Characters? Not sure. Aside from family members and distant classmates, there is the occasional mystery figure - someone warmly familiar yet unplaceable.
shiels, are the lucid dreams a natural occurrence, or do you put in any kind of premeditation or ritual work?
Also, anyone have any death dreams? My only recorded one goes as follows:
In an unfamiliar-yet-familiar house, in the midst of some manner of gathering. People, familiar even in waking life, moving about, indoors and out, not seeming to heed the vicious weather. Palm trees (I'm from the San Fernando valley in Los Angeles) bending nearly sideways in the wind. I'm standing at the door, inside, watching the foot-traffic across the front yard. Two my left is the door, open, and to my front and right are full-wall windows, framed in such a manner to grant a vista across the valley, seeing as we are on a hill - a surreally picturesque image. I hear a sharp, ominous crack from up in the clouds - and the rest takes place in a manner of seconds: I look through the upper left window, into the thunderhead, expecting to see a white flash (I suppose the sequencing didn't dawn on me), but saw an orange one, followed by a flaming mass hurdling downward, which I followed across the window as it connected with the horizon, perfectly centered in the vista-frame. A bloom, followed by a rapid radial flow of scathing energy, and my last thought was frightful: "What if this isn't the end?"
I woke up, feeling as if my heart was caught in a clenched fist.