Dreamwork and the Soul's Journey
A Brief Exploration of the Multiverse
Every night, we enter a realm that scientists and sages alike are still trying to understand. We close our eyes and our mind concocts whole worlds with their own characters, laws, and logic – or lack thereof.
Could these dream worlds be more than hallucinations? This is something I have been studying my entire life, and if you have been following my writings over the years, you might already know it’s a passion of mine.
It’s this singular topic that is perhaps one of the most profound issues we wrestle with collectively, as it pertains to everything from our destiny to the nature of reality itself.
What if your bizarre flying adventure or that recurring visit to a strange city wasn’t “just a dream” but a real experience in an alternate dimension? It sounds like science fiction (indeed, Marvel’s Doctor Strange quips that dreams are windows into the lives of our multiversal selves), yet based on what we know about consciousness and the nature of reality, it’s a theory that begins to fill in some important blanks.
Here I will tackle this idea at length, that dreamtime is not merely the brain’s random DVR, but possibly a form of evolutionary soul work taking place in an arena spanning multiple dimensions.
The Many-Worlds of Dreaming
Modern physics has already opened the door to alternate realities with the Many-Worlds Interpretation (MWI) of quantum mechanics. MWI suggests that every possible outcome of every event actually occurs – each in its own parallel world.
In other words, reality is a constantly branching tree of parallel universes. We normally go about life oblivious to those other branches.
But could dreaming offer a peek through the dimensional blinds?
In a Physics meets Oneirology thought experiment, philosopher Elliott Benjamin posited that dreaming might literally depict events in a real alternate world that split off at some past moment.
Perhaps when you dream of that life where you became a rock star instead of a scientist, you are tuning into the you that made that choice in another universe. Under this hypothesis, dreams are portals into the lives of your quantum “counterparts” living in those parallel worlds. Each night, your consciousness might slide into one of these alternate timelines – experiencing it firsthand.
Indeed, it has been mused that “is life but a dream?” could be answered quite literally: your life here is also the dream of an alternate self in a branching universe.
Such a scenario turns lucid dreaming into a kind of interdimensional sport. If you become aware and lucid in a dream, you might even try to change that world – essentially attempting to rewrite the history of an alternate reality.
It’s a breathtaking idea, that our nightly adventures are not fiction but quantum travelogues. A Psychology Today article even argues that since dream content often consists of “what might have been” scenarios, it makes sense to ask “Where do these alternate histories occur?” Perhaps they occur in a parallel world if MWI is correct.
Nonlocality: Spooky Connections and Dream Signals
Here enters another quantum phenomenon: nonlocality, what Einstein infamously called “spooky action at a distance.”
In 2022, physicists won the Nobel Prize for proving that quantum-entangled particles can instantly affect each other across vast distances, defying classical ideas of separate, independent objects.
Reality, at a fundamental level, seems to be deeply interconnected and holistic. Some thinkers like Dr. David Leong speculate that consciousness itself might exploit such quantum entanglement to roam beyond the body. He distinguishes between “local consciousness” (bound to your brain and senses) and “nonlocal consciousness” that transcends the usual limits of space and time.1 In the dream state, when our sensory input and rational guard are low, perhaps consciousness can slip into a nonlocal mode, free to shift within a certain band of dimensional frequencies.
If entangled particles can influence each other across the universe, maybe an entangled mind could glimpse another life altogether.
Critically, mainstream physics doesn’t allow communication between parallel worlds in MWI (each branch is sealed off after splitting). But some argue that at the very moment of a branch, the identical state of two counterpart brains could be effectively the same mind.
By the principle of the identity of indiscernibles, if your alternate self at the split has an identical brain and memory, he is you at that instant. Thus any awareness might briefly be shared, allowing a cross-world “leak” of information.
Others suggest that if we truly have freedom and not a strict fate, we must be able to gain knowledge of how things could have been – knowledge that perhaps comes as intuitions… or dreams.
