Last night my sister and I were talking about dreams and things we knew, with out knowing how we knew them. Some say it is intuition, and maybe that plays a part, but it is not all. There are times, when I look at my hands doing a job, and know that it is not the regular me at work. There are times when I hear someone speak of me, and know exactly what they are talking about, because I have seen it too, but it is not the me I know.
I remember my husband, before we were even dating, telling me that I was the most beautiful girl he had ever met and that I deserved better than him. In my mind's eye, I could see the girl he was talking about. She was pretty. She was confident and sure. She was capable of most anything. I knew what he was talking about, and though I looked very much like her, it was not the me I knew.
I remember working in the kitchen at college, handling large quantities of food, with easy. I would be up every morning at 4 am to clean bathrooms in my dormitory, then get dressed for the day, and head to the kitchen. I was not in charge of the menu, but could cook most anything--scrambled eggs were the only thing I hated--gooey eggs, dripping from the shells, dozens of them being cracked for a single meal. Now, I am not a morning person, and I don't like to cook... especially breakfast, but I remember doing it with deftness and ease. Was that really me, or was it someone who just looked like me?
We began on this topic because a young friend of ours has visited me in dream on several occasions with the message that he knew what to do about some situations in his life. Situations that are slowly killing him. In the dreams he was confident and outgoing. In real life, he is a recluse. In the dream, he had answers. In real life, he is hoping to make it. Somewhere, another part of him or another one of him has overcome and is free.
Is there more than one of you?
In the book Timeline, by Micheal Crichton, the theory of many worlds is briefly laid out. I have researched it briefly, reading some of the founding documents. It is a very interesting theory, that, as I understand it, states that every moment the world is splintering off into many more worlds. That in these other worlds, you make different choices. Others make different choices, and life goes on, ever splintering out, creating new and different worlds. There are some worlds that are very similar to our own and some that are vastly different, for every decision that could be made has been made, and the effects are lived out in these other worlds. From what I have read, this theory has been proven, in some way relating to quantum physics, and the fact that there is a pattern of interference, even when no interference is present. I really don't understand it, and don't know how it could possibly be that there are many Me's, but what if it is so? And what if those worlds are so close that sometimes you see yourself through the eyes of others, but not the you you know? What if some of the impossible ideas that come to you, the ones that sound so familiar and feel so strange, are you, calling yourself to live life out of the best experience possible? That experience being your own.
Here is a video on quantum physics, that I first watched years ago, long before I read Timeline. It was my first introduction to the fascinating study of quantum physics.
It made me wonder, what do we miss, when we observe? Is observation the reason our dreams can be so strange? What do you think?
