Originally posted by Placebo
The only trouble I see here, is that I feel that shared dreaming isn't a 'send/receive' thing... its a 2 way connection where both parties are just as important.
Of course, it doesn't necessarily require both parties to be lucid, so in that way people like Mickeys_Elbow should do well
So you think the personal relationship between the participants is important? If it's a two way connection, does one person still initiate? If so, I think this could still work. If both people have to somehow be thinking about it at the same time to simultaneously form some sort of \"meet half-way\" connection, I can't see how shared dreaming could happen often enough to be testable. Honestly, I'm skeptical about these sorts of things, and when a phenomenon goes from being something easy and natural to something that's finicky and hard to pin down as soon as it comes under scrutiny, that skepticism starts to tilt toward doubt. I'm not in any way implying that I think you're being deceptive about your experiences, so I hope you don't take my comments the wrong way. I've probably just misunderstood what you're saying about how to initiate it.

Originally posted by Michael
if you were to believe this possible(which i also do) u would need to agree that telepathy is to some degree real also....that being said...is there a limited DISTANCE to which ones mind could reach another? i believe its possible for 2 ppl in the same room to share a dream but VERY VERY HIGHLY unlikely that u can share one with someone half way around the world, or even a few hundred miles away...if you could the dream world may very possibly be as crowded with real ppl as the real world...
then there is the chain idea...but that would require alot of people...making \"pitstops\" or \"dream boosters\" with other people like a chain....dividing the distance into smaller segments...but thats just my thought for the day on this =) maybe i'll elaborate more later if anyone responds lol.
I don't know about a distance limit. From the claims I've read, many people seem to think it can be done over long distances. I've got no reason to believe that the claims of people who say it can only be done between two people in close proximity are any more or less veritable than the claims of people who say it can be done half way around the world.