Dimensions in time: part four
More space than anything else, even the smallest things known to man have space in them and yet, space is not and cannot be quantified as anything. So what on earth is it? What is space and why is it a part of everything? I have likened it to a suspension liquid that keeps things together yet separate. It simply Holds things and as I think about it I can't help but wonder, why so little is known about this phenomenon, this nothing, this everything. We would not be able to exist without space, nor would anything else.
What if time, is really space?
The rubrics cube clicks and I have two solid square panels but still, the rest is a muddle. Another color catches my attention and the game continues. Dreams are the things that help us to keep our sanity. I have always wondered if they might be more than ways to process the daily "waking" moments. It takes approximately forty-five minutes to process through the dream cycle, which is why three hours of sleep is the absolute minimum to live on during times of sleep deprivation. Still, three hours is a short-term solution and science has proven that a full and complete six hours is the absolute minimum for everyday life. During REM sleep, doctors have submitted that we experience approximately twenty to thirty dreams during the ten-minute cycle. We remember having very few dreams but we remember what the dream was about, even less of that time.
If sleep was the "processing time" then I need to look at a computer for reference. As it is, computers still are nowhere near as fast at processing as the human brain is. Still, even with disk cleanup, scandisk, defrag and other daily maintenance, the computer only takes a half hour, tops (using the fastest processors). If this is the case, then the human brain must needs work even more quickly. Maybe one percent of each sleep cycle would be devoted to "clean up and maintenance". If this were the case, what would the remaining dream time be used for?
I am thinking that the REM time is used to access those other "moments" within the plane of our existence. Comparing notes, so to speak with the options and directions chosen within the framework of the connection of the helix pattern. Remember, all the helixs touch, so the knowledge is there. The thought is that we "experience" all of our choices and so, live within a myriad of lives, within the same experience of "now". That means that some frames are further down the road than others, some could correspond to "now" exactly, while others may be slightly off, or even further in the "past or future". In dreams there would be no reference of "time", we would just be part or witness and that is all.
This would explain the feeling of déjà vu but it would also explain the sense of "instant recognition" between people who have never met.
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What's still unclear is the part dreaming actually plays. No one is really certain, though there are plenty of theories out there.
Also see: The Big Questions