I have some thoughts I´d like to share, and questions I´d like to ask, that touches subjects such as metaphysical philosophy and to some extent also paranormal phenomenon. section removed, please read the posting guidelines
Anyways, while I was drifting into the dream-state and still remaining conscious, my mind created a sound that I could physically feel in the part of the brain that is closest to the eye and forehead. I have felt this a small number of times before, but not as strong as this one I experienced tonight. Also, I experienced various patterns that where beautifully coloured, and frightening voices that resembled those of my beloveth.
I know that “this is just a sleep-paralysis” and that the sound may be just an hypnagogic hallucination, but the thing that really puzzles me is that I physically can feel it (allthough this too might be illusiory - an hallucination). The sound can be described as a signal and the sensation as electricity. Thus we have an electric signal, or neurons. My conclusion therefore is that what I feel when I´m in this state is neurons, and here comes the interesting part: I believe that these neurons create the dreams in some sort of physical form, by me. That is - not only in my head but in a theoretical dimension that is not as concrete as this, for this reality we normally call reality has more patterns of cause and effect and of numbers and digits and whatever it might be. But apart from this I suggest that this might be how we creat the reality we call “waking life”, or this dimension, too(!)- I share Schopenhauers view, that is; the world is my idea and the world is made of will (I am still stuck in the first book, in which he describes the world merely as idea and not to a larger extent the world as will, wich is to be described in the second book or something like that).
First, read this - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_ … ent_reason - then let me quote Schopenhauer about the difference between dream and waking life:
“We have dreams; may not our whole life be a dream? or more exactly: is there a sure criterion of distinction between dreams and reality? between phantasms and real objects? The assertion that what is dreamt is less vivid and distinct than what we actually percieve is not to the point, because no one has ever been able to make a fair comaprison of the two; for we can only compare the recollection of a dream with the present reality. Kant answers the question thus: ‘The connection of ideas among themselves, according to the law of causality, constitutes the difference between real life and dreams.’ But in dreams, as well as in real life, everything is connected individually at any rate, in accordance with the principle of suffiecient reason in all its forms, and this connection is broken only between life and dream, or between one dream and another. Kant’s answer therefore could only run thus: — the long dream (life) has throughout complete connection according to the principle of sufficient reason; it has not this connection, however, with short dreams, although each of these has in itself the same connection: the bridge is therefore broken between the former and the latter, and on this account we distinguish them.
But to institute an inquiry according to this criterion, as to wheter something was dreamt or seen, would always be difficult and often impossible. For we are by no means in a position to trace link by link the causual connection between experienced event and the present moment, but we do not on that account explain it as dreamt. Therefore in real life we do not commonly employ that method of distinguishing between dreams and reality. The only sure criterion by wich to distinguish them is in fact the entirely empirical one of awaking, through wich at any rate the causal connection between dreamed and those of waking life, is supported by the remark of Hobbes of the second chapter of Leviathan, that we easily mistake dreams for reality if we have unintentionally fallen asleep without taking off our clothes, and much more so when it also happens that some undertaking or design fills all out thoughts and occupies our dreams as well as our waking moments. We then observe the awaking just as little as the falling asleep, dream and reality run together and become confounded. In such a case there is nothing for it but the application of Kant’s criterion; but if, as often happens, we fail to establish by means of this criterion, either the abscence of such connection, then it must for ever remain uncertain wheter an event was dreamt or really happened. Here, infact, the intimate relationship between life and dreams is brought out very clearly, and we need not be ashamed to confess it, as it has been recognised and spoken of by many great men. The Vedanas and Puranas have no better simile than a dream for the whole knowledge of the actual world, wich they call the web of Maya, and they use none more frequently. Plato often says that men live only in a dream; the philosopher alone strives to awake himself.”
And further, a very beautifull peice:
“Life and dreams are leaves of the same book. The systematic reading of this book is real life, but when we often continue idly to turn over the leaves, and read a page we have before, sometimes one that is new to us, but always in the same book. Such an isolated page is indeed out of connection with the systematic study of the book, but it does not seem so very different when we remember that the whole continuous persual begins and ends just as abruptly, and may therefore be regarded as merely a larger page.”
There is more where this came from but quotation from a great philosophers work when you have newly awaken from sleep is not to recommend.
Now, that wich you see, or feel, or hear as object or sound - is just “data”. For example a sound is a wave that is introduced to us by tiny hairs in your ear or something like that, merely that and nothing more; but it is the consciousness, or you as an subject if you are more familiar with that terms, that, in short, makes it out of the sensory data, in this case - the soundwaves. The waves does not sound likewise for every individual, that is to say - we all are unique as perceivers and makers of the sounds, objects etc. in or consciousness. This, for example, is proven by the fact that different people have different tastes in music et cetera.
Another thing that is sort of a “proof” that we build the reality is what Benjamin Libet demonstrated by his experiments: In short, he demonstrated that we become conscious of sensory data 0,5 seconds after we have been introduced to it.
Anyways, I suggested that time and space, and waves and particles are created by humans via some sort of electricity (electromagnetism maybe?) or neurons. These neurons are in fact our consciousness…
Thus, what I felt and heard when I fell asleep, where my consciousness creating the world of dreams. And this certainly is logical - I know it and you know it and scientist know it. But, i also suggest that we creat waking life too! The fact that it lookes almost the same for everyone is that there exists archetypes that is bound by cause and effect and maybe even determinism - good luck with breaking them or that. The dreamworld is much more etheric and less stable then waking reality, but it is nevertheless dependent on us to exist.
The dreamworld is the playground of the soul.
After the “signal” I made I had a lucid dream in wich I met my best friend. The dream was very vivid and I asked him if he existed physically in this world were in right now - he hesitated and after that his face turned black as vakuum. Then I asked if he was an product of my imagination - he nodded and his face became gray-blue.