1 dream????????

Question

can two different individual dream the same dream at the same period of time??????

Answer 1

Hi Jhed

It's very unlikely. HOWEVER, our memories of our dreams are usually so vague that two people might describe two different dreams in such a way that they sound very alike.

As a matter of interest:

The purpose of dreams, as far as we understand them, is to process the vast amount of information that comes in through your senses each day whilst you're awake.

On this basis the "meaning" of our dreams is simply that we are making sense of information which previously didn't have a "meaning", for us, because it hadn't been processed so as to fit into our mental maps of the world (all your existing beliefs, ideas, values, etc.).

Given this purpose, there will always be something in each dream, though we may not remember it, which ties the dream to recent "real life" events. However most of the things which appear in our dreams may have nothing to do with what has been happening in our life just before the dream occurs. Things can appear in a dream that have been part of the dreamer's memories as far back as they first started forming memories - or anytime in between then and now.

Nor do the things in your dreams have to be obviously related to each other. Like I said, dreaming is a process of finding/making meaning, and the brain can draw from anywhere in its huge store of memories in order to carry out that process.

By the way, there is nothing random about this process, but your subconscious mind can come up with connections that your conscious mind would never dream of (!), which is why dreams often seem pretty weird.

So when, if ever, you happen to notice yourself having what seems like a weird dream in future you can literally rest assured that everything is OK. Your brain is actually doing, with great skill, one of the many jobs it was designed to do

Answer 2

In a universe of infinite possibilities.... Why not? If two people can have the same thought, come up with the same invention to solve a problem, why not dream the same dream?

Answer 3

I have discovered recently that more and more people worldwide are beginning to recall their dreams in greater detail and are often greatly impacted by their dream occurrences. I find it nearly a surreal fact itself that people from all walks of life dream of very similar places and events almost as if we are all connected somehow.

To gain better consciousness during your dreams and therefore a higher level of recall the best tool available is keeping a dream journal. As our subconscious mind is in control during our sleep we frequently forget our dreams upon waking. The more vivid ones have flashes throughout the day, but we even lose those details also over time. With a dream journal you simply write your dreams down as soon as you wake and give the dream a simple name so it can be read at any time and recalled.

At first, keeping the journal is more difficult, but in time you will remember your dreams just as if you were fully awake. It took me about a year of keeping dreams written down in a wire bound paper notebook before I achieved full consciousness in my dreams. Now I remember as many as seven dreams a night while my body sleeps. It is like going to college class every night because I learn so much and meet so many people in my dreams.

For me it has really raised my consciousness and I have proceeded to a point that I can think of places to see before I go to sleep at night and I visit them in my dreams. Who knows what this will lead to if it proceeds globally with many people beginning to do the same. We may begin meeting each other with certain regularity and accuracy in our dream world, the possibilities would be endless.

Last thought to ponder: There are many people in the world that have been blind from birth or very early childhood that dream in vivid color each night just like anyone else. They dream of flying in the clouds, riding in red cars, and all the other grand things that are real and imagined. If they have never seen these things then where are they going during their dreams? Yes, a thought to ponder.

Answer 4

I believe so. I think when two people are in tune with each other a new kind of communication develops.