The Quantum Theory of Dreams and Consciousness

If quantum entanglement can happen across dimensions, could we be picking up flashes of ourselves from a different dimension?

The old Apature guy had a good video on this already. I miss the original team.

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Not me I remember my dreams quite well.

I had spent all night at PC, went to sleep at 6am and I woke up at 9am because I dreamed that my brother called me. No way I'd wake up at 9am never ever. Turned out that my brother did call me, but he called my old offline number and could not reach me…this only happened a month ago and it really made me think

How’s speaking through your nose?

My strangest dream ever happened around 15 years ago. In the dream, someone told me my grandpa had died. Everyone was devastated. Then I found myself at his real life house and saw two yellow birds. After that, I saw my grandpa. He wasn't dead at all. I kept trying to tell everyone that he's alive. I woke up confused. That morning, we got the news that my grandpa's twin brother had died during the night from a sudden heart attack.
What makes it strange is that neither my grandpa nor his twin had been sick, so there was nothing for my subconscious to pick up on beforehand. To this day, I still don't have an explanation for it

Bats have excellent vision and their night vision is better than that of humans. They use echolocation to hone in on tiny insects flying around to hunt them.

Outstanding video, this has become one of my favorite channels this year, thank you for sharing ✌🏼

I see dreaming as a creative endeavor of the mind and have had some unusual ones. I dreamed I was dreaming, so when I woke up I thought I was still asleep. My strangest dream was one of my most "real-life" dreams, those that seem more real than waking life. I was in a landscape of Greek temple ruins and there were two griffins flying above and one of them landed and directed me to get onto its back, we went up into the air and I woke up. I didn't know about those mythological creatures nor did I have any interest in ancient Greece before the dream. I've also had a few recurring dreams and dream elements that keep repeating in different dreams. "Waking Life" is a wonderful movie about dreams that I highly recommend. Subscribed!

I found out I’ve got aphantasia some time ago, I can only create dim, vague outlines of images in my brain, with slight color if I really put my mind into it, I simply think with words rather than images. In my mind I can never describe stuff accurately, especially peoples features like hair color, length etc. but I can tell apart and recognize people super easily if I see them irl. As I realize it’s not that I don’t have any dreams, I basically never remember them. For me sleeping is basically just a time skip with nothing in it. I did get a few dreams I can actually remember to this day, but they’re not vivid, just like my imagination – they’re vague, dim and neither do they have any sound or experiences other than just visuals. I also experienced extreme derealization/depersonalization, I always could tell if I’m dreaming or not simply by world around me being vivid and colorful – something my mind is simply unable to create. I also never experienced conscious dreams nor visual hallucinations. This video made me think if I’m the only one with such combo, or are there more people with similar experience, because it’s super hard for me to relate to dreams overall, but especially hard to the part about wondering whether you’re still dreaming or not.

I like most of this with a big caveat…

6:56 "the unconscious appears to communicate through symbols because symbols are capable of expressing layers of meaning that ordinary language just can't" – I think this is the wrong way round? It may be less that the subconscious 'wants' to convey certain things and chooses symbolism to do so, and more that various pathways are being activated to process and consolidate thoughts and experiences, and the emergent subjective experience this produces is that of highly symbolic imaginary events and objects. Mathematically, I'd argue that "symbolic" really means "best exemplifies a particularly useful eigenvector of thought/experience", if you catch my drift. That's why symbolism is what we will experience when certain pathways are lit up without an accompanying real world experience.

I'd definitely agree that unconscious threads of thought become more prominent and experiential during dreaming. I suspect this has a lot in common with deep meditative thought, thought patterns under the influence of some psychoactive substances, and perhaps even near-death experiences, though these probably have a more distinctive neurobiological and subjectively experienced quality to them.

