How crazy would it be if you could somehow, technology or not, dream with another person. To the point you wake up and are like "Haha that was funny when you got hit by that car" etc. :O? Post some opinions please!
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How crazy would it be if you could somehow, technology or not, dream with another person. To the point you wake up and are like "Haha that was funny when you got hit by that car" etc. :O? Post some opinions please!
...Shared dreaming?
This is an impossible idea at the moment, as our brains have no real way to communicate with each other.
Sure, possibly with insane future technology. But I highly doubt the thought at it's spiritual/supernatural basis.
If you like around BD, you can find a lot of similar threads on the subject.
Moved to beyond dreaming~
you might want to listen to this guy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVL-TvFJ878
WE DON'T KNOW THAT! yet. unless proven otherwise, we will never know.Quote:
Originally Posted by no-Name
to answer question, yeah that would be kick ass!
:)
I did have an unusual experience with my wife many years ago. We popped into bed for an afternoon nap, and while we drifted off to sleep we held hands. My left hand was firmly locked to her right, fingers interlaced.
When we woke, we talked about our dreams for a bit, and found out that we had both experienced a very similar dream. We were both present in these dreams (not lucid, however), and while minor details of the location varied such as position of lamps, color of carpet, etc... it was the same location, and we were both visiting an old friend of ours.
I figured it was some sort of vague shared impulse we were picking up through body contact, but I did not, nor do I now, believe we were in the same dream. I suspect whatever "signal" my body was sending out got picked up by her's (or vice versa) and for a brief moment our dreams started to have strong elements of commonality.
We tried this again on a few more occasions, but nothing else interesting happened. Then again, due to the nature of dreaming, it is entirely possible that something happened, and we didn't remember it :?
My parents used to have the same dream all the time, they'd wake up and talk about it with each other. They said that is how they knew they are soul mates.
BTW Lucidspark64, you're avatar rocks. It has to be the most moving scene from any video game ever created.
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Originally Posted by mattjames1909
lol thanks :)
i also picked it because i thought the game was very dream like
(sorry for offtopicness)
Yes, of course.Quote:
Originally Posted by mattjames1909
Beyond dreaming!
It is my person opinion (so it's not verified) that when we dream about another person we are interacting with thier subconcious at some level. So hypothectialy if you are lucid, you see someone you know and convience them they are dreaming tell them to wait by the phone in the dream, wake yourself up and then call them,(and again this is just an opinion) I would have to think they would recall Some kind of meeting.
And how exactly would this "subconscious connection" be established?Quote:
Originally Posted by ethan_hines
I definately believe that when you dream about another person, espacially in lucids, you interact with your OWN subconscious - to be more precise, the projection of what you think of this person.
Considering if shared dreaming is true, it would not be availible all the time. I'm skeptical of what you just said, shared dreaming all the time at will is not believable in the least or this whole shared dreaming thing would be proven by now and people knowing what to do and how to do it like LDing. I'm not saying shared dreaming is not true, as there would be no way to know person a and person b are dreaming the same dream unless you are being watched by monitors, but that would be 1 in a billion chance of happening.Quote:
Originally Posted by mattjames1909
From all the accounts I've studied, that seems to be the way it works. The major elements are identical, but there are differences in the minor details. Those differences are archetypical in nature, and always somehow related to each other. Like the one guy who saw a Burger King in a dream where his father saw a Denny's.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mercen_505
In that link Yurithebest posted, the guy claims everything was identical, but I'd be willing to be money that it wasn't. I've contacted that guy and requested that both he and his brother write out detailed accounts of that shared dream. If they respond, I fully expect to see those kinds of differences.
Don't you guys think that some people's interpretations of their dreams are "kind of" influenced by how badly they want shared dreaming to be true? I admit that I have left out details and sort of bent the truth about what happened in my dreams on a number of occasions to be more happy with my own reality (to have the illusion of "meaning"). I don't do that anymore though, yet realize why people would do that.
How could our own subconscious be capable of creating another form of consciousness. I can see it capable of forming landscape and scenery, but as for being able to communicate with another independent conscious being I don't think we are that Omnipotent.Quote:
Originally Posted by Timothy Paradox
I didn't say that. Communicating with "another consciousness" appears to be impossible. It doesn't "create another consciousness". That other person you see IS YOU - just like the landscape and scenery. Only what that person is like depends on what you expect that person to be like.Quote:
Originally Posted by ethan_hines