Channelled thoughts

I remember hearing about a theory that all the information and experiences in the world are shared in a kind of pool and that, the more people who know about something the harder it is for people to disbelieve. I think I heard it on the movie Waking Life directed by Richard Linklater. The movie is about a man who is experiencing a lucid dream and is told stories and random stuff by people. One of the stories he is told about is some studies that had been done were if you take yesterdays crossword and present it to a new audience today, because a lot of people have done it yesterday it is easier to complete. I told a quote from Waking Life found on the imdb forum, "It's like once the answers are out there, people can pick up on 'em. It's like we're all telepathically sharing our experiences.”

I have my own theory based around this. My theory is, maybe we are not sharing our experiences but living what we are told to and thinking what we are told to. That the pool is already there and we are not adding to it but feeding from it. What if say everything we think of is what we are being made to think about. An example might be a soap opera, what if the writers are not inventing this but providing a way for us to see another world. This is even for my standards hard to believe and the only excuse I can provide to why this is hard to believe is that we are being told not to believe it. This is also my excuse for a few other theories.

Surely if we are doing and thinking what has been set for us to do and think it is just fate. I do not think this is the same as fate because, I believe we are channelling our thoughts and actions and do have some control over what we do with the channelled information. I also believe we are told more information than what we know. I feel the thoughts and memories that we have forgotten are forgotten because we chose not to play those actions or thoughts out. This theory has a few holes and it is hard to believe because given my example above it could be possible to go into Eastenders and have a pint in the Queen Vic, if we managed to find a way to explore their world. This is enough to put a lot of people off due to the random hard to believe events that can happen in a soap opera. Also what about science fiction movies are they all played out? Is there a world with vampires and werewolves roaming the streets and country side of England?

This theory is also not that we are living in a simulated world but the world we live in is influenced by other worlds. We may also be influencing other worlds by our actions and thoughts. This theory assumes there are lots of worlds and universes where lots of different kinds of people and ways of life are played out. If we could visit these worlds we could go and see and learn. I wonder what people would think when they go into a world and walk into a bar to see Earl Hickey from My Name is Earl sitting at the bar. This theory is more science fiction but I feel it is still entertaining to read and think about.

Getting back to the waking life theory though, surely if all of the knowledge etc is available we could find a way to channel it for us to use. If we are taking an exam we could channel the answers the teacher knows. If the exam is taken different days the group that comes second should have a better chance then the first group. Maybe we are just denying the thoughts that are presenting themselves to us. Maybe the feeling we get to remove our stocks and shares or the feeling we get when we should be doing something else, is just us denying what we was meant to be doing. I know this theory will not be believed by many but I feel it is interesting all the same.