Visiting Parallel Universes in our Dreams - The true future of Space and Time travel is within our grasp.
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The Fantastic Voyage
The other night I woke up after a very long protracted Dream a great deal of which was still vivid in my memory. The thing that has always impressed me the most about dreams is the sheer scope of detail, stage props, places, characters and storyline. It would take an entire film production crew and a great deal of time to reproduce the dream that I had just awoken from. Entire streets with shops filled with real stock and staffed by real characters with well defined characters and physical features.
For instance; in my dream I visited a Motorcycle shop which had a bewildering collection of new and used motorcycles. The thing is that most of the bikes were not 'real' in the sense that they don't exist in real life. These bikes were however complete and in many ways technical and in some cases quite 'innovative' variations on bikes that exist in the real world. In the dream I rode an incredible V6 250 cc machine and experiences a very 'real' physical experience, riding the bike around unfamiliar streets complete with detailed traffic and people.
I was 30 years younger in this dream, and I remember worrying about 'getting back to work' and how far was work from here and in which direction. I actually got lost in this dream and ended up having to deal with some very shady bikers who ultimately ripped me off.
Have you ever tried imagining things while you are awake, trying to think things up and creating visuals in your mind like in a dream? You can't even come close without opening your eyes and visualizing it on paper, or on a computer.
The process of dreams is so massive and the scope and sophistication so great that I truly believe that some other far greater process is occurring.
I have read many books on the Psychology of Dreams and am a big fan of Carl Jung and can see the obvious connection between dreams and the Subconscious. However is the Subconscious the entire production crew? Has the Subconscious mind got the capacity to produce such incredible complex pieces of fictional movie making art? Or is it part of a collaborative process where it gets to be a part of the writing team?
Recent developments in the Physics of 'String Theory' suggest that Parallel Universes are a reality. It's hard to get your head around a concept where a Parallel world exists with 'You' in it living a Parallel life that is possibly very different to the one you are in right now. The laws of Physics keeps us safely locked in this Universe, with our favorite constant the speed of light binding us together with forces and 'rules'. On some basic levels we are just beginning to learn how to use these rules like creating 'atomic power' or even breaking the rules by creating 'anti matter'.
What about the human brain? Possibly the most complex and least understood of all the organic creations that are known in our universe. Has the brain got the capacity to travel beyond the physical limitations of our body and the rules of this Universe?
There is definite physical connections between matter and anti matter, the two seem interconnected. Have we then got a real connection between our physical counterpart in the many Parallel Universes? I believe that we do and during the deepest part of our sleep we drift into and visit these Parallel worlds which are as real in the physical sense as our own. These voyages may be coordinated by our subconscious mind or maybe our subconscious is the only part of our mind which can remember or experience the voyage. Our conscious mind locked by necessity in this Universe and its 'rules'.
I believe that we do travel in our Dreams and that they may be the true portal to Time and Space Travel in the future. It could also be the answer to some far bigger questions like 'what conciousness really is' or 'the importance of the concious entity within the overall structure of Time and Space'. This untimately leads to the biggest question of them all 'the meaning of life'.
If you travel faster than the speed of light you will go back in time. If you travel faster than the speed of light back to a point where the Planet Earth was in time and space ..... you can visit the past. This is supported by all the latest theories. This would suggest that our past still exists in very real terms like some super recording. Our physical bodies can not travel beyond the speed of light at the moment, we would break the constant that holds us together here in this world. But what about our mind? Maybe our memories are more like markers that can access the real past. That would explain how fish and birds can have such complex memories that allow then to navigate thousands of miles to a point on the earth where they have never been before. A memory passed on by their parents in their living cells, a marker that allows them to relive a part of their parents past. As I write this I get a wonderful feeling that this is right...It feels right. Dreams then can maybe exploit a mechanism that we know exists. I guess the question is 'can our minds travel faster than the speed of light?'
These ponderings may unsettle some readers, but I find them liberating and exciting. We really do have a future and a past that lay beyond the physical limitations of this life. The whole exsistance of life itself is a process where memories, structures and physical capabilities are passed from one living generation to the next living generation, growing and expanding in ways that cheat the limitations of one individual lifespan. I am not just a decendent of a living creature that has evolved over millions of years..I AM THAT LIVING CREATURE....still alive.
