Thread: Split consciousness in a dream?

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I had a weird lucid dream once where I got out of bed, walked to my bedroom door, opened it and fly out. Then minutes later I found myself lucid back in my bed, watching the first me go to the door to open it. I followed her...it was like I had gone back in time, and now there were two mes. It was really bizarre. I've never had anything like split consciousness though, I'd be interested to see what that's like.

Hypothetically, if it did happen then you would have no way of knowing that it had happened. If, as in the case of nina's dream, you dreamt the same event from multiple perspectives, then there would still be no reason to think that you were actually dreaming each perspective simultaneously.

The question of whether it's possible is interesting because of what it would tell us about consciousness, but I can't see any reason it would be desirable to experience it.

yes, I have experienced this.

In my dream I was both flying a plane and watching myself fly the plane, i was on the ground, and in the plane at the same time, watching myself fly, and in the plane trying not to crash, it was a VERY vivid and strange dream, I will never forget it.

I think something like this could happen. I'm sure everyone would agree that it is possible to dream being two different people at once. As for not knowing what the other "yous" are thinking, I think something like that would have to be something the dream establishes. For instance, the logic that "I don't know what the other me is thinking" would, itself, have to be part of the dream, if that makes any sense. This idea doesn't seem too far fetched to me because I've had multiple dreams in which time has skipped around, and I was aware of what just happened, but now is going to happen. But at the same time, the current situation leaves me with knowledge of only what has happened so far chronologically, which would be a similar situation to not knowing what the other "yous" were thinking. Sorry if this is super confusing.

I've experienced something like imKirkC, but I wouldn't call it split consciousness so much as split perception: I was one person, but in two places experiencing two different things. One 'version' of myself was playing xbox, holding the controller and watching my avatar on the screen. My other self was the avatar in the game, physically running through a forest chasing after someone. I experienced both selves in the first person, at the same time but independently - it wasn't simply as if two views were superimposed. At the time, it seemed perfectly natural to be aware of being two people at once, but after waking up, I soon gave up trying to remember exactly how it felt.