Other People's Dreams

Not every dream is our own. Dream Hackers have noticed that people often have dreams that are unrelated to their lives. For instance, a person who has never been to the sea deftly carves waves on a surfboard. A resident of the North hunts an elephant in their sleep, and a guy from the Baltics dreams of a dust storm in the desert. Sometimes men enter women's dreams, and women enter men's. Sometimes we dream animal dreams. This phenomenon is completely unstudied. Such dreams are characterized by interesting and captivating plots. Focusing attention on the details of the dream prevents a person from realizing they are seeing another's dream.

"A strange house. I was there for the first time. Suddenly everything trembled. The walls shook, plaster fell from the ceiling. Outside, a monstrous rumble was heard. I opened the window and saw a huge tank a few meters away. Its turret began to turn towards me. I ran into the bedroom where my two-year-old sister was sleeping. Then there was an explosion. The walls collapsed. My leg was pinned, and I woke up from a terrible pain."

This is the dream of ten-year-old Viktor, an orphan from a children's home. He knows his mother abandoned him immediately after birth. Psychologists would say that the boy's dream clearly expresses his longing for a family, and the dramatic content is explained by the psychological trauma of an abandoned child. But this dream was not dreamt only by Viktor. During that period, war raged in the Balkans, and many people woke up in a cold sweat from nightmares involving tanks and shot children.

Whose dreams are these? Who can transmit them over long distances? People? The collective unconscious? Or our planet?

While preparing material for this chapter, I found an interesting excerpt from Milorad Pavić's "Dictionary of the Khazars":

"In cases where two people see each other in a dream and when one person's dream creates the reality of the other, always, from both sides, a little of the dream seeps out. From this excess, "dream children" are formed. In other words, the duration of the dream is shorter than the reality of what is dreamt. A dream is always incomparably deeper than any reality, and therefore, in any case, a little waste, "material remnants," inevitably remains, which does not enter the reality of what was dreamt, but overflows and attaches itself to the reality of some third person, who consequently encounters great troubles and surprises. This third person, as a rule, finds themselves in a more difficult position than the first two. Their free will is twice as limited by the subconscious as that of the other two, because the excess energy and material that flows in their dreams alternately pours into the spiritual life of the third, and because of this, they become a kind of dual being, orienting themselves now to one, now to the other sleeper."

Can the dreams of some people truly influence the reality of others? Then consider, who are you? A dreamer who shapes another person's real world? Or a stalker who brings someone else's dreams to life? What happens when "dream children" gather opposing pairs around themselves, and groups of four or more people become teams? For example, the parties of Castaneda or Don Juan? What possibilities does this hypothetical interrelationship between dreams and reality open up?