I wrote this a while back. Even though there’s a few things I feel different on, it still gets to the core of things…
“Everyone has had a dream at one point or another (when I say dreams I mean the type when you go to sleep). Supposedly we have dreams every night but only remember parts of a few once in a while. But what memories we have of them are usually very broken, random, and distant, even as soon as one wakes up. But this is generally how we can separate our “dream world” from our reality. We know that we went to bed and then fell asleep and we remember waking up in the same bed. We can assume that what happened in between those times was a dream. And since most dreams are very random and strange, we can further dissociate it with our known reality. Our dreams are usually scattered bits of information and experiences we have encountered recently, or some or all of a distant traumatic incident(s). Our minds jumble all this stuff up into this world where we think were awake but really aren’t. We then wake up and know we were dreaming. Generally, in a dream your mind plays tricks on your senses, making you see or hear things that aren’t there.
One interesting thing I believe is that during our dreams time seems to be altered, sometimes to the extreme amount. My dad had told me of a dream he had one time where he was part of a big bank robbery. He and these other guys had planned it out for hours and waited for the right time. The broke in the bank carefully, not to set off the alarm, and started to use their torch to burn past the door on the safe. The very second that the door opened on the safe, his alarm clock immediately went off. Now is that pure coincidence that in his dream lasting hours, that the very second he opened the door to the safe his alarm clock went off, and on top of that, it was the correct sound of an alarm? His alarm was the perfect sound and at the perfect time. That seems to be much more than pure coincidence to me. I believe that the very instant he heard the alarm in his sleep, he had a dream that lasted hours in a matter of a second or maybe even less. I’ve had dreams that seemed to last hours and so much had happened, and I had fallen asleep for only 15 minutes! I don’t think it’s uncommon for a person to have a dream where they might die or get hurt, and right at the exist time it’s supposed to happen, something just happens to wake them up whether it be an alarm clock or a sound in the night. Dreams can happen in an instantaneous instant and we don’t even realize it. Our minds are well capable of altering our perception of time much greater then we think.
No, that’s not my Dream Theory; I’ve barely begun to start with it yet. I just wanted to give a little background and concepts on the topic; it’ll have more meaning later on in this theory.
I want you to take an object in front of you, anything will do. My object will be a Sharpie marker. Why does that pen exist? Other than then common logic telling you it’s really there, your senses and brain do all the work. Your eyes tell you that you see an object. The memory part of your brain tells you that it is a pen and it’s for writing, chewing on, stabbing someone in the jugular with, whatever uses for a sharpie pen that you know of your brain tells you immediately in a split second. Your brain interprets what your eyes “see” and you know that it’s a medium sized silver Sharpie. You touch the pen and your brain tells you it’s round long in relation to its width and it’s smooth in texture. You smell it and it smells like a permanent marker pen. Now that you’re high from smelling the Sharpie you might see what it tastes like. Your brain tells you it tastes like a Sharpie. If you have never tasted a Sharpie before then your brain tells you your tasting something and since your other senses are telling you it’s a Sharpie pen then your brain assumes that it’s what a Sharpie tastes like. When you write with the Sharpie you hear the squeak on the paper and your brain tells you your hearing the sound of a permanent marker on paper. You see, hear, smell, taste, and feel the Sharpie. For some reason we as human beings are happy and content with having just those five things as proof enough that something exists. Heck, just one of those is enough to make most people believe something is real. All of those “different” senses, however, are all basically the same thing though. Our brains must interpret all five of them. We simply trust our brains that what they are telling us is the case.
When we dream our brains do the exact same thing as in reality, just a lot more sloppily. But why are we so sure that everything our brains tell us is true. Why do you trust your brain in telling you that your holding whatever object you are, or even this text you’re reading right now. Why do we have so much trust in something that has total control over what we perceive? Our brains are interpreters of the world around us, or so we are led to believe. The Bible was made a long time ago and has undergone many interpretations. Do you seriously think that The Bible is exactly the same as it was so many years ago in its first edition? Interpretations always tend to change things around, even if only minutely. But it is already proven that our brains can falsely tell us of our surroundings.
Sit in a spinning chair and close your eyes. Spin your self around a few times then let the chair slow you to a stop on it’s own. Try to guess when you are still moving and when you have stopped. Chances are you will be wrong the majority of the time. It’s called spatial disorientation and it’s what happened to JFK Jr. when he was flying. Its shows how easily the mind can misinterpret information about your surroundings. But we assume that only in cases like that is when the “bad information” is received. We assume that everything we sense in “normal conditions” is 100% accurate.
If I still seem a bit vague at what I’m getting at then this is much simpler put: Somebody prove to me the world/universe exists, without using any of the five senses that we have. All you have to do is find a way to prove to me that the object in front of you exists, but you cannot use any of the five senses to do so. Not so easy is it? Maybe I’m wrong though. Maybe our brains are interpreting everything perfectly fine. They probably are…That’s because our brains are making everything we see, hear, touch, taste, and smell completely up.
