The Relativity of Dream Time

Time travel is the hypothetical activity of traveling into the past or future. It is a widely recognized concept in philosophy and fiction, particularly science fiction. When a signal is sent from one location and received at another location, then as long as the signal is moving at the speed of light or slower, the mathematics of simultaneity in the theory of relativity show that the transmission-event happened before the reception-event. When the signal travels faster than light (FTL), it is received before it is sent, the signal could be said to have been received before it occurred i.e. it traveled backward in time aka time travel. Einstein showed that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light (300,000 kilometers per second or 186,000 miles per second). Only massless particles, including photons, which make up light, can travel at that speed. It's impossible to accelerate any material object up to the speed of light. Since a body of mass cannot even reach the speed of light, it is impossible for it to time travel, which requires a speed faster than the speed of light. The Quran has mentioned some dreams in which the dreamer saw some event that turned out to be true in the future. The objective of this paper was to explore if these dreams can be explained by time travel. The analysis suggests that the phenomenon of dreams is a thought process which is based on the firing of neurons. The speed of these neurons is 80-120 meter per second (180-270 miles per hour), which is 250,000 times slower than the top speed of light. The author proposes that the future events we see in dreams are most likely a simulation of future events, created by the angels with the permission of Allah ST , by rearranging the elements of the past events stored in our memory.

Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice, 2018

Although the dream narrative, of (bio)logical necessity, originates with the dreamer, he or she typically is not aware of this. For the dreamer, the dream world is the real world. In this article, I argue that this nightly misattribution is best explained in terms of the concept of mental ownership (e.g., Albahari, 2006; Klein, 2015a; Lane, 2012). Specifically, the exogenous nature of the dream narrative is the result of an individual assuming perspectival, but not personal, ownership of the content she or he authored (i.e., "The content in my head is not mine. Therefore it must be peripherally perceived"). Situating explanation within a theoretical space designed to address questions pertaining to the experienced origins of conscious content has a number of salutary consequences. For example, it promotes predictive fecundity by bringing to light empirical generalizations whose presence otherwise might have gone unnoticed (e.g., the severely limited role of mental time travel within the dream narrative).

this is a unique theory of hoe dreams happen and are interpreted

Principles and Practice of Sleep Medicine, 2005

Perceptual and motor …, 1995

Throughout the ages, humans, being sentient ourselves, have exhibited an insatiable desire to elucidate and establish the precise definition of consciousness. In the Advaita Vedanta, Adi Shankaracharya, postulated the existence of different states of consciousness. Due to the intangible nature of the hypothesis, in his time, scholarly discourses attempting to prove or disprove said hypothesis were highly speculative, philosophical --even bordering on fantasy. By incorporating elements of modern science, such as neurology and psychology, this paper will attempt to empirically prove the existence of altered states of consciousness.

If we were to look more closely at our dreamworlds, we might discover terrain as varied and compelling as any we have known while awake. And, once honed, our night vision could reveal the architecture of futuristic cities, the voice of a friend long dead, the attics of homes we once knew and have buried out of reach of waking memory. We might glimpse the spaceships of an alien culture, smell the sweet familiar scent of ripe corn, or spend an evening listening to the pulse of drumbeats around a tribal fire. The roads of our dreamworlds run through both space and time, linking what we have imagined, illuminating the movement of our lives in a rich brocade of metaphor."

Journal of Sleep Research, 2004

SUMMAR Y The incorporation of memories into dreams is characterized by two types of temporal effects: the day-residue effect, involving immediate incorporations of events from the preceding day, and the dream-lag effect, involving incorporations delayed by about a week. This study was designed to replicate these two effects while controlling several prior methodological problems and to provide preliminary information about potential functions of delayed event incorporations. Introductory Psychology students were asked to recall dreams at home for 1 week. Subsequently, they were instructed to select a single dream and to retrieve past events related to it that arose from one of seven randomly determined days prior to the dream (days 1-7). They then rated both their confidence in recall of events and the extent of correspondence between events and dreams. Judges evaluated qualities of the reported events using scales derived from theories about the function of delayed incorporations. Average ratings of correspondences between dreams and events were high for predream days 1 and 2, low for days 3 and 4 and high again for days 5-7, but only for participants who rated their confidence in recall of events as high and only for females. Delayed incorporations were more likely than immediate incorporations to refer to events characterized by interpersonal interactions, spatial locations, resolved problems and positive emotions. The findings are consistent with the possibility that processes with circaseptan (about 7 days) morphology underlie dream incorporation and that these processes subserve the functions of socio-emotional adaptation and memory consolidation.

Journal of sleep …, 2004

Dreaming, 1992