Looked into a mirror

I am writing this shortly after awaking from having a dream. I was dreaming I was walking around a new theme park opened up in Richmond. It was an open day and they were the first place in the UK to allow the use of Cannabis. The government had given up the war on drugs to allow places with a license to allow their customers to use cannabis products. This open day did not allow any cannabis only food and music. The theme park was more of a fun fair in that it had been opened in Richmond for only a few days. We was walking around one of my mates was not into smoking cannabis and was only interested to see how an event like this would work. We were all surprised that there were no protesters. The tickets were very expensive and only one of my mates chose to buy one. As my mate was buying one he managed to grab another two with out the ticket guy noticing. They were in a form of a wrist band. When I opened it up I could see it was big enough to fit around my head. I had chose to not want to go and my mate wanted me to go so put it around my forehead. The other wrist band my mate who did not even like cannabis was very sure he did not want to come. So much so that given he was getting a bit drunk walked up to a guy by the river selling stuff and put it around his head. The guy replied he was park of the show and did not need a ticket. We were all told to leave as well.

I was in the gift shop they had opened up. I was looking around I wanted to get this newspaper as I thought it was about cannabis but it turned out to be about how cannabis being legal is similar to homosexuality being legal i.e. freedom of personal choice and actions. I then was stopped by a woman working out back saying she is just about to cook chips. I said I’ll have some chips and walked around for a bit. The guy in the shop then said you coming tomorrow night and I replied yes and then the woman came out and said the chips are ready. They had been severed up in what looked like a paper cook pot. The man replied saying I had to pay him £1, so I pulled out 1 pound of beef burger and the guy was happy to accept it even made a joke saying are you sure it’s a pound. I was then walking home trying to eat the chips but could not walk very well over Richmond bridge. I looked at my mobile phone and the screen was weird but the battery was almost dead. This could have been another sign of the dream becoming lucid. At some points I fell to the floor and could not get up till I saw someone look at me. At the traffic lights I managed to run across the road as I knew I would get knocked out.

I then bumped into a mate who I never saw his face. He told me that he thought I was meant to be trying to keep my spending down. I then told him I had only spent £4 and £1 was a burger. He was very confused as I had a wrist band to the theme park around my neck. I said it was free my mate and I stole it. I said all I had spent money on was a drink in Teddington when I went to get my mate and a few other bits. We then got to my house and I was very surprised as my house was now a flat on the top floor of this very thin and narrow house. I remembered the flat number was something like 15 but could no way fit 15 flats inside it.

The door was opened by Jamie Foreman the actor. I then ran to the top trying to lose my mate to see if the house was in a mess. I saw my dad and brother were sitting on the floor by an open fire, with my mum in a chair. I was egger to tell my dad about the theme park when he stopped me and asked what is that on your face. Thinking he only meant the wrist band I got up to look in the mirror above the fire place. What I saw well it woke me up.

I cannot really remember what I saw the mirror but can remember seeing the wrist band around my neck and a mark where it was before around my forehead. My hair was different and the rest of my face a blur. I think the reason I woke up is my brain was becoming aware I was dreaming such as in my Lucid Dream post. There is something very similar to that dream. This dream was very life like. I had taken 5-HTP the night before this dream but was very drunk the night before the other dream. Both dreams took place between 8 am and 10 pm on a Wednesday morning. The Lucid one was shorter finished around 9 am something. This one finished around almost 10 am. I still hope one day to look into a mirror and for it to start a lucid dream.

I am thinking of doing a post were I compare all of the lucid dream sings on websites with stuff I have seen.

TTTP3 Self repairing time

This theory assumes that events that are meant to happen are meant to happen therefore no one can change them. This is a very interesting theory and very easy to not believe. The theory assumes that the events in time are fixed. One can go back in time and change events as they wish but returning to their own time fixes everything. Example again would be a man going back in time and attempting to kill his father or mother before he had been born. This event would happen and all of the changes he made whist there would also seem real and happen. But when he leaves time would repair itself.

Think of this theory as a time has a memory of what has happened. Time Travellers have access to this memory and can go back to any moment and revisit it. Upon changing anything that would cause the future memories to change, time would repair itself upon the traveller leaving. This does bring upon a few holes and possibilities. Such as what if the traveller never left? Would time never repair? Would it even matter if it did not repair itself are changes automatically reflected in the future or is the traveller playing in a sandbox memory. What if the traveller used it for crime? Given that time would repair itself it is possible that the time traveller could go back and rob a bank bring the money to the future and the robbery would be fixed. It is also possible that the same time traveller could then go back a few hours and rob the money from his early self, hence when he returns the money would be doubled. These unanswered questions are what make this theory a little harder to believe.

We could also look into the possibility that the time traveller when he is travelling creates a copy of time. As talked about earlier this sandbox environment could play out possibilities much like the theory of multiple realities. This would allow a time traveller could go back and cause problems in the past only to not have them relayed in the future.

