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LIFE IS BUT A DREAM

What we think is hard reality in a dream is but a grand illusion. The sights and sound are seen and heard, but do not exist as such, although, at the time, we would swear that they do. The random brain waves and memories woven from the frequency domains are there, although they come from static and noise that the brain tries to make sense of as best it can in its half-awake state. We seem to feel and touch things in our dreams as well as taste and smell, but this reality does not exist, as we realize when we wake up.

And so waking reality is an illusion as well. Sound and color waves exist, perhaps, somewhere out there, but it is our consciousness that turns them into sound and color. Perhaps the externally viewed world is not even three-dimensional but that we are made to see it so. All that’s really out there are perhaps differing frequencies and waves of light and sound and existence that originate somewhere, as when a TV station broadcasts to a TV set tuner. Reality may be like a hologram, as it is when we have night dreams. Matter, as we know it, may not exist, thus the saying “Never matter, ever mind”.

Why do twin photons emitted from sub-atomic collisions seem to still act as they are the same particle, for example, when we polarize one, the other polarizes to the same state even when it is farther than the speed of light can reach? Well, because they are still the same particle in some reality, although not in our illusion. Why does a photon shot at some holes go through every one of them unless we try to find out which one by measuring it? Because, in the quantum holographic world, all possibilities exist simultaneously imposed upon one another until our consciousness sorts out one path at random in our local illusion of reality.

In our possibly holographic universe, everything is connected to everything; there is truly a universe in a grain of sand. This connectedness is a form of rudimentary perception, so to speak, in itself.