Hello there - I'm new to the site though not to the concept of lucid dreaming. I began working on lucid dreaming approximately in 2001, and since then I've had a few lucid dreams, though never one like the dream I had the other night. I'm trying to get some more information on collective dreaming, not as a concept like having the same dream, but specifically meeting up with people in dreams, I suppose in dream form. I will describe this dream I had for you, I appreciate anyone taking the time to read it.
sarah was there, perhaps as someone i could tell they weren't real, which was a weird experience. telling someone they're not real is not something life prepares us for. i was trying to convince her that we were in a dream, and so i got down on my hands and knees on the sidewalk, and pulled the cement apart to reveal lush green grass underneath, a giant 20-ft. seam of grass underneath the sidewalk. she seemed sort of convinced; it didn't really matter. but i remember her saying she didn't feel well and was going to take a pill, like a tylenol or something. i told her, it's useless, "all pills in dreams are the same." you can take a tylenol but it won't have any effect on you. "i've had really good dream guides," i told her. if you want to feel a certain way, just feel it, and if you want to go a certain place, you just go there.
so we decided to go to thailand. and in order to dream travel, you have to go to the hub of dream travel. this was dreamworld. it reminded me of some old western town, with all dirt streets and dilapidated buildings. but it was filled with lucid dreamers. we were all collectively dreaming lucidly at the same time. and we all wanted to go somewhere.
the map of dreamworld was pretty rudimentary but it had streets and markers where you would find phones. there was also a directory of guides (perhaps on the back of the map? i think it was just another sheet of paper). for example, if you wanted to go to thailand like we did, you would look up thailand on the guide directory. it told us to dial "5."
the phone was like one of those 80s or 90s phones, with the long cord and everything, and its base was firmly attached to this old wooden table. this is all still out on the dirt streets by the way. and the table and the phone were covered in messages and stickers from lucid dreamers who had used it for years and years, like the ultimate bathroom wall. i remember picking up the phone to dial "5" for thailand and it rang a few times but there was a message - the guide wasn't there. the guide probably hadn't been there for decades. my directory was out of date.
anyways, when i awoke from this visit to dreamworld i felt i had been to another plane of existence, that i had truly collectively dreamed. and i wonder if anybody else has done this, or if it's truly possible. can i meet you in dreamland? can i ever go back to dreamworld? i hope so. it was absolutely amazing. and i want to leave my message there, for dreamers in years to come.
Does this sound like anything anyone has ever heard of before? Any information is appreciated. Thank you.
