Two people had the same dream

Can people have the same dream?

Can two or more people have the same dream? To our knowledge, no scientific research has ever been conducted on this issue. But there are thousands of well-documented facts.

What is shared dreaming?

However, coinciding dreams can not only be spontaneous.
It is believed that a mental connection between people can also manifest itself in the form of joint dreams. A joint dream is a common dream into which dreamers deliberately enter. It should be classified as lucid dreaming, which requires some preparation and practical experience. As a result of lucid shared dreaming, sleepers experience the same dream.

This dream is a manifestation of the dreamers' mental connection and gaining subconscious knowledge about each other, which, in turn, can lead to new aspects in the relationship. As a rule, such dreams occur in pairs, and both dreamers must have positive experience of lucid dreams. Typically, the initiator of joint dreaming is quite advanced in the OS technique, and provides assistance to his partner, who needs to have at least basic skills in this area.

A successful choice of a partner for OSOS is the key to its successful implementation. Most often, preference is given to close people, the existence of a mental connection between whom has been confirmed in practice.

However, family, friendly or sensual intimacy is not mandatory. The principle of choosing a partner for OSoS can be the frequency of his appearance in your dreams (almost everyone can confirm that in a dream people came to him with whom in reality he communicates little). It is ideal if your intended partner also dreams about you often, but this is not necessary.

In any case, the prospective partners must be interested in each other - otherwise the experiment will most likely be doomed to failure.

The preparatory stage for OSOC is discussing each other's dreams. If during this discussion you see more and more matching details, then you are on the right track. Once you begin to understand each other’s dreams well and are imbued with mutual trust (which is a prerequisite), you can begin preparing the OSOS.

Recorded cases

In officially recorded cases, we are talking about shared dreams between the therapist and the client. They involve a professionally trained therapist who verifies the claim that both he and his client had the dream at the same time.

The following documented cases involved people in intimate relationships, such as parents, children, spouses or lovers. Consistent with the influence of emotional intimacy on their shared dreams, there are also a large number of well-documented cases of twins sharing the same dream.

The least well-documented cases involve complete strangers.

For hard facts about shared dreams between therapists and clients, see Anthony Shafton's 1995 book, Dream Reader.

What can be concluded from it? First of all, all humanity has are messages that make nothing more than a smile. People have had the same dream, but this causes some skepticism, since controlled scientific studies have not been conducted. In addition, all the details of a dream often simply do not coincide between two people.

But among all the available facts of absolute coincidence, there are some signs that increase confidence in the existence of such dreams.

More often than not, the two people involved in the experience know each other and are emotionally close. In addition, a sure indicator of the existence of dreams with common content is that one person begins to share what he saw, not knowing that another person saw the same thing, and the latter can complete the story started by the first.

People often report that nothing unusual happened before such an interesting fact was discovered. They state that they did not talk about their dream with another person before the strange event, so there is no evidence of displacement or borrowing effects.

Why do two people have the same dreams on the night from Friday to Saturday?

Popular beliefs often say that on the night from Friday to Saturday one can have prophetic dreams. These are dreams that may come true in the future. Will they come true in the distant or near future? The dream book will say this. Dreams do not always convey future events verbatim; they need to be interpreted.

Correctly interpreted dreams will make it possible to understand what awaits you ahead and prevent irreparable difficulties, problems, and avoid terrible turns of events. What's the best way to do this? There are a lot of dream books that give a complete interpretation of certain symbols that appear in dreams.

According to many years of observations, it is dreams from Friday to Saturday that are the most truthful, their interpretation is the most accurate. As a rule, they come true within the next few days. Often these are warning dreams.

Our ancestors considered Friday a special day that preceded the start of the weekend, the beginning of the period of restoration of human energy potential. During this period we are most relaxed, it is easier for us to receive clues in dreams.

But why can two people have the same dreams these days? They may be dreamed of by those who are going to the same event in the coming days. Dreams may differ in minor details, but the main storyline in them will be the same, as well as their interpretation according to the dream book.

If people have experienced some kind of stress, been in the same negative situation (tragedy, catastrophe, loss), they may have the same dreams as a result of experiencing negative emotions. Psychologists explain this phenomenon by the fact that the recent past is very often reflected in dreams.

If that night you have disturbing dreams, and you don’t remember their plot well, but your significant other remembers it well, it means that soon joyful events will visit your home. You simply won’t be ready for them, which is why both partners have dreams.

The difference is in the details

The fact that two people often disagree on every detail seen in a dream really increases confidence that the reports are honest. It seems inevitable that individual differences, ranging from mood and IQ to memory, prevent people from remembering every detail of a dream. Therefore, reports of what is seen must change accordingly.

