Visiting Parallel Universes in our Dreams - The true future of Space and Time travel is within our grasp.
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The Fantastic Voyage
The other night I woke up after a very long protracted Dream a great deal of which was still vivid in my memory. The thing that has always impressed me the most about dreams is the sheer scope of detail, stage props, places, characters and storyline. It would take an entire film production crew and a great deal of time to reproduce the dream that I had just awoken from. Entire streets with shops filled with real stock and staffed by real characters with well defined characters and physical features.
For instance; in my dream I visited a Motorcycle shop which had a bewildering collection of new and used motorcycles. The thing is that most of the bikes were not 'real' in the sense that they don't exist in real life. These bikes were however complete and in many ways technical and in some cases quite 'innovative' variations on bikes that exist in the real world. In the dream I rode an incredible V6 250 cc machine and experiences a very 'real' physical experience, riding the bike around unfamiliar streets complete with detailed traffic and people.
I was 30 years younger in this dream, and I remember worrying about 'getting back to work' and how far was work from here and in which direction. I actually got lost in this dream and ended up having to deal with some very shady bikers who ultimately ripped me off.
Have you ever tried imagining things while you are awake, trying to think things up and creating visuals in your mind like in a dream? You can't even come close without opening your eyes and visualizing it on paper, or on a computer.
The process of dreams is so massive and the scope and sophistication so great that I truly believe that some other far greater process is occurring.
I have read many books on the Psychology of Dreams and am a big fan of Carl Jung and can see the obvious connection between dreams and the Subconscious. However is the Subconscious the entire production crew? Has the Subconscious mind got the capacity to produce such incredible complex pieces of fictional movie making art? Or is it part of a collaborative process where it gets to be a part of the writing team?
Recent developments in the Physics of 'String Theory' suggest that Parallel Universes are a reality. It's hard to get your head around a concept where a Parallel world exists with 'You' in it living a Parallel life that is possibly very different to the one you are in right now. The laws of Physics keeps us safely locked in this Universe, with our favorite constant the speed of light binding us together with forces and 'rules'. On some basic levels we are just beginning to learn how to use these rules like creating 'atomic power' or even breaking the rules by creating 'anti matter'.
What about the human brain? Possibly the most complex and least understood of all the organic creations that are known in our universe. Has the brain got the capacity to travel beyond the physical limitations of our body and the rules of this Universe?
There is definite physical connections between matter and anti matter, the two seem interconnected. Have we then got a real connection between our physical counterpart in the many Parallel Universes? I believe that we do and during the deepest part of our sleep we drift into and visit these Parallel worlds which are as real in the physical sense as our own. These voyages may be coordinated by our subconscious mind or maybe our subconscious is the only part of our mind which can remember or experience the voyage. Our conscious mind locked by necessity in this Universe and its 'rules'.
I believe that we do travel in our Dreams and that they may be the true portal to Time and Space Travel in the future. It could also be the answer to some far bigger questions like 'what conciousness really is' or 'the importance of the concious entity within the overall structure of Time and Space'. This untimately leads to the biggest question of them all 'the meaning of life'.
If you travel faster than the speed of light you will go back in time. If you travel faster than the speed of light back to a point where the Planet Earth was in time and space ..... you can visit the past. This is supported by all the latest theories. This would suggest that our past still exists in very real terms like some super recording. Our physical bodies can not travel beyond the speed of light at the moment, we would break the constant that holds us together here in this world. But what about our mind? Maybe our memories are more like markers that can access the real past. That would explain how fish and birds can have such complex memories that allow then to navigate thousands of miles to a point on the earth where they have never been before. A memory passed on by their parents in their living cells, a marker that allows them to relive a part of their parents past. As I write this I get a wonderful feeling that this is right...It feels right. Dreams then can maybe exploit a mechanism that we know exists. I guess the question is 'can our minds travel faster than the speed of light?'
These ponderings may unsettle some readers, but I find them liberating and exciting. We really do have a future and a past that lay beyond the physical limitations of this life. The whole exsistance of life itself is a process where memories, structures and physical capabilities are passed from one living generation to the next living generation, growing and expanding in ways that cheat the limitations of one individual lifespan. I am not just a decendent of a living creature that has evolved over millions of years..I AM THAT LIVING CREATURE....still alive.
Dream on and don't fear this Fantastic Voyage... it won't be your last
I have written a follow up to this article Visiting Parallel Universes Part2 with some very interesting links to some late Scientific Developments and some older ones.....a must read.
If you would like to read more on thsis subject please read part 2 of 'The Fantastic Voyage' Harmony - Evolution and The Meaning of Life.
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I agree with this possibility. This would explain some of my more realistic dreams! And, I love the thought!!! :D
This is definitely an interesting theory. There is certainly much more out there than what we currently know as being factual.
I also have very vivid dreams on occasion.
