Can you enter another person’s dreams?

Can you enter another person’s dreams?

When we talk about “entering another person’s dreams” we immerse ourselves in the mysterious terrain of shared dreams; That is, dreams in which two or more people experience the same dream situations and scenarios, something similar to what happens in the movies Inception and The Matrix.

Given the complexity of the brain, such a degree of synchronization between two individuals seems almost impossible; However, in that almost lies an enormous range of possibilities.

Many people have had dreams so similar that it is logical to consider the objective possibility that shared dreams really exist. However, in most cases these shared dreams occur between emotionally and physically close individuals, especially at the time of sleep or in the hours before.

The main reason why two people dream the same thing has to do, when not, with our brain.

If there is something that our brain does not like at all, it is waking up during the critical phases of deep sleep. Because? Simply because new connections are established there and memories are affirmed, an issue that is evolutionarily of great importance. We can think of it as an operating system that cannot be shut down while downloading updates.

The problem is that the brain can move towards consciousness even during critical phases of sleep. To reduce the rate of deep sleep breaks, the brain usually integrates the environmental sounds that surround us while we sleep. For example, a car alarm that rings in the street while we sleep is assimilated by the brain and integrated into its dream fauna and flora, perhaps like the howl of a dog or a loud musical rhythm.

If two people sleeping hear the same sounds, they are likely to integrate them in the same way. The probability rate increases if there is a high degree of intellectual affinity between the two people, with which they would respond in similar ways to the same stimuli.

This scientific explanation eradicates the possibility of us entering someone else’s dreams. It proposes, instead, that two brains can, under certain conditions, dream of very similar scenarios.

Needless to say, everyday incidents also have a tremendous impact on sleep. If two people experience the same things during the day, it is also possible that they share the same dream.

There are, of course, other possibilities that support the plausibility of entering another person’s dreams. There are even theories about how to hack someone else’s dreams.

Let’s discard dreams on the astral plane for a moment, since they would require a leap of faith from us. Dreams, after all, even simulated dreams, occur only inside our brains. Admitting the possibility that it is possible to enter the dreams of others requires the existence of a vehicle, a communication cable, a link between two brains that work individually…

…unless our brain is not completely our own.

Two people can dream exactly the same thing because all the brains of humanity share the same atavistic patterns, that is, the archetypes that the Swiss psychologist Carl Gustav Jung talked about.

What are archetypes?

Basically indelible traces, marks in our deepest consciousness. We are not talking here about instincts, which can in fact survive in muscle memory, but about something completely different, wonderful and disturbing.

Archetypal images are, ultimately, the universal themes that have been worrying the human brain since it began to develop its ability to reason, that is, to question itself about how reality works.

Archetypal images are everywhere: myths, religions, legends, novels; and we all respond in a more or less equal way to them. They constitute, in short, the illustrations of the great book of humanity, called the collective unconscious.

When we dream, our brain creates and constructs images based on our experiences, but it also selects patterns from the collective unconscious. In fact, it is impossible to dream without using at least one of the four main archetypes: soul, shadow, person, self.

That is why the characters that appear in our dreams, even when they are inspired by real people, never behave in the same way as in reality; and they may even seem strange and disturbing.

Let’s think about ancestral archetypes like mother, father, old man, hero, god, death. All of them constantly appear in our dreams but rarely rationalized, that is, tinted with our logical capacity, but rather naked, wild.

Every time you dream about your mother you are also dreaming about your archetypal mother. To always remember it.

Taking into account that we all have the same illustrated book of archetypal images, it is reasonable to assume that two people with similar intellectual levels, as well as affinity at other levels of consciousness, are able to look at the same page at the same time.

This, of course, is not the same as entering another person’s dreams, but something much greater: sharing our dreams with all human beings who live or lived on the face of the planet.

Such a statement inexorably leads us to reformulate our original question: can we enter someone else’s dreams? In any case, we should ask ourselves if it is possible to escape even for one night from the dreams of humanity.

Dream Dictionary. I The dark side of psychology.

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