POINT 1
Every memory reflects and keeps something about the state of the person making them ( a child- like memory is made by a child… a pot -head will quite often remember only something he memorised when he was high , when he is high again …a baby’s memories are so basic and powerful ( and uncontrolled) that a fleeting precisely focused adult mind would just not be able to re-pick them and re-live them..
The mind is like the layers of a computer operating systems..more basic / faster / powerful as you go down through the onion skin ( machine code first…lightening fast,unintelligible to users at the top level Microsoft Windows interface …that machine code would be the low level mind/sensory world we share with Amphibians ).
Next comes a ‘word’ based operating system like MS-DOS.Still simple but uses words and does simple stuff….= the child ( mammalian brain ..simple analogy ..but lets have fun ) .
Next comes Windows 5 , 2000 , Vista all different types of Adults who are highly specialised… the memories created here are highly specialised.
BUT..data ( memories ) only realise or express themselves themselves fully , in the layer they were made and partially in the adjoining layers and make no sense when they are skipping a layer ( so machine code that runs your DVD writer will not look like anything but a useless row of numbers when displayed at the top level ….a real life anologue would be a full blown blast of a fear from the cot/baby timeframe and expresses itself in a panic attack…you’ll perceive in it strange ways because the adult mind has no ‘handle’ to understand the memory in its original form..so it sees an attack of bees or someone chasing them or something that does’nt exist …the feeling is so powerful..it becomes a sensory reality..regardless if the fact that the bees/others do not exist at all).
POINT 2
The perception of vision and the perception of motion is so accurately geared towards Mother Nature’s Earthly parameters , that our daytime mind is almost entirely consumed with an accurate reflection of the Newtonian ( ordered ) world around us.This happens at a vast machine code level….our entire daytime mind has a second to second…millisecond to millisecond mastery of gravity , muscle-bone orchestration , colour and space.Nature has a constancy which is reflected in our minds deeply and then we manipulate to help us navigate this world.This is entirely absent during the night.The persistant & consistent ordering is missing at night-time.
When I take one step forward and move my eye precisely from one dot of one “i” to again and again to manipulate the space and focus of my mind….I can do it…because the world itself is a rules based ,consistently ,ordered place ( Newtonian ) ..not because my inherent mind(s) +memories – is/are an ordered place.
Because I can navigate the ‘world’ so methodically….I can manipulate my interior landscape as well …methodically.e.g..a memory upwells … a queasy feeling ( coming unknown from a child hood fright from learning to walk maybe…)…you can manipulate that feeling by avoiding …say a trip on a plane…a walk on high ground…etc.You can’t do that at night time…the Newtonian world disappears at night time.
POINT3
Once asleep , all memories become slippery bars of soap.Without the constancy of the daytime world…your memories take on a liberated role and so does your self.You become the machine-coder, the MS-DOS reader and the Vista user …seamlessly and naturally in a way that would have shocked you in the daytime.A child seeing a Pink elephant with a nappy would be just interested in what they see …we would be shocked….but at night time…. the child ( MS-DOS) would comfortably accept seeing the strange things and its all OK..that’s why you do and see things in dreams that seem quite normal to you until you wake up and think how strange.
As an adult dreaming..you’ll see adult things..work pressure…take kids to school…..etc etc..realistic stuff.But just imagine……now your queasy powerful feeling from childhood arises ..the strong and powerful current of fear from learning to walk…no Newtonian world can help you now…this memory has its own energy and power but was laid down by an earlier operating system ( MS-DOS or machine code) ..it will come out as gobble-de -gook to the adult mind dreaming ( Vista ).You will feel the full force of the feeling but because your adult mind didn’t lay down the memory..it will be unrecognised and modified into the most similar sensation/experience your adult mind can ascribe to it…say a falling plane crash for example..( which you will wonder why because in real life you may have avoided planes all your life so that you would never have to confront that large memory that made you uneasy in the first place of flying and which you then manipulated during the daytime by avoiding flying.
But in your sleep , your inner fears some out clearly….accurately..just dressed as strangers.
You could almost make a case to say that its our daytime minds that are the altered reality and that dreams show the real ‘charge’ of mind. i. e we avoid in daytime successfully….it may look confused at night- time..but its more of an honest display of the inner mind than the daytime contents of your self-edited life and thoughts we have daily when the sun comes up.
