9 September

Dreams don’t happen inside the brain. The brain is a lump of electrified meat, it’s incapable of holding images. It’s like trying to see the images inside a TV set. They’re not inside the TV set. The TV is just one part of a network of things, including the transmission medium (the air or streaming), and the broadcasting equipment. I once posted that death is just permanent dreaming, that life and death aren’t opposites. All the nonsense about ‘life after death’ assumes you either are, or you’re nothing. There’s no such thing as nothing (or no-thing). Imagine nothing - I bet you can’t. The best people seem to do is some form of blackness or void. But that’s not no-thing, that’s blackness, or a void. Not just word games. We have a (false) view that says that things either are, or they aren’t. Something, or nothing. Life or death. The real divide in life is between the virtual/possible, and the actual. Language is a good example. There are millions of things you could say, using the language. And only a tiny number of things you actually do say. Those millions of possible things are the virtual side of language. The things you do say are the actual side. This is what dreams are. The virtual part of our lives, where all things are possible. We know that’s true, we can dream anything. It’s not happening inside our heads, when we sleep we re-enter that virtual part of reality. When we die that’s where we ‘go’, to that eternal part of reality where all things are possible. Being ‘awake’ is actualising just a tiny number of those possibilities, in a finite way. Fascinatingly, some sleep scientists have been forced towards understanding this. They now suspect sleep is our default state, not being awake. That being awake is like an excursion for our eternal, virtual selves.