Lucid Dream Characters

[Nagual]

Most of my dream characters seems dumb too.  The rest doesn't run away; but just go on with whatever they were doing, ignoring me.
And about the length of LDs; I am in the same boat; mine are as short as yours...
What makes you think dreams are just some internal experiences...?

[Asif]

I don't mean that all dreams are completely internal.  Just that mine mostly seem to be.  Obviously shared dreams wouldn't be all internal.  I suppose the only way you could be sure that it's at least partly external is if you dream/experience things that you wouldn't be able to on your own.

[Blissful]

quote:Originally posted by Asif

Most of the time, the characters in my lucid dreams either run away from me before I can talk to them or just stare at me with a dumb smirk.  Rarely can I have conversations with them.  

Also, have any of you been successful in prolonging your lucid dreams?  Mine take a lot of concentration to keep and only last between 30 seconds and a couple of minutes.  
Asif

Hi Asif,

Funny thing, I had one successful WILD and when I entered into the dream, I was on a mission to find someone that I think I may be dream sharing with.  I saw a character and he knew exactly who I was looking for.  My voice was very raspy sounding too.  I asked the character where the person was and he told me.  Just as I try to dash (knowing I only had a few seconds because my lucid time is short) he kept trying to talk to me by asking questions about things that didn't matter to me. It was like he was intentionally trying to hold me off). Well, it worked because by the time I could get away from him my WILD experience ended.  

As for prolonging lucidity, I was lucid a couple of days ago and IT LASTED 5 MINUTES!! The difference is that I looked at my feet.  I noticed I was bare foot.  In all my years of dreaming, I NEVER looked at my feet.  This was the first and my lucidity was 5 minutes.  Next time I'm lucid I'm looking down at my feet.  Maybe that's what "grounded" me to stay in longer.

Try it and let me know if it worked for you.

Blissful

[Asif]

Blissful: I haven't had any luck with the feet technique.  Other methods like reading text do not work for me either.  Text generally seems normal to me in dreams.

However, I am getting better with lucid dreams.  I find that if I act normal during the lucid dream and my dream characters don't realize that I know I'm dreaming, the experience lasts much longer.  The characters act like normal dream characters (not stupid or inanimate).  Unfortunately, after about five minutes or so the dream starts to fade away.  But my lucid dream this morning was ended by my alarm clock!

[Lickerish]

Well, my lucid dreams are very vivid and extremely long lasting with me having alot of freedom to do and go wherever I want.
I also can have small conversations with dream characters as well.
This wasn't always so, but when I came to accept my dream world for what it was and the dream people for what they were everything just fell into place.
The dream people are often not the brightest but I have sometimes tried to explain to them exactly just what they really are and they are slowly starting to  both understand and accept it.
I have often have close to the full range of tactile experiences in dreams with both the surroundings and the people and generally have very high recall when I wake up.

[Lickerish]

Well for me substance as well as sensation  in my surroundings both play vital roles in my dreams.
Even the dream people are acurate in almost every detail having bodily warmth, oder, texture, and even often come complete with almost aura like energy about them.
They are in fact living breathing individuals to me yet existing outside of the reality of the outside world but instead living inside of my mind and in my dreams.
Once I met a nice young dream chick who told me her name was Leia when I asked her.
She was about 23 years old, a college student, and I had walked in on her when she was in class.
She was a pretty fair skin girl with long dark brown hair which she had in a ponytail with some loose wavy bangs on her forehead.
she also had dark brown wide eyes, a long slightly pointed nose, average sized lips, and a slim slightly broad cheeked face with a small sqaure chin.
She reminded me of a sort of slimmer faced version of the daughter of Mrs. Robinson in the movie "The Gradute".
She was wearing a pair of dark blue slim fit boot cut jeans with brown pointed boots, and a off white fuzzy turtle neck sweater which may have been cashmere.
Her teacher, in appearences looked as if he were perhaps Middle Eastern in nature was not entirely pleased I had interrupted his lesson.
Leia was standing at the black board at the front of the classroom and had been writing her lessons on it.
I tried my best to explain to her that she was a dream person and her existance was soley generated by my mind.
She seemed to grasp this and being very kind and friendly in nature smiled in wonderment and said " Really? Wow, thats so cool!"
Then I turned and left and left her to her class work.

[Asif]

Most of the time, the characters in my lucid dreams either run away from me before I can talk to them or just stare at me with a dumb smirk.  Rarely can I have conversations with them.  Usually if I try, I lose my voice.  Anyone have similar experiences (especially the running away part - it's so annoying sometimes)?  

Also, have any of you been successful in prolonging your lucid dreams?  Mine take a lot of concentration to keep and only last between 30 seconds and a couple of minutes.  Ideally, I'd like to convert it to an astral projection or anything else that involves more than just internal experience.  Thanks.

Asif