For this theory to work something must be recording everything or there must a fixed “faint”. If time was keeping record of anything that has been done much like our own human memory does. It could be time itself that is recording this or something else working in the universe. If the universe is a living object it could itself be recording it much like our own memory. Or if faint is real and everything is fixed. If everything is fixed and set then why would someone be able to seemly change stuff only for it fixes its self? Why would the changes not be set and meant to be much like the first theory.

This theory would allow the time traveller to visit the past but not change anything. This would mean police would not be able to go back and prevent crimes but would be able to go back and see the crimes happening. This theory would also explain Steven Hawking’s theory of the lack of tourists from the future, as once they had left time would fix itself therefore we would not remember or the changes they had made would not be seen.

The next theory TTTP4 Time Travel is unnoticeable, will use the recorded time theory more to create a theory that is different to this one.

Lucid Dreaming

The other night I had a dream. This was unlike other dreams I became aware I was dreaming and could walk through doors fly do random acts.

I was walking through what I think was New York. I then felt as if I was floating and I could fly. This seemed very normal but I felt myself ask I can’t normally do this unless I am dreaming. I then felt very invincible I walked through doors and kissed girls and stuff. I then woke up well I thought I did, I heard my dad talking and I went to get up to tell my mate about the dream I had. I walked past my brother on the stairs sneaking his girlfriend into the bathroom and went down stairs. I then heard them leaving the bathroom and I went up to go to the toilet. The bathroom was very different and at first just thought my mother had changed the bathroom around. Thinking about my dream I switched the light on and off. The bulb went bight but the room didn’t light up. I looked away and looked back and the room was lit up. I then realised I was still dreaming. I shortly after this started to feel quite scared and worried I may never wake up. I then however did wake up and had to lie for 5 minutes or so just amazed by the experience.

Given that I had read about lucid dreaming and had watched waking life, it is not surprising that lucid dreaming should be in my mind. This could have caused my mind to dream a dream in which I was aware even though I was not really aware. This however would be very risky for my brain to trick me like this if it does try to prevent this. I was disappointed I had not looked in the mirror, I have always wanted to see what I would look like in the mirror in a dream, and I have heard it can cause great fear as one tends to look disfigured.

I overall did enjoy the dream and I hope for more lucidity in my dreams.

End of first year

All of the exams are finished now. I hope to be able upload a couple of times a week, but I will not upload or write something if I do not have something to write about. Sorry about the lack of updates and I hope that it has not made people bored of the site.

Your Reality

Reality is something that is defined by only you. It is your view of the world. Philip K Dick said "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.” The movies like The Matrix show us another reality but that becomes our reality. Again from Phlilp K Dick,

“My first story had to do with a dog who imagined that the garbagemen who came every Friday morning were stealing valuable food which the family had carefully stored away in a safe metal container. Every day, members of the family carried out paper sacks of nice ripe food, stuffed them into the metal container, shut the lid tightly—and when the container was full, these dreadful-looking creatures came and stole everything but the can.
Finally, in the story, the dog begins to imagine that someday the garbagemen will eat the people in the house, as well as stealing their food. Of course, the dog is wrong about this. We all know that garbagemen do not eat people. But the dog's extrapolation was in a sense logical—given the facts at his disposal.” (How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later
by Philip K. Dick, 1978)

This is because the reality for the dog is all he knows. Our Knowledge and understanding of the world is our reality. What we read and what we learn changes what we are and our perception on what is reality. A person born without sound can only learn about sound from other people. Their reality is different to ours before they haven’t heard sound just know what others have told them.

“Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world, a world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans. And that led me wonder, If reality differs from person to person, can we speak of reality singular, or shouldn't we really be talking about plural realities? And if there are plural realities, are some more true (more real) than others? What about the world of a schizophrenic? Maybe, it's as real as our world. Maybe we cannot say that we are in touch with reality and he is not, but should instead say, His reality is so different from ours that he can't explain his to us, and we can't explain ours to him. The problem, then, is that if subjective worlds are experienced too diffrently, there occurs a breakdown of communication... and there is the real illness.” (How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later
by Philip K. Dick, 1978)

We should then learn to adapt to their reality and learn from them. If their reality is causing delays and problems for other people should we not teach them the wrongs of their ways by allowing them to adapt to our understanding the understanding that their actions are wrong. The whole of the How to build a Universe that doesn’t fall apart two days later by Philip K. Dick can be found at http://deoxy.org/pkd_how2build.htm Enjoy I sure did.

The road ahead

Life could be viewed as long drive with no pre-set destination, no map or road signs. You are driving all the time with every road that you see as a choice. You don’t know where it will take you but you don’t know where you are going. The one thing you do know is the sights you see are all know. You only know where you have been and not where you are going. You just hope that you see enough sights before you run out of fuel. The path you chose is your choice.

Sorry

I am sorry for not putting anything up for a while. There will be a post tonight. I have had so much coursework to do I have not had time to think up something.