Quote Originally Posted by JJFrank View Post
People say that their dream experiences are theirs, that they do not want to be "invaded", that they want control over their experience as though an uninvited shared dream experience would be a kind of psychic rape.
Well too bad for them, because you have to put up with the exact same crap during waking life.

What I've found most useful about studying shared dreaming is how it bridges the gap between dreams and waking life. In a normal dream, there is only your influence. In RL there is the influence of countless people. In a shared dream there is a small number of people. Shared dreaming is the missing link between dreams and waking life.