I had a remarkable experience where I dreamt of my wife a year before our actual meeting at a hospital. A week after we began conversing, I had another dream of our three-year-old daughter. As our relationship developed, these dreams continued, encompassing visions of our family photo albums and visits to unfamiliar places, such as a ballroom where we danced together, experiences I wouldn't typically seek out. These occurrences all transpired within the initial three months of our acquaintance. Three years later, we were married, and now, a decade on, everything I dreamt has come to fruition, often initiated by her, including the ballroom dancing.

This leads me to believe that the concept presented in this quantum echo video holds some validity. Perhaps consciousness serves as the fundamental basis of reality, with physical matter being secondary. This could explain why our dreams seem to "echo" future events, possibly through a sophisticated form of pattern recognition.

Hearing this opened me to a dream I had the other day. It hit me and when I woke up I immediately documented it. For a bit of a back story I've been smoking pot consistently for the past 7 years, prior to this I was extremely anti-drug. I stopped about 4 weeks ago now, I decided it was time to better myself and I had new goals in life that when I smoked I realized I would get lazy and not focus on my goals. I've fought a long time with guilt over all of this. The short of the dream was of a girl who gave back into addiction and was offered it from a demon in a truck. She got in the truck and they both disappeared. I've been working through some shadow play recently too, decided to ask my shadow what it's been trying to tell me that I wasn't listening to. After hearing this I've came to the conclusion that not only was I the demon, I was the girl too. When the drugs were done they both disappeared together. I've been numb from the smoking, I used it as a tool for reflection but in that reflection I also lost myself, but not only myself my shadow.. the demon in the dream. Essentially I've been hollow for 7 years and stopping smoking has helped me connect back with not only my shadow, but myself and who I truly am. It was my shadow showing me what I asked it to do, tell me what it wanted me to understand.

My dreams have been weird lately. Living full life times with people I don't know and then waking up with profound loss when it ends. It's weird.

The smooth transition to the commercial = instant thumbs down.

Consequences, ever think you are dreaming contemplate committing crime.

After a particularly traumatic event in my life I started having flashbacks backs of dream I had forgotten from years ago. It was constant. These were dreams I had forgotten shortly after I woke up. They were coming back so frequently it was starting to interfere aith work. It's calmrd down over the years but it still happens every now and then.

Big thanks for creating this content! I've been looking for coverage on YT about dreams but, none have any of the actual philosophy. Ever since I got clean & sober after many years I started having the most incredible, vivid dreams that I could swear have some real purpose or connection. I want to study this subject in detail ❤❤❤

Can't hear so much sense from such a good lookin' guy! <3

I am a physicist and I will explain why science leaves not room for the possibility that brain processes can be a sufficient condition for the existence of consciousness, which means that consciousness cannot be just a product of brain activity and naturalism fails completely in any attempt to justify the existence of human consciousness.. It is a scientifically established fact that a mental experience is associated with numerous distinct microscopic processes that occur at different points; as I will explain, there is no physical entity that connects all these distinct microscopic processes, therefore the existence of mental experience requires a connecting element that is not described by current physics. This missing connecting element can be identified with what we traditionally refer to as the soul (in my youtube channel you can find a video with more detailed explanations).

Many believe that complex systems can generate new properties, considered as emergent properties. However, I wll explain why such emergent properties are subjective cognitive constructs that depend on the level of abstraction we choose to analyze and describe the system. Since these descriptions are mind-dependent, consciousness, being implied by these cognitive constructs, cannot itself be an emergent property.

Preliminary considerations: the concept of set refers to something that has an intrinsically conceptual and subjective nature and implies the arbitrary choice of determining which elements are to be included in the set; what can exist objectively are only the individual elements. Defining a set is like drawing an imaginary line to separate some elements from others. This line doesn't exist physically; it’s a subjective cognitive construct. The same applies to sequences of processes; they are abstract concepts created by our minds.

Mental experiences are necessary for the existence of subjectivity and cognitive constructs; Therefore, mental experience itself cannot be just a cognitive construct.