These are speculative interpretations, but they highlight that quantum theory doesn’t slam the door entirely from a scientific perspective, although I am well aware of the limitations of science as a whole.
Quantum Consciousness: Is the Brain a Portal?
For dreams to be alternate dimensions, our consciousness must be capable of existing beyond the gray matter of our brain. Here we tiptoe into one of science’s grand riddles: the mind-brain relationship.
Traditional neuroscience sees the brain as the producer of consciousness (like a computer creating a virtual reality for the mind to play in). But anyone who seriously studies this subject knows that this view - although convenient - is palpably false.
The brain does not produce consciousness. The concept of meta-awareness (or the conscious mind being able to observe and listen to thoughts from an outside perspective) is enough to seriously challenge this notion alone, never mind any number of other concepts such as NDEs (near-death experiences), OBEs (out-of-body experiences), astral projection, and what quantum physics has taught us about the nature of energy and thought (that they are one and the same and can’t be destroyed, only changed).2
In all actuality, the brain is more like a transceiver – a device that receives, filters, and transmits consciousness which may be a more fundamental aspect of the universe. Intriguingly, some scientists and philosophers have proposed quantum mechanisms to explain consciousness, blurring the line between physics and psyche.
Quantum mind theories suggest that the weird properties of quantum physics (superposition, entanglement, observer effect) might underlie our conscious awareness. A few notable examples include:
Orch-OR Theory (Penrose & Hameroff): Famed physicist Roger Penrose and anesthesiologist Stuart Hameroff posit that consciousness arises from quantum processes in microtubules (tiny structures) inside neurons. In their model, quantum wavefunctions in the brain self-collapse in orchestrated events, producing moments of conscious experience. This theory explicitly ties our mind to fundamental space-time geometry – suggesting the brain can tap into the quantum realm.
Henry Stapp’s Mind-Matter Collapse: Physicist Henry Stapp has argued that conscious experience involves the collapse of the quantum wavefunction, and that mental intention can influence quantum outcomes (which all mystics know to be true). In plain terms, your mind has the ability to bias quantum processes – a wild idea that implies consciousness isn’t just random, it participates in how reality unfolds at the smallest scale.
Evan Thompson’s Observers & Dreams: Philosopher Evan Thompson, in Waking, Dreaming, Being, notes parallels between quantum physics and consciousness, particularly in dreaming. Quantum phenomena force us to accept the role of the observer in “making” reality (a particle’s state isn’t set until observed). Similarly, in dreams the “world” exists as a mind-dependent reality. Thompson and others highlight that lucid dreamers can even observe their own dream state with some metacognitive awareness, drawing an analogy to a quantum system observing itself. The implication is that consciousness might operate in a feedback loop with reality, whether physical or dreamed, much like measurement interacting with the wavefunction.
These perspectives support a bold notion called quantum consciousness – the idea that mind is not confined to classical neurobiology, but is entwined with the fabric of the quantum world.
If any of this is true, our brain could act as a portal or antenna. During ordinary waking life, it tunes heavily into the “local” channel (our physical senses). In dreams, perhaps it dials into more exotic channels – accessing nonlocal, multidimensional information that relate back to our life here in some way. Leong’s hypothesis echoes this: in sleep the brain’s usual filters relax, allowing consciousness to bypass the normal space-time constraints.
In effect, your mind might go roaming across the cosmos (or the multiverse) when unshackled from processing dinner plans and work emails. The concept also aligns with panpsychism, the idea that consciousness is a fundamental feature of the universe itself. If awareness pervades the fabric of reality, it’s perhaps less crazy to think that your individual mind can link into far-flung corners of existence when given the right conditions.
Neuroscience of Dreams
Before we float away entirely, let’s ground ourselves in what mainstream science says about dreaming. Neuroscience has mapped out a great deal of what happens in the brain during dreams. The picture that emerges is fascinating – and, at first glance, far more mundane than hopping dimensions.
