Shared Dreaming
Shared dreaming (also known as mutual dreaming) is linking one's dream experience with another dreamer. The concept was popularized in the 2010 movie Inception, where lucid dreamers could all roam around the subconscious of a single dreamer. When the experience is shared between more than two people, it is known as mass dreaming. Just like with lucid dreaming, shared dreaming is said to occur spontaneously or alternatively, it can be induced deliberately. Many people have claimed to have experienced this phenomenon, although it is still questionable whether such a thing is possible.
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