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I favor the notion that free will operates in a perpendicular dimension of time, allowing us to revise the cosmos from one version to the next. Our universe is the "afterlife" of another, and another universe is the "afterlife" of ours. This notion seems similar to the concept of the Days of Ra, separated by the Duat, or of the Days of Brahma, and of course the Christian notion of the Days of Creation. The entire universe, beginning to end, is played out in ordinary time. But "after" the universe is all done (really, more like alongside it), there is another universe that is modified from it, and so on. I thought that the movie The Discovery was reasonably similar to what I had in mind, though properly, it should not be possible by any physical law to detect things outside the universe, but only by the operations of the paranormal phenomenon we call consciousness.
This started as a simple reconciliation of evolution and creationism. The six days of creation are taken not to be a brief, vague rehash of Earth history, but six steps of revisions in which the universe became more complicated, until there were people in it. And there have been many, many Days of Creation since. And in prophecies of a new heaven and a new earth, another Day to come, or more.
With a little practice, it seems easy to start thinking of dreams as windows looking on some of the previous universes. There is a certain amount of distancing involved in the reinterpretation - instead of being in a dream and thinking you're being chased by a man with an axe, you realize that you are merely recalling a world in which you're watching a horror flick about being chased by a man with an axe, and there you are putting yourself in the position of the protagonist in your mind's eye only. But then you can start looking for interesting information -- can you remember the theme music from the movie? Do you recognize where you are, who you are with?
A key piece of data from any dream is if you look at a clock, or at least, think about what time it is. It doesn't seem possible to change what your old self does, though this is open to further question, but people think about the time all the time. If you can remember what time it was in the dream universe, when you wake up, work out how many hours ahead the dream universe was relative to this one. In theory, if one of the revisions was a Great Flood, the moment of inertia of the Earth is continually increasing from that literal low point, so all the older universes should be further forward in time. At least usually they are, with some unexplained exceptions.
Once you have the time, you can classify which universe you were recalling. Like, +12 is an interesting one where we are at war with Zoroastrian Persians who made the Louisiana Purchase. I've taken down the plot and some of the music of some of their prized propaganda films... but they have solid state flight, so there are fanless ventilation ducts coming quietly out of the sides of their buildings. The top of New York is all at one height, the maximum permitted by law, and you can walk around in the linked gardens at the same height on top of all the buildings. The music of the English-speaking society there is interesting: they don't have stanzas. It seems to be considered gauche to repeat a musical verse more than two or three times, which are all at once; instead, they allude back to it with similar but distinct melodies.
In theory from one of the dreams, if enough people in this world would open their perceptions and perceive the other universes, they could force the Signal Transdimensional Organization to end their quarantine, and people would be free to perceive their multidimensional nature, and all the myriad histories. I don't really know if that would be a good thing or a bad thing...
This started as a simple reconciliation of evolution and creationism. The six days of creation are taken not to be a brief, vague rehash of Earth history, but six steps of revisions in which the universe became more complicated, until there were people in it. And there have been many, many Days of Creation since. And in prophecies of a new heaven and a new earth, another Day to come, or more.
With a little practice, it seems easy to start thinking of dreams as windows looking on some of the previous universes. There is a certain amount of distancing involved in the reinterpretation - instead of being in a dream and thinking you're being chased by a man with an axe, you realize that you are merely recalling a world in which you're watching a horror flick about being chased by a man with an axe, and there you are putting yourself in the position of the protagonist in your mind's eye only. But then you can start looking for interesting information -- can you remember the theme music from the movie? Do you recognize where you are, who you are with?
A key piece of data from any dream is if you look at a clock, or at least, think about what time it is. It doesn't seem possible to change what your old self does, though this is open to further question, but people think about the time all the time. If you can remember what time it was in the dream universe, when you wake up, work out how many hours ahead the dream universe was relative to this one. In theory, if one of the revisions was a Great Flood, the moment of inertia of the Earth is continually increasing from that literal low point, so all the older universes should be further forward in time. At least usually they are, with some unexplained exceptions.
Once you have the time, you can classify which universe you were recalling. Like, +12 is an interesting one where we are at war with Zoroastrian Persians who made the Louisiana Purchase. I've taken down the plot and some of the music of some of their prized propaganda films... but they have solid state flight, so there are fanless ventilation ducts coming quietly out of the sides of their buildings. The top of New York is all at one height, the maximum permitted by law, and you can walk around in the linked gardens at the same height on top of all the buildings. The music of the English-speaking society there is interesting: they don't have stanzas. It seems to be considered gauche to repeat a musical verse more than two or three times, which are all at once; instead, they allude back to it with similar but distinct melodies.
In theory from one of the dreams, if enough people in this world would open their perceptions and perceive the other universes, they could force the Signal Transdimensional Organization to end their quarantine, and people would be free to perceive their multidimensional nature, and all the myriad histories. I don't really know if that would be a good thing or a bad thing...