When we sleep, we cycle through stages, including the famous REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep associated with vivid dreaming. During REM, the brain’s activity looks surprisingly similar to waking on an EEG (lots of mixed-frequency waves), and certain areas light up while others go quiet.
For instance, emotion-related centers (like the amygdala) can be highly active, while parts of the prefrontal cortex (involved in logical reasoning and self-awareness) are relatively suppressed.
This combination helps explain why dreams feel so real and emotional, yet also so loopy and devoid of critical judgment at times.
The content of dreams, neuroscience suggests, is heavily influenced by memories and subconscious feelings, and I have found this to be true to a fault. It’s heavily dependent on your current level of awareness here - or in other words, the degree to which you are able to tune into frequencies that depart from this world.
I can’t recall the last time I dreamed of anything resembling this world. I have for sure found myself in a few alternate realities or paths of this world - possible splinters - but that was a long time ago. For the better part of the last decade, I have left the local or related frequencies altogether into at least 5 or 6 distinct otherworlds that have little, if anything, in common with this realm that we know.
As one might assume, there are of course a few scientific theories on why we dream, all of which treat dreams as an internal process of the brain, not an excursion to Narnia:
Activation-Synthesis Theory: Proposed by Hobson and McCarley, this theory says dreams result from random brain-stem signals bombarding the cortex during REM. The cortex then tries to synthesize a story to make sense of this neural noise. Basically, your brain is inventing a narrative (the dream) to fit a bunch of spontaneous activations – a bit like interpreting abstract art. This would mean dreams are more or less a byproduct of our biology, with no hidden dimensional meaning. This is almost laughably absurd, yet nevertheless is a theory entertained by many in mainstream science.
Memory Consolidation Theory: Many researchers view dreaming (especially REM sleep) as a byproduct of memory processing. The brain is replaying and reorganizing the day’s experiences, solidifying learning and integrating new information into long-term memory. Dreams, under this view, are like fragments of memory being shuffled and stored – the mental equivalent of defragmenting a hard drive. A popular idea is that we incorporate “day residue” (familiar people, places, tasks) into dreams as we sort them out. There’s substantial evidence that sleep (and dreams) help us remember and learn, from improved task performance after dreaming about a task to emotional memory processing overnight. This theory doesn’t explicitly rule out deeper meanings, but it frames dreams as an intrapsychic workshop rather than a portal. As one summary puts it, dreams may simply be a tool for organizing experiences into memory – “not interactions with different selves.”
Psychoanalytic and Cognitive Theories: Early psychology giants like Sigmund Freud believed dreams were the “royal road to the unconscious,” expressions of hidden desires and conflicts (often sexual or aggressive in nature). Carl Jung saw dreams as messages from a deeper self, including the collective unconscious, filled with archetypal symbols. Jung’s take was more metaphysical, hinting that dreams connect us to a shared pool of human experience. However, even Jung didn’t claim dreams were literally other realities – rather, they were windows into the psyche (and perhaps a transcendent source of wisdom). Modern psychologists largely view dreams as reflecting the dreamer’s personal concerns, emotions, and memories. There’s little talk of astral travel in academic literature; you’re more likely to hear about how your exam anxiety caused that nightmare of showing up to class naked, than about your dream self in Universe X. In fact, most schools of thought in psychology (behaviorism, cognitive psychology, etc.) steer away from metaphysical explanations for dreams, considering them byproducts of brain and mind processes, not cosmic adventures.
The mainstream explanations for dreams, of course, never consider one extremely important facet of the experience that sort of blasts a hole in everything they have constructed.
Evolution.
What exactly is the evolutionary benefit to dreams? Think about how the animal body has developed over eons. Whether it’s humans, fierce predators, or docile prey. Everything - more or less - serves a distinct purpose.
We can say, with relative certainty, why an animal has strong eyesight, or a highly developed sense of smell, or opposable thumbs, or thick fur. There are very clear evolutionary reasons for 99% of all bodily traits.
