Thread: Can You Really Share Dreams

Just try it, I think I had a few shared dreams and it was a fun and surreal event. The journey towards having a shared dream was extremely fun, I spent many days talking to Nomad and Raven on Skype, and some of the others including Mzzkc when he was around.

I've had shared dreams with strangers but more often with relatives and friends.
Because they hardly even recall their dreams, it's hard to get their confirmation. But at least once my boyfriend told me about a dream he could recall and that matched a dream I had had that same night (all the details, place, people, etc). I remember I wished that he would join me there on that dream - which apparently he did! It was kind of inception.
I also had a premonitory dream once about my mother getting very sick with alergy to shrimps - and she had the same exact dream. On that day she was invited to a party and they served shrimps. She didn't eat it and still today she never ate shrimps again.
Shared dreams can be hard to identify, because it's hard to know if the person is "real" or your own projection, but usually they have a different feel when it is the real deal. For example, they react in unexpected ways, they express ideas you could not possibly come up with based on what you know about them, you get to know a side of this person you don't normally see in daylight. A projection would normally act based on the idea you have of this person and not surprise you or show real depth.

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You just have to shift your perspective of things. Right now people don't believe shared dream is possible, because they think is something that goes on inside each individual mind that is enclosed in each individual head.
But I ask you: how is it possible that we share "reality"? It is, like dreams, just information that your brain processes and you perceive in a certain way. But reality isn't really real! There is no solid, material, external world if there's no conscience to make it real. All there is "out there" is clouds of possibilities and potential, energy and information waiting that our collective conscience decides what to make of it. All of the reality was we know it is our common, shared dream. And this is no joke. Physics is going on that direction but old philosophy and ancient wisdom tells exactly that. Check buddhism for instance - it is all based on this fact and it gives you the tools to train your mind to perceive that clearly.
Dreams are just a more subtle level of mind and shared consciousness. Just as in "reality" we can feel ourselves as the centre of the world and miss the point that all we experience is projected by all of us together, when dreaming we can have dreams that are just ours because we don't realise the matrix in which they are embedded is actually also projected by us all. When we do open ourselves to the fact that consciouness in all levels is one and is embedded in this one matrix, then we start sharing the information that is available on this shared matrix.
It's not like we are antennas sending out our dreams like radio shows. If it helps to see it that way, that's ok, but what really happens is that minds are not separated, therefore they don't really need to send out anything for another mind to capture - it's all about opening our perception to the fact that my mind is not separated from your mind and that we can in fact "meet" at the same "place" at the same "time" on this dream-level matrix, just as we meet people outside on the street - be it a random encounter or an appointment.

Originally Posted by Onieronaut

I tried seeing if he remembered from his sleep a dream with me in it today when I went and spent some time with him and he didn't. I kind of tried to get him interested in the phenomenon to see if he would do an exercise to increase dream recall but he wasn't interested. Old dog, you know, he had other things to say about it, but I think he was at least moderately intrigued by the dream sequence. Now I have to work on maintaining these lucid dreams instead of letting them unravel like that one did.

Yeah, I do that a lot with my father too, but he is like a million light-years from recalling a dream, so it is kinda useless. I've tried with my mother too and it works better. She is very into spiritual stuff and making an effort to remember her dreams and once or twice she could remember something. It takes time. But I can say this: they might not remember the dream, but you can use it to make inception
I used to have great long phylosophical conversations with my mother during our shared dreams, because she was such a religious fanatical that we couldn't talk in the "real world" - she was evangelical, I'm a buddhist, which for her was like worshipping the devil - and when we'd meet our talk would always end with someone shouting and crying due to her intolerance for my path.
But after months of debating with her, opening her mind and so on (IN DREAMS), she quit religion!, became new ager! and now our relationship is great and we talk openly about everything. I'm not saying I'm responsible for changing her mind, but it made me wonder...

I came across this thread looking for answers, me and my friend recently shared a dream yet we live about 300-400kms away from each other. I had a dream that i was in a building buzzing with people and activity, I had some place to be and i was in somewhat of a hurry to get there when i walked straight passed a group of people in a meeting, I realised i had recognised one of the women in the meeting and i went straight back and stood behind her, i said her full name turning her so she would face me, and she was shocked to see me there and we talked. For some odd reason we knew we were dreaming, I told her to get ahold of me when she woke up. servral hours and a couple short dreams later i woke up to find a txt message from her saying she had the strangest dream about be, when she described it, it was the same dream, she described how she heard her name called from behind and me turning her to face me, she even comented on how i told her to get ahold of me when she woke up. Its strange because me and her had not been in contact with each other for months. It may all be coincidence but im trying to find stories like mine. Rubbish me if you want, we're just trying to see if this has happened with anyone else?

