Quote Originally Posted by MemeViews View Post
So you've all heard of the "meet your clone" challenge right...
Now, I was wondering if it would be possible to clone yourself, but split your consciousness aswell in the process?
In a way that you experience the consciousness of both you and your clone at the same time! That'd be pretty insane.
It should be possible in theory right?
You mean in a dream, right?

This seems like a real possibility to me, if very difficult goal to fully achieve.

It's possible because all the DC's/clones/whatever in your dream are "You," so in a very real sense your consciousness is already split among everyone and everything in your dream. This means that the metaphysical bit has already been taken care of for you, and so all you need to do is tap the consciousness that already exists everywhere in the dream (or at least in a couple other DC's). Simple, right? Well, not so much, because there's a pretty big catch:

This exercise would be very difficult, and well worthy of Challenge of the Decade status, because we are very firmly wired to perceive our experience, our reality, from a single perspective, and that perspective carries over into dreams. So, in dreams, we are innately bound to view our dreamworld with a sense of duality -- like waking-life, a dreamer's world exists as something "outside" her dreaming self, while she exists "inside" her dreaming self, even though everything in the dream, unlike waking-life, exists within her self as well.

This dual perspective is very difficult to shake. It can take many years to develop a truly non-dual perspective in dreams where you not only understand intellectually that everything in your dream is "You," (which is relatively easy, once lucid), but you know, in a virtually innate sense, that "You" are spread evenly among every character and image in your dream. Once you finally gain that non-dual perspective -- and fully dismiss the perspective that nature gave you -- splitting your waking-live consciousness among several DC's ought to be a snap.

So: This seems like an excellent practice or goal to help work toward a non-dual perspective in dreams -- and certainly a doable one... just don't expect to achieve it right away!