"I am not just a decendent of a living creature that has evolved over millions of years..I AM THAT LIVING CREATURE....still alive."
Cheers! I couldn't agree more.
Wonderful exploration of probabilities.
Loved reading this. I do believe in parallel universes...I believe it explains a lot related to our future after our body dies. It all relates to the time/space continuum as well. I had never considered dreams in all of this, but perhaps you're right. Very thought provoking!
I too dream on a nightly basis. And you are very right, there is no way to imagine the details you see in a dream, while awake. Tou just motivated me to write a dream hub too. Thank you very much,lol. I will ponder on it and post it later. Send me a message sometime. I love discussing the dream state.*****DREAM ON********
Our civilization wouldn't be possible without our "dreamscapes." Just how connective they are in terms of space and time and parallel universes is, of course, a matter of imagination. Then again, there may be nothing beyond the mind - my mind, your mind, his mind or the mind of God. Think on that subject tonight!... Later!
wow. this is brilliant. who knows what secrets the universe holds, i have had really vivid dreams myself that felt so real that a part of me believes they were somehow. once again.. brillaint.
If you travel faster than the speed of light you will go back in time. If you travel faster than the speed of light back to a point where the Planet Earth was in time and space ..... you can visit the past. This is supported by all the latest theories. This would suggest that our past still exists in very real terms like some super recording. Our physical bodies can not travel beyond the speed of light at the moment, we would break the constant that holds us together here in this world. But what about our mind? Maybe our memories are more like markers that can access the real past. That would explain how fish and birds can have such complex memories that allow then to navigate thousands of miles to a point on the earth where they have never been before. A memory passed on by their parents in their living cells, a marker that allows them to relive a part of their parents past. As I write this I get a wonderful feeling that this is right...It feels right. Dreams then can maybe exploit a mechanism that we know exists. I guess the question is 'can our minds travel faster than the speed of light?'.....I added this to the artice.
We are not gonna to be in the past cause time won't flow backwards. But we are gonna to be regenerated over and over again like life circle.
Time flows forward but the past remains complete and real. As I have said the 'physical body'may not be able to visit the past, but the mind does not have the same restrictions. If you could physically travel back to the past you would start a different reality(time would flow forwards, but always behind our time). You can not change the future (our time) because it would create a paradox.
rodericktaylor,
Dreams are dreams and they make anything possible but reality requires more than imagination.
String theory is a dream that has been laying around for about thirty years and I believe that it was its author's dream to make a unification theory work.
There is no evidence that the speed of light can be exceeded and therefore there would be no way to understand the attributes of that speed.
rodericktaylor,
Unfortunately, I don't even have a partially open mind to the concept of time travel.
I don't believe it is at all possible to travel into an absolute future. Time travel into the past is also doubtful.
The time travel that I am referring is remaining in a particular location and moving within in time at that location. This is similar to the HG Wells Time Machine concept.
Unless time has moved ahead of this moment, then there is no future to travel to. Our future is the next second, and nothing is there until the second clicks.
An analogy of time travel to the past, is video taping say the last twenty four hours with a frame by frame record. Assuming that things were changing in those frames over the course of 24 hours, what mechanism is there to record and capture all of the events that have happened.
Even though our location may have remained stationary, the universe has been active. The objects in space that have motion have changed their location, and this includes the Earth and the Moon.
With a video recorder, the storage device whether it be tape or hard disk or memory chip has captured the past. This past can be played back over and over again.
Where is the capture mechanism for the universe?
If you believe in multiple dimensions, then crossing dimensions is not time travel.
We are 5 billions years into a 14 billion year universe. So there are 9 billion years of past events. This are not our past because the Earth didn't exist.
So without a mechanism to capture every single event in time, the past is gone and the future hasn't happened yet.
As I recall the fastest event in time is referred to by Plank's constant which I believe is 10 to the -44th power seconds. Assuming that is true, every event in the universe has to be capture each tick of that time period.
A video camera running at 30 frames a second is taking a photo every 30th of a second. If something happened in between that 30th of second the video recorder wouldn't capture it. It wouldn't even see the result of that change if it changed back to an initial state before the next frame was taken.
I know about the experiments where an object disappears, but that isn't time travel in my definition.
We want to call Time the 4th dimension but we really don't know the reality of dimensions. How many exist and what purpose they may serve.
Time to me is a monitor function, like a clock. Time is created by motion starting at the smallest particles. Without this motion, the universe would be frozen in time. That is no time, and nothing would ever change.
Here is a question for those that believe in time travel.
How far back in time could you travel?
Could you travel back to the beginning of civilization?
Could you travel back to the birth of Jesus?
Could you travel back to the Garden of Eden?
Could you travel back to the six days of creation?
Could you travel back to the big bang?
Could you travel back to before the big bang?
