Here's another 'awakener', this time not a deceased one.

I noticed this guy now popping up quite a few times over a certain period - in dreams and lucidventures. He's not always acting as 'prompter / awakener'. At least not directly. He rather seems to come as my/a guide.

Actually, a few months ago I also did affirmations asking my (main) guide to tell me his name and show his face. Well, it could be that he did the second thing now already (granting me my wish). He still owes me the first one, I decided to just call him "Tom" for the time being. (Well, but who knows ... maybe that is more than just an intuition?).

Here is an example of him in a 'projection' from my Lucidiary. I am very certain now he was the man at the machines smiling at me. I also had commented on this suspicion when I wrote it: "I come to a stop when I see a man on a platform on some machines operating, he pauses when he sees me and looks at me with a slight, expectant smile. It might be that I saw him in dreams before. Unfortunately, before I can find out more, I cannot hold it and 'vanish' again."
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It is annoying in hindsight that I vanished then before we started our little chat. Man, I could have spoken to him in LUCID state!

Here are unlucid / dreaming examples where I also 'met' him:

Actually I wrote in my analysis: "I also remember that one of the two office clerks (a man about his 30ies) was smiling at me for a short moment, as if he knew me or so. I did not know any of the people involved, though."
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However, as much as this is true that I did not know these people from my physical life, I now can say on second thoughts that it was the same guy again. And as I wrote also: he smiled a kind of "hello-again" smile. Looking at me in an almost prompting way, as if he expected me to recognise him or to react. I, however, despite noticing his expression of familiarity towards me, remained in the background while the scene unfolded (and then quickly changed again).

Here another example, a dream not posted before, I copy it with only slight edits (making it anonymous and cutting out irrelevant parts) from my journal now. It's the same man. But beware, sensitive ones, it gets a bit 'gross' now:

April 30th, 2011
Roughneck at the station:
from the railway station I walk into the city direction
A guy in strikingly green training/sports outfit makes naughty and obscene gestures to me
I denying to socialise with him in any way, shake my head and go on, not willing to have to do sth with this
then suddenly he is behind me, pats me on the shoulder,
makes me turn around and beats me with his fist on the head (or next to it, somhow on the right side of my front)
Before I can react (I did not feel anything) he suddenly apologises and smiles.
I ssay it is okay and that it did not hurt anyway
I go on, seeing other people there
ANALYSIS
I was reacting very peacfully to vieolence, which is good.
I wonder if this was a test again.
Also it could have been another lucidity awakening, the guy looked again a bit like the one I saw more often now, possibly my guide?
I call him the „lucidator“ from now on.

I also assume him to be posing as one of my relatives sometimes because his face seems to 'shine through' at the end. These relatives/friends of mine are in situations behaving so strangely again, saying stupid things and forcing me to react (and get lucid...). Thus here he would be again in a role as awakener. But this is not certain.

I give two examples, both with my father (who then could have been "Tom"):
First example: We sit in the kitchen, my father tells me that the police is searching a murderer who burnt 29 babies (why exactly 29? no idea!) and that they suspect me to be the killer. I just am confused because I 'know' I am not a killer, not of babies nor of anyone else, and phase out of that gross dream scene at will - but do not get lucid.
Second example: We sit in the garden, my father tells me that it's in the news that the 'GDR' guys have sunk a Chinese sub in the ocean now. (GDR - German 'Democratic' Republic was Eastern Germany before unification, I'm from Western Germany that was acronymed FRG - Federal Republic of Germany, then). This is somehow from cold war times (80ies and before). Makes sense since then I still lived at my parents' house. However, it still does not make sense since the GDR did - as far as I know - not posess any subs, neither would they attack Chinese subs then. I "know" this in the dream. Instead of getting lucid I again opt out of the scene. (Unfortunately, this seems to be my standard reaction then).