all the characters in my dreams are either wide awake or just barely awake. It seems to shift from one to the other depending on what mood the dream is. Never had anyone sleeping in one, that i can remember.
when u wake a dream character you awaken something in yourself, usually there is a deeper message that needs to be uncovered. Theres a part of you that you havent discovered yet and im sure that by you waking a dc it would help you to come to terms with what that is. But thats only if you believe in deeper meanings of dreams.
last night in a lucid dream i decieded to expirement with this, not waking sleeping dream characters but telling my dream characters they were dreaming...every charcter looked at me with wide suprised eyes....paralysed in shock....then they vanished. lol its interesting when you tell a dream character they are a dream character, they usually have nothing to say and always seem so suprised.
I've noticed this too, it's almost like they are programmed to play a part. Sometimes they help me in my latest lucid dream experiment, although this has been a recent phenomenon. Other dream character try to distract me from my experiments, through sex or something else... I find it very amusing.
IM the one who is always sleeping within a dream...... its odd...... everyone else is awake, yet Im asleep
One time I had a dream where I was on a boat with these dudes. I was like, "hey do you guys realize we're dreaming?" Then I was like, "lets fly!" So we all floated up and flew together. It was magical.