Is it possible for people to meet in their dreams? If they do, is it less real than a physical meeting? If you cheat on a partner in a dream driven by your soul, is it still cheating? Does the fact that the soul would be driven by the power of the subconscious and therefore without deliberation and discussion mean that this experience is actually truer than the physical?
Studies have shown that there are instances of estranged partners having the same dream in the same night – usually a dream when they are able to be together. There are also cases of fathers and sons who are forced apart to regularly share a common dream.
If we’re to believe in a soul (let us not forget that it is ‘proven’ that we lose 21g in weight upon our death and it is suggested that the weight is in fact the soul leaving the body) is it therefore possible that the soul can travel independently during unconsciousness and meet with another?
Freud suggested that bad dreams are tools that enable us to learn how to control distressing emotions and Jung suggested that dreams might balance the mind, perhaps compensating for warped, bias attitudes held during consciousness. But no one actually knows.
I find it fascinating to think that, with such a vast understanding of the human body and its minutiae, there is still no definite explanation for why we dream.
Weirdly, I dreamt about all this last night and now wonder whether anyone dreamt the same…perhaps it was Dr. Duncan MacDougall visiting me to pass on his wisdom.
