Modern Science and Dreamtime

Modern Science and Dreamtime

Dreams have all the characteristics of reality: convincing sights, smells, sound, touch; powerful emotional content; even the ability to create effects in the “real” world. There may be different rules in particular dreams, such as being able to fly or perform other unusual feats. Nevertheless, the dream world has a consistent structure, just as the waking world does. The differences between dreams and waking are difficult to pinpoint, yet we generally feel that dream objects are “made up,” while in daily life we accept “real” objects made of “solid matter.”

Research reveals matter to be empty space with a few tiny particles in it. The particles are energy phenomena. There is no “stuff” in the universe; it is all made out of energy.

As quantum physics explores the nature of energy, some fascinating qualities come to light. For example, in observing a “particle,” it is impossible to determine both its momentum and its location at the same time because the very act of observing a characteristic causes it to leap out of the probable state and become actual. All other characteristics are still merely probabilities at that moment. To put this another way, energy has certain tendencies. The moment we look for one of those tendencies, it manifests itself, while all other tendencies remain latent…One might say that energy knows when it is being watched and it behaves to fulfill our expectations. Energy responds to us. It is conscious.

 

According to modern physics, although our world appears real and solid, it is actually an insubstantial realm whose features shift according to the psyche of the person who is observing it. A few paragraphs ago we described dream worlds the same way.

The dream of waking life appears to be longer lived, or at least more repetitive than our night-time dreams. In actuality, though, all dreams are timeless.

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Eliot Cowan

In other words, everything is a dream that creates its own world onto itself. This includes not only your night-time dreams but also your very life as well. Everything that exists be it a plant, a stone, an animal…or a human being is living within their own dream…or if you will their own thoughtform.