wov what did you do when they were surprised And also, are the dream characters the ones we can create in our imagination or are they independent of our imagination?

Dream characters are still an interesting topic. There are a lot of varity in dream characters' personality, awareness and intelligence. Mostly DC are like Vice City game NPC. They don't do anything special, they are like just for decoration. But some DC act like they are alive. These qualities are found in both kind of DC, first we create by our own and second dream creates DC.