Convincing Shared Dreaming Experience
I wanted to share a shared dreaming experience so here it goes.
A bit of background... I experimented for over a year in shared dreaming with WakingNomad and Raven Knight. I had a few very intriguing matched dreams, but for that amount of time it was a frustrating, slow, and ambiguous conclusion.
I ended up thinking... maybe. Perhaps it was possible. Problem is, it takes someone very open minded to try. And those people almost always seem to be heavily involved in belief that entities, dimensions, realms, and whatever else exists. Problem there is that people assume if they practice shared dreaming they also have to believe that stuff, which isn't true. If they are also strongly opposed to the idea of entities and other spiritual theories, they might think that shared dreaming must also be wrong if the people who believe in ideas they are opposed to also support shared dreaming; that is bad logic. This is why I think it goes wrong for so many people. And we all no, having no belief > no results.
This is where it got interesting. It was around the time of the royal wedding. I am no royalist, so its almost a little awkward to say that I had a dream I was Prince William. I guess all the TV hype wormed its way into my dreams, as TV often does. Wouldn't be the first time world events end up in my dreams. However, this wasn't the usual. My mother ended up having what I firmly believe to be a shared dream. Before I share why I think this, I'll tell you our accounts.
My dream account:
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I am in this building that is big, almost industrial. Like a storage building. Or maybe a warehouse. I am Prince William and I am with Kate. There is a red carpet, paparazzi everywhere taking photos. I wave, get my photo taken, sign a piece of paper for someone. Oddly celebrity like. Then I do a photo opp with some person. Don't really pay attention to who it is, I just shake their hand, do the photo, smile, and move on. I sit down in a booth with who I assume is Kate. Its a restaurant apparently, strange urban design maybe? I dunno. Things fade here.
My mothers dream account:
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I am in a factory. Or a warehouse... it feels big, lots of metal, very mechanical. There are people taking photos everywhere. I'm in the crowd. I see Prince William walk past having photos taken with Kate. I then go to have my photo taken with him, I'm just amazed to see him and I find it funny. They walk off.
Pretty interesting huh? There is no scientific proof, but I can add some logic and facts:
- The dream happened on the same night, we were both in the household in seperate rooms
- My mother does not practice lucid dreaming, dreaming as a hobby, or understand the concept of shared dreaming (at the time)
- It happened on accident
- The location is identical in both of our dreams
- The stories are identical, each of us seemingly playing a different character-- then seemingly clashing with each other, as if we were drawn together in the story
- The dreams both ended around the same time, my mother recalls as I walked off she woke up; it wasn't long after I walked away from the photo opp I blanked out
Now come on, this isn't an Internet experiment or a test riddled with bias and anticipation. It was a total accident, where my mother of all people had the dream too-- some people on DV get berated by their parents for evening mentioning lucid dreaming.
For my personal experience, this was a breakthrough. And perhaps for any skeptics, it might be an interesting event to discuss.
