Thread: I don't believe shared dreaming is possible. But I'd love if I could be proven wrong.

Shared dreaming is a bit hard to explain, my friend.

I'll be entirely honest with you: I kind of thought it was crazy. I really did. I mean, I know - and have done - lucid dreaming is a real deal. And the one time I was lucid in a dream, I was having the time of my life. And then it turned into a shared dream.

And I freaked the fuck out. I did the whole, "clap my hands over my head and start panicking" because there was something in my head thatshould not have been there. But the person - a stranger, too - calmed me down.

We had a conversation. I conversation I don't exactly remember. But they showed me how they used a knife to cut across "dream plains" and go from place to place. And they'd accidentally wound up in my head. To demonstrate, they said they had somewhere to be, and sliced a tear in the air and disappeared through it.

My dreamscape was a snowy glen. The world beyond that tear was a metropolitan, sci-fi city.

I wish I could tell you that we had crazy adventures and lived a lifetime in that dream. But I followed them out of curiosity, and as soon as I stepped through that hole, my lucidity was lost in a heartbeat.

It's weird. I woke up wondering what the fuck had happened. I didn't actively go looking for a shared dream, it kind of just fell into my lap.

But there's quite a lot that science can't explain yet. If our brain is trapped inside of our head, why can two people share the same exact dream? How is lucid dreaming a possibility? Maybe in time, science can explain it. I fully believe that it can. It's good to be a skeptic, it's how science progresses.

Wrapping up my ramble, I guess what we're trying to say is dabble in lucid dreaming. Have you?

Originally Posted by lowfoam

How is lucid dreaming a possibility?

Lucid dreaming is a possibility because we have access to memory during our dreams. This memory allows us to recall what a dream is during our dreams. When we connect this recall with our awareness of the dream itself, we're able to conclude what we're being aware of is a dream.

How shared dreaming might be possible, I don't know.

Originally Posted by lowfoam

Shared dreaming is a bit hard to explain, my friend.

I'll be entirely honest with you: I kind of thought it was crazy. I really did. I mean, I know - and have done - lucid dreaming is a real deal. And the one time I was lucid in a dream, I was having the time of my life. And then it turned into a shared dream.

And I freaked the fuck out. I did the whole, "clap my hands over my head and start panicking" because there was something in my head thatshould not have been there. But the person - a stranger, too - calmed me down.

We had a conversation. I conversation I don't exactly remember. But they showed me how they used a knife to cut across "dream plains" and go from place to place. And they'd accidentally wound up in my head. To demonstrate, they said they had somewhere to be, and sliced a tear in the air and disappeared through it.

My dreamscape was a snowy glen. The world beyond that tear was a metropolitan, sci-fi city.

I wish I could tell you that we had crazy adventures and lived a lifetime in that dream. But I followed them out of curiosity, and as soon as I stepped through that hole, my lucidity was lost in a heartbeat.

It's weird. I woke up wondering what the fuck had happened. I didn't actively go looking for a shared dream, it kind of just fell into my lap.

But there's quite a lot that science can't explain yet. If our brain is trapped inside of our head, why can two people share the same exact dream? How is lucid dreaming a possibility? Maybe in time, science can explain it. I fully believe that it can. It's good to be a skeptic, it's how science progresses.

Wrapping up my ramble, I guess what we're trying to say is dabble in lucid dreaming. Have you?

How do you know this person wasn't just a dream character? Did you actually find this person after you woke up? Just because someone tells you something in a lucid dream doesn't mean it's actually true.