Originally Posted by
monkeyking
So I'm confused. Is there some sort of dream dimension where time doesn't matter? If I'm going to sleep at 2am my time I can share a dream with someone in a timezone that has them dreaming 12 hours from when I experienced my dream? What do the mechanics of that sound like?
Think of the dreamscape one creates as a room, and think of whatever part of your psyche controls you as an essence inside of a dream (ugh) Avatar. I go to bed at midnight my time and I create an avatar/ dreamscape. The whole thing, being a manifestation of my conscious mind (assuming the shared dream is lucid) comes from me and so it will return. If I begin this restructuring of perception and consciousness at, say midnight, and the entire thing lasts one hour before I wake up, then there I was. If at noon I am at work eating a tuna sandwich while someone thousands of miles away begins dreaming, how is it that they share my essence and cognitive parts of my psyche?
If this is Astral projection then I guess you could argue that time exists as a constant on the astral plane of existence and would be meaningless, but I think the power one is assuming in that instance borders on some sort of wizardry, being that:
You are operating in the astral plane, not in a dreamscape, so to be able to do all of the things reported in a shared dream under this assumption now fall undar the category of multi-planar manipulation, NOT dreaming.
Besides, time may be meaningless in the Astral plane, but means a hell of a lot here, which even our psyches are bound to. Unless I'm missing something.
Any thoughts?