Thread: Theta vs. Delta Mutual Dreams

My question for all of you is whether your experiences seem to confirm this or not.

I have experienced two types of mutual dreaming. One occurs during theta sleep, and the other during ordinary REM sleep, which I assume is delta. My delta sleep mutual dreaming appears to me to be body-centered countertransference (there is an article on this in Wikipedia), as it occurs between me and family members who are sleeping on or next to me as I sleep. We share similar thoughts during dreams (as reported verbally by the other individual waking up during the dream), or I dream things that prepare me for the correct emotional response towards that person when I wake up. It can also prepare me for the other individual waking up and what I need to do.

My theta sleep mutual dreaming occurs during the head tingling that sometimes happen when I sleep (part of exploding head syndrome feelings, again you can find this on Wikipedia). I am rather certain that this effect is theta in character because I can also induce the same type of feeling by focusing a little bit on my breathing during pre-sleep hypnogagic hallucinations of a rather mild sort. This can happen with very little of the breathing exercise and is not similar to severe oxygen deprivation.

This is how my theta sleep mutual dreaming happens:

1. I have head tingling.

2. I think a thought, and possibly I direct it towards my wife, who is sleeping next to me. They are chosen by me, during the dream, and are not typical topics of dreams for either of us.

3. Later on, after she wakes up, she reports experiencing something unusually similar to the thought I had during the exploding head syndrome feeling, at about the same time of the night (as best as that can be figured). It is not exactly the same though. She does not get the head tingling.