Thread: Dream that shook my foundation of reality

Very interesting Moloch

Only you experienced it, never let anyone tell you what it was, or was not.

I have a question, was you lucid at that moment where you talked with your friend? Did you know it was a dream, or did you talk with her like you would just do in a ordinary dream.

Some months ago, I was with my school mates in a dream, I got lucid, and talked with the dream characters, I told one of them a password to remember (in the case it wasn't a DG, which it probably was). Unfortunately this person which I told the password (you would never guess what the password was hehe) in the dream is horribly with any dream recall, dream is not important for him, so anyway it was pointless..

If you were lucid, and you are sure that this person you are talking with in the dream, is more than just a figment of your imagination, then give the person a password they won't guess. And ask after the dream, in waking life before giving any kinds of hints.

I see that such a situation would be very rare, but just remember it if it happens again

Originally Posted by Specialis Sapientia

Only you experienced it, never let anyone tell you (what) it was, or was not.

I do not believe this is the case anymore. I believe this was a dream we both had simultaneously...
This is the version of the dream I told her about:

I first told her that this was not a premonition dream, since those feel different to me. (Brief interlude on that topic, see note). I told her that it felt like she was right there with me in the dream, even though it didn't look like her, I could feel that she was right there with me. We were standing in a driveway, but it was not my driveway, or hers. We were standing next to my car when she pulled out a cigarette, and I said, "You don't smoke." She replied, "I know, but I just need one right now." Then my alarm clock went off and woke me up.

She told me that was the exact dream she had, then corrected me on a couple points. First she told me that before she said anything, she lit the cigarette, and took a drag off it, which she did in my dream, but I had not told her that part. Then she corrected the wording that she had used in my dream, which I could not remember exactly until she said it, but she was spot on and it really scared me when she said this.

Originally Posted by Specialis Sapientia

I have a question, (were) you lucid at that moment where you talked with your friend?

no, I was not aware that I was dreaming at the time this happened.

My dreams tend to fall into 4 different categories. They are 1) the regular dreams that mean absolutely nothing. 2) Lucid dreams. 3) premonition/precognition/future event dreams. 4) a dream that is like a regular dream (non-lucid), but there is a presence in the dream with me that is not me. It is a very obvious feeling to me, this was such a dream.


Note: She was surprised to hear that I could feel the difference between a premonition dream and a normal one. I told her that when I have one, the event in my dream will usually happen the next day, but always within 3 days. She said that she has similar dreams, but cannot feel the difference, and they usually don't happen for at least a year down the road.

Edit: Let me add that I do not believe this girl would lie to me about anything, nor I to her. I believe her completely that this did happen (especially after she corrected me on a couple points)

Originally Posted by Specialis Sapientia

Originally Posted by Specialis Sapientia View Post
Only you experienced it, never let anyone tell you what it was, or was not.

Originally Posted by Moloch

I do not believe this is the case anymore. I believe this was a dream we both had simultaneously...

You misunderstood me, you experienced something, that doesn't mean that she didn't.

If you would like to learn more about premoniton dreams, and how other people have expierenced them, I recommend "Dreams That Come True", by David Ryback, it's a very interesting book about this subject, and must be even better for someone who has these dreams.

It would be cool if you could get lucid, when sharing a dream. Endless posibilities

I envy you. This kind of experience is something I would long to encounter.
Like Specialis Sapientia had said, I haven't many friends that care for dreams. They just see them as random occurrences that happen every month or so. What you had with your friend is exactly the thing I'd like to find myself talking about with my friends.

I'm curious, does she show as much an interest as you do in Dreams? Have you both visited this site before or is this situation literally an out of the blue experience. Hopefully the two of you can work on having more dreams of the same nature!

I have never been to this site before, I found it on google, searching for 'dream forum' and this was the first on the list.

This is not something that I have much experience with. Like I said before, I have had dreams where it felt like someone was actually there with me (very rarely.. every 3-4 years it happens), but it was never before someone that I had been in contact with for at least a year, so I had no way to even ask them if they had the same dream.

As for my friend, she said she has people show up in her dreams from time to time. Usually old friends that she had in New Mexico, American Indians and such who are into that sort of thing. She says that she can't step into someone else's dreams, but that they can step into hers.

After speaking with my brother about this.. apparently strange things like that run in my family (who knew?). My mother had told him some stories that I never heard as a child about strange esoteric things happening to her, though nothing dream related.

I would love to find some information on how to get this to happen on my own volition rather than waiting another 3 years for it to happen again. This may not be the best forum for that, but anyone know a good place to start?.. I plan to read up a bit more on lucid dreaming, perhaps if I can get that going more often I might be able to consciously step into someone else's dream. My friends that I have spoke with believe that I believe this event happened, but don't want to believe it themselves without it happening to them, and have invited me to try if I can find a way. I would love to tell them something in a dream, then call them the next day and confirm it with them.

On a side note, this dream happened right after a very emotional night for me. I had repressed my emotions for a long time, and being a cancer (though I don't put much faith in astrology), I have been told that I am supposed to be very emotional, and repressing them is a bad thing.

Anyway, I had really let things go that day, and talked with her about a couple things I had never told anyone before. We had a very strong connection that day, and I have never felt more vulnerable in front of someone before. I don't know that this has anything to do with the dream, but it could be a major connection that we shared which helped us to connect in the dream world... just a thought.

Originally Posted by Moloch

On a side note, this dream happened right after a very emotional night for me. I had repressed my emotions for a long time, and being a cancer (though I don't put much faith in astrology), I have been told that I am supposed to be very emotional, and repressing them is a bad thing.

Anyway, I had really let things go that day, and talked with her about a couple things I had never told anyone before. We had a very strong connection that day, and I have never felt more vulnerable in front of someone before. I don't know that this has anything to do with the dream, but it could be a major connection that we shared which helped us to connect in the dream world... just a thought.

I came back to Dreamviews today looking for a situation kinda similar to this in some ways, but this is a little interesting. Yesterday, I, a cancer, had gotten emotional about a little thing that just kinda bothered me with my friends/love interest... After a little drama with everybody, we decided to hit a reset button, and I went from unbearably uncomfortable and just wanting to go home to incredibly happy and not wanting to leave... It was a weird day. Said love interest also interacted with me a little differently than she has in a long time, and that was kinda in the back of my mind as I was falling asleep... As I drifted into a daydream, I saw her in a new light (I'm not usually able to really picture people I interact a lot with) and suddenly, I felt this intense connection to her, she took up my senses entirely, and my head started spinning and everything suddenly had a weight and significance to it that I normally associate with a premonition dream...

Anyway, enough about my experience, I just thought it was kinda interesting how similar it all was.

Well I would say that this forum Is a great place to find information and help you direct your dreams.
Its actually pretty odd because no less than 2 or 3 hours ago i was talking with someone about Dream Walkers and Night Stalkers, which are the terms for people who can enter other peoples dreams, assisting the dreamer or giving them, from what I've read, fairly horrific dreams. Not that its a HUGE deal, I mean I personally have never met anyone in my dreams that I would say was a real person. But like you said, it could be hereditary, maybe only some can experience these things/do it themselves.
Regardless, I wouldn't pass this forum as just an interesting place to have stopped at once. It definitely has some very insightful methods toward helping you remember dreams more often and understand how to prevent or enable particular things within them.
No ones said it yet, so... Welcome to DV forums!!

very cool! I love reading about experiences like these