Quote Originally Posted by Wolfwood View Post
So mass collective dreaming, thereby implying that it's no individual's dream. That we're mere participators in a mass illusion. And so if I was the last man on earth, my dreams would mirror this too? If it was a mass illusion, despite each individual's dream being seemingly erratic and spontaneous, I'd expect a sort of pattern to emerge...order on the chaos from afar - something making it connected, coherent and stable as a whole.

If there wasn't, such a mass illusion would be seemingly irrelevant if it appears to be individualised and incoherent from any perspective.
That's not what I was thinking at all, even about what Sivason was saying.

Why would an unconscious, and potentially conscious thru LD'ing, communication between people in dreams imply a loss of individuality?

Can't we maintain our individuality while we're in touch with countless other individuals? Don't we do that in waking life every day, or at least try to? And, let's say Sivason is correct and we're all just awash in God's dream, wouldn't we still be able to retain our individuality as we navigate His vast whim? I think so...in a sense, we do that in waking life every day, too.

So it all might not be as much of a downer as you presume...I think individuality can easily be held onto. It's likely unavoidable, given both that we are sentient so by definition must have individuality, and because a system of over seven billion souls (or one God overseeing an entire universe) is simply too huge to ever have its own will be noticed by us micro-individuals, should there even be one. Hell, individuality might even be necessary, in order for God or the system to differentiate each of its gazillion nodes.

Another thought, now that you got me to think about it... I wonder, should this communication exist, if it was built into our unconscious minds rather than conscious minds in order to preserve our sanity; and we're only "discovering" it now because we've evolved far enough that our conscious minds might handle it without losing it? Hmm...