Most evolutionary traits come back to one critical thing: survival. Everything centers around our ability to compete and survive from the physical level, and this is reflected in our senses, musculature, bone density, jaw movements, eyesight, and everything else.
Yet dreams pose a very difficult conundrum if we are to accept generic mainstream scientific theories.
So we are to believe, millions of years of evolution turned animals into these highly optimized beings, that can camouflage perfectly in the jungle in order to evade detection, yet also have dreams that can create scenarios in their head dramatic enough to cause them to involuntarily bark or cry out in the middle of the night, when they and their kin are defenseless?
It doesn’t make an ounce of sense.
The evolutionary purpose of humans playing out convoluted scenarios at night, to the point where some of us wake up in cold sweats or even in tears, because of the crazy, emotional, and sometimes horrific things we experience, flies in the face of all evolutionary theory and indeed, serves zero practical purpose at all.
There is no way, given what we know about the development of animals in general and humans in particular, that this is valid.
Not to belabor the point, but this theory breaks down even more when you factor in that many of us dream of things that have zero resemblance to anything that we have ever seen or heard in this world.
As I recount in my look into the Backrooms, one of the earliest dreams I remember, when I was a mere 3 years of age, involved this insidiously complex, foreboding “hotel”-esque building with yellowed walls, large staircases and strange corridors, as well as bottomless pits.
It goes without saying that I never stepped foot in or saw anything of the sort at that young age - and why my brain would see fit to “make sense of” memories or experiences I have had to that point, and have them come out as that dream, is a theory so ludicrous as to call into question the sanity of anyone who might dare to entertain it.
Moving on, it’s important to pay attention to what conventional neuroscience says about dreams, to the extent that they have mapped what occurs in the brain, during REM sleep. It’s very obvious that dreams are powerful and have an effect on the mind and body - but the question is, why? What purpose does this serve?
From the mainstream standpoint, the idea that “there’s no evidence whatsoever of peering into other dimensions” via dreams is the dominant scientific stance. To many researchers, the alternate-dimension hypothesis is, as one article put it, heretical.
Yet, science doesn’t have a complete explanation of consciousness or dreaming. There are anomalies and questions: Why do some dreams feel so real and structured, as if we truly visited somewhere? How do people sometimes solve problems or have creative breakthroughs in dreams, as if tapping knowledge beyond their waking ego? (Think of the chemist Kekulé “dreaming” the ouroboros snake that inspired the ring structure of benzene).
And what about recurring dreams with detailed, consistent landscapes and storylines that develop over years – are our brains really that bored that they recycle the same imaginary town over and over, or are we visiting a stable alternate locale?
Even within a hard-nosed scientific paradigm, dreams are acknowledged as meaningful in one way or another. They can reflect our emotional states and even influence our waking life. For example, lucid dreaming therapy has been successfully used to help people overcome chronic nightmares – by becoming aware in the nightmare and consciously changing it, dreamers can alleviate their waking anxiety. So at the very least, what we do in dreams matters to our psyche.3
The neuroscience perspective challenges the dimensional hypothesis, but also complements it. If dreams are indeed doing memory consolidation and emotional processing, maybe that’s exactly how an interdimensional consciousness would operate – by integrating experiences across its many lives.
Put differently, perhaps the brain’s internal housekeeping is the mechanism through which the multidimensional mind sorts out karma and knowledge from various realms. The two views might not be mutually exclusive: the brain could be both a storyteller and a receiver, blending bits of daily life with signals from beyond. It’s a trippy dual role, but then again, so is particle-wave duality in physics – and we’ve learned to live with that paradox.
Dreamwork and Karma: Soul Gymnastics Across Dimensions
If dreams are indeed alternate dimensions (even if only sometimes), what’s the point of gallivanting through parallel worlds each night? This is where metaphysical and spiritual perspectives weigh in with the concept of dreamwork as evolutionary soul work.
