Sometimes I’ll ask names and get the strangest names I’ve ever heard. And some that are impossible to pronounce and spell (there is no character that I can type up which combines a “C” and “S”).
I also like to tell them that they’re dreaming. Sometimes they’re confused, sometimes they’re happy, and sometimes they’re really angry.
I’ve never really had much experience with DC’s. But i do have quite a few things i’d like to ask…Random questions…“whats the meaning of life…” “what cures cancer…”
I want to see what my subconcious spits out at me.
I also want to ask whats going to happen in the day that i dreamt this. I want to see if they can somehow predict a certain situation that will arise in that day.
The only thing i’ve managed to do with DC’s so far is tease them for being fake. I just cant help it sometimes.
“What’s your name?”
Responses I’ve gotten:
The funny (“Why, I’m Bowling Bonnie!”)
The sincere but a little off (“I’m Propellor. Prop, if you want.”)
The evasive answer (“What do you want it to be?”)
The mumbly refusal to answer clearly no matter how many times I ask, and, of course,
the complete refusal to even acknowledge that I’m talking to them.
There are a few other things, but I don’t remember them.
DC’s i usually ask “can i speak with my SG” or “can i speak with my DG” then when I see my SG i ask things like :
“whats it like to be a spirit?”
“what happens when I die?”
“how do i ascend?”
“what advice can u give me?”
DG’s i ask things like :
“how can i stay lucid for longer?”
“can you take me to or ?”
Why bother talking to a DC when you can talk to your DG or SG. Dont get me wrong, DC’s have a lot to offer - just not as much as a DG or SG can offer and we talk to DC’s all the time.
I had a wierd conversation with a DC in an ND a while back… I think it went something like this…
Me: Can you tell me the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything?
DC: Yes.
Me: Will you tell me?
DC: Yes.
Me: Tell me, then!
DC: The answer is 42.
Me: Really?!
DC: No.
Me: Then what is it?
DC: You have to find out for yourself.
And then I woke up and had a headache all morning. Weird.
I used to ask random DC’s , “When will it happen”. None of them seemed to like that questions they would always give me glares, or run away, or tell me I shouldn’t be asking about things like that. Subsequently I’ve stopped asking that question. shrug
One of my most memorable question \ answers was with one DC.
Rare: “Which do you prefer. The normal world, or the dream world.”
DC: “Well the dreamworld is nice and all, but on the otherside, (where you exist), you get to be free”.
I didn’t get a chance for any follow up questions, and my mind as been curious as to the meaning of the answer for a while now…
(BTW: great thread!! would be nice to couple with a “Questions that DC’s ask you” thread as well.)
Well, I usually don’t talk to DC’s, because it’s not often I get the chance…
On 23rd December: Some of my idols were in my dream. I talked to one of them: DC: Guess what! Guess what!
Me (very happy): Hi !
DC: Eh… Hi Lars Anders (That’s not even my name. He looked at me as he didn’t like me)
Guess what!!
Me and some other people: What?
DC (smiles): I got the Streptrons Syndrome!
Us: What’s that?
Then I woke up.
I don’t know what “streptrons syndrome” is or where he got “Lars Anders” from… Nice talking to him anyway.
Oddly, when I am lucid, the majority of people I talk to listen attentively, but don’t have much to say. They just smile vacantly and pay attention to me.
I generally ask them things like, “Do you know this is a dream?” though I also like to ask them what sort of advice they can give me (though I haven’t actually gotten any really deep/insightful responses, as far as that goes ).
Me: In a classroom full of my friends in my dream …Hey, wait a second… I’m dreaming!
Every DC: Glares at me as if I’m crazy, but simply nods
Me: What?
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Me: So, what’s it like to be a dream character?
DC: Well… It’s a bit depressing, really. Everyone who comes through my diner has some problem and I’ve got to break it up.
Me: I see…
DC: And ever since my husband died, I’ve been running this place. Did you know back in the 60’s we met Elvis Blah blah blah
Me: Mmhmm… Listens politely
My dream characters are so rude and indifferent that I’m thinking about giving THEM the cold shoulder first, before they even get a chance to give it to me. There have been precious few of them who were actually talkative and lively in response to my conversation with them.
I ask them questions relating to the situation (I’m usually quite logical in dreams). If there’s a problem, I ask them for advice, unless I’m shy or I don’t trust them. It’s the same as I would do in reality.
well, sadly, i haven’t had a lucid dream yet, but here’s an idea-
-Magnify your voice (however you want), or just yell, and say “whoever spontaneously combusts first get a nickel!!” and see what they do… they could glare at you and give you dirty looks, appear as if constipated in a futile attempts to gain a nickel, or they could erupt in flames or candy, or whatever
ill usually tell them why arnt u telling me its a dream!?!?!?!
then they say its funner if you find out on your own…
and then i bust em into flames >:)
If they are a person I know in real life, they will have no idea they are a DC. In addition, my lucid powers will shut off by talking to them, and I will not be able to use my powers to show them.
If they are a person I do not know, then they do one of two things:
Nothing, as in they don’t do anything different from a “normal” dream dream character.