These questions are not absurd if you believe in time travel, as these or something has to be the bounds of time travel.
My comments were made in a scientific vain, and they are not philosophical nor theological in nature.
Thanks
It's good to read about an issue I've personally contemplated for years. Modern physics asserts that parallel universes exist, but how do we know they are there? It is beyond our senses, but not so for our minds. I feel convinced that the places and people I visit in dreams are beyond my personal imagination, so that tells me that they must be real. There is no other explanation. Anyways, I look forward now to dreaming more than I have before because I feel the mystery of dreams is solved. The mind or soul goes off the leash to associate with the larger, infinite world in dreams. I liked finding that other people here have been contemplating the same issue.
This has a valuable philosophical content, and it is nicely written and easy to read. But the scientific content is confused. Many of the comments result from confusion too.
e.g. "Parallel universes are a reality". Not true. String theory (in all forms) is still in its infancy, and has far too many solutions to make predictions - it's main problem. There are some ideas which promote the multiverse as an idea - but it is not known to be a reality.
Creating antimatter does not "break the rules". It is totally consistent with the most useful models (and observation) that we currently have.
Although G.R and other theories do not explicitly exclude time travel, no observation to date supports any practicality. Any idea which creates a paradox is in trouble, so theorists are actively searching for ways to
modify the current theories that either explicitly disallow time travel, or prevent a situation where a paradox can occur. In either case, popular "science" and Sci-Fi surrounding causality-violating time travel is not applicable to reality and experiment.
In the same way that imagining a solution to the square root of minus 1 is a useful tool, and generates mathematics that are very useful, the symmetry of time in multi-dimensional theories permits some useful mathematical modeling. But you can't actually state a value for the square root of minus 1, and it is most likely that time travel is also not a practicality. For example, I can describe and model a sign wave to explore an alternating current, but since it is a continuous function without a start or finish, I need to pick an arbitrary point and called it t=0. It's useful and valid for me to work with equations that are to the negative side of t=0 just as well as the positive side. But this does not imply that negative time need be a reality.
"There is definite physical connections between matter and anti matter, the two seem interconnected." Well... yes of course. Each particle has an antiparticle but when they meet, each annihilates the other and produces a bunch of photons. It's worth reading http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/19982 to get a feel for the relationship between matter, antimatter, and importantly a possible reason for the domination of matter over anti-matter - for if they were exactly equal in the early universe, and able to coincide, then only photons would be left. (Energy with no rest-mass).
"By the way, particle accelerators have exceeded the speed of light." Rubbish. A particle with a tiny rest-mass has been accelerated to something very close to the speed of light but it has not exceeded it.
Virtual particles can, in various theories be allowed to "exceed light speed" but they must do so only on quantum scales, and in such a way that preserves causality in the macro world, conservation of energy, and FLT signaling. These are tools like the square root of -1. The closest practical experiments to something that appears to do a sort of time travel involve quantum tunneling. But no Special Relativity rules are broken, and IMHO the apparent time travel is a muddy confusion caused by analyzing a wave using terms more applicable to particles.
The whole idea of this article is to pose a 'what if' question. The existence of Parallel Universes is a theory like all theories. There is nothing wrong with posing a 'what if question'. My Article is in Hub Pages not Scientific American. It was meant to be a light hearted pondering. My original Article was deliberately non-specific about the Science. I shall leave my original article stand and leave it at that. I don't think this is an appropriate site for Scientific debate. There are plenty of Science blogs where you can get down to the nitty gritty and argue with real experts, not light hearted writers.
I love what you have written in this great article. I deeply believe in parallel universe but it's quite really hard to grasp at first or for most people. But nevertheless quantum mechanics has already some clues about this. Though not 100 percent proven but I believe that when science eventually catch up with spiritual, it certainly WILL.
Thanks Ken. So much of modern Science has come from ideas that may seem 'way out there' but they are ideas which spark the desire to look. When we look and investigate we invariably discover new truths which generate even more new ideas. Life tests its boundaries and explores its environment, to remain static is to stop growth.
Excellent hub!
I often do projections onto the astral. Yes, to all those nay-sayers time travel is possible. Well, at least during astral projections. Again, love this hub and keep it up.
Hi everyone - just joined this forum today and found this very interesting topic so here are my thoughts:-
While I agree somewhat to the standard scientific explanation that dreams are merely chemical reactions in our brain which cause us to experience images during rem-sleep I think that this goes far deeper than that.
The world or worlds we experience during 'dreamtime' don't necessarily reflect our imagination and events which are played out seem very real to us despite the bizarre nature and unusual scenarios that happen. There are so many people who either experience de ja vu and vivid accounts of previous personas that it would be foolish to discount these as mere coincidences or highly suggestive imaginations.
