Anti-Dream Agents:
Anti-dream agents are conscious entities encountered in lucid dreams that appear when my awareness reaches certain limits. They act deliberately to interfere with the dream, sometimes causing sudden disturbances or directly interacting with my consciousness, such as placing a “spell” that forces me to wake up.
These agents are independent of my mind, they are not my brain acting against me. Their purpose seems to be maintaining balance between conscious control and the structure of the dream world.
What could they truly be? Are they self-regulating aspects of the collective dream field, consciousness guardians preventing overextension, or entirely separate conscious intelligences that exist only in the dream plane?