Reology and Dreams
Reology and Dreams
Reology and Dreams
When we dream, we do not know we are dreaming. We can have dreams in which we dream we are dreaming, but always the perspective we have in a dream is that we are central to whatever we are experiencing. This is exactly our perspective when awake. We cannot separate ourselves, the identity we each perceive ourselves to be, from being the focal point of our experience, whether this experience is real appearing, or knowingly imaginative.
Everything we experience is done from the point of view that this experience exists outside of our physical identity, or is imagined by it. We never see experience where we are separate from that experience, as if from someone else's perspective. Certainly we can do this, but it requires effort and is always in the format of an imaginative event. OK, this is no revelation, but it is important to be aware of.
In dreams, the events that occur there may or may not conform to the reality we all know when awake. Mostly, dreams consist of events that are bazaar to say the least, even completely illogical and incomprehensible. We have no idea what some dreams are about, as there is no way to relate to them. Of course, we only can try to relate to them when we are awake, and if we remember them. This is the only way we even know how bazaar they can be.
In the dream however, while we are experiencing it, it is as real as our waking events. We know this because upon waking up from a dream, there are times when there are a few moments in which we don't know if we are awake or still dreaming. Only when we know we are awake do we realize that we were dreaming. There is no way of really telling if a dreamed event is unreal unless we are awake so we can label it as such. In the dream, it is as real as any experience we know otherwise we would not experience that momentary confusion about what's real and what isn't upon waking up.
If we can't know even if but for a moment, what is real and what is imagined, how can we know whether any of our experience, even all of it, is real or imagined? Our conviction is because it is through our physical senses that reality is real. Asleep, these senses are turned off. In dreams, our experience is strictly subjective; they can only occur in our mind as imaginative experience, hence their unreal nature. Then why should we ever experience moments of uncertainty about their validity as real? How do these "moments" occur?
It is only during that time where we transition from the totally subjective state of mind to what we are convinced is the objective state that this uncertainty of what is real and what is not happens. It is between being asleep and awake that we have such uncertainty. More specifically, it is between having experience without the interference of our physical senses and having it dependent upon our physical senses that this uncertainty can appear.
We do not even have to be asleep, for there are instances in which we have such a concentrated focus on some subjective experience, usually referred to as day dreaming and trance, that even though awake, we manage somehow to become oblivious to our physical senses and loose touch with our objective reality. Like in sleep, our focus is exclusively on some subjective preoccupation to such a degree, that it appears to us as real experience even when we can just as easily recognize it is just our imagination. These experiences are direct evidence of reality's illusionary nature.
If the only means we have to distinguish between real events and imagined ones is by whether or not we are employing our physical senses, then no events can be real, for as we have already discovered in previous articles, our physical senses are completely illusory, they cannot detect anything real, all they can do is convince us that they can.
The best direct evidence of this, aside from understanding the physiological processes that give the senses apparent function, is in hypnosis. While sleep, dreams, and hypnosis are not understood scientifically, we have plenty of evidence of their validity.
In hypnosis, a subject is brought to a sleep or trance like state with the appearance of being fully awake. They can communicate with, and are responsive to the hypnotist, and this is observable by all that are present. The ability of a person under hypnosis to perceive and react to suggestion leaves little doubt to the observers that such suggestions are in fact the hypnotized person's real experience. While everyone but the hypnotized person can easily see this person is reacting to imaginary ideas, these ideas are real to the person under hypnosis. These reactions can manifest themselves in physical symptoms, behavior, knowledge, and even physical abilities not possessed when not hypnotized. While the subject is reacting to unreal experience from the observer's perspective, it is real experience from their own perspective.
If we each are the center of all the experience we each have, who can legitimately dispute that the hypnotized person's experience is not in fact real to them? That the rest of us can easily see it is unreal does not negate its validity as real to the person experiencing it.
Whether experience appears real or unreal is of little actual consequence, because all experience is subjective. All experience occurs according to the ideas we have about it, not in a reality structured of illusion, but in our minds. The evidence of sleep, daydreaming, trance and hypnosis confirms this. We each experience this evidence directly.
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