The slight difference in the details of common dreams makes sense. Sometimes a similar dream occurs simultaneously for both people. In other cases this is not the case. It is noteworthy that many common dreams, including small details, indicate that they are strikingly similar, since two people have the same narration, regardless of when the dream was dreamed.

Technique of lucid joint dreaming

The simplest scheme for entering the OSOS is the following:

Agreeing on the time of falling asleep and agreeing to enter a lucid dream.
The more experienced dreamer should take the lead. It consists in the fact that after entering the OS you need to call your partner, while being aware of the desire to contact him.
Having felt the presence of a partner, you need to get in touch with him. The easiest way is to join hands. Advanced dreamers can then connect the chakras sequentially, forming one common energy body.
Once united, partners can exchange thoughts and emotions. This, and not the visualization of the same images, is the true content of OCoS. As for the setting in which it unfolds, its images are constantly changing and, in general, do not have much significance. This is the fundamental difference between joint and coinciding dreams.

The transition from NOS to wakefulness can be quite abrupt, especially at the beginning of this practice. However, as it improves, it becomes possible to instantly transfer a huge amount of information between dreamers, improve interpersonal communication and one’s own subconscious.

Identical dreams as perceived by somnologists

We can conditionally agree with the fact of shared dreams: two people can have the same dream. What does this mean for sleep specialists? If we assume that the brains of two people produce the same dreams, then we must assume that the nervous systems involved in these people functioned identically. This means that the two people must have been in similar states, and these similar states must have produced the same cognitive content.

However, this option seems almost impossible given the enormous plasticity and variability of brain physiology among individuals. Even the nervous system of twins has significant differences. Thus, attributing shared dreams to identical brain states seems scientifically unfounded.

Can two people have the same dream?

It is difficult to give a definite answer to this question, because there are still no scientific, documented manifestations of this phenomenon. But we can try to rely on numerous stories about similar cases:

a certain woman who lived in the USSR once saw in a dream a handsome sailor unknown to her - he bowed to her in the dream. A few years later they met and immediately recognized each other. Then the sailor said that he also had this dream;
there is also a story that Abraham Lincoln and his wife, shortly before the death of the president, saw his death in dreams - and at the same time;
a similar story is told about Jacqueline and Robert Kennedy - they allegedly saw the death of John Kennedy in a dream and even called on the phone that night to exchange thoughts and guesses.

In general, identical dreams can be divided into two large groups - joint and coinciding. The first are distinguished by the fact that dreamers meet each other in a dream, maybe even interact somehow. Coinciding dreams are somewhat simpler - two or more people dream of the same image, the same plot, but they do not see each other in them. An important condition for identical dreams is that they should occur at approximately the same time.

It is also believed that masters of lucid dreaming can take “guests” with them. In this case, sleeping together is not spontaneous, but controlled. We will not talk about this phenomenon here - it is beyond the scope of our article.

Why do people have the same dream?

There are many theories that would explain this phenomenon. We will present three of the most popular.

The first claims that in a dream we find ourselves in another world, where we may well meet other real dreamers. This explains the identical plot of the dream, the coincidence of time, and also the fact that the dreamers recognize each other.
The second talks about the telepathic connection that is created between people in particularly difficult situations or in very close relationships. However, this does not explain the creation of “common dreams” among people who do not even know each other. On the other hand, this version is closer than others to a scientific explanation of the phenomenon. If we discard telepathy, we can come to the conclusion that the same experiences and memories of two close people can indeed cause two similar dreams.
There is a third version, according to which coinciding (but not joint) dreams appear in sensitive people who are able to grasp the prediction of something serious. In this case, dreamers, like antennas, catch the “signal” of the sign and receive it in the form of a bright image in a dream.

Alternative explanation

Alternative explanations are notable for being unappealing: for example, two people having the same dream suggest that the phenomenon is not simply a product of the sleeping brain. According to some, dreams originate outside of us and then “happen” to us. They are in a sense independent of the minds that record and express them. Dreams are perhaps a product of the interpersonal cultural world and transcend the boundaries of individual consciousness.

But if this is so, then why do similar dreams appear, and not some identical cognitive content? Perhaps shared dreams are like abstract platonic forms that are more than the product of unique neural processes, so they can manifest in multiple brains wired to produce them in the same way.

Inner world and human emotions

The perception and display of what is seen in a dream is quite strongly influenced by the dreamer’s inner world and his inherent emotionality. The most vivid and unusual dreams are experienced by people with a rich inner world and wild imagination. Elements of read works, watched films, and events experienced in the past are often intricately woven into the plot of a dream. It happens that in a dream a person is “visited” by people he knows in the real world: living or dead. Therefore, even if two people live their day in exactly the same way, their mental activity and reaction to certain events differ. Accordingly, everyone sees everything that happens during the day in their own way, through their own prism of seeing the world.

