that you should be able to answer…The SC just seems to try to avoid answering too many questions.
Haha yea, it’s similar in a way, to how the movie portrays attacks on intruders, except instead it attacks…you…(well not literally attacks, but yeaaa…). I don’t know, maybe it just happens if you don’t have enough control over the dream?
You are as likely to meet a dream character who doesn’t like you being nosy as one who does. It’s not that your dream doesn’t want you to know, its that dream character personalities are highly varied, and you are bound to run into those who dislike such things from time to time.
Perhaps it’s because we’re ‘waking up’ to new knowledge that we’re not ready for yet.
Maybe the dreamer is just getting too excited. Sometimes we wake up when we’re excited.
They may not realize it, but they are losing control of the dream by giving control of the next action -in this case, the answer- to the DC. Consequently, the dreamer loses control of the dream and wakes up.
Hmmm, I think its always possible some dreamers simply DO get too excited, especially those newer to LDs.
That last idea sounds reasonable too. Perhaps some people begin focusing too much on an answer, and begin losing control of the dream without noticing it?
They didn’t boot me out, though, and they didn’t even seem to 