Haha wow ive had a premonitory dream also. I had a dream that i was having a seizure and i drowned in my own blood I told my mother and sister about it the following day. about 3am the next day i had a seizure while lying on my back i had bitten my tongue severely, had i not woken up my dad in the next room i would of drowned.

I don't have any reason to believe WakingNomad, RavenKnight, ManofShred and the others are lying. That seems like a futile kind of trolling within this small community. So assuming they aren't, the similarities within the dreams posted in the "Shared Dreams: See you on the moon!" thread are incredible, the differences usually just a matter of subjectivity, like two people recalling the same event, which I guess it is. I'm not saying I truly believe one way or another, but this is something I can proactively attempt to prove to myself- much the way lucid dreaming was when I first started.

I like to believe in it. And since dreams are based on what you believe.. I guess if you believe in it in your waking life, you'll believe in it in your dreams too (given that you're lucid). I seriously think if 2 people believe in it firmly, they can actually find each other in a shared dream.

I mean, some people hardly ever remember their dreams and therefor they don't believe in dreams at all..

Originally Posted by capoopy

Some people believe it, but personally I won't believe it until I experience it myself and I'm sure we were having the exact same dream.

The only way to achieve the impossible, is to beleive it's possible.

I guess I'm going to lose a lot of brownie points here but I really feel the need to say that shared dreaming is a fantasy and anyone with a mind of reason will tell you the same thing.
Don't ask me to post links and show sources that disprove it, you can search yourself if you really are interested in the truth..
Science is not able to conclusively prove or disprove telepathy as conclusions can only be drawn from peoples experience, there is no external 'data' to measure. The problem here is that if you want to believe something so bad, your mind is capable of creating scenarios which fit your beliefs - ironically enough it is the same kind of reasoning you use while dreaming to explain why that tiny little purple martian is eating your sunday roast and it's perfectly normal.
Coincidence has a lot to answer for while discussing this topic. I think you will find that when 'shared dreamers' provide examples of their experiences as evidence, at least some of the details are agreed on beforehand. When this is the case, your mind will fill in the blanks and as we are of the same species, it makes sense that they are filled in similar ways. Often the differences that are present are disregarded or put down to flawed memory and any details that are 'amazingly similar' are jumped upon, the 'evidence' is not weighed equally.
Dreams which were not agreed upon are coincidental, while the chances may seem extrordinary, you would be surprised about statistics have to say about coincidence.

I shall now wait patiently for a barrage of arguments to wash over me.

Before you begin with those arguments however, I will go against my earlier statement and give you one link to feast upon, watch this. It *could* just be coincidence - StumbleUpon

I understand that telepathy, shared dreaming, uniqueness etc, whatever you want to call it can easily become a part of who you are and how you present yourself to the outside world. When reasoning wins over, it can still be very hard to let go of something which has been such a big part of your life. This is why many people still spend vast amounts of energy defending a view they know deep within themselves (sometimes not even so deep) is false.

Dream Sharing does not exist IMO, no proof can be found and the only people that do it here have some-what of an ego.

Honestly the only plausible way DS could happen is with twins because the minds are so similar, sleeping next or near to each other could create some kind of wi-fi'esc situation. The other idea is that its just aliens, come on it only makes sense that if they can manipulate time space they could connect the human wi-fi. ^_^;

Originally Posted by Duncan

explain why that tiny little purple martian is eating your sunday roast and it's perfectly normal.

I might've had an accidental shared lucid dream before, the dream was really close but not entirely the same. I was lucid but the other person was not.

Lucid Dream #3 - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Read the first few lines of the LD and then read the comments.

Originally Posted by KaylaHansa

If what you say is true, thats amazing! If it really is real, I want to try it. But first I have to get better at individual lucid dreaming, lol.

Same here!

Originally Posted by Man of Shred

yes, you can really share dreams. so many people have had them. we use to have a large journal documenting the MANY shared reams people have had at DV. It is impossible to explain them away. for you sceptics I'd like to see you try.

Shared Dreams: See you on the Moon!

Thanks for the link theres a bunch of cool shared dreaming entries in there!