log entries of timotheus

So, dreams.

In my copious spare time, I’ve been allowed to ponder various.. ponder-worthy topics. One that has been stuck in my head for a while is concerning dreams.

Some people say dreams offer insight to the subconscious mind, others say they are just random synapses firing. I used to hold to the latter theory. After watching an episode of Stargate Atlantis where a person is stuck in a dream, and it’s the sci-fi staple of “Is she really awake or not; what is real”, I had an idea.

It would be fun to play a prank on someone where they think they are dreaming. The scenario isn’t important, but what would cause real confusion would be to replace all written material with the dream letter jibberish that is in most dreams. (Reading things in dreams is very difficult for most people to do. Often you can read it, but as soon as you read it you are forgetting what is said.)

Then I started thinking bigger. What is another explanation I can come up with that allow dreams to make sense? And it came to me. The theory of infinite parallel universes says that every time something can occur, all possible outcomes do occur and are branched out as a separate universes. So, there is a universe out there for every possible outcome of every decision, since the birth of time. So, a whole bunch of universes.

What if dreams are really your brain interfacing into one of these other universes, tying into the ‘you’ in that universe? That would explain why many times things make no logical sense, because maybe the laws of physics or anything can be different in a different universe. Also, having problems reading things makes more sense when you consider it’s another universe.

So how can I explain lucid dreams, you may ask. Well, in a lucid dream you realize you are dreaming, and can change things to your will. I say in that universe, maybe you have mental powers. Or, your counterpart could be mentally unstable, and so you’re seeing things that aren’t ‘real’.

Maybe the connection isn’t exact. So it’s not like you see what your counterpart is seeing at that exact moment. It could be in the future in that universe, which could explain dejavu. (you tapped into a parallel universe that is fairly close to your own, and the time index was off.)

It’s fun to try and fit all the aspects of dreams into this model.