Are we experiencing quantum travel in our dreams?
Sometimes I wonder when I dream and it feels as if I am physically in another place if that dream is a manifestation of my subconscious mind or if I am experiencing a consciousness in a parallel universe or within another dimension of our own universe. Recently, astronomers found a smaller version of our own solar system 5,000 light-years across the galaxy; this is the first planetary system that really looks like our own, with outer giant planets and room for smaller inner planets. Of course, it is beyond our reach physically, but what about our capacity to subconsciously travel through the theoretical web of energy in quantum physics. These energy formulations present travel that exponentially exceeds the speed of light. Therefore, I would hypothesize that the subconscious mind in the dream state possibly enters the zero-point field, traveling to another part of our universe, solar system, or the next solar system. Possibly, my dream could be taking place on the other side of the planet or the other side of the universe.
I find some degree of correlation with dreams and the concept of time travel; which according to wikipedia, is defined as the concept of moving between different moments in time in a manner analogous to moving between different points in space, either sending objects (or in some cases just information) backwards in time to a moment before the present, or sending objects forward from the present to the future without the need to experience the intervening period (at least not at the normal rate). Some interpretations of time travel also suggest that an attempt to travel backwards in time might take one to a parallel universe to diverge from the traveler's original history after the moment the traveler arrived in the past. Although time travel has been a common plot device in fiction since the 19th century, and one-way travel into the future is arguably possible given the phenomenon of time dilation based on velocity in the theory of special relativity (exemplified by the twin paradox), as well as gravitational time dilation in the theory of general relativity, it is currently unknown whether the laws of physics would allow backwards time travel. Any technological device, whether fictional or theoretical, that is used to achieve two-way time travel is known as a time machine.
I do enjoy the Time Machine movies past and present and see some validity in the concept. If you look in your yard, you may see nothing at the time but possibly there is something there, nevertheless you can't see it because it exists in that exact place, but only in a different time. Something like the twin towers if you were standing at ground zero and could turn back time you would see them because they are there in that time.
Lynn McTaggart's book The Field, connects our physical world with that of the cosmos. This correlation is considered to be the basis for spiritual healing and other earth space phenomena. This in essence presents a direct connection of the scientific world with that of the spiritual world. Considering that dreams are of significant relevance in biblical scripture, I would not dismiss these theoretical explorations as whimsical notions. Old and New Testament scripture clearly indicate the importance of dream acknowledgment.
Walter Brueggermann, professor emeritus of Old Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia writes:
The ancient world and the biblical tradition knew about dreams. The ancients understood that the unbidden communication in the night opens sleepers to a world different from the one they manage during the day. The ancients dared to imagine, moreover, that this unbidden communication is one venue in which the holy purposes of God, perplexing and unreasonable as they might be, come to us. They knew too that this communication is not obvious. It requires interpretation.
Freud, of course, did not link dreams to the holy, which he regarded as an illusion. He worked to put dream interpretation on a scientific footing, transposing the religious dimension of dreams into a psychological reality. Dreams were taken to be disclosure of the denied part of the self particularly the self’s repressed desires. Though he transposed dreams from religious to psychological realities, Freud nonetheless utilized a rabbinic-midrashic interpretive method, which involved a patient probing of multi-layered meanings and the inscrutable, enigmatic dimensions of life. Dreams, like ancient texts, require imaginative interpretation in order for us to receive what they disclose.
Personally I stand ambivalent in this area of the scientific or spiritual approach to dreaming. I know that I have experienced powerful dreams, some of which seem as though I am physically somewhere else, while others appear as I'm without physical form but merely a detached consciousness beyond the actual location of my physical being. What remains as the most difficult task is not only the interpretation of dreams but what to do with the knowledge attained in the dream state.
Perhaps theories of time travel are validated within the realm of dream states through cosmic dimensions.
