I have only had about 3-4 real lucid dreams so far, but whenever I summon a dream character, they just stand and look straight ahead like they are in a trance or something.
I can touch them, feel their skin and clothes, but they don’t engage in conversation or even move without me pulling them somewhere.
What do you think? Does anyone else have this occur?
Why not pull a gun at them.
Since they are completely inactive in the first place, pulling a gun probably wouldn’t produce an effect. But; Jane, are these dreams very vivid? I hate to assume but these dreams might have just been low level lucidity. It’s very common to happen in your first several dreams. In that scenerio, the solution is to keep lucid dreaming, and they will become more powerful regularely. Alternatively, there are tricks to increase vividness while dreaming. You could imagine a “lucid” pill in your pocket, pull it out and take it. Or, shout “increase lucidity!”. Remember, while dreaming you are inside your own mind and have the potential to have it perform the way you want it. Hope the advice helped 
The couple dreams I’ve summoned someone have been DILDs and low quality. More “dreamy” and less control even though I was lucid and was continually acknowledging that i was dreaming.
So it could just be a lucidity level issue? Interesting. Thanks.
Instead of trying to summon one, why not start out by just finding random DC’s in the street? Try having a conversation with one that is moving and active already. It might help you get over that mental block.
L4xord does actually have a point. Doing something unexpected tends to make one expect a result. In this case, that would be the DC becoming animate.
I mean, if you had a gun pulled on you, I bet you would do something about it.
All in all though, the best solution I could imagine would be expectation in general. Talk with a DC and consciously expect them to answer you. It’s not that they simply can’t or don’t, you just aren’t using your own abilities to their full potential.
The best practice for this would probably be to “make things happen”. Learn to use psychokinesis within your dreams, and perfect it. By using psychokinesis within a dream, you are consciously expecting something to move by using this “power”, i.e, you’re forcing something to happen by expectation. And by “perfect it”, I mean make things move using your mind with ONLY the desired effect. If anything else happens without you wanting it to because of your power, stop what your doing, and make it stop, then try again.
Say you want to move a door. You try and move it without touching it (i.e, psychokinesis), and it not only moves, but you unexpectedly cause a gust of wind to rush through the room. Stop moving the door, focus on stopping the wind, and once it’s stopped, focus on moving only the door.
Since you haven’t had too many dreams lately, too much focus/activity might cause a dream collapse. You might want to save all of this altogether until you become better at lucid dreaming in general and making each dream completely stable, and simply interact with natural[/list] DC’s like Rhewin said.
It might be easier to just find someone like Rhewin said. But in some cases you maybe won’t find any dc’s. Close your eyes and think of some place full of people, let the sound of the big crowd fill your ears. Open your eyes.
Lol, thanks that was meant to be a joke, but at least I kinda helped someone.