I, for one do dream although I experience some nights where I don't recall anything yet other times 3 or even 4 vivid dreams.
a few months ago I was having a very in depth conversation with one of my Mother's friends who was in his early 70's. He talked about some pretty incredible coincidences which he's experienced during his lifetime - some of which were directly connected to his dreams beforehand, all of which inseemed pretty incredible. He only told me about a few coincidences, being able to tell that he had a winning raffle ticked on 3 consecutive occasions before actually winning it. Also being able to tell 5 mins prior to an RAF friend he hadn't seen for 25 years was about to call on his doorstep!! That sort of thing.... In actual fact when he visited a medium with his RAF friend in the mid 50's, the medium told him that he had a 'special gift' but would need to learn how to use it. At the time he took what the medium said with a pinch of salt but in his latter years he's begun to think his experiences may have had something to do with being psychic. He mentioned that on a number of occasions his dreams have been predictions to the actual event happening the next day in real life.
So, may it be possible that are persona's exist of a 'me' and an 'I'. The 'I' being in constant within our physical waking body and the 'me' being our outer spiritual consciousness capable of travelling to the astral dimensions and beyond?? It is now becoming apparent that our world is just one of billions of parallel universes contained in a multi-verse. A possible theory to analyze why images change with the blink of an eye while we see objects in a dream could be that our 'me' is travelling through many parallel worlds and 'visiting' our other dopplegangers who reside in these other worlds. Okay, so why do these other worlds not have the same physical laws that we have here. Well, when you have so many different universes which exist outside our confined 3d world as we know it, isn't it a surprise that we're experiencing different laws which conventional science doesn't know about??
Anway, I had 3 dreams which I can remember last night - all very interesting which I'm sure existed in completely different worlds. Here's the funny thing that happened. In dream no. 3 I was at my brother and sister-in-laws house which was totally different to how it was in this life. I was chatting to my brother in this dream about the previous dream I had and asking his opinion about parallel universes and stuff. How weird is that? - Talking to someone in a dream about a dream!!
Well, all in all I really do think there is a possibility that dreams are something on a much higher plain than just simple manifestations of the brain....Think about near death experiences people have...The persona, soul or consciousness leaves the body behind...Who says this can't happen while we are sub-conscious. It's up to you to decide.
Thanks for reading,
--Davey--
So wonderful to hear of another person's dreams...I dream each nite, so many wonderful adventures...thanks for the hub...well written...
I have had a few vivid dreams in which I was lucid. I remember looking around my environment and wondering if it was really a product of my own mind or an actual place that I am experiencing. There was so much detail that it's hard to believe that it was all in my brain.
Nice hub!
I am amazed to find this online. I have had this theory for quite some time now and today I decided to finally Google it. I truly believe that we see or visit parralel universes in our sleep. I thought i was the only one with these thoughts! Great post!
I too have felt I am living A different life, several really, during dream time. Often I feel as if I experience many many years, such as almost a whole lifetime, yet when i wake up here, i have only been asleep for a short period. Lately, it has seemed that I flip from one place to the next and cannot really remember details upon awakening, yet I know and feel the dreams were about being in several different realities, not of this world we exist in physically right now. I have also dreamt of specific places and when relating details to 2 of my family members, I found that they also, had dreamed of these same places in detail. When a major earthquake happened on the other side of earth from me, and I turned on the news and learned of it, I was jolted into the realization that I had awakened the night before, from a dream of being in a bed with another person(I am single), yet knowing I was not "me" and feeling shaking, trying to wake the other person up, and being scared because stuff was coming down around me in the dark. That is when i woke up, yet i returned to sleep and did not recall the dream in the morning until i turned on the news , which by the way is not normal for me, rarely watch it. I have had this theory going for awhile now, that dreams are really where our minds go, not what our subconscious projects, that we visit parallel dimensions, universes, realities where we exist, just in other forms and such. I believe we are all multidimensional, yet we as a species are only just beginning to understand this.
I've been a firm believer in this for as long as I can remember. My dreams are far too vivid and varied to simply be my subconscious mind working out the issues of the day. I recently wrote down what I could remember from a dream and stopped after 30 pages because it was starting to get hazy and I couldn't remember it accurately anymore.
This kind of thing has always made me wonder if all of human literature was merely a road map for other universes. What if our creativity is merely our subconscious peering across the void at things that truly exist outside of our world or perhaps at a different time in our own existence?
I've had many dreams that seemed more important and more real than the life I woke up to. The feeling fades with time, but I sometimes feel as if I betrayed the people in my dream by waking up before a problem was resolved or before I could make good on some promise I had made. There is always the sense of unfinished business when I wake up.
Whatever this is, it is real to me. Some might say I'm delusional or that I'm brain damaged. If that's true, I don't want to be fixed. The dreams aren't always good. The best of them are bittersweet and the worst are beyond horrible. Despite this, I wouldn't give any of them up for any reason. To me they are as important as going to work and paying my bills, maybe more so.
