I think i had a shared dream last night.....

Hi

i was just doing a search on the internet to see if I can find any info on what I think may have happened last night. or of course, it just may have been a weird coincidence.

I think i may have had my girlfriends dream....

last night i had a dream where i was driving a GREEN VAN, my girlfriend was in the front seat and there were 4 people in the back, i didnt know who they were they just kind of looked like shadows. anyway all that happened in the dream was i was dropping people off, first the 'shadows' and then i dropped off my girlfriend. i dont have any idea where i dropped everyone off...

anyway i thought nothing of it, until i received this email from my girlfriend this morning....

haha another ikea email... that just made my morning :P
weirdest sleep last night.... went to bed after i talked to you, closed
my sleep at around 1... opened them and it was suddenly 6:50 :P and i
felt like i hadn't slept at all and had about half an hour left to
actually sleep. i'll be ok though...... i know i had a weird dream
about you... you were driving olivia's family and me around in her
van... like you would drop them off at their house and then take me to
work... and then the work part of my dream was skipped and then there
you were picking me up again :P in olivia's green van. haha. that was a
little weird.
so i hope you're not sick today. are you feeling any better?? i think
if you're really sick then you shouldn't play soccer even though you
probably really want to. so i don't know yet if i'm meeting olivia for a bit after work or not..
if i am then i'll probably be at your place after 5.... if not.. then
right at 5 i think :P i'll be there though
See you tonight :)

man..i had all the hairs on my neck stand up when i read it. im freaking out!!! what do you think it means???

i think it may have been me somehow ENTERING her dream...the reason i think this is that she knows specifically where i was dropping people off and the people who were in the back seat. i have never seen her work or her friend olivias parents or house,so that might explain why i cant remember where i drove to.

anyway...thought you guys might appreciate my story...

Danny

kool! sounds like a shared dream to me. thats always fasinating. I dont think its so freaky that u had a dream w/ ur girlfriend, but its really crazy that u both can actually rememeber it. that so rare. youre very lucky. :^)

so is this a common thing to happen? i guess i could understand if we both watched a movie one night and then dreamed similar dreams but the one we had last night seems completely random. all we did last night was play video games, nothing to do with what the dream was about.

wonder if theres anyone on here who likes to try and interpret dreams....?

Have you driven this van before in real life?

Lucid Crossroads is the place to share dreams when lucid. http://www.lucidcrossroads.co.uk/

no....didnt even know her friend had a green van

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Originally posted by shakermaker
no....didnt even know her friend had a green van

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What about other odd occurances in yours or your GF's life upto now? Anything that would also seem out of the ordinary.

Sounds like a shared dream to me, of course you could be lieing but if your not I know how you feel it is a bit of a mind blower when you get those extreamly tight shared dreams.

ive only beem dating her for about 6 weeks, but we have hit it off really well and became pretty close quickly. As for me lying... well, i have no reason too. besides, im not sure i really buy into the whole concept of sharing dreams so i did an internet search and here i am! i figured that this would be the place to get opinions from people who know more about this kind of stuff than i do! basically it freaked me out... but in an interesting way rather than a `scary way. i guess im just looking for an explanation other than coincidence...which is, by the way, what my girlfriend thinks it is...

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Originally posted by shakermaker
ive only beem dating her for about 6 weeks, but we have hit it off really well and became pretty close quickly. As for me lying... well, i have no reason too. besides, im not sure i really buy into the whole concept of sharing dreams so i did an internet search and here i am! i figured that this would be the place to get opinions from people who know more about this kind of stuff than i do! basically it freaked me out... but in an interesting way rather than a `scary way. i guess im just looking for an explanation other than coincidence...which is, by the way, what my girlfriend thinks it is...

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coincidence is why I'm asking about any other odd occurances in yours or her life. Your dream is very significantly against chance as you had no knowledge of the van and the activity wasn't part of your everyday life. If you have other odd things happen that taken seperately might seem like chance then the odds of them all being change start to seriously multiply.

http://www.lucidcrossroads.co.uk/shared.htm this page has a shared dream of my'n and some info on shared dreaming.

I don't know much about the possibility of shared dreams, although I am going to do further research, and check out pantalimon's site. I don't think this is coincidence, it's too strange that you dreamed of a green van and didn't know that her friend had one. Maybe it's possible that you heard her mention the van and didn't remember it but stored it in your subconcious. New to the site, this is the first post I've read on shared dreams and have become very interested. I think alot about the human mind and all that it is capable of, and I think our subconcious can acheive much more than our concious mind can. I am also interested in prophetic dreams (as I have had a few myself) and would be curious to know if anything like your dreams actually happens in real life in the future, or some event that you can compare with images, feelings, or events in your dream(s). I definitely don't think you are lying or would have any reason to!

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Originally posted by shakermaker
i guess im just looking for an explanation other than coincidence...

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No, shaker, I would say this is not coincidence at all. This has happened to me too:

I was visiting my ex-boyfriend's parents house one weekend. He and I were asleep in different rooms and experienced nearly the same dream, but with slightly different interpretations of what was happening. Some background: This happened this past summer and he and I would be starting our senior year of college in the fall. He was moving into a new house off-campus and we talked about this alot. For the purposes of this dream, I am going to use "I" because it was like I was alone (If we had known about each others' presences, it would have been dreamscaping).

In the dream, I knew I was walking through his new house, only it was severely dilapidated and falling apart. It was dark, with weird mirrors and furniture everywhere. The stairs seemed like I was going to fall through at any second but when I went up them, at the top, they opened out into this beautiful backyard with sprawling, intricate gardens.

Cut to next scene, I am walking around his house and through the streets of his neighborhood trying to find a house where I know a bunch of children are being kept against their will and being brainwashed into joining a cult. Finally, I save them, and they follow me, walking in a line back to his house where we had a party.

The next day, I told my boyfriend about this dream and he told me that he had almost the exact same dream the night before... the only difference was with the group of kids--in his dream, he was playing a huge game of football with them in his yard. Perhaps my interpretation comes from some biological, motherly instinct deep within.. who knows :-P

But either way, I definitely believe in sharing dreams (I have a sort of theory that many dreams we have are shared... but we either don't know or never talk to the person/people it is shared with).

In your case though, Shaker, if my understanding of the concept is correct, yours and your gf's experience was actually "dreamscaping" because you were aware of each other in the dream. On the other hand though, mine was a "shared dream" because it was a first person account of a dream by two people that was exactly the same.

thanks for the replys guys...

we are still talking about the shared dream we had... we've decided that it cant be coincidence as we've racked our brains and theres no way in this world i could have known about the green van.

i feel quite lucky to have experienced this...although since then our dreams have been totally un-related. will let you know if anything else weird happens though....