Hey, forgive me if someone has asked this question before, I'm new and a little frightened by the idea of searching fo something that might cover a question that I have that I doubt has an answer, but I am curious about nonetheless...

I got to thinking the other day, about when you have dreams that you recall, and came across an odd coincidence. As a young child, almost all of the dreams that I would remember were when I was in another's company, my parents or brother sleeping in the same room or bed. As I grew older, most dreams, and EVERY lucid dream I had always occured when I was sleeping over at a friend's, or vice versa; always someone was near me.

At some point, I can't remember exactly what year, I decided that I dreamed too much, because I was having trouble distinguishing dreams from reality, and overnight effectively stopped recalling dreams for several years, until someone was telling me of a dream they had had, and it turned into a group discussion, and I decided that I missed dreams, and I started to remember them again, though never as clearly as I used to. But still, again, when I remembered a dream, and had the occasional somewhat lucid one, it was ALWAYS IN THE COMPANY OF ANOTHER SLEEPER.

For the past couple weeks, I've remembered my dreams much more than usual, and I have never kept a dream journal, which I'm told help with recall. I suppose that was why I joined this forum. But, still I cannot not help but see the coincidence that In these past two weeks or so, I've been sleeping by my love as it were, on a fairly regular basis, if not every day then every other.

So, I suppose the question, now that I've rambled on much more than I initially intended to, is this:


Does anyone think that perhaps the presence of another dreamer in close proximity affects your own dreams?


I really am a newbie here, I imagine there's a million other things it could easily be that I don't know about, but I thought it might be a legitimate question. If someone sees this and I'm utterly off track, I'd love to hear what it might really be. I just thought this might be an okay way to introduce myself and answer a question.