Î haven't posted in a while. Actually just recently started working on my lucid dreaming skills again. I had made pretty good and fast progress but kinda went lax on my development of my skills so kinda went rusty a bit. I didn't quite hit square one where I got anxious upon getting lucid and waking up like I had posted about before but I did go backwards a bit. So I am working at regaining progress.

Anyway I have been reading on the forum and doing some searching and came upon the concept that we all have at least one dream guide which is a dream character that helps with our LD skills.

Also I've read and am not new to the idea that anything that happens in a dream and all DC's are from your subconscious. Essentially "it's all in your head".

So I'm slightly confused about one thing: is the DG the exception to the rule or is the DG still a manifestation of your subconscious?.

The reason I ask is I read that you generally can't control your DG such as the appearance thereof or even if the DG is present within a dream. It seems that if the DG is a manifestation of your subconscious and/or if you're someone who has developed good dream control, then you could control the DG if you so choose.

Thoughts? Is the DG. "all in your head", or a separate "entity" for lack of a better word?