Thread: Meeting People?

Originally posted by snf_catlover871
I'm not sure if this is exactly the right place to put this, but I couldn't find a better spot.

I was talking to a friend of mine earlier today, the one who introduced me to this site, even though she's not registered on the forums (I don't think) and she said something about being able to meet people during a Lucid Dream. Even though I have been Lucid Dreaming for a long time now, I have never thought to try this.

She came up with an odd suggestion that if two people Lucid Dreamed, and thought that they would will themself to a certain place (sorry if I'm not wording these right, I'm not good with writing stuff out) that they might be able to meet each other there. Like she was saying if somehow we managed to be LD'ing on the same night, or to try this every time we LD, to go to a certain place. Somehow. Like, ehh, this is harder than I expected.... like meeting at the corner of the Library... and manage to meet each other there and when we wake up the next day we would be able to talk about it and recall it.

I don't think this is possible... and I strongly doubt that that would fall under the category of Lucid Dreaming... maybe Astral Projection or OBE or something... nonetheless, I am obliged to try this now. As I said, I'm not good with words. Or categorizing, for that matter...

Actually it does. This is called Dream Sharing, & yes, it is very highly possible, but very difficult....I only did it 6x w/my niece & 1x w/Splash....but I did it a lot more w/my b.friend when he was still alive..

Ohhh, I see, I see. Am I in the right state so as 'how' to do it? Thinking of trying it now...now that I have the insight on it.

And I am sorry to hear about your b/f.

i personally im not a subscriber to the whole dream sharing thing but the beyond dreaming forum is dedicated to it

Originally posted by snf_catlover871
Ohhh, I see, I see. Am I in the right state so as 'how' to do it? Thinking of trying it now...now that I have the insight on it.

And I am sorry to hear about your b/f.

Thanx....Ask Howetzer or Seeker to move this in the Beyond Dreaming area...maybe you might get some more info on it!

Like nesgirl said this is very possible. I have never done it myself but there are a few peeps on DV that have. I am sure it takes a lot of practice and another person sleeping and willing to meet you in a place predetermined place. Good luck.

P.S. IMO this is a perfectly fine forum to post this in! But if someone wants to move it then peachy!!!

Yeah this is called "shared dreaming". I'll move it to the Beyond Dreaming section where you should get some more answers for it.

Well, as I said in another thread, I met someone named Carlos in my last LD. It should be interesting to see if I meet up with him again sometime. (LD or wouldn't real life be too cool?) I have only had one experience of possible dream sharing. I didn't really believe in it before then, but when the person I dreamed about made an offhand remark the next day... it just seemed a bit more than coincidence. I also know some people in real life who are into lucid dreaming and they believe quite strongly in "sharing". We have regular "did you see me?" conversations. Most of the time they have dreamed about me, but I didn't dream about them. Or vice versa. I think maybe only once we met up on the same night.

Yep its possible but from the experience that I've had with it there has to be some kind of strong soul connection with you and the sharing party. For instance a relative or a pure loved one. Someone who is extremely extremely close to you.

hehe, I attempted dream sharing last night... was an odd experience

OK... I was dreaming that I was in this building from Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas... dont ask... I'm a GTA freak LOL.... and all of a sudden these gangs barge in and start shooting at me, but I don't feel it... so I kinda realize it's a dream... so I did the spin thing and got myself to appear where a friend (Court) and I were supposed to be meeting if we happened to be lucid dreaming at the same time... in our school gym next to the girls locker room... Well, she wasn't there... and a weird thing that happened was when I was trying to interfere with her dreams somehow to get her to come... I manage to wake myself up and experience sleep Paralysis for about 20 minutes. t'was annoying, eh?

lol

With the above said, I'll post another reply involving a conversation Court & I had:

First off, a question that aroused: Would two people that are DS'ing have to be asleep at the same time? Or would one sort of have to wait in a designated spot for the other to come? Humm...

Second: Court (who is evidently too lazy to register but is reading everything I write and has me being her slave LOL ) wants to know if this is considered dream sharing: So her mom was dreaming that this tall, white-haired man was bringing her a sofa (or something) [this man being Court's grandfather whom she never met] and then Court had a dream that the exact same man was in a car driving down the road, in other words it was a completly different dream but it involved the same main dream characters.

LOL I guess it was really only two things that we discussed. Humm... somehow it managed to create 77 kb worth of a message log

I have been trying to meet somebody at the Eiffel Tower for a year, and I can never get to the Eiffel Tower. Does that mean there is something wrong with our connection?

I don't really believe in it, but I love playing around with ideas like this. Maybe that's the problem? Then again, she is the only person with whom I have never even been able to get to the meeting place. I have never pulled off a meeting, but with everybody else, I at least got to the meeting place and they weren't there. They also told me in the waking world that they never made it there.

I tried doing this once. I wanted to meet my brother in an LD, so I found some strange-looking train station and looked around the side of the building, expecting him to be there. I looked and about 15 people walked out of a miniscule crack in the the wall, none of which were my brother. I turn around, having given up, and he is standing there behind me. We then proceed to walk through the woods and carry on a great deal of discussion about LDing in general. After awhile we had walked completely around my dream world (it was very small) and we were back at the train station. He told me he needed to leave and climbed aboard the nearest train. After I woke up he was sitting at the computer beside my bed. So he wasn't in my dream at all. It must of been a damn fine replica of him my subconscious made for me, because the conversation was very intelligent and made sense.

Well, having experienced one myself, I tend to believe that there's a possibility of this being for real.
How it works? No idea

Of course, my experience may have been one huge coincidence (they happen), and indicative of nothing.

Hard to say for sure, would love to have another

You probably think "oh no, here comes the party pooper again". I don't see evidence saying they are real, so I'm going to stay with the safe bet that is, well, they are not real. Spooky coincidences do have to happen (probability, averages and population), and it's really hard to verify them sometimes. Asking another person what they experienced, to compare it with your own, can be a problem because you can (and I certainly do) unconsciously fill holes in where I was a bit sketchy on something with whatever their response was. That, and the questions you ask can give the other person some hint of what was going on. Ultimately it makes for a convincing case when you've just had one and you're going to be a bit overexcited anyway, but I don't think that it's really feasible/possible for this invisible link to just...well, work. Don't start on quantum mechanics either.

Yep, that's sort of what I meant. But when you experience a huge coincidence, it's hard to shrug off

And then, according the quantum mechanics there's a theory that......

Originally posted by Placebo
Yep, that's sort of what I meant. But when you experience a huge coincidence, it's hard to shrug off

That's to be expected. Let me paraphrase Douglas Adams:

"It was like when thinking of a person you had not thought about in years, then finding out the next day they were dead. Due to the population in America, and the laws of averages, this must of happened about ten times a day across the country, but it was nevertheless spooky".

Well, that's basically what he said anyway.

Yep, basically, although I feel the chances involved with what happened to me is quite a bit larger than 'I thought of so-and-so and then they died'

But as we've noted, huge coincidences happen every day.

I have done this before with my boyfriend. About 3 months ago, we always talked about trying to LD together. It wasn't happening so we gave up on it, but a week later I LD'd and he was there and I took us to the beach. Anyway, he called me the next day and told me he had a dream about us going to the beach.

Coincidence?

possibly

no I don’t believe dream sharing is real, as kaniaz said miracles happen more that a hundred time a day (there’s 6 billion people in the world today) so its no wonder that some people dream about the same thing, if you cant replicate something then it was probably just a coincidence.

(note that I’m not talking about nesgirl, she, her kin, and her friends have been endowed with psychic abilities, it was just a God-given coincidence that five psychics all met up and became friends without the help of the internet.)