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