Originally Posted by
shadowofwind
tsiouz....
These patterns from the unconscious take form in ways that are personal and specific to the individuals who experience them however. And any time two people have a relationship with each other, there is a interrelationship in how the wave breaks over both of them. Because of that interrelationship, one person learns or experiences something of the other, even though the medium which connects them is universal in some sense, and the pattern they are a part of us part of a much larger pattern.
Here's a connected dream experience that illustrates this, as an example I have posted before. I was thinking about Greek elements, earth, water, air, and fire, as being passive, passive-active, active-passive, and active. The 'phases' of matter, solid, liquid, and gas would have a correspondence to the first three. However, the phases are collective statistical properties, an individual molecule doesn't actually have a phase, and doesn't have kinetic energy except in relation to another molecule. The difference between a cloud of gas and several blocks of ice traveling in different directions is one of arrangement only. If so-called astral matter is said to be passive-active relative to ordinary matter, which is passive, how does that make any sense? There are not really different phases of matter even in the physical realm. Such was my thinking. That day I also encountered an image in a book of a mouse biting the talon of an owl. The mouse is a sort of spirit messenger, and the owl is the moon-like muse which stands behind it. That night my sister dreamed of a mouse biting her finger, and of it raining because of acidity being anisotropic, which didn't seem to make any sense. Her dream included a couple other related details which I'm leaving out for brevity. I didn't get my usual 'teaching' dream that night, which was highly unusual, but instead just silence and a simple musical image that fit into my sister's dream.
A point that I understood from my sister's dream was that the difference degree of "imbalance" that is said to separate astral from physical matter is more analogous to a difference in valence electrons rather than a difference in kinetic energy. This wasn't something that had occurred to me previously. It is true that many other people might have had a similar dream that same night, with rain and confusion and maybe a mouse biting a finger, and that these dreams would have been part of the same pattern that joined us. But how many would have been trying to relate Greek elements to modern physics that day, and how many would have had the understanding which was in the dream? Very few to none. Her dream specifically connected to my thoughts, irrespective of how many other people's thoughts are connected also. Similarly with a lot of other connected dream experiences.
In my mind, what you said was quite insightful, and it fits with what I described here. But the way you try to restrict what is possible in dream to the scope of your own awareness and understanding is confining and misleading. Yes there are two directions to the subconscious. But those two directions are not exclusive of other directions, so to speak.