Is there more than one state of reality?
My brain tells me that the world is all too real.
Nearly everyone has experienced the dream state while sleeping. The thoughts and images that pass through the mind may seem real enough at the time, and routinely upon awakening we often dismiss them as being the result of an overactive mind. However, while our dream is occurring, we have every reason to believe we are there wherever the action is taking place. It is perceived as an authentic happening in our lives.
When compared to the dreams we have had in the past, being awake is usually considered to be our “real” state of consciousness. This is life unedited, we conclude, from what our senses and logic tell us.
Perhaps dreaming is a relative term. Perhaps there are other states of reality that are beyond what our bodies and minds can comprehend. Suppose we were transfered to a different higher level body and mind? This transition may be compared to the individual in a black-and-white world who comes to see color for the first time, or the person in a two-dimensional existence who awakens to three dimensions. Or like the man who had brain damage to achieve a heightened sense of smell. He could smell as a dog smells, and had no words to describe the experience, except that there was a whole huge "pallet" of smells now available to him.
Do you think that our existence could be a small experience of a larger reality, just as our dreams are a small experience of a larger reality? It the world all too real? Or are our brains just telling us it is so.
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