There was a movie released in 1984 titled Dreamscape in which people endowed with psychic abilities were used, in a dream lab study, to enter into the dream of another person thereby helping to dissolve reoccurring nightmares. Upon entering the dream the psychic could physically move about with the patient in the patients dream with the objective of confronting the cause of the nightmare. Of course there are the devious characters who in the plot try to utilize the psychics for their own agenda. But aside from that I found the concept very interesting as it presents the aspect of a control mechanism pertaining to the dream state. Imagine that you could fall asleep and direct yourself to the Olympic games for a few hours and then upon waking up remembering it all as a dream. This would be the ultimate achievement of dream study.
If I have a dream that I am smoking a cigarette, I may be in a state of consciousness without a physical form or more or less tuning into the conscious physical form of another person who is smoking a cigarette. Unless I can identify my physical form within a dream, and establish that it is actually me, then it can possibly be determined that the experience is that of someone else. Let's say someone is standing on a beach smoking, that person's mental energy becomes part of the universal cosmic energy field. I fall asleep and my subconscious becomes temporarily attuned to that person thereby appearing as if I were smoking when in fact I awake to find I have not. If I can ascertain the lucidity of the dream and see myself, let's say in a mirror, smoking the cigarette then I would have to give some thought to this theory of dream travel with the added element of time. This may explain why some people dream of things yet to occur in premonitory/precognitive dreams.
Amiel, the philosopher, writes: "In dreams, our individuality isn't closed; the whole environment is, so to speak, wrapped in it; it is the scenery and all its contents, including us. The individual who is dreaming is being dissolved into the universal fantasy of maya*..." (Amiel, Journal Intime, 1 12 1892)
*Maya, in Indian religions, has multiple meanings. Maya, is the principal deity who creates, perpetuates and governs the phantasmagoria, illusion and dream of duality in the phenomenal Universe. For some mystics this manifestation is real, but it is a fleeting reality; it is a mistake, although a natural one, to believe that Maya represents a fundamental reality or Truth. Each person, each physical object, from the perspective of eternity is like a brief, disturbed drop of water from an unbounded ocean. The goal of enlightenment is to understand this — more precisely, to experience this: to see intuitively that the distinction between the self and the Universe is a false dichotomy. The distinction between consciousness and physical matter, between mind and body, is the result of an unenlightened perspective.
So what do you think? Can quantum time travel be validated in the dream realm through cosmic dimension?
~Moshee
I find some degree of correlation with dreams and the concept of time travel; which according to wikipedia, is defined as the concept of moving between different moments in time in a manner analogous to moving between different points in space, either sending objects (or in some cases just information) backwards in time to a moment before the present, or sending objects forward from the present to the future without the need to experience the intervening period (at least not at the normal rate). Some interpretations of time travel also suggest that an attempt to travel backwards in time might take one to a parallel universe to diverge from the traveler's original history after the moment the traveler arrived in the past. Although time travel has been a common plot device in fiction since the 19th century, and one-way travel into the future is arguably possible given the phenomenon of time dilation based on velocity in the theory of special relativity (exemplified by the twin paradox), as well as gravitational time dilation in the theory of general relativity, it is currently unknown whether the laws of physics would allow backwards time travel. Any technological device, whether fictional or theoretical, that is used to achieve two-way time travel is known as a time machine.
I do enjoy the Time Machine movies past and present and see some validity in the concept. If you look in your yard, you may see nothing at the time but possibly there is something there, nevertheless you can't see it because it exists in that exact place, but only in a different time. Something like the twin towers if you were standing at ground zero and could turn back time you would see them because they are there in that time.
Lynn McTaggart's book The Field, connects our physical world with that of the cosmos. This correlation is considered to be the basis for spiritual healing and other earth space phenomena. This in essence presents a direct connection of the scientific world with that of the spiritual world. Considering that dreams are of significant relevance in biblical scripture, I would not dismiss these theoretical explorations as whimsical notions. Old and New Testament scripture clearly indicate the importance of dream acknowledgment.
