Greetings,
From your experience and training, what should I have done and how can I be prepared in the future?---
In physical reality I recently found some new winter gloves that didn't fit my husband and have to be returned to the store. In dreaming soon after, a man's figure showed up almost in shadow and asked if he could have the gloves.... :-/  I'd not set my intent to have a lucid dream and was startled. I think I responded. "No, you're not real. The gloves are real." I don't talk that abruptly usually.
Was it my conscience reminding me someone might need those gloves?
Should I have offered him the gloves since he might have been a stuck soul, then asked if he wanted to go to a park where he wouldn't need gloves, then called for a Guide to retreive him?
Do all dreams need to be considered contacts or is there a test?
(My Moen books from Amazon still haven't arrived.)
Thank you, bets

You're great, ParaAn!
I really like that.  :D
He had the same kind of presence I feel at the PEParties, a human form sort of in shadow. People in my regular dreams are more detailed. That's why I felt bad that I had abandonned him rather than proceeded with a retreival.
I tried to contact him the next night but no results-- the weather here has warmed up so maybe he doesn't need them any more (?)
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