Thread: Maybe a explaination for sharing dreams

I've thought the same thing about telephatic abilities, that if we could hone our brainwave frequency to someone else's, we could telepathically communicate. So using this for shared dreams could be plausible.

In theory that could work, yes.. But I think such a means of telepathic communication is utterly impractical - the problem is not finding 'brainwaves' (information) but more reading them and interpreting them in any sort of useful form ("mind-reading") which would be nigh-impossible given that everyone's brains and neurons are arranged differently.
Actually, despite this, if people could indeed detect other people's brainwaves, a crude communication system could be made, with brains merely having two brainwave states - "high activity" and "low activity" - allowing binary data transfer as long as some protocol was agreed on. This would not allow a high enough 'bandwidth' to sync two dreams together, though, so for this purpose it's not really useful. [/computer jargon ]

If you don't understand what I just said I don't blame you - I'm a programmer

Anyway this should very probably be in "Beyond Dreaming"..

There really is a lot we don't know about our brains.. It could be very possible.

Originally Posted by RedfishBluefish

In theory that could work, yes.. But I think such a means of telepathic communication is utterly impractical - the problem is not finding 'brainwaves' (information) but more reading them and interpreting them in any sort of useful form ("mind-reading") which would be nigh-impossible given that everyone's brains and neurons are arranged differently.
Actually, despite this, if people could indeed detect other people's brainwaves, a crude communication system could be made, with brains merely having two brainwave states - "high activity" and "low activity" - allowing binary data transfer as long as some protocol was agreed on. This would not allow a high enough 'bandwidth' to sync two dreams together, though, so for this purpose it's not really useful. [/computer jargon ]

If you don't understand what I just said I don't blame you - I'm a programmer

Anyway this should very probably be in "Beyond Dreaming"..

I'm a programmer too
Anyway, in the beginning of the computer age, speeds were much less then they were now. Things were measured in KB/s, now its starting to be GB/s. It may take time, but the same kind of evolution could happen in our minds. Your idea of the binary brainwave thing could evolve, where pulses of brainwaves are sent in thousands per second, constructing a message. Yes it sounds far-fetched, but it still could be possible.