Some DC's from a year ago?

**bihon** · 03-15-2011 11:42 PM

I want people's opinions on this:
I think it was the first time WILD had worked for me last year, and I enter this store, and in a hunting section I see a dude standing there, molding the table into a dog. He says, "nice to meet you," and then tells me that he' s an expert lucid dreamer, then a friend of his out of nowhere pops up from a picture of a bear. He said his name was Noah, (thick black framed glasses, and a clean beard), and he continues on to show me his skills. I tell them I'm a newbie. He gets a soda can, and molds it into a cat, I wake up.

Do you think they're just dream characters? Or is the possibility of dream sharing totally off the topic since I've never even known about that subject during that time?

**riverboy** · 03-15-2011 11:53 PM

Well I can't disprove shared dreaming but I personally believe it to be impossible.

My interpretation would be that the concept of shared dreaming was on your mind and so they popped up and *claimed* they were real people.

The best way to prove it would be to try and find them again, then meet them in a real life location (or on dreamviews) and confirm if it happened.

Has the potential to be very exciting stuff though!!

**Tripoli** · 03-16-2011 12:17 AM

There is no scientific way to prove shared dreaming.
If it is real, it is on a higher level, similar to the idea of a single consciousness. it's something that can't be disproven or proven and probably will never do.

**riverboy** · 03-16-2011 12:32 AM

Originally Posted by Tripoli

There is no scientific way to prove shared dreaming.
If it is real, it is on a higher level, similar to the idea of a single consciousness. it's something that can't be disproven or proven and probably will never do.

I beg to differ. It would be a simple experiment - two shared dreamers in seperate rooms. They can't contact eachother until they've achieved the shared dream. Then they record the dreams and you assess the reliability between the two accounts.

I think the bigger obstacle is waiting for science to accept lucid dreaming (let alone shared dreaming) as something more than parapsychology or myth on a larger scale.

**Tripoli** · 03-16-2011 12:42 AM

Originally Posted by riverboy

I beg to differ. It would be a simple experiment - two shared dreamers in seperate rooms. They can't contact eachother until they've achieved the shared dream. Then they record the dreams and you assess the reliability between the two accounts.

I think the bigger obstacle is waiting for science to accept lucid dreaming (let alone shared dreaming) as something more than parapsychology or myth on a larger scale.

yaha, but there would be no way to tell, if they failed at the experiment, or failed at sharing a dream, meaning it's possible they just didn't do it.

**riverboy** · 03-16-2011 12:54 AM

Meta-analyses my friend

**bihon** · 03-16-2011 01:06 AM

I was just thinking about the exact same thing earlier today, a controlled experiment like that will definitely work.
And if the experiment failed, it is not the only chance that will be given.
I definitely have doubts on shared dreaming, but I don't disprove the possibility