nature of dream space and astral space
Once a couple of years ago when dreaming and had a vague awareness of some other minds nearby. These seemed to pigeonhole me as 'one who is not aware of space'. I thought about this afterwards, and yes, its true that when something enters my mind for the first time I have almost no feeling for 'where' it is except for what I extract from 'what' it is. So I figured those other minds must have some understanding that I lack, and since then I've been trying to find this implied awareness of space.
Now, as a result of having read on this sight about how other people dream, I think that I misunderstood. All they were saying was that I did not share their spatial awareness within the dream, making me oblivious to whatever video-like game they were playing.
So what is the meaning of 'where' in a dream? In the experience that I assume is being referred to as 'astral projection', space in the dream is the same as space in the waking life. But maybe not everyone's talking about the same thing. A person can also fly around in an imagined space that looks just like a memory of the real world. And since there are relationships between the forms in the imaginary world and forms in the real world, current information about real things can also appear in that imaginary world. I'm assuming that this kind of imaginary world is what people most commonly dream in, and that the body in that world is what people are calling the dream body.
Is space in that dream-world shared between different dreamers? It seems to me that its shared only as a kind of consensus of imagination. It doesn't seem to me to be connected to the physical world as closely as what I've been calling the 'astral' world. The dream world is real in the sense that its forms are spun from real feelings and thoughts, but the 'space' in it is more hypothetical. In a vivid dream, the space in the 'dream world' looks real, but it feels more dreamy somehow. And I've noticed other things such as that I don't have as much peripheral vision, as if I don't have enough imaginative power to generate all of that. The 'astral' world, in contrast, is like being awake in the physical world, but more intense.
Is there any actual 'matter' in either of these other worlds, or is the experience all generated using the physical matter of our world? If there's no actual 'finer matter', then it seems that the 'astral' world must depend on the matter of our physical surroundings, whereas the 'dream' world is simulated more within our brains. Matter of other 'parallel' physical worlds elsewhere that are related to our world could also be involved. In other words, in what sense does either the astral or the 'dream' world have a real physics, and in what sense is it an internally generated cartoon that has connections with physical worlds? Are there 'higher realms', or is there just the one realm, and we're just ignorant of most aspects of how it works?
As I mentioned elsewhere in relation to auras, I'm pretty sure that color is astral or 'dream'; physical objects don't have color. Light has frequency, and wavelength, but we superimpose the color involuntarily when making a picture of what we see. Sound is like that also. There are vibrations in the air, and we imagine sounds and probable locations for the sounds based on our sensing of those vibrations, but sound is not in the external physical world.
I'm interested in your own insights and experiences about these sorts of things.