Dream Guide

A dream-guide is a Spirit guide active during dreams, particular during fully-lucid dreams. On the "scale of lucidity, "full" lucidity requires that all dream personnel, not just the dream-ego, be lucid." In this case, "another dream character not only becomes lucid before the dream-ego, he also possesses a higher degree of lucidity than the dream-ego later achieves." An example of this (beginning where during the dream the dreamer is as yet unaware of the fact of dreaming) :- The dream-guide "told me, 'There is no reason to worry because you are dreaming!' I did not believe him and ... he told me ... that I would be able to see that we were part of a dream. Only after this ... was I convinced that I was in a dream. Then I said that I would never have found out by myself that I was dreaming. He replied that he knew that and that was why he was there."^[1] "A dream guide performs ... purposes in lucid dreams :

• The presence of the Guide is itself a dream sign that can make you aware that you are dreaming."

Additional recommended knowledge

Essential Laboratory Skills Guide

What is the Correct Way to Check Repeatability in Balances?

Weighing the right way

In such a lucid dream, "The Guide introduced himself and explained his function." ^[2]

Generally, the stage of capacity of a dream-guide to put in such an appearance so as to inform the unwitting dreamer of the fact that this is a dream; must be preceded by the stage (achieved in some previous nights) of the witting dreamer informing (in a manner acceptable, or course, to themselves) prospective dream-guides of the fact of this being a dream, and securing their agreement to this fact. This stage will in turn have quite likely have been preceded by a still earlier stage in which the witting dreamer will have endeavored to secure the agreement, by prospective dream-guides, of the fact of this being a dream, but having been rebuffed by them (the rebuff have been due merely to the statement's not having been made in a style suitable to their literary fashion, which can be quite punctilious).

References

1. ^ Anthony Shafton : Dream Reader. Albany : State University of New York Press, 1995. p. 444
2. ^ http://www.here-be-dreams.com/lucid/guide.html