Similarities In Our Dreams Options

Okay. My girlfriend and I both live with each other and sleep in the same room together. Quite recently we've taken up to recording our dreams and any strange things that we both might experience when falling asleep or slowly waking up. The very first night we implemented this recording system, something odd had occurred. We both had relatively long dreams which isn't very normal to us, that seemed to coincide with each other on a big scale, sharing certain aspects and ideas. This has happened to us in the past at least two times that we know of.

We've pretty much ruled out any normal circumstances that would make this occurrence make more sense to us so we're kinda left just wondering.

There were certain discrepancies between our dreams, however the plot and scenario took an almost identical pattern.

Instead of looking for a meaning of the dreams themselves, I was looking for more of an explanation as to how or why something like this occurs. Before this occurrence, I had never heard of people sharing the same dream on the same night in such detail, so I can't really begin to fathom where to start in explaining this to myself.

Anyone know anything about this?

Similarities (maybe saying the same thing at the same time... doing the same hand gesture, etc) happens quite a bit with couples (or in fact anyone) who spends a lot of time together in real life. This is called complicitae, ie: knowing what someone else is going to be doing... without actually knowing if you know what I mean.

Maybe, like the above post stated, you share this complicitae with your partner even in the dream world. You are especially lucky if your partner is as open to ideas of dream symbology as you are. Do try exploring. If your dreams get more lucid and so do your partners, try meeting each other in dreams.

However I also agree with the caution: If it's not serious... I would seriously reconsider! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/prop.gif)