A number of years ago, I met a girl in a dream. We had just met traveling, and were going to be on a long leg of the trip together. I don't recall what we were talking about, girl stuff, family and music. We had a good time talking.

We were both in our early teens in the dream. She was Hispanic and had long brown hair and was always smiling. After we traveled a long time together, we got off at our respective stops and said goodbye.

When I awoke, I really felt like I had met another person, a real soul in that dream. I swore I was going to walk down the street any day and see her and wondered if she'd recognize me.

A few years later, I had a dream where I was traveling on a plane on a long trip. As I was looking for my seat, I saw her there. In and out of the dream I recognized her and she me. We were delighted to see one another. She introduced me to her family, whom she was traveling with. We showed each other things we had bought on our travels. We had a really fun trip and her family was great.

When I awoke I can only say I felt as certain as I ever could that I was sharing an experience with someone who was outside of my dream and more than my imagination. I still believe that I could run into her in reality or in the dream anytime, and I swear she might remember me from the dream too.

When I read a book called Mutant Message Down Under, about aborigine tribes in Australia, the use of telepathy within the tribes was discussed at some length. Telepathy was almost more ordinary than speech, and they used it to communicate over long distances, as you or I would use a phone. I think perhaps the lack of cultivation of this amazing ability is not only a detriment, but that it is latent and comes out in other ways. My own experiences, awake and sleeping, point me in the direction of believing that people can connect, and not only in the dreamscape.