What does it mean when two people have an identical dream the same night?

Question

What does it mean when two people have an identical dream the same night?

Answer 1

At the time they are having similar feelings, concerns, aspirations etc. and have been exposed to similar environments (like a film) either recently or in their lifetime (e.g. could easily be the case with siblings)

Answer 2

It does not necessarily mean anything other than coincidence.

Answer 3

Well it could mean you were both transported to imagination land and lived the experience together (just kidding but that was a hilarious recent South Park episode).

OK, if you and another person (for instance a friend) have similar interest and ideas and you saw the same TV show/movie/etc. or had a conversation about the subject matter of the dream then it is not unlikely that you would both have a dream that included some of the same themes/people/ideas and such. I would carefully examine the differences. This can be done by both of you writing down your dream before discussing it with the other and then comparing notes. (for future reference)

However, I do not dismiss the possibility of telepathy or extra sensory perception. There have been dream studies where one person would focus on a picture and try to get the sleeping person to dream about that. They had some positive results and were the starting point for much better experiments. So, you might try this with the other person and see if you have this ability (or link) with the other person.

It could also be random chance but calculating odds for or against something like randomly occurring dreams is almost impossible.

Answer 4

its called confirmation bias.

The dreams are not identical, only similar. However, you are picking out the parts that are close, and ignoring the differences, so it seems identical.

The other aspect at play here is that you are changing and justifying your dream as you are comparing stories with the other person.

Again, the dreams are similar, and you want to believe they are completely identical so you are justifying them to make them identical.

Answer 5

Maybe those two people saw the same scary movie on TV the previous night, and both dreamed about it.

Answer 6

I seriously doubt the likelihood of two people having the same exact dream the same night.  I do believe it's possible for two people who have shared similar experiences to have apparently similar dreams the same night.  I do not know what this is called, or if it's called anything at all.

Answer 7

whatever the dream was about should tell you what it means. meditate on it.

Answer 8

These are called synchronous dreams....this happened to me in Junior High. My friend Janet and I wanted to try to meet each other in a dream. One night I dreamt she and I were having a picnic at a waterfall on a stone wall, and we said to each other: "Hey! We did it!". The next day at school,  before I even talked to her, she told me she had a dream the night before that we were having a picnic on a stone wall by a waterfall. This was almost 40 years ago and I can still remember it like it was yesterday (and it still gives me goosebumps). if you can do this you probably have out of body experiences, too.

Answer 9

If two people can say exactly  the same thing at exactly the same time when awake (and this DEFINITELY happens)...then I don't see much difference in saying the same words and dreaming the same dream. Is that what they call "serendipity"??(that might not be the right word)(When I was involved with a "Charismatic" group...there was a woman trying to help me speak in tongues (which I never could)..but when she did it..I said exactly the same sounds that she did at exactly the same time.(I know pd won't believe this). Also, I've said the same exact (English) words as another person at the same time. It's always funny. We always laughed afterwards.. But as far as I know  I've never dreamed the same dream...and I hope I never do.

Answer 10

coincidence. there are only so many dream subjects

Answer 11

Perhaps the person who said they had the same dream really likes you and wanted something in common to get your attention....

:)