Do dreams create reality or does reality create dreams??
Science has shown us that the act of observation has profound effects on the nature of what we previously considered unchangeable.
Is there a greater truth while we are asleep, devoid of the influences of the physical world? Is it possible that the common neural patterns in our brains are linked when we sleep to create tomorrows world that we all agree on?
Are we the same person when we awake that went to sleep?
Have I had too much coffee?
Originally posted by oddbobYou probably have had too much coffee. What makes you think we are not influenced by the physical world when we are asleep? Try this sometime: while you are sleeping arrange for someone to dip your hand in a bowl of warm water and see if the physical world has any influence.
Do dreams create reality or does reality create dreams??
Science has shown us that the act of observation has profound effects on the nature of what we previously considered unchangeable.
Is there a greater truth while we are asleep, devoid of the influences of the physical world? Is it possible that the common neural patterns in our brains are linked wh ...[text shortened]... ree on?
Are we the same person when we awake that went to sleep?
Have I had too much coffee?
Originally posted by oddboblisten to NIN song "Right where it belongs"... sounds like what yer talkn bout..
Do dreams create reality or does reality create dreams??
Science has shown us that the act of observation has profound effects on the nature of what we previously considered unchangeable.
Is there a greater truth while we are asleep, de ...[text shortened]... n when we awake that went to sleep?
Have I had too much coffee?
EDIT: oh.. and Perception creates reality... if you percieve some thing.. then who is any one else to tell you it isnt the way it is... hmm...
OK, Deep breath.
OK. Firstly we have shown that matter exists as a probability
function until measurement is made. Secondly we have also shown
that particles are able affect one another instantaneously over
a distance.
If we look at the brain as a set of electrical patterns bought
about by synaptic activity I think it is safe to say there is
some semblemce of common pattern formation between individuals
brains.
My supposition here is that it may be possible for the patterns
to interact over a distance i.e. peoples thoughts affecting one
another.
Now our dreamtime is a time when the brain engages in processing
of data for want of a better analogy. New links are forged and
reinforced by REM and deep sleep activity. During this time a
great deal of activity takes place, in the same order as our waking lives.
At any given time on the planet there are approximately the same
number of people awake as there are asleep. If we can agree that
dreams are no less 'real' as a subjective experience than 'reality'
then we should also be able to agree that there are two equal parts
of reality taking place.
One confined by cosmic law, the other by imagination.
Now here comes the tricky part. According to the greater anthropic
principle, there are an infinite number of possibilities at any
given point in time but we are only able to experience a linear
route through those possibilities as directed by time.
The theory is do the alternative 'happenings' have influence on our
reality. e.g. you throw a coin 999 times and it lands on heads,
what is the probability of the next throw being tails?
If this is the case, then at which point is the future selected for?
We put this down to divine forces or cosmic law but as we are only
aware of the measurements we make in the universe, it leave a lot
of room for play time or as I like to call it Dreamtime...
I have already milked "Quantum Mind" for all it's worth. I even spent a few hundred dollars and lied like a bugger so I could get onto the university of Arizonas' study group and get at their literature and research.
It can all be summed up as the very real ability to collapse not just a "wave" but "both waves" by observing or measuring it. Even a wave that is across the universe. All waves are dual in nature. Feinman showed that when we break one... we break it entirely in all it's parts.
This base idea is what constitutes "Quantum Mind". The notion that all parts of reality are made very real somehow... when there is absolutely no way of proving that there is "Past" or "future". Yet we "know" they are real. How do we know?
That is the question. A "recording" of the past or "anticipation" of the future are just imaginary and/or undefined abstracts. We know the past is real because we "remember" it. Oh? Really? Prove it. We know the future is real because we are "alive". Oh? Really? Prove it.
Trying to condense thought to a usable and simpler form.
One 'sees' the light from a quasar that exploded 13.5 billion years ago. That bit of information has lived for how long?
The answer is rather surprising. It has no life time. It has existed outside of time. Until you "see" it and break it's wave form. Not figuratively. Really. At the speed of light, there is no "time". See Einstein. So this thing comes from "when/time/then/space" and you break it. You absolutely ruin it. You "See it".
The part of the wave of light that you see is exactly half of the wave. The other part is probably 27 billion light years across the universe that is only able to be 13.5 billion years old. ..... tick tock. You have to really light up the old imagination to envision this. But it is a fact. Remember... time has no meaning? That part?
Until you break the wave of that light. That information is now broken and is measured by you. By the engine that drives "reality" and the universe. By your mind.
So you collapse the bit of light into a feeling of "awe", you fart, scratch your ass, eat another oreo, drink a coke and get on with life. Having done an impossible thing. Instantaneously did you collapse the wave in all it's parts. One can't think about it because that way there be dragons.
You "did" it. Right? It is "history". Right? In what sense is it history? The light came across the universe "outside of time" as did the companion wave that went the other way. You collapsed the whole damned thing in an "instant". But that seems ok. When you think about it, because there has been no "time" involved in this equation... yet. Until you think about it. Then you get all tied up in the 13.5 billion years it "took" for the light to reach you so you could destroy it. Then you think about the other part 27 billion years away you whacked at the same "time".... as if time had meaning.
Aw. Well. That is all in the past. If you just don't think too hard you are still ok. Then you set up in bed with a cold sweat. If this whole thing didn't take "time" or involve it in any way.... then what the hell is the past? It seems more and more to be imaginary. We all dream it as a function of reality, but we can't grasp it without begging the biggest question of all. Mind and "memory".