Dreams, The Mind, The Universe, The Future and Sex
Have you ever woken up from a dream and felt for an instant that you had some incredible revelation that was just completely mind blowing and then after you sit there for a minute the revelation starts to fade and either its that you start to forget the elements that made it so incredible or you start to realize that your revelation was something really stupid like dog food flavored ice cream so you say that's stupid, screw this and you go back to sleep. This makes me sometimes wonder if there are concepts and ideas that are so beyond the capability of the human brain or our current level of understanding, that we can't really grasp it for more than a second or two. Sort of like trying to hold a cloud in your hands, and yet we all get these flashes of the light of understanding of such huge ideas and concepts.
I remember a lot of my dreams and I wake up after a lot of them as well so I know I have a lot of really interesting dreams. I put them into a few different catagories too. There are sex dreams which are among my favorites, entertainment dreams in which either I'm watching a t.v. show or movie or I'm part of the action in one or involved with the famous people in some capacity. I realize at the time that they're just entertainment and so I sit back and enjoy them, kind of like the sex dreams only I don't get as wet for real and I generally don't wake up nearly as horny. After a really hot sex dream, something has to go in my pussy and I'm not very picky about what. A cock, vibrator, fingers, whatever as long as I get satisfaction. Hey, I can't let all that delicious pussy juice go to waste, can I?
Of course there are a couple of other classifications of dreams I have too. There are what I call good story dreams. Again I know these aren't things that will ever happen in a million years but they would make incredible books or movies. Or at least that's what I think when I first wake up and then 90% of the time after thinking about it I conclude that it's a stupid idea and I go back to sleep. It's like thinking hey, the idea of putting snakes on a plane as a story is great, no wait, what was I thinking, that's the dumbest idea yet, I'm going back to bed. On the other hand, the other 10% are actually pretty cool ideas and I try to write those down when I can. You never know when I might actually get off my cute little brown ass and write a best selling novel right?
Then we come to the wierdest catagory of dreams for me and that's the premonition. See, this is the thing, since I remember so many of my dreams, I know for a fact that a number of them have come true in exact detail. I know other people who have also had this experience too. Of course sometimes you have a dream that could go either way, it's a terrific story but it seems so real and plausible, couldn't it happen?
So here's the point I'm getting to with all of this. I woke up yesterday (yes, I was naked of course, I always sleep naked unless it's my time of the month) and I had a total revelation. After thinking about it for a minute, it didn't start to sound stupid. It might sound stupid now, but it didn't before. Okey, I think part of it might have been triggered by the ads for the new movie with Denzel Washington, who I like in movies a lot by the way, which is called Deja Vu. I'm not sure what it's about exactly but I'm thinking it's probably something like Groundhog Day meets Enemy of the State. I guess they're going to come up with some cool explanation for why people have feelings of Deja Vu. I know in the Matrix movie they said that it was an indicator that a change had been made to the programming. Assuming for a minute that Deja Vu is not a big government conspiracy and we're not living in the Matrix, perhaps there's a tie in with premonitions that gives a better explanation.
So as I sat in bed naked yesterday, this is the thought that passed through my little brain. You know they say we only use like 10% of our brains or something. Even Einstein wasn't much more than that. For a long time I've held the conviction that every word you've ever said or heard, every song, every second of every minute of your life is recorded in your brain. I think you've got one hell of a hard drive in there and the problem is that you can't access most of it. It's kind of like on a computer in which something happens to the hard drive and the data is still there but you can only pull up bits and pieces at a time the rest comes out as garbage that makes no sense. See, it's a disconnect between the conscious and subconscious parts of the brain I think. If we could figure out a way to consciously access that information, the potential of humans would expand exponentially.
Okey, so you're probably wondering where the heck I'm going with all this and if my own brain has finally snapped a wire. I know, I've heard before that I may be a couple sandwiches short of a lunchbox, but I'm going somewhere with this okey? It's pretty common knowledge that dreams are the doorway to the subconscious mind. We can more readily access what's in there when dreaming than when awake. So this is where my revelation came in. What if our understanding of every second of every minute of our lives isn't linear. In other words, what if what's in our subconscious isn't based on the experiences we've already had, but rather on the sum total of all of the experiences that we will have. It's all in there, recorded but we can't get to it. I know some of you might argue that the idea that your life is already mapped out takes away the concept of freewill, but who's to say you have freewill anyway. Maybe the decisions you think you make freely are the ones you are supposed to make from a fate point of view. Maybe free will has nothing to do with it.
Anyway, my point was that if you already know what's going to happen to you, then it's possible that some of that can come out in dreams, thus explaining premonitions. Because most people don't remember their dreams and yet the information is still in their brains, when they hit a Deja Vu situation, it's familiar because they have already seen it...in their own mind. Of course just like a dream fades after a few seconds, so too does a Deja Vu. Ever notice that? You have that feeling and then its gone and then you can't remember or explain what seemed so familiar.
I'm no physicist or rocket scientist. You know, I'm just a girl who likes to take her pants off and show off her body. Let's face it, it doesn't take a PHD to do that. Still, my theory is what I call Maliia's loop theory of the universe. I think the universe expands until it gets too far out, then it starts to collapse back in on itself until it gets down to a tiny thing and the pressure causes it to big bang out again and expand again. Kind of like a perpetual rubberband. If something like that were to be the case, it means that this isn't the first time we've lived these lives. Maybe we've had these lives a billion times over already and that's why there's this imprint on our brains not only of what has happened before but of what will happen in the future of our lives.
