As a fellow and consistent dreamer of places, people, and things that are utterly unrelated to my waking life (I even started a thread long ago about it, which you can find here, if you're curious -- feel free to necro!), I think your proposed study might yield some interesting results, Posquant. But:
Though I have a feeling the results might not quite prove your hypothesis, holistically studying tens of thousands of dreams posted by thousands of dedicated dreamers (hopefully posted honestly and thoroughly, he says, with a nod to Snoop's post) could offer up a stunning buffet of the similar archetypes, actions, goals, and as yet undiscovered qualities that the dreamers and LD'er's who populate our little niche may share. And I won't even mention the psychological insights that such mass interpretations of dreams might yield, because that is a little off topic (and more than a little scary).
So responsible global analysis of the DJ files might be a very good idea indeed. However:
Given that, from what I understand about multiverse theory, travel of any kind between universes is, mathematically speaking, necessarily impossible, visits to the multiverse may be least likely explanation for similarities among dream reports. There may be other reasons for we might be sharing such imagery -- and there may be reasons why that shared imagery is so strange to each of us individually; other reasons that might be a bit more plausible, or at least less equally weird, than travel between universes:
* Have you ever read C.G. Jung's Man and His Symbols? If not, you might give it (and Jung's other work on dreams) a look. Archetypes have a way of presenting themselves in unusual or incomplete manners, sometimes in ways that simply make no sense to us, but might be perfectly clear to another dreamer. I believe that new archetypes are being created all the time, especially among consciously curious folks like LD'ers (i.e., I doubt Jung would have found much meaning in a finger passing through a palm, but we LD'ers all know what that means without a thought), but perhaps we as individual dreamers haven't quite yet ironed out the odd symbolism that might define them.
* There is a chance that some dreams carry no real meaning or "deeper" content at all, that they're often just random imagery thrown out by a resting and otherwise occupied brain. That randomness can create imagery that seems to have nothing at all to do with your waking-life, regardless of its quality, simply because in the process of perceiving this senseless stuff you are making perceptual judgments or creating worlds that make the random imagery more understandable or consciously palatable. Upon waking, you will tend to do this even more as your memory organizes it for filing away. This concept probably needs a few thousand words to better describe, but suffice it to say that strange sh*t simply happening in dreams -- sh*t similarly interpreted by similar people (LD'er's) -- is a much more plausible explanation for your strange dreams than visits to other universes.
* Less likely, but certainly more reasonable to me is that you might actually be visiting other people's dreams rather than other universes; sort of an inadvertent dip into the cosmic consciousness dream ocean, should such a thing exist. If this were to be the case, I think your study might go a long way towards proving it, rather than your hypothesis. For instance, you might find the worlds you are visiting to be quite strange, but they might line up exactly with what another dreamer finds quite familiar, and you just happened to witness her dreamworld. Again, if you're curious, I think this had some interesting discussion on that thread I linked to above.
I could probably think of a few other more plausible explanations for your experiences, but I guess the bottom line here is that this study is an excellent idea, but you might find its results might vary wildly from your expectations. Maybe you should PM OpheliaBlue to see if such a study would even be possible, or legal...
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