A POSSIBLE EXPLANATION FOR
THE NATURE AND PURPOSE OF DREAMS

By Vickie L. Holt

PHYSICS OF ELECTRICITY

Accepted: Electricity is a force of energy with a very firm and constant set of properties. We can harness it and channel it, but we cannot change what it does. With the exception of being able to channel electricity using conductive materials, the force of electricity will observe its properties, no matter what material or medium is in its path. The properties do not alter because of the presence of physical matter.

Accepted: The atmosphere around us is at all times filled with electricity. Positively and negatively charged electrical particles are constantly moving, passing around and through our bodies at all times.

Accepted: Electricity travels between charges. Positive to negative and negative to positive.

HUMAN BRAIN PHYSIOLOGY

Accepted: The living human body at all times emits several fields of energy: light, heat, magnetic and electrical.

Accepted: Information from sensory organs is passed to the brain using electrical impulses traveling from the sensory organs, along the body’s neuro-systems to the brain.

Accepted: In the brain, sensory input is sorted, stored, moved and recalled using electrical impulses traveling along synapses.

Accepted: During REM cycles, sensory perceptions experienced during dreaming are sorted and stored in the same regions of the brain, and in the same manner as sensory perceptions gathered while awake. The brain does not differentiate between the two.

Accepted: Our understanding is that we only use 25% of the human brain. Either we just don’t use the other 75%, or we don’t yet understand its function.

LEAP OF FAITH HYPOTHESIS

If the properties of electricity are constant, experiencing no changes due to the existence of matter, and electricity is the vehicle of perception and thought within the brain, then it is reasonable to assume that electricity can also be a vehicle of thought and perception outside the medium of nerve endings and gray matter.

QUESTIONS:

1)Is it possible that, as we emit our electrical fields, those particles that conveyed perception and thought while inside us were imprinted with the residue or an echo of that passenger?

2) When the particle leaves our body, does it take that imprint with it?

3) Is it possible that when that same particle passes through the brain of another body, there is a function that allows that secondary brain to perceive the imprint?

EXPLANATION:

Everyone has had the experience of being in a crowd and having the sudden urge to look in a particular direction, only to find that when they do, it was because someone was looking at them. We’ve all also been on the catalyst end of that equation. We’ve tried to take an anonymous look at a person in a crowd, only to have that person catch us looking. For such a phenomenon to be universally and constantly experienced, there must be an explainable force at work.

It could be explained by the creation of an electrical conduit. The brain of the observer visually perceives a person in the crowd. This sensory input travels along the optic nerves to the brain, where a thought is formed. This thought then travels from the brain as an imprint on the particles being emitted. The particle then travels to and passes through the subject’s brain where a perception is made, and the subject looks up.

There are countless other examples of this sort of perception. People often say they “feel” like they’re being watched. What exactly is the nature of this perception? It’s not sight, taste, smell, sound or tactile. Could it be the uncontrolled electrical particles from the brain of the observer telling on him and giving him away?

But where does all this fit into an explanation of dreams? This kind of perception is very subtle, and often drowned out by conscious thought. You may find that you can observe a person who is deeply and actively in thought without being caught at it. If the conscious mind is occupied, the perception is likely to go unnoticed. It would be like a whisper among shouting. When we sleep, however, the conscious mind is turned off.

Imagine this illustration: A stream. The “sleeper” stands downstream. Several other people, representing the population of the planet, stand upstream. Each person upstream holds a handful of confetti. Each person’s confetti is a different color, representing particles of electricity imprinted with their thoughts and perceptions. Now, have all the upstream people toss their handfuls of confetti into the water. Meanwhile, the person downstream holds both hands in the water, fingers slightly spread. As the confetti reaches the sleeper, particles of different colors will be caught by their fingers. This would represent the electrical particles passing through the sleeper’s body and brain, and the proposed idea that the brain (fingers in the water) can somehow perceive the imprints as they pass through. The result would be a handful of various fragments from a “collective” pool. How do most of us dream? In fragmented and convoluted images that are often an incongruous mix of themes.

ILLUSTRATIONS AND ARGUMENTS

Most often, we dream of people we know, places we’ve been and activities we’ve engaged in. Slightly less often, and frequently enough to be noted by most people with good dream recall, we also dream of people we’ve never seen or met and places we’ve never been. We also dream of doing things we’ve never done before. How could we possibly know what these people look like in order to produce a clear visual image of them in our minds? How can we construct a clear and detailed room, house, public facility or landscape we’ve never seen? How can we also perceive an activity with all its sensations if we’ve never done it? Where the human mind is definitely capable of imagination and invention…those are both functions of the conscious mind…which is not active during sleep. However, if the theories in this article are accurate, it becomes obvious. The imprinted electrical particles from other people who did experience these things have passed through the sleeper’s mind, and the imprints have been perceived.

Most of the time, this is a completely random process. But can it be controlled? Absolutely. As with the person in the crowd, there is evidence that concentration can direct the electrical particles with the imprint toward a specific brain for perception. This is not always a desired outcome, as the observer most often wants to remain anonymous.

