27th December 2006, 11:19 PM
(This post was last modified: 28th December 2006, 8:50 AM by etoven.)
This was posted at a forum I subcribe to where people go to dicuss their dreams:
I Tortured A Dream Character Into Talking
Dec 24<SUP>th</SUP>, 2006, 10:18pm
I've finally done what I've been trying to do for five months or so. (I got the idea from someone else in this forum.) However, I'm not sure of the importance or significance of it. During a lucid dream I've been trying to challenge dream characters to find out if they had self awareness.
I've been asking them if they knew that they were dream characters, and the usual result was they would do one of three things:
1. They would squirm, look away, and not answer the question.
2. They would run away.
3. They would disappear.
Last night I finally got one of them to answer me. He did give me a kind of strange answer.
The dream began as a non-lucid dream, and it wasn't a very pleasant dream, either.
At the point the dream became lucid, I asked the character if he was aware that he was a dream character. He didn't want to answer, but I was in control of the dream at this point. I said he was going to answer and I was going to help him, so I gave him an electric shock and sparks were circling his body. After I did that, I asked him if he was ready to talk, and he said he was.
I asked him if he knew he was a dream character, and he said "Yes, I'm aware that I'm a dream character." Then he went on to say "You are god to us dream characters. Some of us love you and some of us hate you, and some dream characters want to be left alone." Then he paused and he said "When you are awake, you are a dream character to God. You and everyone else are what God sees when he sleeps."
Posted By: XGM
Novice Dreamer
I Tortured A Dream Character Into Talking
Dec 24<SUP>th</SUP>, 2006, 10:18pm
I've finally done what I've been trying to do for five months or so. (I got the idea from someone else in this forum.) However, I'm not sure of the importance or significance of it. During a lucid dream I've been trying to challenge dream characters to find out if they had self awareness.
I've been asking them if they knew that they were dream characters, and the usual result was they would do one of three things:
1. They would squirm, look away, and not answer the question.
2. They would run away.
3. They would disappear.
Last night I finally got one of them to answer me. He did give me a kind of strange answer.
The dream began as a non-lucid dream, and it wasn't a very pleasant dream, either.
At the point the dream became lucid, I asked the character if he was aware that he was a dream character. He didn't want to answer, but I was in control of the dream at this point. I said he was going to answer and I was going to help him, so I gave him an electric shock and sparks were circling his body. After I did that, I asked him if he was ready to talk, and he said he was.
I asked him if he knew he was a dream character, and he said "Yes, I'm aware that I'm a dream character." Then he went on to say "You are god to us dream characters. Some of us love you and some of us hate you, and some dream characters want to be left alone." Then he paused and he said "When you are awake, you are a dream character to God. You and everyone else are what God sees when he sleeps."
Posted By: XGM
Novice Dreamer