Dream on and don't fear this Fantastic Voyage... it won't be your last
I have written a follow up to this article Visiting Parallel Universes Part2 with some very interesting links to some late Scientific Developments and some older ones.....a must read.
If you would like to read more on thsis subject please read part 2 of 'The Fantastic Voyage' Harmony - Evolution and The Meaning of Life.
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I agree with this possibility. This would explain some of my more realistic dreams! And, I love the thought!!! :D
This is definitely an interesting theory. There is certainly much more out there than what we currently know as being factual.
I also have very vivid dreams on occasion.
"I am not just a decendent of a living creature that has evolved over millions of years..I AM THAT LIVING CREATURE....still alive."
Cheers! I couldn't agree more.
Wonderful exploration of probabilities.
Loved reading this. I do believe in parallel universes...I believe it explains a lot related to our future after our body dies. It all relates to the time/space continuum as well. I had never considered dreams in all of this, but perhaps you're right. Very thought provoking!
I too dream on a nightly basis. And you are very right, there is no way to imagine the details you see in a dream, while awake. Tou just motivated me to write a dream hub too. Thank you very much,lol. I will ponder on it and post it later. Send me a message sometime. I love discussing the dream state.*****DREAM ON********
Our civilization wouldn't be possible without our "dreamscapes." Just how connective they are in terms of space and time and parallel universes is, of course, a matter of imagination. Then again, there may be nothing beyond the mind - my mind, your mind, his mind or the mind of God. Think on that subject tonight!... Later!
wow. this is brilliant. who knows what secrets the universe holds, i have had really vivid dreams myself that felt so real that a part of me believes they were somehow. once again.. brillaint.
If you travel faster than the speed of light you will go back in time. If you travel faster than the speed of light back to a point where the Planet Earth was in time and space ..... you can visit the past. This is supported by all the latest theories. This would suggest that our past still exists in very real terms like some super recording. Our physical bodies can not travel beyond the speed of light at the moment, we would break the constant that holds us together here in this world. But what about our mind? Maybe our memories are more like markers that can access the real past. That would explain how fish and birds can have such complex memories that allow then to navigate thousands of miles to a point on the earth where they have never been before. A memory passed on by their parents in their living cells, a marker that allows them to relive a part of their parents past. As I write this I get a wonderful feeling that this is right...It feels right. Dreams then can maybe exploit a mechanism that we know exists. I guess the question is 'can our minds travel faster than the speed of light?'.....I added this to the artice.
We are not gonna to be in the past cause time won't flow backwards. But we are gonna to be regenerated over and over again like life circle.
Time flows forward but the past remains complete and real. As I have said the 'physical body'may not be able to visit the past, but the mind does not have the same restrictions. If you could physically travel back to the past you would start a different reality(time would flow forwards, but always behind our time). You can not change the future (our time) because it would create a paradox.
rodericktaylor,
Dreams are dreams and they make anything possible but reality requires more than imagination.
String theory is a dream that has been laying around for about thirty years and I believe that it was its author's dream to make a unification theory work.
There is no evidence that the speed of light can be exceeded and therefore there would be no way to understand the attributes of that speed.
rodericktaylor,
Unfortunately, I don't even have a partially open mind to the concept of time travel.
I don't believe it is at all possible to travel into an absolute future. Time travel into the past is also doubtful.
The time travel that I am referring is remaining in a particular location and moving within in time at that location. This is similar to the HG Wells Time Machine concept.
Unless time has moved ahead of this moment, then there is no future to travel to. Our future is the next second, and nothing is there until the second clicks.
An analogy of time travel to the past, is video taping say the last twenty four hours with a frame by frame record. Assuming that things were changing in those frames over the course of 24 hours, what mechanism is there to record and capture all of the events that have happened.
Even though our location may have remained stationary, the universe has been active. The objects in space that have motion have changed their location, and this includes the Earth and the Moon.
With a video recorder, the storage device whether it be tape or hard disk or memory chip has captured the past. This past can be played back over and over again.
Where is the capture mechanism for the universe?
If you believe in multiple dimensions, then crossing dimensions is not time travel.
