I just got last bits of a dream cycle solved for myself - for a while I have thought about cycle between awake-states and dream-states, but even if most of it is obvious, some bits didn't fit together. Now I did fill the gaps with some ideas, which make it inherently coherent and also go together with the last hot developments of future-seeing hypothesis :)
So, first about the reality of dream worlds, which has to be "proven" for the following text to make any sense at all. As I personally have strongly Buddhist background of mind, I have made sure to make sense in this text not depending if one believes in rebirths or one-life paradigm, but wordings sometimes refer to first one as this needs some special attention. So, if you prefer the one-life paradigm, just ignore those concepts (it's hard to prove either one of those paradigms, but generally [statistically] east is believing in rebirth and west is not).
= Reality of dream worlds =
As long as we are materialists in classical (say, Newtonian) sense, dreams are not real. At first, they have no significant causal connections with material world and at second, they are imaginations generated by unconsciousness. As it seems that hallucinations as such do exist, I prefer to think that some dreams are more hallucinations than others, where some memories or perceptions are also more hallucinations than others. Causal connections between dreams and awake-state world are totally out of scope of this text, but it should be noticed that dreams have obvious connections of interacting with dreamer's current mindset (like goals, feeling and stress level), which clearly interact with ability to cope in world as we respect it.
Reality of dream worlds comes from inner coherence and causality. As long as we say that some perceptions are "correct" about some events, that is, we say that some imagination as projected to mind eye has some "correct" correlation with some physical event, we will rightly see some imaginations of mind eye as real perceptions and others as pure imaginations. Anyway, we have no reason at all to say that some of them are correct and others are not. Conceptually, any imaginary projected to this eye is correct as long as it's relations to other images are correctly handled and understood. If we say that world is information (instead of using the word "matter") we see that information is converted to mind imagery, projected to it by some formula. In dreams, the formula changes, but what is projected, is always some part of information of real world, the reality. So we can only speak about relative importance of that information, not about it's existence - true hallucination would be the case, where mind itself is projected to mind. Anyway, it mostly projects some of our senses, which are either "external" or "internal". Both externally and internally we have to cope with worlds, which can danger our lives and so on. In case we believe telepathy and/or astral travel, those images can also come from other worlds or places.
= Cycle between dream worlds =
Each dream world appears as series of dreams, material reality included here.
Imagine a cylinder. Draw a spiral on it in your mind eye (which starts from beginning of cylinder and ends at end of it). Now draw ten parallel line segments with equal distance to each other around the cilinder, each being parallel with axis of it, starting and ending at ends of it. Imagine the spiral being a cycle between dreams, where each area between two lines is a dream world or dream series. This simplification is no way an actual model of reality, but it's possible that someone has had dreams cycled just like that - usually the movement between dream worlds looks much more chaotic.
Now, notice a few key points:
- Importance: in each dream world, this world is important and others are not.
- Reality: in each dream world, this world feels real.
- Memory: in each dream world, other dream worlds are forgotten.
- Continuity: in each dream world, previous dreams of the same world are memorizable.
- Changing self: in each dream world, we as selves are different from what we are in others, we might have different character or look or other attributes.
- Continuity of experience: cycling between dreams, we still have continuous flow of experiences and some kind of "I", which will be there despite changing memories and selves.
= Time of dream worlds =
This, now, is my new piece in puzzle, which makes it all much more understandable. In Buddhist writings, it's sometimes described that someone will be their own grandfather in next life ..until now I have simply discarded all such thoughts with no much reflection and considered rebirth to go in one direction in time.
Anyway, reading the last researches and reflecting about older ones, I have just created an axiom, which changes that view - what if the actual flow of time and the flow of time of our consciousnesses are two separate things? I mean - what if we experience time in different order and speed curve than fabric of Universe calculates it? This is nearly obvious when we look into quantum physics or results related to seeing the future.
Say that Universe constantly solves a matrix, fitting different flows and conditions into one big picture - it _solves the time_, not _goes through motion_. It solves the time as a matrix, where a number of events must fit, but it might start from future event and go backwards or calculate the whole sequence of events top-down, starting from general picture and ending with more concrete one. It might even calculate everything at once (which is what many believe and many belief systems support), but this is harder to imagine mathematically - what is mathematically simple to imagine is the case where Universe does not follow the arrow of time as we see it when carrying out the calculations, it follows any kind of odd logic to get the results. Then, it iterates consciousnesses through it in order, which fits the picture as we sense it.
What it means about dream worlds is that it makes not only possible, but even somewhat probable the following possibilities:
- Where we see ordered sequence of dreams, we might see the same timespan from different angles one-by-one (especially as our activities in dreams are often extremely conditioned, leaving almost no room for free will). Advancing in development of mind might mean that some dreamworlds merge into one, becoming different aspects of it - but some do not.
- It's well-known that in ten minutes, we can see days worth of a dream. Then, it is perfectly logical that this might happen in some non-related part of cosmos (or mind) and take all those days. As we tend to classify things as dream or awake, when we should think that each part of cycle has it's distinct properties - maybe some are "movies" or "translations", whereas others are "connections" or just imaginations.
- Non-connected parts of Universe can be calculated separately, thus a dreamer might see happenings in each of them in any order no matter how they were calculated.
- As what matters is solution to matrix, where future and past must simply fit each other (including our free will, which might even not be conditioned by outside, but might still happen before both lives or be otherwise included in matrix, which solves both lives at once), it's actually possible to live later life before previous one.
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