I would yeah. For some reason, I guess when I started RoD, I had zero intention of actually recognizing when I’m dreaming in the moment. It’s kind of irrelevant to me, since my original goal was just to understand how I process and to do more identity rehearsal while asleep. So instead of recognizing when I’m dreaming, I just act in all the ways I normally would, including thoughts and memories I have. So while I’m unconsciously creating these scenarios, I consciously have access to the memories behind them, if that makes sense.
I even have an example from this past night. I had a dream where I switched from a college scenario from a few weeks ago to high school. I didn’t experience any dissonance from that since I wasn’t analyzing anything in the moment, I just go with the flow and don’t think of what I’m experiencing as a dream. However, when there was an inconsistency in the high school memory, like a girl being in a specific class I knew she wasn’t in that year, I just physically called out the inconsistency. Rather than the dream ending or becoming traditionally lucid, she just laughed and agreed, and the dream logic itself changed. I kind of pride myself on having a good memory (and good unconscious reads of people, but I’ll get to that), so it’s pretty easy for me to tell when something like that is incorrect or missing/adding details.
(slight tangent incoming)
It’s cool how much the dream world is now becoming a mirror to reality. Like when first starting subs here and even a little after RoD, it was always desire mixed with a bit of reality, with that bit of reality being what changed night to night. But now, everything feels more integrated, to where I can see my reality reflected in almost every dream I have, and the desire part is now what’s fluctuating. I’m trying to make a little more sense of this now because when a dream is almost 100% pure desire or what I hope for the future, it almost always comes with its own personality or identity “update” that I get, leading to some change in how I live my daily life. I had one the night before I looked into RoD, the night before going back for the semester, and one the night after making my ZPQ purchase. All of which started drastic shifts in my thinking. I haven’t come to the “why” yet, but I think it’s nice how I can see the make up of these two elements interplaying every night.
100% thoughts from nonverbal cues, usually something picked up on from the past. I am very much a novice on understanding anything to do with aura, although I won’t count it out, but I used to be VERY much into NLP and hypnosis as a teenager, to the point that just from a few text messages and an interaction or two, I was able to fully analyze someone’s personality. It might have also been some kind of mini RAIKOV, since I’ve also had an experience of taking on someone’s personality to go from a short pleasantry text to hours of conversation and months of close friendship, I even still have the notes I was taking at the time. All that to say, even if I may not consciously do it now, the habits and the analysis still very much exist in the background with anyone I interact with, and I think that may be where the inaccuracies with the actual messages come from. The details that aren’t included usually touch on how the person is feeling, their motivation behind reaching out, how their day was, etc. The kind of thing I’d be actively picking up on when I was younger. So to answer your question, I guess technically it’s both? They’re the nonverbals and potentially aura of the other person, but they’re also kind of my own thoughts on those nonverbals since they’re formatted in the exact way I was used to thinking.
I have absolutely no problems answering your questions, it’s literally why I made a journal here! Talking with other people also helps me understand myself more and vocalize things I normally wouldn’t, like the text inaccuracies and desire vs reality scale of dreams. I’m just sorry it turned out a little long with that random tangent in the middle (I’m still gathering my thoughts a bit since I just woke up)