We are 5 billions years into a 14 billion year universe. So there are 9 billion years of past events. This are not our past because the Earth didn't exist.
So without a mechanism to capture every single event in time, the past is gone and the future hasn't happened yet.
As I recall the fastest event in time is referred to by Plank's constant which I believe is 10 to the -44th power seconds. Assuming that is true, every event in the universe has to be capture each tick of that time period.
A video camera running at 30 frames a second is taking a photo every 30th of a second. If something happened in between that 30th of second the video recorder wouldn't capture it. It wouldn't even see the result of that change if it changed back to an initial state before the next frame was taken.
I know about the experiments where an object disappears, but that isn't time travel in my definition.
We want to call Time the 4th dimension but we really don't know the reality of dimensions. How many exist and what purpose they may serve.
Time to me is a monitor function, like a clock. Time is created by motion starting at the smallest particles. Without this motion, the universe would be frozen in time. That is no time, and nothing would ever change.
Here is a question for those that believe in time travel.
How far back in time could you travel?
Could you travel back to the beginning of civilization?
Could you travel back to the birth of Jesus?
Could you travel back to the Garden of Eden?
Could you travel back to the six days of creation?
Could you travel back to the big bang?
Could you travel back to before the big bang?
These questions are not absurd if you believe in time travel, as these or something has to be the bounds of time travel.
My comments were made in a scientific vain, and they are not philosophical nor theological in nature.
Thanks
It's good to read about an issue I've personally contemplated for years. Modern physics asserts that parallel universes exist, but how do we know they are there? It is beyond our senses, but not so for our minds. I feel convinced that the places and people I visit in dreams are beyond my personal imagination, so that tells me that they must be real. There is no other explanation. Anyways, I look forward now to dreaming more than I have before because I feel the mystery of dreams is solved. The mind or soul goes off the leash to associate with the larger, infinite world in dreams. I liked finding that other people here have been contemplating the same issue.
This has a valuable philosophical content, and it is nicely written and easy to read. But the scientific content is confused. Many of the comments result from confusion too.
e.g. "Parallel universes are a reality". Not true. String theory (in all forms) is still in its infancy, and has far too many solutions to make predictions - it's main problem. There are some ideas which promote the multiverse as an idea - but it is not known to be a reality.
Creating antimatter does not "break the rules". It is totally consistent with the most useful models (and observation) that we currently have.
Although G.R and other theories do not explicitly exclude time travel, no observation to date supports any practicality. Any idea which creates a paradox is in trouble, so theorists are actively searching for ways to
modify the current theories that either explicitly disallow time travel, or prevent a situation where a paradox can occur. In either case, popular "science" and Sci-Fi surrounding causality-violating time travel is not applicable to reality and experiment.
In the same way that imagining a solution to the square root of minus 1 is a useful tool, and generates mathematics that are very useful, the symmetry of time in multi-dimensional theories permits some useful mathematical modeling. But you can't actually state a value for the square root of minus 1, and it is most likely that time travel is also not a practicality. For example, I can describe and model a sign wave to explore an alternating current, but since it is a continuous function without a start or finish, I need to pick an arbitrary point and called it t=0. It's useful and valid for me to work with equations that are to the negative side of t=0 just as well as the positive side. But this does not imply that negative time need be a reality.
"There is definite physical connections between matter and anti matter, the two seem interconnected." Well... yes of course. Each particle has an antiparticle but when they meet, each annihilates the other and produces a bunch of photons. It's worth reading http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/19982 to get a feel for the relationship between matter, antimatter, and importantly a possible reason for the domination of matter over anti-matter - for if they were exactly equal in the early universe, and able to coincide, then only photons would be left. (Energy with no rest-mass).
"By the way, particle accelerators have exceeded the speed of light." Rubbish. A particle with a tiny rest-mass has been accelerated to something very close to the speed of light but it has not exceeded it.
Virtual particles can, in various theories be allowed to "exceed light speed" but they must do so only on quantum scales, and in such a way that preserves causality in the macro world, conservation of energy, and FLT signaling. These are tools like the square root of -1. The closest practical experiments to something that appears to do a sort of time travel involve quantum tunneling. But no Special Relativity rules are broken, and IMHO the apparent time travel is a muddy confusion caused by analyzing a wave using terms more applicable to particles.