I just read your posts for the first time. I'm right with you on these topics. For the past month or two, I've found myself in parallels almost every night while "dreaming." If only there were some kind of instrument that could record what I'm experiencing. Keep up the great reflections and writing. Much appreciated.
Well...regarding going back in time...you don't have to travel faster than light...
...but in many simpler ways; Guess What? Traveling back in time is practically possible!?
I have been having the most odd dreams the past few weeks its really weird the only thing I can think of is that I am visiting a parallel universe where I exist but everything is a little different like the house will be rearranged different and I go down in my room and I look on the walls and theres pictures that I don't remember happening there from my whole life and the last dream I had I remember trying to explain to my cousin that I was from a parallel universe then I remember waking up again and I was still there I began to get sad that I would never make it back to my original universe lol but eventually I woke up here lol
Everyone should read the book "The Only Planet of Choice" by Phyllis Schlemmer. Google it...you can download it for free. It explains a lot.
no its not possible to travel in the past only the future.okay what if you travel in the past and kill your grandfather then your dad or mother wouldn't exist so that mean you won't exist see you can't go back in time you can only travel you the future. And yes it is a such thing as parallel universes it's so true but we just can't prove it. People think their so close to the truth but in reality we're millions away from the truth. I dont think we will ever know the truth until we all DIE!!!
I totally agree with you Roderick. I'd go further and say that lucidity during Hypnogogia is a gateway to visualising 'slices' from another dimension - images which we cannot fully visualise because of the restrictions of our laws of physics, but can catch a glimpse of through very unique circumstances. I also believe that the unconscious mind is a direct gateway to other dimensions. High levels of training and certain neuro-programming connections in the brain allow easier access to these 'places'. Lucid dreaming provides humans with an ability to soar above their known reality and perceive it from a different perspective, similar to the laws of a 3rd dimensional character floating above its reality and seeing if from the 4th/5th dimensional perspective.
It's almost like the whole sleep mode serves a higher purpose other than providing physical rest. I'm going to sound very science-fiction from here on in, but bear with me! To me, it's as though the mind is re-booting, stretching, gaining access to new software that will somehow benefit it. In fact, every aspect of humans can be compared to eleborate biological computer programming. A sperm is a pre-programmed bio-data chip which contain 35mbs of data and needs certain conditions to grow and live. Is it not possible that the original basic proteins on earth that started off our evolutionary journey, began in exactly the same way? Proteins that are already pre-programmed with information. Proteins that just needed the right environment (massive volcanic eruptions / water) in order to develop? One theory is that this protein flew in from somewhere else via a meteor. I like this theory, it makes sense to me. Earth is the womb (perfect conditions) and the meteor is the data containing sperm. So how does this relate to cyber-dreaming? Well, unlike sperm, I'm not convinced that we know our owners or 'programmers', and without being able to know them, we cannot be fully aware of the limits or functions of the mind in its unconscious / subconscious states. To me, the human body and mind is like having a piece of hardware without the instruction manual. If you take it apart you can always learn what it's made of and how it came to be put together, but you wont be able to tell what it's primary purpose is and, most importantly, where it was made and how ALL the components work, including the mind and brain, which, as you say, is still one of the most complex and mysterious components of the human model.
Saying things like this makes people nervous because it is almost impossible to prove, but I like to make connections between what I know to be evidencially true and what I suspect holds the answers. It's only a guess, but I suspect many of the answers are inside us, and always have been. Science has always been about challenging people's perceptions. There was a time when you could have been called mad, or even killed, for suggesting the earth wasn't flat, or put in jail for saying that the earth wasn't the centre of the Universe. Why is the prospect of finding answers in the subconscious world any different? Ok, it's a lot harder to prove any different (at present), but Leonardo Da Vinci believed we could make things fly 400 years before he had the technology to do it. I think delving into the mind will give us answers - maybe not all the answers - but definitely major ones. We just need to learn how to 'tap into' this totally unfamiliar world of dreams and sleep in order to do it.
"'Parallel universes are a reality'". Not true. String theory (in all forms) is still in its infancy, and has far too many solutions to make predictions - it's main problem. There are some ideas which promote the multiverse as an idea - but it is not known to be a reality."
Don't heed negative comments like the above quoted opinion. Many people seem to restrict their beliefs to closed, obsolete opinions. Science is always progressing and advancing. We are knowing more and more. At this point humans cannot afford to restrict their opinions like this. Thinking like this will only impede scientific progress.
OMG! I had a similar dream few months ago and it was so real. I visited a shoe shop and the shoes were strangely displayed on the walls.. I picked up a shoe and said this is the best place to shop I will always come here no matter what happens. Later i visit a jewelery shop and when i wanted to try on a bracelet i removed my watch and i forgot it there itself. when i left the shop I suddenly realized that i forgot my watch at the jewelers and i clearly said to myself that I cannot let this happen. I cannot leave a thing from my world in this place. I picked my watch from the shop and then i woke up and recollected the whole dream. this is just one of those dreams that i get occasionally.