So, does concentration alone create a direct conduit? And in the other direction, can concentration also be used to collect only desired particles from the atmosphere? Is it a matter of being able to push and pull specific particles using electricity’s natural capacity to travel from positively charged to negatively charged and vice-versa? This may explain those people who are “psychic”. People who are psychic can perceive fragments as clearly while awake as the rest of us do while sleeping. While concentrating, they can “zero in on” the desired images. They can attract the thoughts and perceptions being emitted from the minds of a lost child, criminal, etc. In many studies of psychics, machines are often used to measure energy being emitted by the body during the psychic episode. It has been commonly found that the energy output is significantly increased.

Personal example I: Several years ago, I got a notion that I would love to learn how to play the drums. Very soon afterward, I began dreaming of sitting at drum kits and playing. Practicing. These dreams would happen as frequently as every few days. Sometimes, people would show up in the dreams to watch and instruct me. I was able to track the fact that I was dreaming of people I had never met, but who did exist in reality, because they were most often drummers from bands I was familiar with. Since I recognized the face, I could attach a name, which created better recall.
About a year later, I finally managed to arrange for drum lessons. It was my very first time even approaching the instrument. I had never held a stick in my hands before that moment. My ex-husband insisted on accompanying me, and so the both of us ended up in the little room with the instructor (Bobby Henry, Roanoke). He beat a fairly simple sequence across all the pieces of the kit, then had each of us just have a go at it in order to evaluate our current skills, so he’d know where to begin with us. After we’d both had our turns, he told my husband to work on making his beats even. He then turned to me and said, “Now, since you’ve done this before…”

It was quite some time before I asked Bobby why that had been his first impression. He said it was because I had a comfort with the instrument that only came with experience. My beats were steady and even, which only came to others with practice.

If the theory in this document is really the explanation for the mechanics of dreams, then I had created a conduit out of my concentration and desire to learn to play drums. It attracted and captured particles emitted from the minds of other drummers, carrying their knowledge and images. My brain perceived these imprints and used the knowledge attached to create coordination, skill and know-how within my own mind. Just as explained above, the brain stores perception from dreams in the exact same manner as it does “real” perceptions. That being true, it would be perfectly logical to assume that experiences accumulated while dreaming could create a pool of practical experience and knowledge that could be recalled and used at a later time. Many other people have had experiences in which they were a “natural” at something they’d never tried before. In other cases, a person will try something new and get it right because they “just knew” how. And since only experience can create skill and know-how, it can then be assumed that practical experience can be garnered from dreams as well as “actual” events. This being said, the only way the mind could have gained dream experience is from the knowledge of others who do have it…by the methods outlined in this theory.

Personal example II: Another example that might illustrate communicative properties of dreams is how often another person can manipulate the images you see when dreaming. There have been studies done on this particular phenomenon. It’s called “dream telepathy”, and my sister (Shannon Bishop, Trouteville) and I find quite often that we have communicated in this manner without intending to.

A few years ago, I was driving home and accidentally hit and killed a skunk. The next day, I was talking with my sister on the phone. She knows my regard for dreams, and so we often have dream discussions. I hadn’t told her about hitting the skunk, but she told me almost immediately about having had a strange dream that very night in which there was a dead skunk in a birdcage.

More often, however, my sister will create images for my dreams. If she sees something and has a brief thought of me in the same instant, the image will likely be in my dreams that night. It most often works with celebrities or other public figure notables. For example, she might see an ad or picture for a movie or show and think in that moment that I might like to see it. Having thought of me in the instant she viewed the image creates the conduit, and I most often end up dreaming of the actor involved.

These two examples – the drum dreams arguing for the gaining of practical experience and the skunk dream arguing for the transfer of knowledge – both suggest communication. These examples, however, were concentrated. For the most part, however, we all have our minds open to whatever bits of confetti the electrical streams of the atmosphere might bring our way while sleeping. In this, though it isn’t intentional, we are all subject to unconscious communication on a global level every time we sleep. And since electricity is energy, and energy cannot be destroyed, then it can also be said that some particles imprinted yesterday, last week, or dozens of years ago might also pass through a sleeper’s mind and be perceived.

It is my opinion that dreams are far more than a random firing of synapses for the purpose of sorting out the day’s experiences. I also discount dreams as parables of symbolism that can be interpreted for the wellbeing of the dreamer. I think dreams are genuine thoughts mixed with practical experiences and communication.

In the film “Contact”, Jodie Foster’s character told Matthew McConaughey’s character that whenever her father was asked if he thought there was extraterrestrial life, he’d answer, “Well, if there isn’t, that’s an awful waste of space.” The average human being sleeps eight hours a night. That’s 1/3 of the day. In a life span of 75 years, that would mean that we spend a full 25 years of our lives sleeping. If dreams are anything less than a practical and useful addition to our existence…then that’s an awful waste of time.