PSI Factor - or- Dream Telepathy
Dreamer: Jean, 34, American
Has anyone ever heard of 2 people having the same dream on the same night? A long time ago I had a scary dream in the dream I wanted my best friend or my boyfriend to find me. The next morning we all talked and they both dreamt of searching for me. Anyway I have had the same dreams as my sister in childhood and every so often I dream the same dream as another person who is close to me. I have also had many, many dreams come true. Are these kinds of dreams common?
Mr. Hagen's Reply: PSI Factor - or - Dream Telepathy
Phenomena such as intuition, Extrasensory Perception (ESP), telepathy, remote viewing and pre-cognition all point to something called psi. Psi is the 23rd letter of the Greek alphabet and has reportedly been designated by British parapsychologists to label psychic experiences.
There are I believe such things as telepathic dreams, although no one quite knows how they work. Freud believed that a scientific explanation for telepathic dreams would be found in the future. Most larger libraries have material on this phenomenon. For example, see Montague Ullman and Stanley Krippner's "Dream telepathy: Experiments in Nocturnal ESP".
Another way of looking at this type of experience is called "lucid dreaming"; although it is qualitatively different from telepathic dreams, I believe they share close psychological connections to one another. Stephen LaBerge is an expert on lucid dreams and has a web-site on the net, otherwise there are lots of sites on the net that discuss lucid dreams. Another person who was interested in such phenomena of course was the psychologist Carl Gustav Jung.
Usually telepathic dreams are generated by a strong emotional bond between people, although other motives can exist.
Some further literature that might be of interest:
- Dale E. Graff, "River Dreams: The Case of the Missing General and other Adventures in Psychic Research"
- Robert Moss, "Dreamgates"
- Charles Tart, "Body Mind Spirit: Exploring the Parapsychology of Spirituality"
- Pamela Ball, "Lucid Dreaming: And the Art of Dreaming Creatively"
- Fred Allan Wolf, "The Dreaming Universe"
- Patricia Garfield, "Creative Dreaming"
- J.W. Dunne "Experiments in Time"
Hope these thoughts are of help and provide some insight,
Mark H.