Thread: Shared Recurring Dream

I am interested in shared dreaming as well. I have a friend who told me as a teenager that she and her cousin had the same dream at the same time (but they were not in each other's dream either . . . just the same dream). I was reading about this on another post here a couple of weeks ago. Someone mentioned that you would have to be in REM sleep at the same time . . . I'm not sure if they know this for sure, but it seems logical to me. In other words, you would both have to be asleep and in REM sleep at the same time . . . not at midnight there she is asleep and at midnight here you are asleep. Not sure if this is helpful at all . . . I think this is mentioned in the post on night stalkers and dream walkers by the originator somewhere in the many posts on that thread.

Thanks VV. Too bad about the REM thing though, if it's true.

Originally Posted by WhiteVeins

Hey everyone. Thought I'd post here with an idea and see about getting some feedback.

My sister and I are three years apart. When we were little, we had the same recurring dream. What interests me so much about it is that we didn't discover that we had had the same recurring dream until years later, years after the dreams stopped. This is one of the few supernatural events in my life and I was never able to shake it. Not sure this could be considered a shared dream, because I was not in her dream and she was not in mine. We just both had the same dream with the same details. Anyhoo, it just ocurred to me to try to re-enter that shared space, perhaps even meet her in my dreams. I'm skeptical about this stuff (not to crap on anyone's beliefs), but I'd like to try. And being skeptical, what I'm about to say sounds even more foolish but . . . we're currently living on opposite sides of the world, so her sleep schedule is completley opposite from mine. Do you guys think that would matter?

I am not sure if I ever had any shared dreams. But I think that for certain shared dreams, both parties need not be asleep at the same time.

Time can be viewed as an illusion.

What was the dream you shared with your sister?

I had a sort of shared dream with my brother. I don't believe it was truly shared, but we just dreamed similar things because we experienced the root incident in RL together.

Originally Posted by WhiteVeins

Thanks VV. Too bad about the REM thing though, if it's true.

If you want to try, you just both need to be dreaming, REM is no requirement. Good luck if you try it (and be sure to tell people about it if it's a succes) .

So, you say you had the same dream, but the only thing that changed was the person experiencing it? Well then, my friends uncle explained this perfectly the other day... Quite to my surprise.

It's your genetic code. Traits aren't the only thing passed along on DNA, dreams, and memories can be as well.

Example: Preston (this guy is a rant god) explained that his four aunts all had the same exact dream. They dreamt of this two story farmhouse, conversed and discovered that every aspect of the dream was the same. Down to the colour, location of the rooms and contents of the house. They looked for answers since this was somewhat disturbing to them, but found none. Until Preston discovered a photo of their great uncles house. Who died years before and they had never seen the house, ever. He realized the house fit their description and showed them the photos he had found and they were dumbfounded. It was the house they dreamt of, though none of them had ever even so much as seen a picture of it. He then continued to explain that their grandfather was the only other member of the family to ever see the house. The four sisters being of direct descent from him had recieved the memory, without actaully ever seeing it before.

He also explained (with surprising detail) that past lives don't exist. Example: If you believe you were once a soldier in WWII, you weren't. But someone that is related to you was. DNA is like a hard drive, it can store a tremendous amount of information. Though not all of it useful.

Well that's about all I have to say... I now wait for your questions/critisism.

EDIT:

Originally Posted by vintagevixen44

I am interested in shared dreaming as well. I have a friend who told me as a teenager that she and her cousin had the same dream at the same time (but they were not in each other's dream either . . . just the same dream).

Same dream, different (related) people experiencing it. I think this furthers my point.

Originally Posted by Grexxis

I now wait for your questions/critisism.

Untill you show more than one (random) story that might or might not have happened (no way to verify), I will stick with current scientific dogma that this (exact transferring of real life memories by genes) is nonsense. I would put more belief in "past life theories", al be they just vague theories too.

Originally Posted by cloudWalker

Your avatar made me jump Xetrov. I mean, REALLY jump.

Jumping is healthy ... I had the same when I first spotted it (yeah I admit I am borrowing it...)

Originally Posted by Xetrov

Untill you show more than one (random) story that might or might not have happened (no way to verify), I will stick with current scientific dogma that this (exact transferring of real life memories by genes) is nonsense. I would put more belief in "past life theories", al be they just vague theories too.

Yeah, it may seem somewhat vague coming from my lowly intellect. But my source has a college education and an I.Q. of 173, I have faith in his theories, though I expect everyone here to make up there own minds... But I can't provide any more evidence to support what i've said. Though vintagevixen44 did.

Though I don't understand why you question the validity of the (unavoidably random) story...

Originally Posted by Grexxis

Though I don't understand why you question the validity of the (unavoidably random) story...

Uh, because you asked for it. -> "I now wait for your questions/critisism."
And hey I did not mean to say you have a low intelect, it was not meant as a personal attack at all. But to come back to my critisism, your answer of course still would not satisfy the scientific community who's roughly 100 years of research on genes etc has never shown anything like that to be remotely possible. Hence I wondered out loud if there was any source you could show because if it is true then it would be very interesting. Oh and by the way even the most genious of people are wrong occasionally .

Originally Posted by WhiteVeins

And being skeptical, what I'm about to say sounds even more foolish but . . . we're currently living on opposite sides of the world, so her sleep schedule is completley opposite from mine. Do you guys think that would matter?

Hey,

contrary to what most people would say, it doesn't matter. If your sleep schedules are different you might dream the event in different nights. That might happen even if you were asleep at the same time. In dreaming, time just isn't that linear.