A viewer asks: “I had a question about a lucid dream I had when I was a teen. This dream had to have occurred around 7-10 years ago. I don’t remember what the dream was about, but I suddenly had the awareness that I was in a dream and knew that I could will things to happen. I verbally requested to see my spirit guides. A man and a woman appeared in front of me almost instantly. If I am remembering correctly, the best way I can describe them was Asian or part, combat boots, dark hair, black khaki pants and shirts, and a blank look on their faces. I woke seconds later. Were these my spirit guides, or dark beings posing as them to manipulate? Are spirit guides allowed to reveal themselves to people?” What can we tell her?

This was an intrusion that was capitalized on by interlopers to use your dream to manipulate you. Fortunately, you sensed this intuitively and you awakened with a start as a self-defensive measure. This is a commonplace interaction as the interlopers can access the deep subconscious mind during the sleep time quite readily to carry out propaganda campaigns and various forms of manipulation, as well as causing disturbances in situations where they want to truly torment someone and disrupt their lives. So what you experienced was a kind of shock but, fortunately, of little consequence. The spirit guides can be envisioned in various ways, but that is always a creation of a person's thoughts and expectations. Like us, they are not allowed to lead, they must stay within the rules of engagement to be subtle, in the background, and not exceed their role in being available and a support as advisors. Being divine representatives, they cannot provide unassailable proof of their existence, so there are many limits on what they can do and how they can interact.