Dream characters or seperate entities?

[cainam_nazier]

Although I can not confirm that I have "talked" to an entity in my dreams or in other states, I have had some interesting encounters.  I am also very analytical of my dreams as well, just ask around.

From what I have experienced there is a definate differeance between certain entities or types of ecounters in dreams.

For instance in one dream I know, in this case, that bastard Brad Pitt was only a representation of my own worries that after gaining some thing that I have sought after for so long that I would end up messing it up and preventing myself from getting it.  In this particular dream the emotional context was there but it was limited in all areas, deliverance, responce, and feeling.  But there was an understanding that this was not really Brad Pitt but just a face to match a quality that I seek.

But in another dream there was a singular little girl who's voice, face, and eyes carried in them an immesurable amount of strong emotional content.  She was innocent, pure, but very wise, well beyond her years, and her strength poured off of her and filled the space we were in.  I could do nothing but be touched by it, the only defense was to surrender and to see her for what she was.

So yes I would wager that at times we are talking to our selves and at other times some one is actually listening.

[Ensoñador]

To make the diffrence between our un subconcious and the other real world is one of the hardest topics I think to be understood. I believe as Carl Jung explain that there is a collective unconcious mind. I think when we met other entities both theories are correct. What we are seing is a part of ourselfes but also a separate being. I believe we all are proyections from a single universal mind. I proyect you and you proyect me, and we experience ouresleves as different beings, till we notice we all all one. Love is to recognize this. I suggest to everyone to not to try to understand theese with our mind. I suggest to consider everything real in diffrent levels of reality. We are all time proyecting fro our mind to the outside, and that is what we call reality. The purpose of this dual experience, you and me, is experiencing something that is not the totality. It was not posibble to experience something when we were everything. There is only experience where somithing is outthere to be seen. We are all and still are an "inside". Our world, I belive, is the most exterior side of an inside. We are a single mind, percibing itself as tree, as sun, as air, as indiviual concious. God wanted to know himself and figured out to reflect himself in others. We serve gods intentions that in fact are our intentions. Forget this and live your experience without trying to find the truth with our rational mind. Subconcious can be personal or tanspersonal. The transpersonal side is the side of yourself that contains the others. And you are contain in others mind too. What we really are is "evrything and everywhere" but we have to be in this world and in many others as different entities and we shall not say  "You and I are the same person". Word don work to really understand unity. In this level of reality we live, I,m still me and you are still you. Understanding the universe as one single mind, I bellive ends the probelm of what is me and what belongs to the other side. Both are right. You and me are separate and only one. Relativity and the absolut, working together. So if you see other being during your projection, treat him with love. This means talk to him as a separate being but feel to him a brotherhood feeling. Unity and freedom so is conserved.

[Aerotus]

How can you tell if the entities you speak to during lucid dreams or astral projection are not figments of your subconsciousness? I have had some interesting conversations with entities, their responses are sometimes imaginative, witty or logical. Is this really me talking to my subconsiousness without even realising? Or were they really separate entities?

I am thinking next time to ask them how they can prove to me that they are not a figment of my imagination. It will be interesting to see their response! Has anybody done this before or have the same doubts?

Either way it is still fascinating to think that either I am conversing with seperate entities OR with my most inner self.