I've been thinking about some old posts about communicating with dream characters....whenever i've tried to tell a character in a dream that I am dreaming, there seems to be a negative reaction. Seems others have had this happen too.

I wondered whether there might be a different way to go about it. I decided that I would try saying something like this to a dc: "Did you know that right now I am experiencing all this as a dream? I remember going to sleep in a whole other life and now I find myself here. Is it possible that we are in my own dream?"

It seemed to work, the dream characters at least listened to me and heard me out. Unfortunately the dream faded and I woke up soon after.

My idea was that first of all, a dc is not able to swallow a claim that its all a dream, so just bringing it up as a possibility, from my own point of view would be less threatening to the dc. Also, there is a possibility that the dc is not experiencing the moment as a dream, and I could be wrong to tell a dc that they are a mere projection of my dream. For example, a dc, could be the representative of another part of my consciousness. This is a bad example but I'll try - Imagine my stomach is uneasy because of something I ate. It needs to send me a message not to eat a certain kind of food. It begins sending messages to my brain. My sleeping brain perceives it as a dream character. This is the important point, because if I tell this energy, which I percieve as a dream character that it is nothing but a projection of my dream, than that organ or function of my consciousness "thinks" I am lying to avoid its message and reacts accordingly. I don't mean to anthropomorphise my functions too much, I am just trying to come up with an example of why telling a dc that they are a mere dc might in fact be wrong. There are transient energies passing through my being that I perceive as dream characters. The transient energy may not be sharing my experience as being in a dream so when I speak to it and tell it that it is a dream character, it reacts negatively and maybe even menacingly, even though it has no choice of its own.

So I had a rather long lucid dream, for me, and at the end I fly high upon a building to overlook a lake surrounded by clumps of tall trees. I see a hiker below following two other hikers. I fly down to talk. The hikers greet me and I ask the last one his name. He says it is "Berry Master" (Strange, I know). I try to tell him what I had been thinking about. I wave my hand over the lake and say something like, "Did you know that all of this energy is being perceived by me as a dream? I feel like I laid down to sleep and then started perceiving everything as if it were a dream. All the energy that we are sharing right now is coming to me in a dream. The lake, the trees, even you, right now is being seen by me as a dream..." Anyhow I don't remember everything I said to him, but he and the two other hikers seemed to listen attentively. I finally tried to ask them if they knew who I was and then the dream suddenly faded and I woke up.

It was the first time I had ever been able to tell a random dream character that I was dreaming without any expression of disbelief or negativity. I'll keep trying this for a while and post if anything more comes out of it. I think that these dream characters are the manifestations of other parts of my body, or functions of certain internal organs and could perhaps give me information about the health of my body. Its just a working hypothesis, don't know if anything will really come of it. The main point is that I merely perceive them as dream characters so it could be wrong to tell them that that is in fact what they are. Any thoughts?