conversations with inorganic beings

i became lucid - barely -..... it happened right in the middle of the night when i was too tired to really do any amount of work to really set up the dream. for some reason or other, however, my attention had hooked onto a bit of information dreamways has been addressing lately: extending Q&A sessions with the inorganic beings. it was ironic that he has re-addressed this as i was just reviewing some old posts he had made regarding the very same subject, although the new info seemed to help me a bit more :)
his experience is that by stepping back from the ib, one ought to be able to extend our conversations with them. i think that the AP is supposed to find a specific position to allow this, but i also wondered if this meant that you could literally "step back" from them in dreaming and have it work as well. 
in my dreaming, i found an inorganic being and, after contacting it, was about to ask it to help me find the appropriate distance to be from it to have a conversation. something odd happened - for the first time i didnt have to ask my question... i was just putting together "how" to ask it in my mind when the ib answered that it would help. so i started backing up away from it and it indicated when to stop. from that place, we indeed had a longer conversation. it talked a whole lot and i mostly listened. i thought immediately that i was in no state to remember everything that was being said. not only that, but i know that it started talking about a topic that was only tangentially related to my question. i knew i wasn't very stable and to top things off, when i lost the dream, i proceeded into two more dreaming sessions. i know that in one of them, i repeated the 'walking backwards' to find distance aided by the ib i was in touch with. in each case, i got an earful, and i woke up around 3am with hardly any memory at all of what had been said except for the major, "short response" replies. i am fairly certain that i would have been able to bring the conversation back if i had had more dreaming attention though, so that is a comfort.
the important items from the conversation i need to re-address with them are the following:
i asked the ib if i have a 'sorcery name', and it replied that it did not understand my question. (this seems odd...) i was going to move on and ask it about magic words, but i changed the subject instead.
i asked the ib if i have an ally, and it said "no." when i asked why, it responded that "we won't let you have one." it was at this point that the ib went off on its own tangent. i am curious about their response to this question and need to be sure to ask again in a more prepared state. i have to wonder if their response ought to be taken very literally, as in that they aren't going to hand an ally to me and i will have to take it.... or if it has to do with the fact that i am female. another major factor might involve my own personal power and energy level, and this would be good to know about. i suppose i can say that they appear to me often enough that perhaps it is unnecessary for me to have an ally.... but i guess i'll find out in time......