Walter Brueggermann, professor emeritus of Old Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia writes:
The ancient world and the biblical tradition knew about dreams. The ancients understood that the unbidden communication in the night opens sleepers to a world different from the one they manage during the day. The ancients dared to imagine, moreover, that this unbidden communication is one venue in which the holy purposes of God, perplexing and unreasonable as they might be, come to us. They knew too that this communication is not obvious. It requires interpretation.
Freud, of course, did not link dreams to the holy, which he regarded as an illusion. He worked to put dream interpretation on a scientific footing, transposing the religious dimension of dreams into a psychological reality. Dreams were taken to be disclosure of the denied part of the self particularly the self’s repressed desires. Though he transposed dreams from religious to psychological realities, Freud nonetheless utilized a rabbinic-midrashic interpretive method, which involved a patient probing of multi-layered meanings and the inscrutable, enigmatic dimensions of life. Dreams, like ancient texts, require imaginative interpretation in order for us to receive what they disclose.
Personally I stand ambivalent in this area of the scientific or spiritual approach to dreaming. I know that I have experienced powerful dreams, some of which seem as though I am physically somewhere else, while others appear as I'm without physical form but merely a detached consciousness beyond the actual location of my physical being. What remains as the most difficult task is not only the interpretation of dreams but what to do with the knowledge attained in the dream state.
Perhaps theories of time travel are validated within the realm of dream states through cosmic dimensions.
There was a movie released in 1984 titled Dreamscape in which people endowed with psychic abilities were used, in a dream lab study, to enter into the dream of another person thereby helping to dissolve reoccurring nightmares. Upon entering the dream the psychic could physically move about with the patient in the patients dream with the objective of confronting the cause of the nightmare. Of course there are the devious characters who in the plot try to utilize the psychics for their own agenda. But aside from that I found the concept very interesting as it presents the aspect of a control mechanism pertaining to the dream state. Imagine that you could fall asleep and direct yourself to the Olympic games for a few hours and then upon waking up remembering it all as a dream. This would be the ultimate achievement of dream study.
If I have a dream that I am smoking a cigarette, I may be in a state of consciousness without a physical form or more or less tuning into the conscious physical form of another person who is smoking a cigarette. Unless I can identify my physical form within a dream, and establish that it is actually me, then it can possibly be determined that the experience is that of someone else. Let's say someone is standing on a beach smoking, that person's mental energy becomes part of the universal cosmic energy field. I fall asleep and my subconscious becomes temporarily attuned to that person thereby appearing as if I were smoking when in fact I awake to find I have not. If I can ascertain the lucidity of the dream and see myself, let's say in a mirror, smoking the cigarette then I would have to give some thought to this theory of dream travel with the added element of time. This may explain why some people dream of things yet to occur in premonitory/precognitive dreams.
Amiel, the philosopher, writes: "In dreams, our individuality isn't closed; the whole environment is, so to speak, wrapped in it; it is the scenery and all its contents, including us. The individual who is dreaming is being dissolved into the universal fantasy of maya*..." (Amiel, Journal Intime, 1 12 1892)
*Maya, in Indian religions, has multiple meanings. Maya, is the principal deity who creates, perpetuates and governs the phantasmagoria, illusion and dream of duality in the phenomenal Universe. For some mystics this manifestation is real, but it is a fleeting reality; it is a mistake, although a natural one, to believe that Maya represents a fundamental reality or Truth. Each person, each physical object, from the perspective of eternity is like a brief, disturbed drop of water from an unbounded ocean. The goal of enlightenment is to understand this — more precisely, to experience this: to see intuitively that the distinction between the self and the Universe is a false dichotomy. The distinction between consciousness and physical matter, between mind and body, is the result of an unenlightened perspective.
So what do you think? Can quantum time travel be validated in the dream realm through cosmic dimension?
~Moshee
