Scott Free Thinking

Imagine your entire network of friends as they stand right now, and wouldn’t it be great if out of all of them there was one of them who had infinite words of wisdom? Just one of those friends who had all of the answers, who could allow you to experience anything you ever wanted? No, I’m not talking about Jesus, folks. Or what about a lover who you could have sex with in whatever insane, crazy, kinky way you wanted anytime and anywhere? Whatever your fantasy, whatever your existential query, the one way to get to all of this is through the magnificent topic we love to talk about - lucid dreaming! But not just any particular area of lucid dreaming, today we are going to talk about the essentials of developing your ‘dream guide,’ or programming the creation of a unique and central dream character.

To first get into this topic, we need to cover a few different areas. Number one, what is lucid dreaming? Lucid dreaming is the state of awareness whereby you become aware that you are dreaming while you are dreaming, or in other words, dreaming and knowing it. The creation of your own personal ‘dream guide’ is the embodiment of an idea that says lucid dreaming gives you direct access to the subconscious mind. In developing a dream character, you are building an entire persona that will give you access to your subconscious mind without any effort. But why a character, or in another way of saying, why a made-up person?

The answer to this, is in that every time you want to manifest something within the lucid dream content, you must find a way to bring it into existence. For some, this means deciding something is just around a corner, just behind a wall, just through a door, just over a hill, or what have you. Sometimes, people can easily get things to pop up directly in front of them in their lucid dreams and materialize out of thin air, other times for others it can be more difficult, and really - it all comes from a conscious interference. If you practice hard enough, you can get anything to materialize. The benefit of having a dream character be your ‘dream guide’ however does not stop here. A person, even if they’re made up, is someone you can interact with, have conversations with, experiment with, and for any temporary conscious limitations you may place on yourself within a world, be it for fun or by an unintentional negation, your dream guide can have the label of ‘no limits’ placed upon their ‘code,’ or be infinite by the defintion of their very existence.

For me, I like to go through a unique process in creating my dream character. The entire creation process, for me, is one that is inherently powerful in that I’m creating stepping stones for my mind to build further depth upon. If you are an artist, sit down with paper and the tools often used for drawing and start sketching out what you want this character to look like. Though similar to how real life action is converted into its form from comic books at times in movies, you want to imagine that whatever you are drawing here is going to be permanently created by your inner mind into something that will fully resemble reality. If you’re not so talented on the art side, either write down on paper or record to yourself in great detail the various traits that you would like this dream character to have, with as much elaboration to the appearance as possible. Don’t worry about getting every tiny little notch, however, just make the decision that you’re going to like the way this character looks, and your mind will be sure to take care of the rest.

Don’t be afraid to have fun with this either! It is your dream guide, and essentially this means that not only can the character look any way you want them to, they can also change the way they look anytime you want them to. They don’t have a real identity outside of the context of your own lucidity or dream world, this is a person who is you. And while it is certainly okay to create your dream character as someone you know in your own waking life, I wouldn’t recommend doing this, because your view of any individual person is potentially limited, and if your opinion of them changes, so easily could the opinion of your dream character by association. Keep it 100% artificial, and if they don’t work out, get rid of them and start anew. The wonderful thing about all of this is that you are limited in the size and scope of this creature only by your own imagination!

For me, I do not actually operate on a ‘central dream guide,’ for my lucid dreams. Of course, for me, I have a hard enough time even remembering to put effort into gaining lucidity as it is. But there are characters in my dreams, both in a lucid state and not, that have aided in my development. Most of these people will exist in your waking life, where others may not. For me, that is definitely the case. One of my characters’ names is Lisa, and another girl who I do not believe has a particular name. But these recurring dream characters occasionally do show up, and when they do, it’s astonishing how much detail my mind gives them. As I have grown up and aged, so have they when they do occur. Incredible. So is it also possible to operate on multiple dream characters? Sure! Why not? But are there certainly benefits to this idea of a central guide? Most definitely.

Let me also stop right here and say, if you’re into lucid dreaming, the whole notion of creating this “central dream guide,” is also entirely unnecessary. Remember that while you can do everything you have always been able to do in lucid dreams with your own individual skill set, the creation of this dream guide is all tailored to your fancy, to your fantasy, to your own imagination, to your own liking. In essence, this whole thing is for fun, but at the same time it can make the access to your mind far more easier and take far less effort, leaving you with your limited amount of time in your lucid state to pursue more of what matters.

After you’ve gotten the idea of this dream character’s appearance created in your mind and on paper, or recorded verbally, then you can begin to go into detail as to how this character functions. There are a number of ways you can go about this, and it all depends on your method of thinking, or even your method of learning. Again, if you’re an artist, perhaps this character will interact with you in more visual means, and this can be a decision you make. Perhaps you’d call upon this character by pulling out a green glowing orb and the visual appearance of that orb would cause your character to appear from its light, for example. Or maybe if you’re more logical and analytical, you could write down on paper a series of dialogue trees or programming concept functions to which this character would function, almost like Data off Star Trek or just a simple robotic, mechanical sort of thinking.

For example, if you’re taking the ‘programming concept’ route, then you might engineer the dream guide to respond to you under some conversational hierachy.

For example:

MYSELF: Summon Sexy Girl[Central Dream Guide Character].
[Sexy Girl Appears upon verbal command.]

MYSELF: Take me to library.
SEXY GIRL: Right away, baby.
[Bookcases will slide in like the gun racks in the movie, ‘The Matrix.’ Each volume on the shelf takes you to a different memory from childhood.]

And so on and so forth. Essentially the format above takes place in incremental segments split into three parts:

• Verbal command in lucid dream coming from self
• Dream guide responds verbally with specific line
• Full action based on command occurs.

This is just one possible format, and just one particular example with a couple commands. Theoretically, you can add on as many commands as you want, and so long as your inner mind has a way of processing the information correctly, you can then have an entire library of functions and commands for which your lucid experiences can function.

After figuring out functions, you can then also go into as many other areas of this character as you want. How do they behave? Are they funny, smart, sexy, sometimes angry? What is their personality like? Remember that making up a person as a dream character means that you’re creating an entire being, not just some limited robot who only functions the way you want - they can be, upon your whim, given a mind of their own, free will, they’ll make decisions and suggestions based off of what you let them do. Whatever it is, you can even choose to give up all restrictions to this character and let them do as they wish, where they could then just become another person. Want to practice your poker playing skills while in a lucid dream? Have your dream character be part of the table, and then give you suggestions while playing, or even just let them be a challenging opponent with which you have to defeat.

And with all this in mind, this now gives you an entire opportunity to experiment with what possibilities they’re are in giving your inner mind a face of its own from which to interact with your conscious self.