Dreams are also influenced by the emotional state in which a person is. If, due to life circumstances, he fell into a deep depression, then his dreams are usually gloomy.

There is no explanation

So what is the secret of the commonality of dreams? None of the theories discussed seem attractive or plausible. There are no reasoned explanations for common dreams. Perhaps it is for this reason that this phenomenon has not yet been studied by science. Science simply does not have the time and space to place this aspect within the framework of the current worldview, but it is still necessary to study the same dreams.

Two according to the dream book of the healer Fedorovskaya

Two faces - If one person dreams in two faces at the same time, this means that part of his soul has been taken over by an evil spirit, that is, he is under the influence of an evil spirit. Why do you dream of two faces - Such a dream foreshadows a sharp bad change in the condition of this person: death, serious illness, evil eye, slander, love spell, family breakup, unwanted move against one's will, prison, etc. Why do you dream of two - Dream interpretation of two faces - Bad too looking at your own photographs in a dream means any doubleness in a dream is dangerous, because at this time the soul is divided. For the same reason, it is not good to look in a mirror in a dream.

Inner world and human emotions

Dreams are also influenced by the emotional state in which a person is. If, due to life circumstances, he fell into a deep depression, then his dreams are usually gloomy.

Two according to Shereminskaya’s dream book

Duality, alternation, difference, conflict, dependence and staticity. This is balance, stability, opposite poles, a reflection of the dual nature of man. Everything that is manifested is already dual and forms pairs of opposites. Two is the first number after one, so it also symbolizes the sinful nature of man. The properties attributed to this number are traditionally associated with femininity: softness, tenderness, modesty, obedience and submission. “2” is the number of passive acceptance and reception in the broadest sense. So, for a businessman, the number 2 is a favorable day for making a profit. A pair of animals, even of different species, but with the same symbolic meaning, such as two lions or a lion and a bull (both sun signs), means double strength.

Two according to the Tarot dream book

The number two symbolizes duality, the combination of opposites - male and female, active and passive, unconscious and subconscious, etc. For example, in combination on cards of two colors - white and black, two towers, two mountains, yin-yang symbols, two flowers. In the Lovers (Lovers) and Devil cards, the image of a couple of people has a particularly pronounced meaning. In the Arcana Star and Temperance Hierophant we see an image of a pair of objects symbolizing the same duality. This idea is present in many cards, which in itself already suggests that each of them has both sides - both light and dark.

What does the same dream mean?

The significance of this phenomenon largely depends on:

who the dreamers are to each other;
whether the dream was coincidental or joint;
what theory of explanation we will rely on.

It is traditionally believed that general dreams about various major events (disasters, revolutions, wars, etc.) are prophetic. Most common dreams in which the dreamers are unfamiliar with each other are interpreted in the same way.

If the dream was coincidental, but it did not talk about serious phenomena, then pay attention to the connections between the dreamers. Close people sometimes have almost identical dreams. You can check the “phenomenality” of the phenomenon - write down your dream separately in all details on a piece of paper (you can even sketch individual pictures and landscapes), and then let another dreamer read it. There is a high probability that only the general narrative arc or the most vivid image of the dream coincided, but you differ on the details. If the dream completely coincides, this may indicate either a mystical connection created between you, or that both of you, being sensitive people, caught the same image.

Sleeping together with a stranger is always a bright and romantic experience. What could be more inspiring than realizing that you met your crush or best friend in a dream before you even met? It is believed that such a dream speaks of your fateful meeting. Some argue that this is how souls who loved each other in a past life make themselves known after reincarnation.

However, you can grumble a little and try to explain this phenomenon without any mysticism. If you and a stranger live in the same city or bump into each other somewhere, then you could very well remember each other’s faces and then see them in a dream. If you met in reality, you would remember only the image from the dream - but not the face from the crowd that flashed once in reality.

Having met the person you saw in your dream, you will probably experience some shock

Two according to the Numerological Dream Book of Pythagoras

The number “2” contains two opposites, which attract and repel at the same time, these are two halves of one whole, the eternal and continuous struggle of black and white. Without the opposition and interaction of two principles, internal harmony is impossible; there is no day without night and no good without evil. This number does not allow a person to calm down, filling him with unconscious desires and doubts, forcing him to look for new paths, ideas and answers to eternal questions, not allowing him to ossify in his beliefs. Self-improvement, depth, contrast and the desire for balance are what is hidden in this number.