The whole idea of this article is to pose a 'what if' question. The existence of Parallel Universes is a theory like all theories. There is nothing wrong with posing a 'what if question'. My Article is in Hub Pages not Scientific American. It was meant to be a light hearted pondering. My original Article was deliberately non-specific about the Science. I shall leave my original article stand and leave it at that. I don't think this is an appropriate site for Scientific debate. There are plenty of Science blogs where you can get down to the nitty gritty and argue with real experts, not light hearted writers.
I love what you have written in this great article. I deeply believe in parallel universe but it's quite really hard to grasp at first or for most people. But nevertheless quantum mechanics has already some clues about this. Though not 100 percent proven but I believe that when science eventually catch up with spiritual, it certainly WILL.
Thanks Ken. So much of modern Science has come from ideas that may seem 'way out there' but they are ideas which spark the desire to look. When we look and investigate we invariably discover new truths which generate even more new ideas. Life tests its boundaries and explores its environment, to remain static is to stop growth.
Excellent hub!
I often do projections onto the astral. Yes, to all those nay-sayers time travel is possible. Well, at least during astral projections. Again, love this hub and keep it up.
Hi everyone - just joined this forum today and found this very interesting topic so here are my thoughts:-
While I agree somewhat to the standard scientific explanation that dreams are merely chemical reactions in our brain which cause us to experience images during rem-sleep I think that this goes far deeper than that.
The world or worlds we experience during 'dreamtime' don't necessarily reflect our imagination and events which are played out seem very real to us despite the bizarre nature and unusual scenarios that happen. There are so many people who either experience de ja vu and vivid accounts of previous personas that it would be foolish to discount these as mere coincidences or highly suggestive imaginations.
I, for one do dream although I experience some nights where I don't recall anything yet other times 3 or even 4 vivid dreams.
a few months ago I was having a very in depth conversation with one of my Mother's friends who was in his early 70's. He talked about some pretty incredible coincidences which he's experienced during his lifetime - some of which were directly connected to his dreams beforehand, all of which inseemed pretty incredible. He only told me about a few coincidences, being able to tell that he had a winning raffle ticked on 3 consecutive occasions before actually winning it. Also being able to tell 5 mins prior to an RAF friend he hadn't seen for 25 years was about to call on his doorstep!! That sort of thing.... In actual fact when he visited a medium with his RAF friend in the mid 50's, the medium told him that he had a 'special gift' but would need to learn how to use it. At the time he took what the medium said with a pinch of salt but in his latter years he's begun to think his experiences may have had something to do with being psychic. He mentioned that on a number of occasions his dreams have been predictions to the actual event happening the next day in real life.
So, may it be possible that are persona's exist of a 'me' and an 'I'. The 'I' being in constant within our physical waking body and the 'me' being our outer spiritual consciousness capable of travelling to the astral dimensions and beyond?? It is now becoming apparent that our world is just one of billions of parallel universes contained in a multi-verse. A possible theory to analyze why images change with the blink of an eye while we see objects in a dream could be that our 'me' is travelling through many parallel worlds and 'visiting' our other dopplegangers who reside in these other worlds. Okay, so why do these other worlds not have the same physical laws that we have here. Well, when you have so many different universes which exist outside our confined 3d world as we know it, isn't it a surprise that we're experiencing different laws which conventional science doesn't know about??
Anway, I had 3 dreams which I can remember last night - all very interesting which I'm sure existed in completely different worlds. Here's the funny thing that happened. In dream no. 3 I was at my brother and sister-in-laws house which was totally different to how it was in this life. I was chatting to my brother in this dream about the previous dream I had and asking his opinion about parallel universes and stuff. How weird is that? - Talking to someone in a dream about a dream!!
Well, all in all I really do think there is a possibility that dreams are something on a much higher plain than just simple manifestations of the brain....Think about near death experiences people have...The persona, soul or consciousness leaves the body behind...Who says this can't happen while we are sub-conscious. It's up to you to decide.
Thanks for reading,
--Davey--
CMHypno says:
4 months ago
Congratulations on your HubNugget nomination and great Hub!