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then when i wake up i can come on the boards and ask her if she was in the shared dream
It seems like a decent idea for an experiment, but the setup is too open to power of suggestions, etc. If you want to conduct a serious experiment, you need some kind of control structure to keep outside influences and factors to a minimum. What that would be here, I don't know; but it could possibly be something as simple as when you have tried to enter someone's dream, an impartial 3rd party could ask that person what they dreamed about last night. It could even be you, but it is important to remember to not manipulate the results, so asking if they were in this dream or that dream is really not a good approach. Better to ask what they dreamed about last night, and get an unbiased answer, and then let it be known what your dream was and compare the two.
Well that is just one suggestion, even though it is still not as controlled as experiments should be, it is a little better than originally suggested method.
An even better method perhaps would be an impartial 3rd party (called A) between 2 people (called B & C) that wish to share a dream, in which A would listen to and record B & C describing their dreams over an x amount of time period, during which neither B nor C could speak to anyone about their dreams except to A. During this time it would also be important that neither B nor C have a shared preconceived notion of where they will meet or what they will do in the dream, as it would greatly increase the likelihood of them having similar dreams, but in no way suggest it was shared. Then the data could be analyzed. That might take too many resources or more time than most people are willing to commit though.[/b]