Strong dream influence from another person

[captal]

Two nights ago I had a dream, nothing super exciting, but it was easy to remember as it was my last dream before I woke up:

I’m on a school bus and I have my laptop with me- I’m looking through Wikipedia- I think it is because I over hear my aunt, who is off to my left, talking with someone in front of her. The guy in front of her says something close to “the year Bon Jovi became famous is the year that the US recognized relations with my country.” My aunt says “really.” And so I decided to hop on Wikipedia to take a look. I remember wondering if it was the guy from Uzbekistan that I met [before]

That’s the way I recorded the dream- and I went on with my day. I’m sitting down to breakfast with my girlfriend and she says “I had the most amazing dream- I dreamed I was at a Bon Jovi concert and I got to meet him and he put my arm around me and we talked. It was so clear and amazing.”

I think… No. Way. I had a dream about Bon Jovi too! I asked her what time she had her dream- she answered- right before she woke up. So we both had our dreams involving Bon Jovi at the same time- right before we woke up (we woke up at the same time, and I know my dream was within the last 40 minutes of sleep as I woke up 40 minutes before my alarm and went back to sleep).

I have never had a dream about Bon Jovi (that I remember) before this- I don’t listen to Bon Jovi, nor particularly like him. My girlfriend, on the otherhand, loves him- she has every one of his CDs and has had many dreams about him. I speculated to my girlfriend that maybe her dream influenced mine, because before I had a dream about Bon Jovi, I was just sitting on a bus on my computer.

She says that when she was a kid that once she told her brother she had dream about zombies, and he would say he did too- and they would talk about it and realize they had a very similar dream. (they had bunk beds)

I’m sure I’m not the first person to bring this up, and all of this is circumstantial evidence, but it seems my girlfriend is able to influence other people’s dreams. I don’t know if this is a specific ability that only some people have, or it is because she has very vivid dreams (she’s never had a lucid dream AFAIK). All I know is that it is making me think…

Have others had this experience? Is this common? What do you think?

[UltimaDreama]

What did you do the day before? Was your girlfriend talking about Bon Jovi? It could be just pure coincidence and both your subconsiences (spelling?) created it from what you saw or heard that day.

[captal]

You’re right- it definitely could be coincidence- I’m not about to call it a scientific study

No- we had not talked about Bon Jovi, but three days earlier we went to a book and cd shop and she was listening to his new album. I was also at her house two days earlier and she showed me her entire Bon Jovi collection for the first time. So there are references my mind could have pulled from- but I didn’t dream of Bon Jovi Monday or Tuesday, but did on Wednesday when she came. I also felt like my dream was on a different route when I overheard my aunt talking, which took the dream in that direction.

Could definitely be coincidence- I’ll keep the experience in mind and see if something similar happens again. Once I gain more ability in the dream world, I plan on trying to seek her out while we’re both dreaming.