I'm upset. I typed a whole reply and there was an error so it didn't go through. Ssssiiigggghhhh.

shadowofwind: I respect you. You have experienced something I have not, and which there is little documentation on, and so it is difficult for me to pass judgement. I'm interested. You say that you dream metaphorically, okay, that's cool. In an abstract dream environment, what visual or emotional cues lead you to believe you are sharing your consciousness, and how can they be considered valid in that sort of environment? You dream metaphors, which are(in my experience) subjective to the interpreter. And you believe that you can share these sort of dreams with another sort of conscious entity. Through metaphors. I don't know what you experience, but is one possibility that your brain(which believes in shared dreams) designs metaphors which point you to that, sort of reaffirming your belief and entertaining your idle sleep-brain at the same time?
I love Carl Sagain. Have Contact on audiobook.

I will do my best to keep my personal bias out of science. It has no place there. I love science. Please experiment, please collect data, please grow your pool of knowledge. I support that. It is my opinion that the outcome will be a negative, but science doesn't(or should not) have opinions. Good luck to you.

I would be more than happy, Borislav, to offer a skeptic's hand in your research.

hathor28: I do not wish to disrespect philosophy, of which I have great respect. I thoroughly enjoy philosophy. If you look back to your ancient Greek schools of though, they go hand and hand with early science. If you look to modern scientists, such as Einstein through Carl Sagan, you will notice that they are philosophers in their own right. Science deals almost exclusively in skepticism. A hypothesis is rigorously tested before it is theory. This is why experiment is at the heart of science; to test, to collect evidence, to double-guess and test again. To prove things wrong, and in doing so, prove others correct. Philosophy has long gone hand in hand with science. It asks "how come X, maybe because of Y." Science says "I conducted some experiments, and it turns out that it's definitely Y." It is the questioning, and science is the pursuit of answering the question, though many scientists do not consider themselves philosophers in any big way. But asking questions is a big part of science. You mentioned making nothing into something. Here's a philosopher's question: What is nothing? You don't seem to know anything about science, so I will leave you to your opinion.

Your opinion is wrong.