In many spiritual traditions, it’s believed that the soul is on a journey of growth through various experiences, and dreams are a crucial part of that journey – a kind of classroom or therapy session for the soul. A common idea is that dreams help us process karma – the accumulated energy of our actions and intentions – and resolve unfinished business at levels that waking life can’t easily reach.
In Eastern philosophies, karma is the principle that every action (physical, verbal, or mental) has consequences that shape our future experiences. It’s often thought of across lifetimes: unresolved issues can carry into the next life for the soul to work out.
Now, consider that perhaps the soul doesn’t strictly wait for the next physical incarnation to start this work – it might leverage the dream state as an arena to confront and balance karmic patterns. Dreams as mirrors of karma is a view echoed by spiritual teachers: dreams can reflect our unresolved issues, unfulfilled desires, and latent fears.
In a dream, we may face situations that symbolically represent our real-life challenges. How we respond (with fear, with courage, with compassion) might help burn off or transform the underlying karmic energy. In this sense, dreamwork – consciously engaging with one’s dreams through remembering, journaling, interpretation, or lucid dreaming – becomes a practice of understanding and harmonizing one’s energy. Each insightful dream or successful confrontation of a nightmare is like a soul-level workout, strengthening the virtues we need and weakening the vices that hinder us.
Over time, this contributes to our evolution as individuals.
From a multidimensional perspective, this karmic processing might not be limited to past and future of this life.
If some dreams are indeed visits to parallel lives, then resolving an issue in a dream could potentially aid your other self and vice versa. One speculative idea is that all your parallel selves are connected at a higher soul level – call it an Oversoul or collective self.
They each accumulate experiences (and karma) in their respective universes. Perhaps during dreams, there is a cross-talk or exchange: you might temporarily experience another self’s challenge as a dream narrative, allowing both of you to learn from it. Dr. Leong suggests that especially recurring dreams with vivid, consistent scenarios could hint at a genuine link to another reality.
For example, if you repeatedly dream of being stuck in high school, it might be not only a personal psychological theme, but also a sign that “in another reality, you are still in high school, dealing with the same challenges your waking self has moved beyond.” The emotional resonance (the frustration of being stuck) could be rippling across dimensions, creating a feedback loop between you and your alternate self.
In processing that emotion through dreamwork – say you finally stand up to the bully or make peace with leaving school in the dream – you might be helping both versions of you to settle that karma.
This is a mind-bending extension of the concept of karma, one that I believe answers a lot of questions about the nature of reality. Cross-dimensional karma: where growth in one world aids the soul in another. It’s essentially the Many-Worlds version of “your karma will follow you,” except it follows you sideways into other universes as well.
Various cultures have embraced the idea of spiritual work via dreams. In Tibetan Buddhism, practitioners of Dream Yoga train to remain lucid in dreams specifically to use them for spiritual development. The aim is to recognize that the dream state is a fabrication of mind – and by extension, realize the waking reality is also a kind of dream. By doing so, they seek to transcend samsara (the cycle of illusion) altogether.
The Tibetan yogis view both waking and dream life as equally illusory, interdependent states, and thus something not to be clung to.
Mastering awareness in the dream Bardo (state) is said to help one remain conscious in the after-death Bardo and even achieve enlightenment. While this perspective downplays the literal reality of dreams, it still treats dreamwork as a critical spiritual practice – in effect, using the dream dimension to work off karma and ignorance so the soul can evolve.
In shamanic traditions and indigenous cultures, dreams are often considered real travels of the soul. Indigenous Australians speak of the Dreamtime (or “Everywhen”), a foundational sacred dimension where the past, present, and future exist at once and ancestral spirits created the world.
While the “Dreamtime” is not simply one’s nightly dreams, Aboriginal people sometimes receive guidance or healing in dreams by accessing that timeless spiritual realm.
