I have a few theories about this clandestine extra dimensional dream world of yours, but first I should tell you that I have had a dream about elevators in a hotel and I am an asian, althought I had the dream when I was a child. I had several dreams about these magical elevators and I remember very vivid strong sharp images from those dreams. I don’t fully comprehend the significance of these elevator dreams, and I haven’t quite mastered lucid dreaming yet. I sort of have insomnia and I fall asleep at inappropriate times during the day.
Anywho, these are my theories:
According the metaphysics and the rationality talked about in nihilism, everything isn’t real. In other words, there is no material substance to anything we have always believed to be reality. If anything is “real” the only thing that would be is the consciousness and this entire illusory universe is indeed confined within our minds the same way dreams are. However, in the “real” world, everything that ever happens to us is governed my our subconscious (what i believe to be the definition of God) and are forever dictated by this chunk of hard wiring. Getting along, in a dream, or rather a lucid dream, the dream world we experience is governed by consciously memorized expectations, fears, social taboos, and general human rationality.
Touching back on the “real” world, if you understand these metaphysical fundamental truths then you must also know that everyone you know only exists in your head in the first place, although it doesn’t change anything or make them any less “real” or unbound by the limitations your subconscious applies to them, there are an infinite number of viewpoints that exists in this mentally projected universe.
With these points established I can say that lucid dream conferencing or shared lucid dreams are very much a possibility even though it can never be proven by physical science and probably be proven impossible by normal physical science, but in the end metaphysics assures me that shared lucid dreams is possible.
My theory of the permanent dream world is that since humans first began lucid dreaming (the matter of time where or when the first lucid dream was had is regardless since time isn‘t real either), they managed to network their sleep patterns around the globe to sustain a single shared dream realm for a long time. As members to this realm grew the network may have achieved a primitive omniscient consciousness of its own (pure speculation) and provides grounds of protection against arbitrary abuse like controlling what you would think are dream characters but are actually other people sharing the lucid dream within a massive community of what could be hundreds of thousands of people. In any case, even if you did apply physical expectations on other dreamers, the portion of your conscious that is not completely lucid (as it is my belief that 100 percent lucidity is impossible) creates a copy of that person as a dream character that you can control.
What may be the most fun to think about is that since the creation of the physical universe there may be corporeal sentient beings in this universe or others that also go into states of consciousness that are apart from reality like dreaming but not necessarily sleeping. It is my personal belief that all computational neural aggregates have to “soft boot” or dream out of necessity for it to function or attempt to function at 100 percent efficiency. These other dreamers in the universe may also have founded dream empires consisting of trillions of trillions of other consciousness’ popping in and out of the past or future. Of course this is all just more romantic speculation. Never the less, if I may make a suggestion to any cooperating conferencing lucid dream buddies, next time you have a lucid dream try to attempt to find this extra permanent dream crossroads of the universe and post about whatever findings you discover.
If you want to hear me dribble on more about my singular and delusional perspectives on the subject you can message me on my AIM screen name: deimossaturn.
I am not an advanced lucid dreamer and since I began practicing I’ve only had three Lds and a handful of borderlines.