I'm happy to know that others have had similar experiences, and have come up with very similar theories to my own. It reaffirms my ideas and its good to know im not alone in thinking about such seemingly irrational things.
I have only recently come to my own conclusion that in my dreams I am connecting to parallel selves. It is the only way I have been able to rationalize, like how others here have described, how I seem to visit a place and a life that is in some ways very similar to my own, but with sometimes subtle and sometimes signification variations. I have wondered if maybe I am merely playing out the possibilities of what could and couldn't be, based on my desire for parts of my life to be different. However, when I am in these different dream lives i have a memory and conscience that seems to go as deep as that which exists here in my conscious life. As a previous poster has said, I too feel guilt when I wake up from a dream. It often feels as if I wake up too early and have unfinished business.
I have also tried to construct rational theories for dreams on my own because I have, more so when I was younger, very often experienced psychic dreams and very intense Deja vu. I will have Deja vu that can bring me back to a dream I had YEARS before, and I will always say "wow, I've seen this before." On a few occasions the events in a dream have happened the next day. On most occasions however, i would remember a dream that I had when I was much younger. It has always been an intense feeling: sometimes it makes me lightheaded and my ears begin to ring.
Now, I have trouble trying to explain why I would have premonitions in my dreams. Is it because I am connecting to a parallel self who has experienced these events earlier in life? Which would make sense considering my parallel life has likely taken a different path and may experience events in a different order. Is it because we are at such a great physical distance from other possible universes that these events have simply occurred at an earlier point in a standard scale of time? Or is it because the universe is believed to be cyclical, and everything that happens has happened before, perhaps a countless number of times, and some energy or imprint on the universe has remained from those previous cycles?
Another strange occurence which may be connected to the ideas of the mind being able to travel elsewhere while we are asleep, happened to me several years ago. I came to a point where I was experiencing psychic dreams nearly every single night followed by frequent andintense experiences of Deja vu while I was awake. I was also experiencing sleep paralysis just about as often. I would wake up and be fully conscious, but my body would still be asleep and I would be unable to move. It took some serious effort to try to shake my limbs in order to wake up, but sometimes it would take a some time which became very frightening. On one particular occasion however, I awoke from a dream and fell out of my bed, but felt as though a cable attached to my forehead was being yanked as I fell. I was actually still asleep, well my body was, and in bed. It was as though I had fallen out of my sleeping body but was still attached by the head in some weird connection, and I remember feeling very acute pain in my forehead. I remember consciously knowing that I had to get back to my body because this just wasn't right. I can still recall this experience so vividly, especially the feeling of attachment to my head, and the pain involved. I really don't know how to explain it, nor have I told anyone previously because it sounds so bizarre. Perhaps someone here has had a similar experience or theory.
So great, I honestly feel relaxed when reading this and I always thought dreams been some sort of portal to others consciences.
what if your dreams are the reality, and this reality is just a dream. And waking up here is actually going to sleep there, and starting to dream.
So dream on.
I have thought the same thing for a while now and I am excited to see someone else with the same thinking.
I am not a theoretical physicist but have read the dumbed down version of books for the layman from Michio Kaku and Stephen Hawking. Recently I watched the Discovery Channel special Through the Wormhole. Again, I am not saying I am an expert in any of this but I do enjoy thinking about what it all means. The DC special hit home for me on the multiverse theory. Which suggests that every decision we make leads to another outcome in some other parallel universe. This can also help the time travel paradox because if you travel back in time and kill you grandfather you would be killing your grandfather in another universe which would not affect you.
The reason I searched for the dream portal to parallel universes was because of a dream I had last night. I normally have very vivid dreams and last night I had a dream that I ended up being with a girl I grew up with from grade school to high school. We never dated and were not really close friends most of the time but she was considered a close peer. My last view was us holding hands and I felt happier then I have ever felt. This feeling was so strong that it followed me when I woke up and I could not help feeling and knowing that somewhere I was happier then I have ever been. The action of being the participant and then finally the observer as I was waking up was such a strong feeling that I do think dreams are tied to the multiverse.
No scientific proof here but I think we are on to something.
haha i agree completely i just started searching online to see if any one thought as i did and sure enough here you guys are.I also had this thought of the after life when our physical body dies does our spiritual our subconcios(choose your own) float into a parellel universe, different dimension and say when we dream of our dead relatives has our subconcious entered the afterlife or the alternate universe our deceased relative has and how about reacurring dreams i beleive that is our closest relative universe that has a bond stronger than other alternate universes hints the reaccurance. that is also why i think you dont dream when you pass out drunkbecause your mind is to wasted to travel somethng like traveling thru space and time drunk lol just thoughts and dont worry about nay sayers the world was thought to be flat at one time but who knows maybe there is a alternate flat world out there.
