what are dreams [lit] made of?

what are dreams made of?

…and where are they? what makes them located e.g. such that your dream is yours and mine is mine? can brains produce entire dream worlds [which can have a great expanse], and indeed the everyday world?

i think that with training dreams can be controlled somewhat. in ny experience with a little help from substances, i have seen in my minds eye, dreams rolling off the cutting room floor - so to say, driven by information.

now i could say that i have had shared dreams, but thats impossible to prove. its similar to how hypnotism can produce some unexplainable things, which make some people wonder if reality is a projection of background information [bit like the matrix].

we cant prove any such things, but we can ask some simple and fundamental questions as like i opened with.

we can ask if the brain can and does produce light? and enough of it to produce a world.

if it does, then we would be able to look inside the brain and watch peoples dreams, right? i think also that masses of photonic radiation in the brain would probably interfere with other electromagnetic activity.

there would also be instrumentation inside the brain which produces light, like an inner torch lols. yet if nature could do that it would have long ago produced external light emitters similar to torches, e.g. so predators and prey could spot each other in the dark.

ok so some creatures do produce bio-luminescence, but we would be able to see that if it were occurring in the brain.

given that the brain is not producing light, then we must ask if dreams and dream worlds, are in fact another kind of non-physical’ light!

we can equally state that this light is in all human minds [and some creatures].

that the same thing in each mind is producing dreams, and that is most likely to be information. certainly that info is the ‘engine’ driving dreams.

so what kind of info? well some animals dream but they cant speak, so i think we can assume that the info is non-linguistic. in fact now we have to ask if info is the primary drive of dreams, because animals dont think with info, and much of our thinking is not info.

so dreams are an entity which relates to whats going on in individuals brains. it can relate at any level we think, a dogs dreams probably involve a lot of smells, but mostly dreams appear to relate to shapes.

hand-in-glove. one must conclude that as with many other aspects of the mind, nature takes a rubber stamp approach to dreams, matching dream-light/smell/concepts* with the respective occurence in the mind, in a like for like mirroring of those things.

that dreams are a secondary reality shared by anything capable of thinking [at least]. we can visualise this as like a most pervasive dream ocean which permeates the world at [at least] the macroscopic level.

is there any reason why this shared resource cannot be shared by two or more individuals?!

I see the brain as a filter-converter-interpreter rather than as a producer.
I have a lot of experience with lucid dreaming. These dreams will produce things that actually occur in the future, complete with home addresses that don’t exist when the dream occurs but will later on. I can’t explain why but dreams are most certainly addressing and accessing a reality vastly more substantial and intersubjective than just synapses blowing off steam, as is commonly thought in the west.

The future is of course largely set, we can not escape determinism and with what is manifest today, there is only a limited range of options for tomorrow. It would not surprise me if the future actually already exists and can be seen.

To your question: dreams are made of being, same as waking life.

Dreams are a sequence of electrical impulses in your brain.

What most people forget though is that we experience “real life” in the same way. Our experience in dreams and in “real life” is created in the same way; electrical impulses in the back of your brain.

i couldnt agree more with the first part of your post, though i dont agree we cannot excape determinism. indeed what dreams are doing universally ties in with why determinism is not entire.

dreams as like information are a base just as qm is. determinism cannot work at the qm level due to improbability and that there are always more than one path for events to take.

similarly, the consciousness works at that level, that is why it cannot be specifically located. a scientist on a documentary about quantum computers, said that when working with his quantum computer it was as if he was ‘stroking’ it ~ it was very tactile. so now i am thinking that this inner level of reality is the key to life, spirit and freedom.

the whole world is ‘talking’ with the whole world! not linguistically, but mirroring everything occurring in the physical, with the ether, spirit and dream component. the result of the conversation - so to say, is what occurs in the world. it is being remade continuously, and imho that degree of communication does indeed require agents which can work intermediary between the macroscopic and qm worlds.

how else can it work!