Hello everyone! It’s my first post here and it’s not even about lucid dreaming… I guess it’s more significant for me than my attempts at lucid dreaming so far.
I had this dream in which I was back in a high-school literature class. We were discussing this book in which some reptile-people were the prominent characters. I was flipping through this book and at one moment decided to start listening to what the teacher had to say about it. In the morning, I didn’t remember much from there on, other that she had been talking something about the “nāga”. It was in my head in this exact form, with the “ā” and everything.
So I thought that I should look up if it has a meaning as it was an unknown word for me. I thought it would mean something totally out of context if anything at all, but I was speechless when I read at Wikipedia that it’s a deity in Buddhism and Hinduism that can take the form of a large snake… I went through potential sources where I might have heard that word but found nothing. I got this thought that your dreams might be also accessible to outside information, not only your own thoughts…
Or you could have heard that somewhere and forgotten.
One problem with proving dreams are accessible for outside information, is that you cannot say and be a hundred percent sure you haven’t heard that word before. You may have as a kid when watching your television. It may have been mentioned in a book you read, and so on.
You must know that you haven’t seen that information before: you must realize something you couldn’t possibly know (An utter stranger’s password is a good example)
You might be right but then again, how could my mind associate the word with the context? I am quite sure I haven’t heard this word before but I admit that it’s not 100% for sure.
I’m sure it’s possible but I agree, there isn’t a current method of proving 100% that the information didn’t come from your subconscious.
A little skepticism: You said you weren’t paying attention in class, and your class was discussing a book about reptile-people. Is it likely that someone was talking about the religious symbolism of the book, while you were dozing off? (It was the morning… who could possibly stay awake?)
No, we never discussed this book at school IRL Wow, I just realized that I was sitting in the classroom just like 2 years ago when I was in my 11th year and I also read this book about 2 years ago…
It’s possible then that you have read the word in the book you read two years ago.
I read a book (I can’t remember which) where the author belived that your subconsious is a gateway to the universe. That somewhere, you know everything about everything. It takes a lot to unlock this everything, but you can get some answers from it.
I myself, do not belive this, but it is just a silly little explanation =D
Just to clarify, I checked and this term was used like in two passages of the book and it was written differently.
I’ve heard that there are theories like this, but I haven’t really looked into these. My dream evoked interest in the theory, too bad you don’t remember the name…
TwilightDreamer makes an excellent point. How can we know we haven’t heard the information somewhere before, and we just weren’t consciously aware of it?
Either we don’t know the information and the subconscious part of ourselves has access to it, or we don’t know that we know the information, and the subconscious part of ourselves has access to it. In either case, I think that the subconscious part of ourselves is an amazing thing.
The root of this question is really, do we have access to information which we have no way of knowing, either consciously or unconsciously? I don’t know what science says about it, but in my own experience, the answer is yes, we do. I think it’s something you have to answer on an individual level.
Also, “naga” is a very simple word that your mind may have come up with randomly.
Most probably you found it somewhere and forgotten it.
By the way, science says that if there’s no way you could have known something, there was one, otherwise you wouldn’t know it. Be it learning it by chance, making it up, or knowing and forgetting it.
I remember a dream a dream character in the news (a pope) explained the chupacabras are coming from the center of earth to take over our “evangelio” (I can’t remember how is this word in english, I speak spanish) By those times I was child and had no idea what that word meant, I thought it was made up by my mind. Today I know it and wonder how did my brain know this so accurately when I didn’t even think the word could exist?
P.S. and that was my first lucid dream, but it ended quickly once I became lucid. I didn’t know what was lucidity then.
It’s my first post here and it’s not even about lucid dreaming… I guess it’s more significant for me than my attempts at lucid dreaming so far.
I went through potential sources where I might have heard that word but found nothing. I got this thought that your dreams might be also accessible to outside information, not only your own thoughts…
Wow, I just realized that I was sitting in the classroom just like 2 years ago when I was in my 11th year and I also read this book about 2 years ago…