Originally Posted by
Sageous
Okay, here’s the thing.
Now I am by no means a skeptic -- indeed, I am a firm believer in the underlying forces that make dream sharing not only possible but likely a thing that happens all the time, whether we know it or not. Kudos to you Atras for putting this expedition together…But I do see a real problem with one aspect: How will you ever recognize each other, even if you do all manage to align your thought energy into one single dream? Think about it…who among you can actually say exactly what you look like in a dream, much less what shape other people might assign to you when your consciousness arrives at the temple?
Though you are sure that you look just right, your presence might be perceived by others as something completely different than you expect, and each of the others there might see something completely different. For instance, you might show up, feeling all prepped in your dream character/video game garb, but someone else there might see you as a lamppost, while someone else sees a boulder, and yet another sees a purple giraffe. And vise-versa: you might arrive at the temple (or rather the temple-construct you guys cleverly used to determine a unified plane of thought -- good move BTW) and find yourself surrounded by Japanese tourists angry at your intrusion into their photos, or maybe an assortment of street signs or a clan of spider monkeys. Anyway, I think you get my point: The dream sharing might work perfectly, but without a real frame of reference there is no way you’ll be able to recognize that you’re all meeting.
What would be real? I think that this experiment would work if you all knew each other very well -- as in for many years, to the point where you can finish each other’s sentences; in other words a deep intimacy exists between you, one that that can transcend simple visual signals. Then at least there would be some frame of reference that might actually accompany your consciousness into the dream. Powerful things like dream sharing are driven by things that are deeper than human perception; to intentionally share dreams really does require more prep than a name and a description.
That said, for what it’s worth I’ll likely be nosing around that temple next time because hey, you never know!
Sorry in advance…I’ll take whatever hits you care to throw at me now…