Hello everyone, I am new here and this is my first post! I have been contemplating joining this website for a while, but it was not until recently that I was really driven to do so.
I wouldn’t say that I am the most experienced lucid dreaming, having only had a few (which I am attempting to change), but I have always been very interested in the symbolism and meanings behind dreams.
A few years back I was introduced to the notion of shared dream spaces; it was totally plausible to me, but I did not put much thought to it. Then something odd happened. I friend whom I hadn’t spoken to in a year called me because she had a dream that I happened to be a part of. She began explaining what she experienced: place, time, general feelings. I stopped her before she got more than a few sentences out, because I realized that she was describing a dream that I had had about 6 months earlier. I picked up from where she left off, not skipping any details, and asked her if that was how the dream went… The look on her face was priceless. I never forgot the conversation, nor the dream.
This happened again a few weeks ago. I was speaking to a friend, and he began to describe a dream I had nearly 3 years ago (around the same period in time as the other dream), that he had had the other month.
I didn’t know what to make of this. 2 separate people, two dreams identical to some of the most vivid I have had, and no way of them every hearing about my own dreams…
Has anyone else had a similar experience? I would love to hear it!
Wow I didn’t have anything like that, but this is VERY interesting !
That would mean we don’t actually need to dream at the same exact moment than somebody else to have a shared dream with them.
You’ve just opened a lot of doors to a lot of hypothesizes, my friend.
that’s really interesting. have you read ‘Lucid Dreaming’ by Robert Waggoner? he actually talks about this exact topic with similar stories. it’s a pretty cool concept!
i’m curious, were your friend’s and your dreams on the same night, or different times? that is even more interesting to me if they were at different times… or is it more interesting if they were the same night… i don’t know, but this idea is amazing. there is so much we don’t know about our brains and the SC and what the dream world actually is.
i also noticed we have the same dream count. with each of mine, as soon as i “wake up” in my dream, i get really excited and wake up for real. i’ve even consciously tried to resist waking up a couple times, but i still came out of it. has this happened to you, or can you control yourself a little better?
Hmm, it’s interesting idea… My thought on this is that is possible that we share “dream space” as you call it, and I would say more then we expected, but only way that we could be sure about that is from your example, to share your dreams with those you know… Cuz if we don’t talk about dreams with ppl we know how can we know if they dream the same thing, and we usually don’t speak about dreams…
I have read Waggoner’s book. I ripped through it in a few days–great stuff. His ideas and accounts of shared dreams were outstanding, and gave me a lot to think about, but the experience I had was a bit different.
Waggoner reported sharing dreams simultaneously with another dreaming. The dreams my friends and I had were separated by nearly a year or two on each occasion. This leads me to speculate whether there are certain dream spaces that exist independently to the dreamer, which are merely visited. Who knows, maybe it could be a construct of our collective subconscious, a vibration of the times…Or the work of aliens =D
As for the lucid dreams…this always happens to me. The moment I realize I am dreaming, I get super excited and wake up. I have horrible control, and its a rare occasion that I have lucid dreams. I am working on it though
We each have an inner world, which is where our normal dreams exist, where all of our creations lay. It is basically our “private” dream space, though other things may enter it.
Think of your inner world as a house. Now, exit it, and you are in the dream plane. You can reach it through teleportation, portals, the sort. This is where most shared dreams occur and where many dream entities reside. Here, time travel is possible. So, as a result, you can definitely have dreams a year or two apart.
I am not going to explain much since I am still learning about the concepts and ideas of the dream plane, and I don’t have much experience with it, but still feel free to ask questions if you have them. Have a good day.
anything is possible 