JITOTM 29: Dream Consciousness 2
Do dreams contain a deeper wisdom? The plot thickens: we're into our second episode exploring "sleep, dreams, and weirdness," and we're picking it up in a peculiar place.
Last week, we were just dipping our toes into dreamland, and I mentioned two peculiar sorts of dreams that recur with me: dreams where I meet dead people I've known, and dreams where I meet my rock & roll heroes.
Credit Jay with an open mind: he likes hard evidence, but he loves a compelling story, too. So this episode begins by exploring dream conversations with my dear departed grandmother, and moves on to some serious (rude) words of advice, imparted by a dream version of Irish rockstar Bono!
What does it all mean? That's the rub. No scientist can tell you where dreams come from, let alone what a dream means, and we're not about to try. But there are a few things we know.
For example, 20 % of kids who are ten will report dreams they've experienced; while 80 % of kids at age 12 do. Kids younger than that do dream, but their dreams are not well-developed, nor particularly interesting (with the exception of night terrors). Yet waking consciousness has been fully developed since about age four!
That's a mystery. And it leads to another: the bizarre, intriguing, but scientifically frustrating case of the lucid dreamers. That's where we're headed by the end of this episode of JITOTM, Dream Consciousness 2.
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posted by David Newland at 2:32 PM
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This is something I wrote earlier this year, and it seemed as relevant an answer as any ;)
Rules
1. The human body produces enough energy to power a lightbulb until death.
2. The energy is generated by the Mitochondria, which are unique to animal life.
3. All Energy is of a unique signature, and energy is magnetic.
4. Energy cannot be created or destroyed.
Nature
With the right imaging equipment we can see the bodies energy extending from the body.
Therefore the energy produced within the human body is of a unique form, and may not be destroyed, even upon death of the body.
When the body dies, this energy flows off (21 grams?) to be drawn magnetically towards energy with the same signature. Is this eternal energy the guiding force of everything we are? What is this Energy that was used to ignite the process started by our conception, to pump our heart and warm our body until our very Death.
Guidance
Our dreams are messages from our subconscious, what is our subconscious if not our soul?
As children we dream incredibly vivid dreams, yet rarely can we remember them. Are these dreams a way of interpreting all the things done, and seen, throughout the day in a brand new world? As youths our dreams are guidance, through the everyday stresses of life. Adults dream of things they've yet to see, do or accomplish. Psychiatry has acknowledged for a long time that our dreams come from our “subconscious” but what is our subconscious, if not the eternal energy that is used for a unique purpose? That purpose being the energy needed by living creatures TO live. The energy within us *is* conscious, and guiding, and everlasting. Which is everything that we have been told our soul is. Isn't it?
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