Do you think we enter a parallel universe when we dream?

Question

I heard that once and its a thought that always intrigued me. That what we see is something that is actually happeing in a different reality than our own.

Its an alternate you

You know with some of these answers I almost wish I was in an alternate reality where people had an open mind and didnt take ideas so seriously

Answer 1

My answer would be yes. We have a sub world where our fantasies, dreams, nightmares come true, our imagination. It is a small room that could be turned into a castle or a dungeon. It is where the laws of nature, physics, chemistry, universe do not apply. So yes it is a parallel universe in a sense because it is entirely different than our own universe which are govern by fixed rules that can only be alter with huge amount of effort while in our mind we just think and everything will be our way. Nice question :)

Answer 2

No, I don't think that's likely.

Dreaming does serve to remind us, however, how much of our life experience is created by our own minds. In a dream our senses are controlled by our mind; every solid object is an illusion, time changes speed, distances have no set measurement, and even the way we see ourselves can change from scene to scene. Of course, in the waking world, these things happen differently, but much of our experience is still based on our minds ability to "fill in the blanks" so to speak.

At any given moment, our senses can only perceive a small part of the picture we call "reality", but our mind fills in the rest, making it negotiable and lending it substance. Without this ability we could never do something simple like walk while reading, describe a face from a profile, or appreciate art.

This powerful tool of our mind isn't completely instinctive, either. A baby playing "peek-a-boo" is a demonstration of how our mind's powers of persistance and closure are tools that must be developed through training.

I don't imagine dreams to be some kind of portal to an alternate reality, but I do think they can give us many insights into this one. Dreams remind me how the world we experience is mostly illusion, and that our minds have a powerful ability to navigate around corners using such mental constructs. Dreams are spiritual, too- if for no other reason than that power to remind us what an amazing and special experience it is to be alive and aware in this incredible world.

Answer 3

I believe that when we dream we entered this subconscious world where we go and think of things that has happened in our past or possibly coming up in the future so as to warn or make you feel an expectation of joy that something will occur.
Now I do not know if it is a parallel world or not but I do believe we entered within ourselves and our subconscious to help us cope or be consoled or made aware of a solution to something that our minds definitely desire to discover.

Answer 4

I don't think so. I have learned that in some cases when I know I'm dreaming, I can control what is happening in the dream so I think it is in my mind only, not in a parallel universe, whatever or wherever that may be.......

Answer 5

It is a little nice to think about as a fantasy. It would be pretty neat. However, if you are truly entertaining thoughts that somehow lying in your bed you're viewing worlds light years away, it's time to see the shrink.

Answer 6

No, not really. Though in the past I have attempted to have OBDs, and though I haven't been successful, I'm trying to keep an open mind. But I guess deep down I really don't believe in them.

Answer 7

No, We all have things in our inter mind that we repress.
During REM we can live out all our fantasys or repressed
feelings. I've been a super hero, a drunk, a God, and a bunch more. Are our waking moments reallity? Or,or ow'er
are sleeping moments reallity?

Answer 8

According to Aboriginal belief, all life as it is today - Human, Animal, Bird and Fish is part of one vast unchanging network of relationships which can be traced to the great spirit ancestors of the Dreamtime.

The Dreamtime continues as the "Dreaming" in the spiritual lives of aboriginal people today. The events of the ancient era of creation are enacted in ceremonies and danced in mime form. Song chant incessantly to the accompaniment of the didgeridoo or clap sticks relates the story of events of those early times and brings to the power of the dreaming to bear of life today.
The Dreamtime is the Aboriginal understanding of the world, of it's creation, and it's great stories. The Dreamtime is the beginning of knowledge, from which came the laws of existence. For survival these laws must be observed.

The Dreaming world was the old time of the Ancestor Beings. They emerged from the earth at the time of the creation. Time began in the world the moment these supernatural beings were "born out of their own Eternity".

The Earth was a flat surface, in darkness. A dead, silent world. Unknown forms of life were asleep, below the surface of the land. Then the supernatural Ancestor Beings broke through the crust of the earth form below , with tumultuous force.

The sun rose out of the ground. The land received light for the first time.
Dreamtime painting by Norbett Lynch
The supernatural Beings, or Totemic Ancestors, resembled creatures or plants, and were half human. They moved across the barren surface of the world. They travelled hunted and fought, and changed the form of the land. In their journeys, they created the landscape, the mountains, the rivers, the trees, waterholes, plains and sandhills. They made the people themselves, who are descendants of the Dreamtime ancestors. They made the Ant, Grasshopper, Emu, Eagle, Crow, Parrot, Wallaby, Kangaroo, Lizard, Snake, and all food plants. They made the natural elements : Water, Air, Fire. They made all the celestial bodies : the Sun, the Moon and the Stars. Then, wearied from all their activity, the mythical creatures sank back into the earth and returned to their state of sleep.

Sometimes their spirits turned into rocks or trees or a part of the landscape. These became sacred places, to be seen only by initiated men. These sites had special qualities
'We don't own the land, the land owns us'

'The Land is my mother, my mother is the land'

'Land is the starting point to where it all began. It is like picking up a piece of dirt and saying this is where I started and this is where I will go'

'The land is our food, our culture, our spirit and identity'

'We don't have boundaries like fences, as farmers do. We have spiritual connections'

Land means many things to many people. To a farmer, land is a means of production and the source of a way of life. It is economic sustainability. To a property developer, it is a bargaining chip and the means of financial progress and success. To many Australians, land is something they can own if they work hard enough and save enough money to buy it. To Indigenous people land is not just something that they can own or trade. Land has a spiritual value.
We are the Indigenous people of Australia. Aboriginal people are those traditional cultures and lands lie on the mainland and most of the islands, including Tasmania, Fraser Island, Palm Island, Mornington Island, Groote Eylandt, Bathrust and Melville Islands. The term "Aboriginal" has become one of the most disputed in the Australian language.

The Commonwealth definition is social more than racial, in keeping with the change in Australian attitudes away from racialistic thinking about other people. An Aboriginal person is defined as a person who is a descendant of an Indigenous inhabitant of Australia, identifies as an Aboriginal, and is recognised as Aboriginal by members of the community in which she or he lives.

This definition is preferred by the vast majority of our people over the racial definitions of the assimilation era. Administration of the definition, at least by the Commonwealth for the purposes of providing grants or loans, requires that an applicant present a certificate of Aboriginality issued by an incorporated Aboriginal body under its common seal.
Sometimes non-Aboriginal people get confused by the great range and variety of Aboriginal and Torres Strait people, from the traditional hunter to the Doctor of Philosophy; from the dark-skinned to the very fair; from the speaker of traditional languages to the radio announcer who speaks the Queen's English. The lesson to be learned from this is that we should not stereotype people ; that people are different, regardless of race.

Our people, of course, did not use the word "Aborigene" (from the latin ab, origin meaning "from the beginning" to refer to ourselves before the coming of non-Aborigenes. Everyone was simply a person.

Answer 9

I don't believe in parrallel universes but I do believe in the Platonic realm. I think it's that place that we experience in our dreams or in any of our thoughts for that matter.

Answer 10

i love how people are so close minded to the possibility. so rigid they can't even play with the idea of it.

anyway...there is an awesome book on this subject, aldous huxley...doors of perception!

"maybe this planet is another worlds hell".....fun stuff to think about.