Quote Originally Posted by DownrightDreamr View Post
I think that there is definitely a difference between your dream guide and your other dream characters (I have yet to have my first lucid dream so this is purely an untested theory). I feel that your regular dream characters can be manipulated by your will while your dream guide would be a higher entity that could not be as easily manipulated or maybe could not be manipulated at all. I have heard accounts where the dreamer's dream guide gave off a different energy than the other dream characters. I think that this is because the DCs are projections of your subconscious while a Dream Guide would be something else entirely.
From my own experience dream guides aren't higher entities, it's a just an importance we assign to them. In general the more important something is in a lucid dream the more focus you will place on it's detail and persistence. I've had two dream guides who act extremely naturally, but it quickly became apparent that as soon as I controlled them they lost there own abilities.

There no evidence to suggest that dream guides might be higher entities, or the other way around. I think it's something you have to decide for yourself, but keep in mind that humans are the experts of delusion, even to ourselves. Just because an image jumps out at you doesn't mean it's necessarily unconventional. It's important to realize that we all want to be unique and believe in the otherworldly, so you can properly assess you situation before jumping to a conclusion.