Shared Lucid Dreams, Telepathy, & Synchronicity

David Jay Brown and Sara Phinn Huntley explore whether reality itself may be dreamlike.

Most of us think of dreams as private experiences—strange, fleeting, and locked inside our own minds. But what if that assumption is wrong?

In this week’s episode of Connecting with Coincidence, Dr. Bernard Beitman sits down with writer and psychonaut David Jay Brown and artist-researcher Sara Phinn Huntley to explore lucid dreaming not just as a personal skill, but as a possible meeting place—one where awareness, meaning, and even other minds may overlap.

When You Wake Up Inside the Dream

Lucid dreaming begins the moment you realize you’re dreaming while the dream is still happening. David describes these states as vivid, immersive environments—places where intention matters and curiosity opens doors. Rather than passively watching a dream unfold, lucid dreamers can engage with it, ask questions, explore, and sometimes encounter what feels like an independent intelligence responding in real time.

Sara approaches lucidity from a different angle, drawing on Tibetan dream yoga traditions. In this view, lucid dreaming isn’t about control or spectacle. It’s a contemplative practice—one that invites insight, emotional release, and a deeper questioning of what we mean by “waking life.” If dreams can feel real, she asks, what does that say about reality itself?

Shared Space, Shared Meaning

As the conversation unfolds, the focus shifts from solo experience to something more surprising. David and Sara discuss reports of shared dream environments, telepathic exchanges, and coincidences that seem to arise through dream states rather than outside them. These accounts blur familiar boundaries between inner and outer worlds and raise a central question of the podcast: where does synchronicity actually happen?

Rather than framing these experiences as proof or belief, the discussion stays grounded in curiosity. What patterns repeat? Why do certain dreams coincide with meaningful events? And how might altered states tune us into information we usually miss?

Beyond Flying Dreams

By the end of the episode, lucid dreaming no longer looks like a novelty or an escape. It becomes a practice of attention—one that may open access to shared meaning, unexpected guidance, and a broader understanding of how consciousness connects across people and moments.

For anyone curious about the overlap between dreams, synchronicity, and the deeper intelligence behind coincidence, this conversation offers a thoughtful place to begin.

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About the guests

David Jay Brown is the author of The Illustrated Field Guide to DMT Entities, Dreaming Wide Awake: Lucid Dreaming, Shamanic Healing and Psychedelics, and The New Science of Psychedelics: At the Nexus of Culture, Consciousness, and Spirituality. He is also coauthor of seven bestselling interview collections with leading-edge thinkers, including Mavericks of the Mind and Frontiers of Psychedelic Consciousness. Trained in psychobiology at New York University, he has conducted research with Rupert Sheldrake and published in Wired, Discover, and Scientific American.

Sara Phinn Huntley is an artist, writer, and researcher whose work spans psychedelics, technology, and philosophy. A dedicated DMT psychonaut and hyperspace cartographer, she develops virtual reality tools for psychedelic exploration and uses chaos mathematics, Islamic geometry, and 3D performance capture to document DMT-revealed states. Her work has been published by MAPS and featured in Diana Reed Slattery’s Xenolinguistics and in David Jay Brown’s The Illustrated Field Guide to DMT Entities.

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