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Originally Posted by malloyd
How would that work?
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As an experiment from the H side (assuming the dreamer dreams by experiencing the sensations of the counterpart):
An H person stumbles upon someone else who had the exact same dream; not just someone from the same tribe from S (that's rare, but not unheard of), but everything the same. Then one of them reaches the conclusion (falsely) that the S person must dream about him too. Eventually people talk about their dreams, so names might get passed back and forth between dreamer and subject until connections are found, and some S people who serve as dream foci could functional announcers: S1 dreams about H1 saying "tell S2 such and such" when S1 talks to S2, anyone experiencing S2 from the H side would know the message. It's not internet speed, but it beats a lot of communication methods.
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Actually I think a lot of the comments on this are assuming something distinctly unlike dreams. Dreaming about someone does not mean you are seeing their entire life, or reading their mind, and certainly does not mean you are uploading their memories or controlling their actions!
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If it's just dreaming about someone in that the character appears in scenarios your mind creates, then it's not particularly spectacular, and utilmately pointless. In fact, it's virtually impossible to discover that such a connection exists even by world jumpers. The only clue would be names and cultural cross pollination over time.