As I was looking for a book about the early church fathers it struck me that the notion of multidimensionality and parallel universes might be akin to something submerged in our mind during sleep.
When I dream I have a sense of movie screens gently fluttering, each with a plot different from that of its neighbor. This impression of unrelated but synchronous events is sometimes also present, and more affectingly so, in the no-man’s-land between asleep and awake. In that state, just before stepping out from dream-land, my brain seems to accept events that my wake mind rejects. Is the awake brain censoring and throwing out stuff to avoid intellectual log-jamming?
Poignant as these bits of the dreamworld can be, one hardly ever remembers detail or theme. Mostly it is visual clips or soundbites and unless deliberate effort is given to remember, rapid erasure from the mind will ensue. Often, all that remains is wispy and akin to the negative molecular imprint in water, suggested to be the “active principle” in homeopathy.
If these, often rich and possibly enriching intellectual stimuli can reach us only when the brain’s gate-keeper is off-duty, what else are we missing?