Rod, thanks for the article, it concurs with most of my thoughts on the subject that I never discussed. I had placed a similiar concept in my own dreams for over 40 years now, with the same, Parallel Universe as the sum of the eqaution. For yourself, and your readers I will give you a present day example for analysis.
In the case of Casey Anthony, and her many made up friends, baby sitters, and even her imaginary place of employment. If you are to take her account, and place it with the respect of someone who travelled to a parallel universe in thier dreams, and came back confused as to which universe, (reality), she was in, we would find a classic case worth investigating. Everyone has a different retention of thier dreams upon awakening, whereas some supposedly don't dream at all, (no memory?).
In there being different levels of retention upon awakening, then there must be levels of confusion, and trauma that can be retained also.
This also begs for a considerable investigation of many of the great thinkers of the past and our time, committing suicide or being placed in the proverbial looney bin.
If one is open to thought of applying these principles upon your Dreams/Parallel Universe, I think a door may be opened to a lot of today's present ills.
I am not some new age groupie, just a retired military guy that had seen too many unexplained things that fall into your context of thought. I will go read up on Jung now. Take care all, and be cautious of your journey.
DJ
I feel like I lead a double life. I live my day, go to bed, when I wake up, its like I haven't slept. I've just done another day's worth of living in my sleep. Part of me wonders if what I am dreaming is how I want life to be like, but some nights sleeps are completly unexpected & dont compare to whats happening in my daily life. I do have very odd things happen from time to time. Waking up to have these things happen, then really wake up to find that it was all a dream, but when I go & ask the ppl in my dream if they did all those things, they look at me like 'how did you know'. In my dream I actually see them do things. Also in some dreams someone mentions the time & when I wake up it is exactly that time. So many freaky things happen! Rather cool, but there are few ppl that believe me so I feel that I am wasting my breath telling them. They look at me like 'are you delusional?'. Its like The Matrix concept. Everyone is happy being a drone, not knowing better, living the standard, working bee life without knowing better. Sometimes I can feel trapped & I go bonkers because I know there is much more to life but its like being stuck in a giant hole with no way out or no way of being heard. Its nice to know that Im not the only one that has these extra vivid dreams!
. I have not travelled a lot, but have freaked some friends out. I dream of beautiful landscapes & can describe them 84% accurately. Sometimes I have been able to work out a guestimate of what the place might be called. Google has done wonders in helping me view pictures of these amazing places. I have been standing on top of large rock formations & standing above beautiful gorges. Its amazing what I see! A cheap way to see the world! Thank you for sharing your thoughts!
A very well written article, Roderick. I have experienced dreams like the one you mentioned. I used to even believe in reincarnation- because of the accuracy of detail in dreams I experienced. I was able to go to the Philadelphia public library, flip through pages and pages of historic fashion books, military uniforms, weapons, and etcetera. I marked pages with sheets of paper, refusing to look at the years and eras the items and clothing were attributed.
But, one day, using a trick I learned from a book I read, I "pierced" the dream (in the middle of a grand ball in 17th century France). I first noticed that a shadow was wrong. Light coming through a window, hitting the ground showed moving characters like fish- but there was no tank. When I looked back, there was suddenly a fish tank on the window ledge, a cheap pet store version. So, I stared at the image- and it faded. It broke. I could see, suddenly, devils behind the scene, deluding me.
I have a series of videos on dreams, and a blog as well. The most important lesson is to learn the origin of dreams: the dreamers mind, the mind of other people, the Kingdom of God, and the kingdom of Hell.
www.dreamtraining.blogspot.com
First dream lesson: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qD7ighVpVSE
I agree with all of this well written hub. Recent experiments have shown the possibilities of particles traveling faster than light which question relativity theory. Any idea that has ever been thought up could possibly exist in its own "parallel universe". Parallel universes and dimensions may be infinite as numbers are infinite inpositive and negative ""directions". Even the concept of "nothing" must have its own place in the universe..
The idea of dreams being "inner" parallel universe experience is highly valid to me. As technology develops, so will humanity's understanding catch up with its interpretation of these concepts. Thanks for reading.
