Shared Dreaming

[DrTechnical]

This will be my shortest post of all time. People strive to have shared dreams. People strive to have lucid dreams. I've been reading a fair amount on buddhism lately. This gets you thinking in radically different directions. My question ... What makes you think you're not in a shared dream this very second?

[dodobird]

This could be a shared, or even non-shared dream, but lets say that I knew it was a dream, but one from which I am not likely to awake for years to come; Will I behave any differently if this was the case? I think knowing that this is a dream, will make me want to awake into the "real world", but I will behave towards my dream reality and dream characters the same way as I do now.

[ClouD]

"Dream" is the most appropriate word. A collective consciousness, experiencing life subjectively. Vibration/sound, being the essence of everything.

[Orvus]

Ah, the good old dream argument. I came to some kind of conclusion about it: When we dream, we can't get everything right and believable. While dreaming or LDing, our environment is simpler and more limited than the "real" one, because we're imagining it. So if our current "real life" is also a dream, then it's simpler than the theoretical "real-real life". So that "real real life" must be incredibly intense. It probably requires an amazing level of consciousness, beyond my imagination. But what about sharing the dream? I don't think we're living in a shared dream, because there's not enough variety. The human race is a single dominating species; thousands of people share similar traits (language, race, culture). The world is full of patterns and models to simplify things. So it must be the work of a single consciousness. We are all DCs, except for one*, the one who is dreaming us. If several people were dreaming this universe together, it would be much more varied (especially considering my theory that the beings who are currently dreaming of our "real life" have a higher level of consciousness) and there would be contradictions (like some places being magically replaced by others, or doors leading to several different places). -- * That one person could be me. I'm conscious and I feel real, but I have no way to know for sure if other people are conscious or real.