Between Dream And Nightmare

   A colleague of mine (seen as equal) once depicted and described Dream People to me. It was one of those ideas or concepts that you know so well, but it had yet to be voiced or explained by another, especially in such a simplistic manner. The subject of the discussion was lucid dreaming, and I recall thinking it was unusually pleasant to be listening to someone talk, not only on a topic of interest, but in an agreeable way. The said person was explaining how to contact another within a (lucid) dream, and the difficulties involved in attempting to do so. "There are two types of people in a dream", she stated, and it was crucial to know the difference between "dream people and the real [actual] person". It is hard, because the two kinds of people appear and look nearly identical to how a real person would and will look. 
  I was assured that the actual person would be present, but normally among the dream people. This is not to say that there is anything at all wrong with dream people, they are fairly essential to a dream, not exclusively in making a dream seem true in nature and feeling, but additionally in terms of interacting with them. Dream people socialize and collaborate in many things, with not only varying dream people, but one's self, as well as the real person(s). They can go from being hazy-face (and personality) human beings, to being specific and possibly even deceivingly important people. "You'll think it's the [significant] person that you're looking for, and it will just be a dream person". Dream people hold no truths or significance, they are plainly representations, symbols, and projections (of self or others). It is nearly as easy to mistake the nobodies for somebodies as it is to believe the reverse. But no matter what you are saying or doing to the dream people it changes/affects nothing. You are not dealing with anything at all, except for yourself (and they are good for just that). The succeeding endeavor in this process is getting the real person to recognize, and moreover accept you as being an actual person yourself. So, you eventually find the person, tryingly coerce them someway or another into comprehending this hopefully mutual understanding, and then you can finally commence in your desired outcome regarding this person (before you wake up).
   Well of all this, these phony and fictitious dream friends, acquaintances, and strangers, make up what is precisely my life.