PredFan
Diamond Member
When people talk about out of body experiences, or dream states, or things like that, it reminds me of a situation I have had on a number of occasions.
I've had three dreams that have run similarly to this one:
I was at a restaurant's bar watching a game that I wasn't really interested in. It was just on the TV in the bar. The guy next to me, whom I do not know, says something to me. I haven't the slightest clue what he's talking about but I smile and nod like I understand and he looks back at the TV so I assume my answer satisfy's him. Later, I'm now joined by my wife and brother at a table in the restaurant eating dinner, and my brother tells me about something that happened in town today. When I hear it, I suddenly fully understand what the guy at the bar was saying to me that at the time I had no clue about.
For quite a while I was perplexed about this. How, in a dream that MY mind fabricated, could I not know what was going on? How is that possible?
After pondering this for a while, I have come up with several possible explanations. I believe that in dreams, your timeline does not run in a linear flow from one thing to the next. Upon waking, your mind will sort things to the proper order when they didn't occur that way.
Another explanation would be that your mind edits things as the dream or dream-state goes along.
Once you're awake, your mind has you experiencing things in the proper order when in fact they didn't occur that way. I believe that people who experience out of body episodes, or other phenomena when sleeping have experienced exactly this.
I've had three dreams that have run similarly to this one:
I was at a restaurant's bar watching a game that I wasn't really interested in. It was just on the TV in the bar. The guy next to me, whom I do not know, says something to me. I haven't the slightest clue what he's talking about but I smile and nod like I understand and he looks back at the TV so I assume my answer satisfy's him. Later, I'm now joined by my wife and brother at a table in the restaurant eating dinner, and my brother tells me about something that happened in town today. When I hear it, I suddenly fully understand what the guy at the bar was saying to me that at the time I had no clue about.
For quite a while I was perplexed about this. How, in a dream that MY mind fabricated, could I not know what was going on? How is that possible?
After pondering this for a while, I have come up with several possible explanations. I believe that in dreams, your timeline does not run in a linear flow from one thing to the next. Upon waking, your mind will sort things to the proper order when they didn't occur that way.
Another explanation would be that your mind edits things as the dream or dream-state goes along.
Once you're awake, your mind has you experiencing things in the proper order when in fact they didn't occur that way. I believe that people who experience out of body episodes, or other phenomena when sleeping have experienced exactly this.