Originally posted by Leo Volont


Opposing the materialist view of dreaming as confined to individual brains, we have the theory of the Collective Consciousness where we see dreams as more of Life Force Phenomena. Indeed, as soon as we have evidence of at least ONE SHARED DREAM, we can no longer confine dreaming to any single brain, but must allow that Dreaming has reaches outside. And then we have extraordinary dream characters outside of any memory --- real life, movies, books --- really some tremendous stuff. In one of my first dreams I was introduced to the Oracle Archetype. A Voice said she was a Prophetess and a Poet, and then the curtains parted and out on the stage came this young woman, dressed a bit gypsyish and she launched into a spontaneous poem, and as she focussed her attention from person to person in the crowd, she included their lives into the lines and rhythms of her perfectly unbelievable poem. And I don't write poetry. This Oracle, this Prophetess and Poetress was an honest to God Archetype -- a perfect representative instance of a Type -- the Paragon -- the Model on which all those who aspire to that role must in some measure conform.

Indeed, how could dreams ever manage to inspire us, if they could only re-mix and review the same materials of our low lives or of the low culture that gestated us. Because dreams can inspire us, it certainly indicates that they come from someplace higher than we have yet ever reached, and have yet to have ever seen.
And thats why my perspective of the dream world is that of another reality, similar to this one but real nonetheless. Why there is concequence to my action and why I feel one must act with morality in the dream. I cannot prove what happened to anyone else, how does one prove they had a dream?

But the two of us are pretty damned sure that the other was not a construct and that we were in the same dream together.