Your consciousness could travel multiverse when you dream, claim scientists
Scientists have suggested that dreams sometimes act as portals to alternate realities, connecting a person to another version of themselves in a parallel world.
“Dreams have been historically perceived as mirrors reflecting our conscious waking life, laden with symbolic representations of our desires, fears, and experiences,” they claimed in their research article.
“Conversely, a riveting conjecture exists that dreams might also function as conduits to alternative dimensions or elevated states of consciousness, suggesting a more profound and expansive role than traditionally conceived,” they added.
This hypothesis takes inspiration from the “many worlds interpretation of quantum theory,” which is sometimes also referred to as the multiverse theory.
It suggests that for a quantum event, there are multiple possibilities or outcomes. Each of these outcomes plays out in separate universes. So, for example, if you played a football match, your team may have won in this universe, but in some other universe, your team may have lost the game.
The authors suggest that in dreams, one can travel to these other universes. However, this isn’t the the primary scientific basis they used to support their hypothesis.
Can dreams overcome physical limits?
According to David Leong, who is the first author of the article and an honorary professor at Charisma University in Turks and Caicos, when a person sleeps and dreams, it might be possible his consciousness crosses the boundaries of space and time.
This is because, during sleep, a person’s consciousness is in the least contact with his logical brain, reality, and physical senses. Notably, scientists still don’t know much about human consciousness, and its limitations.
It is possible consciousness also experiences something like quantum entanglement — a phenomenon that suggests that two particles can affect each other’s states irrespective of the distance between them.
It might be possible that consciousness is also capable of affecting people across parallel universes. “This leads to a re-conceptualization of consciousness as a more expansive and interconnected entity with the potential to navigate a multiverse of experiences,” the authors said.
Moreover, different versions of a person might have a shared collective unconscious, a concept proposed by psychologist Carl Jung in the early 1900s. Jung used this concept to refer to a part of the mind shared by all humans, containing instincts, memories, and ideas that are passed from one generation to another.
“Dreams could be the psyche’s means of tapping into this collective unconscious, exploring and experiencing the shared human narrative that extends beyond the personal,” the research article added.
However, these are all possibilities and there is no real empirical evidence confirming that a person can indeed travel to alternate realities in dreams.
Not all dreams take you to the multiverse
Leong suggests that recurring vivid dreams with strong emotions and memories are the ones that can probably take people to their alternate versions in parallel worlds.
“Say you have a repetitive dream of being stuck in high school. While it may reflect unresolved psychological themes, such as feelings of stagnation or anxiety about personal growth, it could also indicate that in another reality, you are still in high school, dealing with the same challenges your waking self has moved beyond,” remarked Leong, as reported by Popular Mechanics.
Meanwhile, other dreams that a person experiences might still be the result of their subconscious mind’s perception of the memories, experiences, fears, emotions, and desires they have.
For now, there’s no way to prove whether the proposed hypothesis is right. However, recurring dreams with vivid imagery and strong emotional resonance may warrant further examination, as they could potentially offer clues about experiences in alternate realities.
Source: Interesting Engineering
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