Similarly, many Native American and other indigenous groups practice vision quests or incubate dreams for insight, treating the dream realm as a genuine spiritual world where one can interact with guides, animal spirits, or ancestors. The ancient Egyptians had dream temples and manuals for interpretation, believing gods conveyed messages through dreams.
In the Hindu epic Mahabharata, there’s acknowledgment that life may be maya (illusion) and dreams can sometimes reveal true reality. Across the world, cultural perspectives have rarely confined dreams to being purposeless froth; they are laden with meaning and often seen as a bridge to higher wisdom or other worlds. The idea of karma in dreams appears in yogic teachings – for instance, Yogananda’s lineage taught that nightmares stem from one’s own mental karma and need to be overcome with opposing positive qualities.
Solve the emotional conflict in the dream, and you “win” a karmic battle in real life, so to speak.
Bringing this all together: if we treat dreams as real alternate realities, then ethics and personal growth apply there too.
Just as your actions during the day generate karma, your actions in dreams do as well. (Some Buddhist teachers indeed argue that since intention is present in dreams, you can generate karma in dreams much like waking.)
From that standpoint, cultivating lucidity and compassion in dreams isn’t just new-age fluff – it could be an advanced form of soul training. You might refrain from harm or perform altruistic acts in a lucid dream, not merely to have a pleasant dream, but to uplift your energy across all dimensions.
Each dream becomes an opportunity to rehearse virtues, face fears, and release attachments. It’s “night school” for the soul, literally. In this view, what we call “dreamwork” – interpreting dreams, integrating their lessons, even programming ourselves to act wisely in dreams – is in fact a crucial facet of our evolution. It’s the homework that accompanies our waking life curriculum.
We evolve not just by what we do in the daylight, but by how we navigate the countless alternate scenarios our soul traverses at night. No wonder you sometimes wake up exhausted.
The Implications
Considering dreams as alternate dimensions is more than an idle curiosity – it has some profound implications that challenge how we think about reality, responsibility, and identity. Let’s entertain a few:
Blurring Reality’s Boundaries: If dreams are “real” in their own domains, the wall between fantasy and reality cracks. Our subjective inner experiences might influence or intersect with objective external worlds. This pushes us toward a more holistic understanding of reality where mind and matter are deeply interwoven (think of the holographic universe or simulation theories – consciousness playing a key role). It would mean what we experience is not only a product of a single universe’s history, but possibly a superposition of many histories. Today’s physics often talks about a “multiverse” of independent timelines, while mystics talk about unity of all things – dream experiences linking dimensions brings a fascinating marriage of those views: a Multiverse that is unified by a network of consciousness.
Ethics Across Dimensions: Normally, you might do things in dreams you’d never do in real life (who hasn’t committed some absurd crime or mischief in a consequence-free dream?). If those dream acts were actually affecting a real world, suddenly morality enters your dreams. Would you be accountable for a dream in which you (thinking it unreal) treated someone badly? This is a wild, somewhat unsettling idea. Some Eastern philosophies might argue that since it’s all you at the end of the day (you are the dreamer and the dreamed), karmically it balances out internally. But it raises questions: Should lucid dreamers behave as virtuously as waking life, just in case? On a positive note, it also means healing done in dreams – forgiving someone, letting go of anger – could count as genuine healing. The golden rule might become: “Do unto others in any reality as you would have done unto you.”
Waking Life as a Dream: If dream life can be a reality, it opens the philosophic Pandora’s box: maybe waking life is also a kind of dream. This notion has been floated by philosophers for ages (Zhuangzi’s butterfly dream, Descartes’ demon hypothesis, “Matrix” style simulations, etc.). The Many-Worlds dream hypothesis literally suggested someone else is dreaming your life. While that might not be empirically testable, it reminds us to keep a certain lightness about our perceived solidity of life. As Shakespeare wrote, “We are such stuff as dreams are made on.” The greater our understanding of consciousness, the more we may find reality is far stranger and more malleable than we assumed. And if indeed the distinction between waking and dreaming blurs, techniques from one might apply to the other – realize this life is a construct and therefore respond with more creativity and less fear.
