The Null Dream and Time

If, in a month of Sundays, each Sunday is replaced with a week, a month of Sundays is 30 weeks or somewhat more than half a year. The same concept can be applied to an eternity. If in an eternity, each year is replaced with an eternity, the result is an eternity of eternities, a very long time but not infinite. Time is the measure of the interval between events. Time began with the first event and will end with the last event. Time actually doesn't exist, rather it is an abstraction. Only events and intervals exist.

In the material realm, clocks tick producing events, ticks, and intervals between the ticks. If one goes to sleep, becomes unconscious and does not dream, one can be said to be having a null dream. The length of a null dream can be measured as the interval of time between the start and end of no dreaming. A clock can measure the interval.

In the spiritual realm, there are no clocks. However, individuals or groups can open private dream spaces and have a dream of events, intervals and clocks to measure the intervals. The material realm is one dream space. There are countless others with an endless variety of purposes. Those not dreaming are having the null dream. There is no clock to measure the interval and there are various causes for the end event. It is like waking or being awakened from sleep. It is not possible to hide in the spiritual realm, so one may be found and awakened.

The end event of a null dream is the start of a dream or the joining of a dream in progress. Upon incarnating into the material realm, the process of growing a body and acculturation starts. By the time the process is complete, if one had any memory of null dreaming or any of the private dreams, it is submerged.  

Generally, I don't dream about time because it is not remembered. Time is an abstraction and does not exist, so it can not be remembered. However, if the reckoning  of time is part of the experience, as in the dream where I took two months to fly a bomber from Germany to England, then it is remembered. Language is also an abstraction and does not exist. In my dreams, I don't hear conversation, rather I know the content. Probably this is good, as language from past Earth cycles would likely be so different as to be unintelligible.

My dreams are not events separated by intervals, rather they are continuous, as is my past life memory. There is no feeling of a long or short time. If a dream is about bubble people, then I know it is from an early Earth cycle. If things are similar to the present, then the dream is from a recent cycle. Probably the time span is many eternities.

Copyright 2013 Dennis Wayne Dapremont

The Material Dream

 

The dimensions of the material realm are of time, empty space, mass and energy. Science defines matter as something that has mass and occupies space. The dimensions of the spiritual realm are of the emotions, personality and such. If the spiritual realm could be located, it would all fit on the point of a needle. The spiritual realm is not located in the material realm, rather the reverse is true.

Where in the brain is the imagination located? Just as the material realm is located in a dream space of the spirit, the human body is located in a dream space of of the spirit occupying the body. These dream spaces are created by the imagination. The eyes are thought of as sensors but they actually operate as a projector. The imagination forms an image in the brain, say of a table. The eyes project the image into the imagined space. This is all a collective effort of the billions of spirits participating in the dream of the material realm. So the table look real, as does the rest of the imagined setting: a restaurant, other tables with people, a table cloth, etc.

The other senses, touch, smell, hearing, voice, are also extenders. The spirit imagines the table is solid while the tablecloth has texture. Extending the hand and touching the table extends these feelings to the material object. It took a long time to develop the coordination and conventions needed to make this possible. By participating in the material dream, we agree to these conventions; otherwise for example, some people could walk through walls and we would not all see colors the same way. Well some people do not see colors. I wonder what that means.

For the creative cycle to work, it has to be imperfect; however, there also has to be a bias. If the cycle were perfectly random, then regressive changes would cancel progressive changes. On the average, there would be no change. Obviously, a great deal of progress has been made, so there must be a bias to progress. Unfortunately, there seems also to be a perverse bias. My observation is that in spite of our ability to learn to do better, things continue to get worse.

Copyright 2013 Dennis Wayne Dapremont