The alternative explanation I've come up with is that all time happens all the time. Even Einstein thought of this one. Think of life like you're on a boat on a river. As you drift down the river you look at whats happening on land and you see it in a linear fashion. One thing, then you've passed that and you're seeing the next thing and so on. The thing is, the first thing you saw is still going on even after you've passed it and moved on to the next thing, but because it's behind you and you can't see it, you somehow think that's ended. It could be that this is another explanation for why we can have premonitions and Deja Vu. If the past is still happening then it makes sense that the future is too and if the future is happening then maybe premonitions and Deja Vu are our ways of trying peek around the next curve in the river to see whats coming up ahead.
So by now you're thinking that this is the exact kind of conversation someone would have if they were totally high on pot, and I think you're right too. The thing is you can direct your dreams somewhat both by what you think about before you go to bed and through conscious direction which comes from practice. If that's the case and we truly do get glimpses of the future through our dreams, couldn't we practice every night to program our minds to dream about the future and to wake up after such dreams? I'm not saying it would happen right away or anything but over time it could develop. It's just a thought. Maybe I'll try to work on that, somewhere in the future there's a lottery ticket with my name on it and I just need the numbers baby!
2 Comments:
Hi there... I've read your log for a while, but never felt really compelled to post until now. You hit on a lot of things I found interesting.
The general theme of your post seems to have some roots in Jungian psychology; he spoke a lot about the collective unconcious, the idea that we're all tapping aspects of some big ol' Thing, but we're not aware of it. I am also reminded of certain Buddhist philosophies which essentially say that we're all divine aspects and that enlightenment is us realizing the same. The reason none of us are aware of this on our day-to-day machinations is because of all of the baggage that the day gives us (and this is regardless of which theory you subscribe to).
I'm not too clear on your idea of "all time happening all the time", although it seems to smack of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle from quantum physics. Keep in mind that I am no physicist, I just read a lot. Could you be so kind as to elaborate on that?
Your idea of the eternal cycle of big bang/big crunch is not only one that has been debated by quantum physicists for a while now, but also reminds me of the Hindu idea of the death and birth of the world.
One thing I wanted to touch on real quick: the idea of humans using only 10% of their brains? I've got reason to believe that's a bit of a misnomer. I was told by a good authority that humans actually do use much more of their brains, possibly all of it, but the thing of it is that so much of the brain mass is devoted to maintaining the body's functions that it would probably be more accurate to say that we only *consciously* use 10% of our brains. It's not a well-known datum and I was blown away by it too, but I wanted to share.
In regards to your issue of freewill vs. predestination: I've often grappled with the same question. However, I would offer an answer to your question with another question: Does it really matter? I'm not saying it's not an important issue but at the level that we all operate on, I don't think that will vs. destiny really affects us. People will act and behave, and regardless of where they think the motivation to do so comes from, it won't change the fact that they are. There are some Taoist philosophers that say that one of the problems with Westernized philosophy (of which will vs. destiny is a major part) is that it spends too much time thinking about how things came to be instead of just Experiencing them. While will vs. destiny is a great thought excercise, at the end of the day I think it's more of a hassle to hack out than to simply go out and enjoy the day.
I've had precognitive dreams as well and I've spoke to several other people who have... If the brain is the gateway to the subconcious then perhaps a precognitive dream is the result of what happens when the brain "shuts down" enough to be able to divorce itself from the mundane world and access this Bigger Thing. When you spoke of being able to train your mind to essentially be an active precognitive... well, I've seen too many unusual things in my life to dismiss the idea out of hand, but the little I can speak about on the subject tells me that the effort and training you would have to undergo would probably not be worth it. Also I am reminded of the Greek legend of the woman who could see the future but not tell anyone about it. I want to say it was Electra, but I'm not entirely sure about that. I do know there are people who have trained themselves to lucid dream--didn't you write about that at one point?--but in my own nonprofessional opinion I think that has it's own problems.
Anyway, marvellous topic; glad I was able to read it and I hope to hear your additional thoughts on the subject.
I'm glad you liked my post. It's the kind of thing I think about sometimes, you know. I agree that I probably didn't state that 10% brain usage thing right. It's not that you only use 10% but as you said, you only consciously use 10% or so. That's why I said that everything you've ever done is stored in there like a big hard drive but you just can't access it. So I guess you are using all of it but not accessing most of it so if we can figure out how to access it then that would make a big difference.
By the way, the woman you were talking about who was cursed to see the future and could do nothing I think was Cassandra actually. That does lead to another issue kind of related to the free will thing. See, I agree that free will doesn't really matter. You do what you do and whether you have the illusion of choice or not it doesn't change the outcome, it just makes you feel like you're in control. I was watching this show "Heroes" though and this Japanese guy had a comic book that told the future. The Japanese guy got to a point though in which he was making his choices based on what the comic book said rather than just letting things naturally happen. Now maybe they would have happened that way anyway if in fact it was telling the future but by forcing it like that, it raises the question of did this event happen because it was destined and you just knew about it beforehand or did the fact that you thought you knew about it beforehand influence your decisions and lead you to that conclusion.
Anyway, you had a great comment that you obviously put a lot of thought and time into and I really appreciate that. I love hearing from people and learning their thoughts and when its about sex and bondage its great but even about other topics I'm interested in is nice too. I hope you keep enjoying my webcage and don't feel shy about speaking up in the forums or leaving me more comments okey?
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