hi everyone. this is a great thread, & i have enjoyed all of the very personal comments and revelations here. it is fascinating to try and understand part of us that is elusive and symbolic. stories of encounters with family, churches, burning smells, music and songs.. are a window into other moments and experiences. a song flowing from a dream seems like a pure channel of creativity, unadulterated..

to add another possibility to wondering about why we dream, where we go, how we can connect to other people, times and eras, consider..

a couple of years ago i watched an interview on late night tv. Philip Adams (those in Oz will know him as an athiest and skeptic journalist) interviewed a prize winning physicist.

one of the topics that emerged was that of parallel universes. this physics professor stated that he and many other scientists consider that it is likely that we have a parallel universe/dimension. The theory was that the parallel universe is very like our own, and we and the animate and inanimate beings/elements that make up this universe are copied in this other dimesion, altho with some minor changes.

according to this theory, which the scientist said was now held by many people in his field, we and the people we are, are replicated somewhere in this parrallel universe, with everything else.

so , for example, somwhere in the parallel u - I will be sitting typing a thread to mudcat, and you will be reading it. altho there will be subtle differences, I may have a different model computer, and my cat might be named Jimmy instead of Baxter.

if such a parallel universe exists, are our dreams linking us to events/ people/ places in such a universe?

now it is time for me to go and dream... 1.37 am!!

good night and sweet day dreams to those of you who are in awake-time!

best wishes

fred