For those of you who has had LDs before and talked to DCs do they listen to you? Can you control them and make them do what you want?
Reason I’m asking this is when I become lucid I want to meet a DC and tell them to be in EVERY one of my dreams. Then I will tell them to tell me “Do a RC” in those dreams. Do you think this would work?
Although I’m no expert on the subject that is really a great idea. You would be suprised how much your SC actually does listen to you sometimes… though not always.
I’ve talked to a DC a couple of times. One I talked to actually carried on an intelligent conversation with me. With the other it was an odd experience. I asked him if he was really me. he replied “you know this is a dream right?” I said yes that I did. So I asked him a different question. “what do you want to do in your life?” he looked at me really happily and said “I have a red shirt.” I continued the Q & A for awhile but most of the time he gave me answers that had nothing to do with the questions My favorite was when I asked him. “what’s your name?” again off subject he told me “I like tacos!” So I figured that the reason for this odd conversation with him has to do with one or all of the following.
I have a real short attention span.
I’m more dumb than I thought.
OR
He was just a DC and they all have their own “personality”
Where did you meet him? At a mental institute? LOL “I like tacos!” What did he look like?
I had this dream two days ago. I was in the mountains or some place. A monk invited me and a couple of people inside this ‘temple’. The door inside was weird. I opened left, up, right, left, up, right. Every time a new one was opened it was on the door that was opened previously, it also got smaller and smaller. He took us inside. We come to a room with a very low hanging spiral thingy. I was pretty big and it was red in color. He then led us to a room and said this is where we will see our futures. The room was dark with monitors. I watched it and it looked like those visualizations that come with media players. I watched it and realized that it was only showing future songs that I would listen to. I was pretty confused why I was seeing this and not the ‘real’ future. I think I wanted to find the monk and ask him why I was seeing this. Then I wake up.
Your close. I met this one in a large 4 story run down building. You could tell it has’nt been used in years. I think it was supposed to be a school at one time. I remember he had on a red shirt with blue jeans. his shirt had some writing on it but could’nt make it out (probably one of those “I’m with stupid” shirts )
He was taller than I am. short black hair and i don’t recall the eye color. He looked “normal” but like they say, you cant judge a book by it’s cover.
In general it is not beneficial to rely on anything but yourself to induce lucidity. Quite often dream characters try to distract you or keep you from achieving lucidity. Think about it this way: Your subconsciousness is nothing but the brain activity that “you” do not recognize. By doing reality checks, being critical, doing MILD or WILD you obviously influence your subconsciousness big time. This way the “you”, you consciousness has big power over the rest of “you” which you might not even see as a real part of yourself.
What you shouldn’t do, however, is to rely on other parts of your subconsciousness that you don’t really have control over. By setting triggers like “I will recognize I’m dreaming” or doing RC’s by habit, you carry parts of your waking consciousness into your waking and dreaming subconsciousness. If you do it the other way around, you lose control of what you are actually doing. Instead of increasing the span of things that your conscious mind controls in the whole of your brain, you are actually decreasing it and giving away power to areas you have no control over.
Maybe as a goal you should see the oneness of consciousness and subconsciousness. If you give all control to your subconsciousness you are - nothing but an animal. If you do it the wother way around - you have all the freedom you want.
it worked for me one night I went to sleep doing WILD and when I started dreaming a DC told me to do a RC I was so shocked that I woke up even now sometimes it still happens.