Obviously we can conceive the concept of consciousness, but the concept of consciousness is not actual consciousness; We can talk about consciousness or about pain, but merely talking about it isn’t the same as experiencing it. (With the word consciousness I do not refer to self-awareness, but to the property of being conscious= having a mental experiences such as sensations, emotions, thoughts, memories and even dreams)

From the above considerations it follows that only indivisible elements may exist objectively and independently of consciousness, and consequently consciousness can only exist as a property of an indivisible element. This indivisible entity must interact globally with billions of microscopic processes that occur in the brain; this indivisible entity cannot be physical, since according to the laws of physics, there is no physical entity with such properties. The soul is the missing element that interprets globally the billions of distinct microscopic processes occurring at separate points in the brain as a unified mental experience.

Clarifications

The brain itself doesn't exist objectively as a mind-independent entity. The concept of the brain is just a conventinal cognitive construct based on separating billions of microscopic particles from everything else and considering them as a single entity. This is a subjective process, not dictated purely by the laws of physics; actually there is a continuous exchange of molecules with the blood and when and how such molecules start and stop being part of the brain is decided arbitrarily. An example may clarify this point: the concept of nation. Nation is not a physical entity and does not refer to a mind-independent entity because it is just a set of conventionally chosen people. The same goes for the brain.

Brain processes consist of many parallel sequences of distinct microscopic processes involving distinct microscopic particles located at separate points. There is no direct connection between the separate points in the brain and such connections are just subjective abstractions used to approximately describe sequences of many distinct microscopic processes. Considering an entire sequence of processes as a single event is a subjective abstraction that does not refer to any mind-independendent reality, which implies that consciousness cannot exist as a result of a sequence of processes.

Physicalism/naturalism is based on the belief that consciousness is an emergent property of the brain. However, an emergent property is defined as a property that is possessed by a set of elements that its individual components do not possess; my arguments prove that this definition implies that emergent properties are only subjective cognitive constructs and therefore, consciousness cannot be an emergent property. Actually, emergent properties are just simplified and approximate descriptions or subjective classifications of underlying microscopic processes or properties, which are described directly by the fundamental laws of physics alone, without involving any emergent properties.

In science, we devise approximate models to overcome the limits of our intelligence, since we are unable to find exact solutions in situations where many particles are involved. These approximate models are only a product of our mind and do not correspond to any mind-independent reality. In fact an approximation is only a cognitive construct and not a mind-independent reality because a mind-independent reality is exactly what it is and cannot be an approximation of itself. Emergence is nothing more than a cognitive construct that is applied to physical phenomena, and cognition itself can only come from a mind; thus emergence can never explain mental experience as, by itself, it implies mental experience. To assume that emergent properties do not depend on the mind is to commit a map-territory fallacy, that is, to confuse a simplified representation (the "map") with actual reality (the "territory"). In this analogy, the underlying microscopic processes are the territory, and emergent properties are the map, that is the simplified conceptual models we use to approximately describe the underlying microscopic processes. By the way, simply labeling consciousness "emergent" doesn't explain it . There is nothing whatsoever in the laws of physics that predicts consciousness as an emergent property of matter. That being the case, claiming that consciousness emerges from physical processes without ever providing the beginning of a logically coherent physical explanation of its supposed emergence from physical processes is tantamount to claiming that consciousness magically appears without any explanation.

Conclusions

My arguments show that physicalism is incompatible with the one of the most fundamental aspects of scientific knowledge (the fragmentary nature of molecular and biological processes) and that brain processes alone cannot be a sufficient condition for consciousness.

Since mental experiences are associated with many distinct microscopic processes occurring at separate points, it is necesssary that a connecting mind-independent element exists and that such element collectively interprets all these distinct processes as a unitary mental experience. A mind-independent element can be intrinsically indivisible only because it cannot depend on subjectivity. This indivisible element cannot be physical because the laws of physics do not describe any physical entity with the required properties.

The gap between separate microscopic processes and a unified mental experience highlights the failure of physicalism and any attempt to explain mental experience as a mere by-product of physical processes.

Marco Biagini

I call it soul mind or astral world it’s like npc find his way into source code to see glimpse accidentally