Sometimes I have dreams when I run into familiar people I know from the physical world, such as family members and friends. Yet when I ask them how their dreams were they were completely different. Am I just making their images up in my mind?

-Bethany

they could be encounters...if you can trace back your thought about the person, whether you desired contact within the last few weeks or had thought about them. sometimes people visit each other within dream state, just like sometimes we pick up the phone and we know who it is already. we can share the same dreams, but interpret them in our own way. most the time the other person will not remember, but that doesn't mean they were not there. it just means we are all at different stages of development and retention of memory of dream states. if you are making up fantasies while dreaming (popular way of thinking) there is a reason for this also, as we try to give ourselves messages about the subconscious mind this way...if theres a dream or thought in your head, it's always connected to something else if you chase it down. I usually write down everything and returning later I find out why I had a dream, or why I met these people. there's always an interesting message in dreams for us personally. a lot of times, others are parts of our own self as mairlyn said, or the similarities we have in common with others. dreams are like doing a jig saw puzzle, when all the pieces fit, you get a feeling of amusement and satisfaction and you get better at it! other times you could be obe state and think you are only dreaming. love, alysia