Is it possible for two people to have the same dream at the same time?

You have just been incepted.

I dreamed a dream in a time gone by.

Me an my GF the other day had similar dreams. She dreamed I cheated on her with a certain girl...and I had a dream that I had sex with this exact same girl as in her dream.

Of course I didn't tell her about my dream, but it freaked me the frick out. I'm taking it as a sign

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so you can lucid dream?

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not lucid dreaming. lucid dreaming means you know you're dreaming and therefore know it isn't real. if you feel like someone is real, you don't know you're dreaming and are therefore in a normal dream.

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every now and then

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hmm weird. i don't have anything to add really, but i remember reading a creepy pasta recently about someone who practiced lucid dreaming and did it for several months in a row and came across someone in their dream one night that asked them, "what are you doing in my dream?'


the way it was told was pretty creepy

I don't think a dreamscape is complex enough to hold another consciousness, even one that is dreaming.

I can lucid dream.

I taught myself to check to see if I was dreaming. Throughout the day (or night) I would periodically ask myself "Am I dreaming?" as I deliberately took cognitive inventory of my surroundings and state of mind.

Of course, reality is self-revealing. It always feels real (mental disorders and mind-altering drugs notwithstanding). A dream can convince me it's reality, but reality cannot convince me it's a dream.

"If you have to ask, it's a dream," became my mantra. I repeated it to myself as my head hit the pillow each night. For me, the semiconscious thoughts of half-sleep, that moment before sleep were often the foundation of my dreams, or it was a fleeting moment throughout the day that entered my subconscious.

So I did what I intended to do, taught my subconscious to become keen and aware of its environment, and taught it the tips on detection that my conscious already knew.

I got into the habit. The first dozen or so times that I found myself dreaming and questioning whether I was dreaming, I immediately woke up. But I learned to accept the turmoil that occurs when I would realize I'm in a dream.

It's amazing and I probably spend most of my time flying

The ability to create as you dream, takes practice. Because despite the effectiveness of my habitual mantra, for whatever reason when creating I really have to focus and walk a mental tightrope of sorts while reminding myself that I'm in control.

I don't lucid dream as often anymore, because I've all but ceased the habit. But it's a skill, in the same way an athlete can let themselves physically lapse but then whip back into shape quickly. If I start my habit again, I'll start lucid dreaming again