Hello everyone, this is my first post here, and I'm very excited to be on this forum.

I've recently gotten back into pursuing lucid dreaming and astral projection. A couple of years ago I spent a lot of time with the subject, and became rather proficent. I had many interesting and exciting experiences, sometimes bizarre.

Mainly, I've become interested in the subject again because of a character (I'm not even sure that this is the correct term, as I will explain) that seems to consistently visit me in my dreams. About a six months ago, I had a a very long, vivid lucid dream, where I believe I first met this person.

I won't go into full detail about the dream, but in one part, after having gained lucidity, I found myself overlooking a hill in Vietnam (in the dream I was a soldier during the war), when I heard the dream characters talking behind me. A young woman, maybe 18 or 19, small and very innocent looking, was speaking with the other soldiers as if they all knew who she was. I thought about how odd it was, seeing as she was so out of place (she looked like she was from the present time), and she quickly passed through the other characters to talk to me. She said she had come to find me, and bring me into another dream, which she promptly did. That dream was an incredible experience, but I won't bore everyone with the details for now.

Anyways, over the past six months I constantly find this person in my dreams. Sometimes she appears different looking, but I always recognize her somehow. In these dreams she is mostly silent, and follows me around on ridiculous adventures, almost as if she is merely observing or participating for the sake of doing so. Even without words, the feelings that come from her are companionship, and usually she will end a dream with me, often laying her head against my shoulder as I wake up.

When she does speak, usually it's quick, but somehow meaningful. In one dream I had with her, she explained to me that she had been born in the spring, in April, and that she had lied to me (she had said she was born in the summer), and I realized this made her an Aries like me. I'm not sure if this had any relevance, but the thought of maybe a Jungian Anima type archetype came to mind.

She comes quite often, almost every night, and when I wake up from these dreams with her I always feel incredible. It's very hard to describe.

Does anyone have any opinions on this? In my dreams, she never feels like a character, but as an equal, and often times I rely on her strength, her companionship. I'm puzzled as to whether I'm experiencing a figment of my own creation, or something more.

Any comments are extremely appreciated. Thank you!