The Same Dream — The Same Night

  A few nights ago i was able to sit down with two people who shared the same dream the same night.  This was the first shared dream experience I had the privilege of taking a look at from the inside out, and I gotta tell ya, it was flat out amazing.

  Walk into their dream experience with me…

  The first dreamer:  Three of us were in a jeep driving somewhere in the desert.  I’m in the front passenger’s seat, Chris is driving and Tara is in the back seat.  Tara was really out of it, like she was in a robotic state.  She had this tube coming out of her head like in the movie Dune.  There was this orange liquid going through the tube into her head.  She was more robotic than human.

  I had a key to another world.  It wasn’t the kind of key you put on a chain and carry around with you, but a key I possessed without knowing that I possessed it.

  After we drove for a while we were suddenly at this big white dome.  I was standing next to it with my hands flat against the side as if feeling for a way in that I knew was there.Suddenly an opening appeared and we all were inside.  Chris went inside after me and before I knew it, he stabbed me in the back and I died.

  The second dreamer:  The whole first part of my dream was blurry and full of static.  Then I remember being in a cabin by myself.  There was a fire going in the fire place and windows to let in light.  The next thing I know I’m dragging Johnathon’s body away from the cabin and I know that I need to bury it.

  Then there’s a road.  To my right i can see the road disappear in the far distance.  Over to my left I see a dirt storm that blurs everything out.  I know that I need to bury the body on the edge of the dirt storm.

  I wake up.

  What really fascinates me about this dream is the first dreamer is given a key to another world.  I was expecting there to be this fantastic hidden world inside the white dome, but the dreamer found no such world.  In fact, this hidden world is never revealed to the dreamer in the dream.  All that really happens after the first dreamer uses a key to get into the closed dome is his death.  And herein lies the key.

  The hidden world awaits on the other side of the first dreamer’s death.  To understand what this death means, we have to take a look at how he dies.  He’s stabbed in the back by this fellow named Chris.  Chris is the one who drives both dreamers across the desert, in other words, a place that is desolate and has no life.  The first dreamer was stabbed in the back, which tells of a betrayal.  A betrayal that leads to another world.

  Two things are happening here.  The first is that even a betrayal that leads to death works in the dreamer’s favor.  It works in the first dreamer’s favor because his own death is a way into another world.  It works in the second dreamer’s favor because the first dreamer’s death allows the second dreamer to come out of her robotic state and get free from all that orange stuff going into her head.  In other words, she is brought back to life.

  All this is metaphorical picture language for life being birthed out of death.

  The second dreamer’s experience then gets shifted to a cabin with windows that had a fire going.  She then finds herself outside the cabin compelled to drag the first dreamer’s body to the edge of what looks like a sand storm to bury it.  This says that the second dreamer sees that the first dreamer’s death as significant, although she may not be able to put her finger on why it’s significant.  It also symbolizes her burying her old life in the past.  How?  Well, remember at the first part of her dream where everything was blurry and full of static?  There were things happening around her, riding in a jeep through the desert, stopping at a white dome, following the first dreamer into the dome etc. but she wasn’t able interact because of the robotic state she was in.  It’s kind of like being surrounded by a sand storm and not being able to see what’s happening around you.  The clear road to the right symbolizes the dreamer’s clear future.

  This is only the most basic level of this shared dream.  There are many other levels I was able to share with the dreamers.  The dream as a whole was telling the dreamers there is hope in their current ‘desert’ situations, and that the key to a hidden world, greater than they ever dreamed of, is in dying.

   I would love to hear about any shared dream experiences you’ve had.  Share in the comments.

  EB

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