No it is not possible and no one has ever done it. |
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I've heard that it's possible to contact others in lucid dreams, has anyone ever done this, or is it even possible? |
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No it is not possible and no one has ever done it. |
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Cheis. Dailo.
It's tough to bring someone back that never really lived.
i have done it its pretty cool |
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It's called Shared Dreaming, and no it's never been done before. |
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So much for open mindedness huh? |
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It'll never be disproven because to "disprove" anything that's not a material is impossible. |
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I'd say, if you can do it, tell the other person a 4-digit number, if they get it right, then dream sharing is possible. No one will guess a 1/8999 chance. |
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I HAVE DONE IT BEFORE ITS NOT A THEORY |
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look i promise u it was true |
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It's called shared dreaming, and like billybob said, it is something that hasn't been proven or disproven (and won't be any time soon, if ever). Many people say it is impossible, but many others say they have done it (as in believe it too, not just intentionally lying to look cool, though many do that too), and if they are wrong they are not lying intentionally. I personally believe it is possible, but I haven't done it too my knowledge, and therefore wouldn't vouch for it. Anyways, this really belongs in the beyond dreaming forum. |
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No, but likewise, it hasn't been proven or disproven that there are an invisible race of psychic garden gnomes infesting my backyard. But, it's still completely and utterly stupid. |
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YOU ARE DREAMING
Oh my god. |
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"Illogical". Whatever happened to empirical observation. You have retreated back 2500 years when Aristotle used to sit in his study and 'infer' natural truths. It took thousands of years for Humanity to learn to get up off their butts to go out and actually look. Now you want to retreat back to sitting on your butt and pronouning what you think must be logical, as far as you know. |
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I suppose since Leo said he's done it, it COULD be possible. I guess another reason I've never believed shared dreaming possible is because the people who say they've done it say so in all caps and with no punctuation or coherent english. |
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Except we don't know much about the human mind |
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Can you be so sure? Dreams can just as easily be the result of another plane of existence that we visit during sleep, and since we are still in essence connected to our bodies, our brains react in the odd way they do when dreaming. There is NO evidence WHATSOEVER that what I just said is incorrect. And, as you so well put it, I might as well say that it is completely and utterly stupid to believe otherwise. |
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Look at your materialist assumptions. BRAIN THIS. BRAIN THAT. |
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Funny how this subject keeps popping up again and again. Funny how some people seem to be so adamant that such a thing is impossible. Frankly, I thought people with lucid dream capability would be more open to this kind of thing. I guess, deep down, one does not wish for this to be true as it kinda raises the question of dream privacy and, for some, this possibility that other people might find out what they do in their dreams might freak them out to the point that they would have to deny the possibility of such a phenomenon. |
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The ego is a dangerous thing to feed…
I'm reading this thread with interest. Here's my take: I like to be aware of what I don't know. I think I'm a rare breed, because this is something most people seem to have a problem admitting, even for questions that very few of us could possibly have a definitive answer for. Does God exist? Is there extra terrestrial intelligence? Are there different planes of existence, or whatever the term may be that you want to call it? Is it possible for people to communicate via the dream state? My answer to all these questions is: I don't know. To the people who feel they can answer these questions definitely, absent any kind of personal experience that may give an answer, why is it so hard to admit that you don't know? It's fine to be inclined to believe one thing or another. But just as a personal account isn't evidence that something beyond the realm of known science exists, absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence. And again, while it's fine to be inclined one way, being as condescending as some of the posters in this thread have been about a subject with no possible definitive answer like this is pretty shallow. |
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I've moved this back from Beyond Dreaming (it was originally in GD) since this is a debate and the guidelines state it does not belong in BD. |
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Each new day is a chance to turn it all around.
What exactly is all of this evidence contrary to the possibity of dream sharing that you're referring to? You haven't yet explained WHY you don't think its possible except in saying that you think its stupid and illogical. It's only illogical to you because of your worldview, obviously, so what empirical evidence can you give us that will show group or shared dreaming as impossible. You say there is evidence to the contrary, but you haven't given any. I'm assuming you mean empirical evidence to the contrary, since you won't accept the personal experiences of people as evidence for the phenomenon. |
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-TreeShifter
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