Originally Posted by
dolphin
I cannot confirm any personal experiences of shared dreaming and I cannot confirm how it is done. However, I think it would be fun to take a crack at hypothesizing how it might scientifically work.
Our dreams are based on the state of our perception during the time the dream takes place.
At a given moment, it is possible for our state of perception of that moment to become based on another person's state of perception of that moment. This is known as "perspective-taking."
If two people's states of perception of each other at a given moment become each other's states of perception of that given moment, they share the same state of perception of each other at that given moment, which becomes the basis of a shared dream.
I just learned about "perspective taking" from looking it up. I don't know much about it, but it on the surface it seems like legitimate phenomenon. If it is legitimate, it seems to me that the success of shared dreaming is based on the timing, accuracy, and mutuality of the dreamers' perspective taking of each other up to the time of their dreams.