Experimental Exploration: Though mainstream science is skeptical, the dimensional dream idea could inspire interesting experiments or at least open-minded data gathering. There have been anecdotal accounts of people dreaming events that later happen (precognitive dreams) or dreaming details of something they had no normal access to. These are often dismissed as coincidences or false memory, but if taken seriously, they might hint at a nonlocal mind at work. Likewise, the growing field of quantum biology (finding quantum effects in living systems) might eventually investigate if the brain in REM shows any quantum coherence or entanglement signatures. If one day we found, say, entangled brain waves between two dreaming twins separated by distance, it would revolutionize our understanding (and possibly indicate a shared dream space). For now, this is speculative, but not inconceivable as science advances.
In practical terms, viewing dreams as alternate dimensions encourages us to pay more attention to our dreams. Whether or not you buy the literal interpretation, treating dreams as meaningful can enrich your life. It can make nights an adventure rather than just “off time.”
It can also provide psychological insight – often the metaphors in dreams do relate to our waking challenges.
If you’re open to the spiritual side, dream journaling and lucid dreaming practices could become a part of your growth routine, like meditation. Dream journaling was, for me, an eye-opening spiritual practice that helped shape the direction of my life.
In a sort of sense, nearly everything I do right now centers around dreamwork in some form or fashion, because it’s the investigation into alternate realities that intrigues and drives me, and dreams play an integral role in this.
Consciousness Without Borders
To understand dreams is to understand consciousness.
On one side, we have quantum physics hinting at parallel universes and nonlocal connections that make the impossible seem possible. On the other side, we have age-old wisdom teaching that the universe is teeming with life beyond our physical senses, and that the soul has its theaters of experience outside the material plane. In the middle, we have the enigma of dreams – an experience so universal and so enigmatic that it invites multiple interpretations.
Perhaps the truth encompasses elements of all perspectives: dreams do reflect our subconscious mind and daily life (as neuroscience shows), and they occasionally plug us into a larger multidimensional reality. Consciousness could be the grand unifier, the field that connects psyche to parallel worlds. In this view, dreamwork isn’t just navel-gazing at nonsense images; it’s a frontier of exploration where the individual meets the infinite.
Ultimately, whether you lean scientific or mystical, treating your dreams with a sense of wonder can be rewarding. If nothing else, it makes the act of falling asleep far more exciting – who knows what universe you’ll wake up in?
The significance of this work cannot be overstated, as I have found dreams to be the universal gateway to experiencing “reality” as it is, not as we perceive it to be with our limited physical senses. I’ve poured endless hours into researching the multidimensional nature of reality and dreams, and from what I can see, this is “it.” The holy grail that religion, philosophy, science, and metaphysics all grapple with.
For now, it’s enough to say, dreamwork is well worth your time. Explore these inner worlds and chronicle what you see and experience. There is much more going on than what mainstream science would have you believe.
Technically, this is Ego and Self. The Ego, by and large, is a byproduct of brain chemistry, chiefly created when consciousness (self) interfaces with and filters through the brain. Ego is the running stream of thoughts, biases, and emotional responses many mistake to be “themselves.” On the other hand, we have the Self, our true conscious, the Observer of the ego. It is this part of ourselves, the nonlocal part, that travels at night.
There’s also the fact that many creatures and various beings are sentient and conscious without having a brain. Trees and crystals being two very obvious examples.
Even this creates an enormous issue for modern psychology and neurology, however. What we are saying is, the brain - in its effort to process memories or emotional states - created horrifying scenarios, and by “taking control” of our thoughts, produced by the same brain mind you, we are able to “overrule” that memory-processing system and create - what? - better versions of the dreams that are meant to help process our memories? It’s all so tiresome and silly.