If Hugh Everett's ideas of parallel universes are correct, there must be biological and psychological consequences. Maybe critical analysis of dream content will give us the answer.My dreams do not appear to be replays of real-life situations, but mostly alternative scenarios to what actually happened, possibly lending support to the claim that everything that can happen does happen.
is traveling to the parallel world dangerous? is there a possibility that the dreamer would not be able to come back from the physical world again?
i think there would be a chance you wont come back, an example could be of when people fall unconscious (trapped in this other dimension),the spirit has left this dimension and entered another??
for the last two years i've been traveling more and more between. time, spalces (space and places). i finaly put it together. about a year ago when i had a dream where all time and splaces come to a singularity point. where everything exists at once. i have accured in a dream watching that point thinking to myself what is that that i looking at when a someone grabbed my shoulder and i turned a round to see a different me, older me. he told me what i was looking at. then we went to other time a splaces where we met other mees at different ages. i asked what mees what do we do next and older one said. we help us become what we need. now i have to stop for a minute... and ask you... you know what. i'd love to tell more please write me at ivan.tihienko@gmail.com
I really enjoyed this. Good read. But I think that our brains are just tape recorders, that pick up on more cues than we consciously are aware of. And what I mean by that, is you may not consciously notice a peanut drop on the floor next to you, but you register the sound subconsciously and the memory is there. And our dreams, are the subconscious brain playing itself out because it doesn't get that chance while your awake. I don't know, I'm a neuro-fan but not a scientist. I talked to a physics professor who had said he knew a very close friend who was a neuro surgeon. They were out at dinner talking about brain processes and the neurosurgeon mentioned that he had performed brain surgery on a man with cerebral palsy. you are awake during this surgery, and when he cut part of his brain the man recited an article that was read to him when he was very young, as confirmed by his mother. And another man, a brick layer, had started talking about being in a build site he worked on 20 years prior. To us, these people are "crazy". To them, they are real experiences. Because everything we experience "must be real"; but that is untrue. Is a patient with schizophrenia living in an alternate universe? One could argue you that but I'd certainly disagree. I'd say that it's a brain flaw. (although it's nice to think that life is flawless) Read up on alien hand syndrome and Patient H.R. Our brains are insane. I suggest you also read "Incognito; The secret lives of our brain" by David Eagleman. Maybe a little "Demon Haunted World" by Carl Sagan is in order for some of you guys as well. :)
Something strange Happened with me also but its long time back but its so strange i cant forget when i was small in school days i was in 5th standard my mom gifted me a black belt but suddenly i lost it and i was so worried and tens day night i was just think of and one night i saw my belt is under wooden floor one of my friend stole it and hide ...i saw in dream and next day i went there and i found it ....
Using our available technologies if we travel faster than sound, atleast we can pod cast the ancient world right? We need only to work out on sound amplification and seperation. Is it possible?
I found it most interesting to read your Hub. Starting out with your first paragraph, it's amazing how our dreams can be so filled with every detail.
In my dreams I always seem to be the same age I am in real life. I found it interesting that you were 30 years younger in one of your dreams. I'll have to watch out for that and see if that occurs in any of my dreams. Maybe I just wasn't paying attention. lol. Sometimes when we just think of something, we end up having a dream about it. At least that happens to me.
I see where you were going with your discussion. I have an interest in physics too, and I understand what you were saying about how we are locked into our universe by the laws of physics. I never heard it put that way before, but it makes perfect sense. And our dreams might very well be a loophole that "connects" us with one of our parallel universe existences.
I bookmarked your other two Hubs you mentioned at the end, so I can read them in the next few days as well.
Really exiting stuff, and well written. Voted up.
I have not read theories about travelling back in time at speeds greater than the speed of light. That itself would imply that at twice the speed of light, time would seem to flow backwards at the same rate it does now and if something with no speed at all would move at the rate we are used to now then time wouldn't flow backwards any faster than it does forwards.
This theory which you got from superman is implausible however time travel itself is mathematically plausible.
Something to note, emubreen's comment of dreaming about something which led them to doing the thing they dreamt about the very next day seems to be similar theme amongst those who experience a temporal causality loop or predestination paradox.
It is almost always the day after the dream that they are led to the events in the dream. This has happened to me when I was a kid and ever since, have become obsessed with time travel.
i completely agree with this theory on all standards and i keep having dreams like yours vivid almost real but a different setting im myself but i have the capability move around and manipulate the world around me.... a little weird at times but still pretty cool.
PBS recently aired a program on the String Theory. I'm no super-brain by any means, but am of above average intelligence and *usually* able to grasp at least the gist of a scientific explanation even if I don't understand the details. Not so with the String Theory! Could NOT begin to get my head around the concept! Rather amazing considering I have NO problem believing in parallel universes and time travel.
In fact, many times over the years I've seen myself in a parallel universe - through a window into another dimension, as it were - and the totally different life I'm living with people I know in this universe. Other times I've had mere flashes of it, like a nano-second "blip" of a memory you want to remember but can't quite. At other times, I visit that universe in very detailed dreams and all the same people are there. A real treat, since most are now dead.
Perhaps I simply don't need to know HOW such a thing is possible, but only to enjoy it while it lasts.
Voted up and awesome! ;D
CMHypno Level 6 Commenter 2 years ago
Congratulations on your HubNugget nomination and great Hub!