I’m resuming my work with One-One. Due to my busy work schedule and rigidity of life style, progress is going to be slow. The goal is to re confirm shared dreaming as a possibility with more data and attempt to instruct someone through dreams.
Foreword: Before we get started in this one, it should be noted that this one was only tried because of the absolute curiosity I had in the distance this could be attempted at. Due to the (so far!) lack of results and the number of variables I’ve been trying to cut out, this likely should not even have been attempted.
Subject One-One currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia. However, prior to living there she had lived nearby and we had become quite close, spending a lot of time together. I figured, from Wilson’s description, that this would be a good candidate for Shared Dreaming. LaBerge’s studies into the mind also show that the human mind can communicate at extraordinary distances, so I figured, why not try.
Subject One-One was left mostly in the dark, as an attempt of somewhat keeping a clean slate during the test and trying to do away with any false positives. She was instructed to alert me prior to going to bed and versed in what to do when she woke up in order to remember her dreams best. Suspicious, but clueless, she agreed and went to sleep around 1:30.
My first attempt to enter a dream state was interrupted by some.. variables.. at my place of residence. That attempt had been to Wake Initiated go into the dream. This way I would be completely aware of dreaming and (hopefully) remember the goals I had set before going to sleep. Again, this attempt was botched so I waited half an hour and went to sleep, figuring I could just do it via DILD.
(At this point I dreamed, recording it as Recorded Dream One.)
Now, although I was not lucid for this dream, I did have interaction with Subject One-One as I had wanted. This is reminiscent of my interactions with Subject Zero-Two in my previous experiment, although I had no set environs for me and One-One’s engagement.
This is where it get’s interesting. Subject One-One reported having dreamed about being torn between two men, and the resolution being that someone asked her if she could imagine waking up next to them everyday. Two men were accompanying her when she walked through the door in RD One. If this were not strange enough, she reports having spent most of her time in downtown Atlanta during her dilemma of the two men, which coincides with what she said to me in MY dream. However, One-One suggests that after walking around downtown her dreams became blurry for a short time in which she can remember neither faces nor spaces.
As to the legitimacy of the “blurriness”, I have no way of knowing, however, in my dream I had quickly lost interest in her and went about on my own adventure, which could have caused her to snap back to her dream. During which she reports more which is inconsequential to the experiment.
My conclusion is that this experiment was a success, and that the blurriness, if she did experience it, was from her transitioning into another dream and it not quite being under her control. I make the assumption that more time in my dream would have led to clearer results.
In order to make the results more clear, I am going to attempt this again, using the WILD method at a time when a short burst of REM is available so that she is not so clouded by other dreams. Also, there will be significantly more environmental control on my end of the experiment.
This is a note about my dreams during Trial Three, for the actual experiment notes and conclusions, look under Dream Sharing: Trial Three.
I arrived at my apartment, having driven from an unknown point there. The apartment is very similar, but in some ways the slightest bit different. I’m sure only my old room mate or I could tell the difference in this place or my real apartment. It’s decorations were slightly brighter, and the lighting was quite a bit darker. The wall where people sign their names and such was illuminated by Christmas lights, and there was an actual twin sized bed in the dining area.
I spent a majority of the time in my dream with a girl I do not recognize to date, who was quite bitchy to others but seemingly very into me. We’ll refer to her as Jane Doe from here on out.
Jane Doe and I, having the place to ourselves, do what two people attracted to each other would naturally do in that situation (please, don’t make me go into it). After action, and a lot of teasing, there’s a knock at my door. I open it to reveal two men I’ve never met, a friend of mine (referred to here on out as Harold), Subject One-One and an apparently close friend of Jane Doe’s.
After making sure my guests were comfortable and offering them food, I asked One-One what they had been up to for the day. She gladly informed me that they had spend the day downtown, walking around. I assumed she meant downtown Detroit and for some reason, the boardwalk there.
Admittedly losing interest in the subject (waking goals are hard to maintain), I went into the other room and indulged myself in Jane Doe once more, and was awoken by my friend not after long.
After Notes: Although I had originally been attempting to dream lucidly, it seems as if my dreams have found another clever way of making me not realize I am asleep. By boosting my libido and putting a release already within my disposal, it seemed as if all was well and good. Not to mention that I was already in a place I was very familiar and comfortable.
FOREWORD: Another impromptu experiment. Subject Zero-Two came into the room I was in, trying to sleep and said he’d like to try and dream together. I asked if he understood how difficult it was and how little the chances of success were, and he still goaded for a chance.
The environment for this experiment was different from the last. Both the subject and I were laying on beds in the same room, nearly three feet apart. The room was empty of outside stimuli and there was a digital readout on the ceiling to provide easy reality checking in a high lucidity event.
Both Subject Zero-Two (a passive dreamer) and I were retiring to bed at this point, making the method I attempted Dream Induced Lucid Dreaming. The Subject, however, was just sleeping. I laid awake for a few moments to try and allow him to fall asleep first (as described in Trial One) but was unconscious in (what seemed like) no time.
Now, I experienced dreaming in the exact scenario that I had laid out in my head for us, it was not lucid. We followed the course of action previously described and Subject Zero-Two did not seem to have “Sleeper’s Grog”, as described by Ian Wilson. Although this sounds successful, the Subject does not remember the experience. So the entire experiment is naught. In the future, subjects are going to be required to learn the methods of remembering dreams prior to beginning an experiment.
Foreword: This trial was not properly prepared for, and is merely a precursor.
Subject Zero-One and I both rested in a reclined lounging position. From there, we were both played the same music via headphones on a computer next to us. Subject Zero-One, being a passive sleeper, was instructed to begin rested approximately five minutes prior to me. I then began attempting to enter a Wake Initiated Lucid Dream, which I am admittedly not an expert at. The belief there being that if the subject was asleep before me, an active sleeper, I could use methods described by LaBerge to allow him into my dream state. Now, the subject would only be along for the ride, the principal idea behind shared dreaming, as described by Ian Wilson, is to allow the dream to form itself. However, this principal was based on the idea that both dreamers are consciously engaging each other in a state of active sleep. Subject Zero-One, being a passive dreamer, would not be able to disrupt the dream, having no lucid control over it. The measure of success, aside from my own knowledge, would be gathered by time stamped notes written upon waking from both parties.
This Trial was not successful. I failed, for several reasons, to lapse into WILD quickly enough to enter a dream state while Subject Zero-One was in REM. The resolve for this issue is going to be an attempt at DILD while a new subject, one also new to the idea of active sleep and I are both sedated.
POSTEDIT: Subject Zero-One has admitted now that he had knowingly ingested/inhaled marijuana prior to this experiment. Tetrahydrocannabinol, being a natural dream suppressant, could have affected this. However, since I was unable to enter into WILD, it is unknown what affect this had on the experiment. A control group should be maintained of this variable in the future.
