What do you call when two people share a dream?

[xXJoelXx]

A friend had told me a couple of years ago of how he had a nightmare once that he and his older brother shared. My friend in his dream was running away from these children in a school. Every room he tried to hide in there were these children eating one another in the dark with red eyes. As he was trying to find a safe haven he encounterd his brother at the end of a hallway. His brother shouted him to come this way, but instead my friend ran away elsewhere to be eaten alive by the children. The weird part for me isn't so much the dream itself (though it is awkward), but the fact that the brother of my friend had a dream where he was running away from these demonic like creatures and encountered my friend on a hallway and told him to come to him. I did not go into detail on the dreams but basically thats what happened. I just want to know what do you call this kind of occerence where people share a dream and interact?

[italianmonkey]

they call it.... shared dreaming agreed that the name doesn't shine for originality

[xXJoelXx]

Haha Wow, and here I was waiting for some scientific term to it.

[LucidFlanders]

SD is still debatable. Haha Wow, and here I was waiting for some scientific term to it. Couincidence would be the term, not really scientific but that's what they would all say. Couincidences get tossed around far too much, not everything is random luck.

[italianmonkey]

yes, it is absolutely not accepted by science that's why the "scientific" term would be "coincidence" but on an informal level (read: when writing in this forum) you'll always find it referred as shared dreaming. which is about the less controversial thing treated in this subsection.

[LucidDreamGod]

Yeah I don't know if I personaly beleive in shared dreams but I know alot of people that claim to have one, and I've heard a whole bunch of personaly accounts of people I don't know such as your friend, though I don't know if it's a coincidence or not, seems extreamly unlikely, but I soppose if there was a forum for lottery winners you would see a bunch, and look as if alot of people win the lottery then what is really based around the majority, if you know what I mean.

[TeaBear]

I've only had one shared dream. It was a weird and unique dream which I told him about the next day. When I was telling him about the dream, he interupted me and asked me something about the dream which I didn't mention to him. He then said what happened in the rest of the dream which I had. Everything he said was true, and he also reminded me of other small details which I had nearly forgotten about. It was really weird.