How do we know we can trust our own brains? There is no object in front of you…it’s only there because your brain is telling you that it’s there. In The Matrix, there’s the one part where the traitor on the Nebaknezzer makes a deal with the agent to give the machines information on Zion’s location. He then goes on saying that the only reason he tastes the steak he is eating in the restaurant is because his mind is tricking him into believing that he is actually eating a big, juicy, tasty steak. “Ignorance is bliss” is his statement to it. Our brains might just have created the world we think we live in. Everything we know of is based on the five senses in some way or another. My belief is that this world we think we live in, this “reality”, is just a dream that we will awake from at one time or another. We are so convinced that when we wake up, we are in reality until we go to sleep. Anything after that is just a random dream, and once we wake up again, it’s back to reality. We are so ultimately sure, convinced, and dedicated to that notion.
The saying is that if a tree falls in the forest and nobody is around to hear it does it make any sound? No it doesn’t, only just invisible waves in the air that would be interpreted as sound. Well the bed that is right behind me as I typed this is not currently being looked at, or smelled, or heard, or felt, or tasted. The only reason I know it’s there is because my brain tells me it is. Common sense dictates that there’s no reason for the bed to go anywhere and I assume that it is still there as it has been. But how do I know for sure that it’s still there though? The brain has control once again. The bed probably isn’t there anymore; I just simply assume it’s still there. Science says that we only use something like 10% or 12% of our brains. Maybe this is what the other 90% is working on…our world. I’m even going to go as far as saying that maybe the world does revolve around me. Maybe none of you out that reading this really exist. My brain is telling me that you exist and not to question it. So technically nobody out there is reading this because nobody out there exists. Actually this philosophy doesn’t even exist either because my brain is just telling me that it does.
There is, however, a perfectly plausible explanation for these atrocities though. The world would be made up and I would be the only one “in” it…this is a dream…everything, everyone, and all time…all a dream…well maybe not everyone. If I believed that I’d be quite cynical by now. Generally, the most likely explanation is that we all have out own dreams; we just all share the same “space.” We each have our own dreams, but all of us can interact with each other in it.
You might be thinking if this is throwing to the wind all religious views. Not necessarily. When you die, your dream ends, and you wake up in “reality.” Your dream, by which I mean reality right now currently, is a reflection of what your life is after you die. If you lead a bad life, then your currently in Hell already, and if you are leading a good life then that means your already in Heaven. Just as in our dreams, which consist of jumbled up bits of our lives, maybe our lives are jumbled up bits of our true reality. That’s why if this theory is correct, then soul mates can be possible (if you have read my Soul Mates Theory). Because we are already in Heaven and Hell, then God can know if there is an even umber of people to pare up and how pares with both be in Heaven.
Since I’m on the topic of religion and God, this is the best time to bring up another point. God is good, not evil. That said, why would He create us with the capability of the evils we commit. Good and bad are relative to the time period and society. In a society where killing someone is ok, then some one who just hurts a person, but doesn’t kill him or her is considered a “good person.” Just as in a society where everybody is and has always been happy and kind to each other, s a person who wasn’t friendly or got frustrated with another person would be viewed as evil. As far was we know the majority of us might already be in Hell. But God is all powerful, and can do ANYTHING. He created us, and He had the power to do so in any way He wished. Now option A is to create a race capable of evils, and option B is to create them without the capability of evil. If you’re good, would you not create the option B, NOT capable of evils? In the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit because the evil snake tempted them to do so. Well if you created a race of life and didn’t want them to eat the fruit from a tree, wouldn’t it save everybody a lot of time and trouble if you never put the fruit or snake there in the first place seeing as how you created them to begin with? It’s like making a button in an empty room that says in big red letters “DO NOT PUSH”…well if the button is not supposed to be pushed then why in the world was the button created in the first place!? I do not believe that God created us simply so he could test us. Yes there is the Book Of Job in the Bible, but that doesn’t mean that out entire purpose is to be tested…right? Clearly with our history and society, there is much evil in our world. Hence why I believe that this is not reality at all. This is a dream, and anything can happen, including evil. Maybe I am wrong about being in Hell or Heaven, maybe we are all already in Heaven living peacefully, it’s just some of us are having bad dreams, i.e. our bad realities we are currently experiencing. My dad had his dream of being a bank robber, but he isn’t one in our reality, just as you may have had a dream where you hurt somebody or done something you would never do in reality. But then again, bank robberies are only bad relative to our society. The rules of Heaven and Hell are probably a lot stricter than bad being just bank robberies. Generally, happiness should not be used as a meter for goodness. Murderers can like what they do and be destined in hell, and like wise some can be unhappy with the world and be in Heaven.
Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe I’m just going crazy and I should just accept with world for what it is and just leave it at that. But maybe I’m right…or at least on the right track to the truth.”
