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What is really going on when we dream? What is the purpose of it and does it conflict with the laws of the universe? As if it's creating a random reality within our own subconscious that more often than not doesn't reflect the laws of the reality we live in.
Can we really think things that are not "programmed" to be possible?
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Greetings, Jon D. And welcome to the Forum - great to have you contribute.
To your first question, if you believe, as I tend to, and many of the people on this forum tend to, that our reality is digital and our consciousness is interacting with our body, not emerging from it, then there is little difference in principle between the dream state and the waking state. In the dream state, your individuated consciousness is free to explore its own "reality-scape" for whatever reason. Whereas, in the waking state, it explores a shared "reality-scape" - our physical reality learning lab. And only because it is shared and must therefore have experiences that corroborate well with those whom we share it with, it just feels more "real." Tom Campbell put it nicely when he said "“When you go to sleep at night, does the world disappear? No, the world was never there to begin with.”
Our thoughts are not programmed (probably) - only the construct in which we exist. At least that is my best guess. The truth is out there. :)
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