Everyone dreams. Some claim to dream in color. Many can describe their dreams in minute detail but others, like me, can't remember anything except that they had a dream.
Dreams occur at a low level of consciousness where inhibitions of reason and moral concepts do not function well, if at all. Impossible things happen in dreams but may have significance. Nearly everyone has had the flying dream. We know we can't fly but, because it is universal, it may be a memory of a time when we all did fly, maybe when we were waiting to be born in Heaven.
When we are in that sleep state where the conscious and subconscious share the brain at the same time, some of the benefits of a lack of inhibitions allows us to achieve things that reason knows we "cannot".We sing but we can't, we give great speeches, achieve impossible physical feats, tell off the boss eloquently and invent things. We solve problems that have been bugging us and remember things we thought we had forgotten. When we awake, they are all gone, like a dream. It's possible that geniuses live and think at this level and that is why they dismiss the impossible. The absent-minded professor may be half asleep or has learned to enter that state on a permanent basis.
Psychiatrist have used various techniques to enter and reveal the sub-conscious mind of their patients but if nature has hidden it from us, should we enter? The shrouding of the sub-conscious may have been meant to keep secrets from our conscious mind, things we shouldn't know or may be harmful.
Anyhow, there are a lot of mysteries about humans we shall never uncover until we shed our bodies and become our minds.
Dreams occur at a low level of consciousness where inhibitions of reason and moral concepts do not function well, if at all. Impossible things happen in dreams but may have significance. Nearly everyone has had the flying dream. We know we can't fly but, because it is universal, it may be a memory of a time when we all did fly, maybe when we were waiting to be born in Heaven.
When we are in that sleep state where the conscious and subconscious share the brain at the same time, some of the benefits of a lack of inhibitions allows us to achieve things that reason knows we "cannot".We sing but we can't, we give great speeches, achieve impossible physical feats, tell off the boss eloquently and invent things. We solve problems that have been bugging us and remember things we thought we had forgotten. When we awake, they are all gone, like a dream. It's possible that geniuses live and think at this level and that is why they dismiss the impossible. The absent-minded professor may be half asleep or has learned to enter that state on a permanent basis.
Psychiatrist have used various techniques to enter and reveal the sub-conscious mind of their patients but if nature has hidden it from us, should we enter? The shrouding of the sub-conscious may have been meant to keep secrets from our conscious mind, things we shouldn't know or may be harmful.
Anyhow, there are a lot of mysteries about humans we shall never uncover until we shed our bodies and become our minds.
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