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Wiley and Vibrance,
thanks for your comment...good to see ya!
posted by
Julia.
on January 12, 2005 at 8:26 PM
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we borrow from each others' mind. Love Vibrance
I've been to your home and you've been to mine...
posted by
Vibrance
on January 12, 2005 at 3:15 PM
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Quirky
Yup, I`ve done that and I think our brains store images from everywhere, like magazines, books, movies, anything that attracted us for even a few seconds.
Or, perhaps a past life
posted by
WileyJohn
on January 12, 2005 at 1:34 PM
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Taps, ROFL! That was a funny, funny comment. Tank ewe very much.
posted by
Julia.
on January 12, 2005 at 10:06 AM
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Quirky - I don't know why I keep clicking on this thinking I haven't read it (about three times now). I don't have an answer to your question. So, I'm waiting for a new post here. lol
posted by
TAPS.
on January 12, 2005 at 9:57 AM
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Quirky...
Open up all kinds of possibilities...
posted by
SincerityAnna
on January 12, 2005 at 9:51 AM
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Anna, it really does what??
posted by
Julia.
on January 12, 2005 at 9:49 AM
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Ariala,
Math---ick, ack, ug.....Math is almost never a strong suit of creative, "writerly" types.
posted by
Julia.
on January 12, 2005 at 9:49 AM
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Ariala...
That ios very interesting...it really does !!!
posted by
SincerityAnna
on January 12, 2005 at 9:39 AM
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LOL...yeah, and if it had no math attached to it...I'd go back to school
and study it!
posted by
Ariala
on January 12, 2005 at 9:38 AM
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Ariala,
Thanks for the explanation. Yes I do see the appeal of learning more about quantum physics....if it just had a less intimidating name it would be even MORE appealing!
posted by
Julia.
on January 12, 2005 at 9:36 AM
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Quirky, we limit ourselves by thinking distance is an issue and that
it takes time to get there, as in normal travel or even astral travel...Quantum physics teaches us that everything is connected via energy. One need only "think" and remotely be someplace else. Distance is no big deal. Time and space can't stop us. In other words, you're already there by virtue of being connected to everything else. All you need is awareness of what is happening there using your mind's eye (hence, remote viewing or whatever elese they want to call it.)
There are Quantum phycists who have done studies where they split the atom and send one in one direction and the other in another direction. Space and time don't affect the fact that they continue to "communicate" to each other as if they're still one atom.
See why I love quantum physics so much? It opens up all kinds of possibilities!
posted by
Ariala
on January 12, 2005 at 9:25 AM
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Jim, that makes sense, thanks for your comment.
posted by
Julia.
on January 12, 2005 at 9:12 AM
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The answer is simple
At the risk of over simplifying, we are God having a human experience. We created it all, we know it all. In our dreams, we sometimes awaken enough to know places, people etc.
Well. its one idea.
posted by
Shams-i-Heartsong
on January 12, 2005 at 4:29 AM
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Ciel, it would be interesting to find out, though!
posted by
Julia.
on January 11, 2005 at 9:00 PM
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Alf, I know it doesn't make a difference to my life, but I still wonder about it.
posted by
Julia.
on January 11, 2005 at 8:59 PM
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OI, that's okay, I'm the same way!
posted by
Julia.
on January 11, 2005 at 8:58 PM
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spitfire, thanks for the explanation.
posted by
Julia.
on January 11, 2005 at 8:58 PM
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I once dreamed that some college boys invited me to Perth, Australia
and provided me with a little flat while I was there...I still remember the view out the window. I haven't yet been to Perth, though, so I don't know if it was accurate.
posted by
Ciel
on January 11, 2005 at 7:25 PM
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Quirky...
Good question. I for one gave up trying to figure that out long ago. I have seen so much in my dreams, even people I have never met, or at least don't remember meeting. So, to me it doesn't matter if it is made up by my mind or it is real. Because to know either would not change my life any I don't think. It is a fun question to ponder though.
posted by
A_Norseman
on January 11, 2005 at 6:27 PM
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Lots of different thoughts on this but none
that make much sense...lol.
posted by
Original_Influence
on January 11, 2005 at 6:18 PM
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Quirky, there are many different reasons and theories
about this. I often have OBE's and also vivid dreams. They are two different things, usually. Our minds are such powerful tools. We don't even know the half of it. I think as far as dreaming of the vivid details of a certain place could be a combination of things we've seen and places we've been that our mind puts together for us. Most things in dreams are symbolic. It's the way our subconcious solves our problems in the best way it can.
posted by
SpitFire70
on January 11, 2005 at 6:13 PM
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Ca88, I think i have!!
posted by
Julia.
on January 11, 2005 at 6:05 PM
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GG, I agree...the mind boggles!
posted by
Julia.
on January 11, 2005 at 6:05 PM
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pickles, yes I know, they drilled that into us in school, didn't they??
posted by
Julia.
on January 11, 2005 at 6:04 PM
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englishwoman, I totally believe that...what an interesting experience!
posted by
Julia.
on January 11, 2005 at 6:03 PM
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It depends on heaps of things...
Whether you believe what you see is an actual representation of reality or not. Whether you believe in past lives or astral travelling or even if you just believe you have an active imagination.
Remember, there are no stupid questions except the one not asked!
posted by
littlemspickles
on January 11, 2005 at 5:16 PM
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I think you have been answered!
posted by
Ca88andra
on January 11, 2005 at 1:28 PM
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Very interesting to read
your post and the comments. Can l tell you about something that happened some time ago. I used to run relaxation and creative visualisation sessions During an evening with a group of friends - all very intuitive - we decided to do some visualisation. I kept the things l said quite broad so that people could interpret for themselves and go where their minds took them. One girl put herself into a buttercup, closed the petals over herself and stayed there. The others started into different scenes, but struggled to hold their visions and kept drifting into other completely different scenes. Discussing it afterwards we found they were all crossing and merging in and out with each others visions. Very spooky!
posted by
englishwoman
on January 11, 2005 at 12:18 PM
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the human imagination is a powerful thing! those are the coolest kinds of
dreams!
posted by
Gheeghee
on January 11, 2005 at 12:07 PM
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Quirky...
I don't know. There were alot of other details to that particular dream...and there were other children that I ended up finding too. It almost makes me wish I could walk into the house that it really happened in just to see if it's the same one. ((I have thought that several times))
posted by
SincerityAnna
on January 11, 2005 at 12:01 PM
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Anna, that is very spooky...perhaps you were tapped into her frequency and could foresee what was about to occur.
posted by
Julia.
on January 11, 2005 at 11:58 AM
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tweed, yes, the mind is still a relatively unexplored frontier despite many, many expeditions.
posted by
Julia.
on January 11, 2005 at 11:57 AM
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quirky...
The very worst one I can recall having was the one where I went into the house, and walked up the stairs. There was a bedroom, a little girls room, with two beds in it. There was a man sitting on one of the beds, crying. I asked him what was wrong and he picked his hear up and looked towards his left. There was a door way there...I walked through it into a bathroom. The bathtub was overflowing...and in it was a baby...face down. I think it was like two days later that I heard about that woman drowning all of her five children in her bathtub. I instantly thought of that dream. I don't know what that means but it was awful !!!
posted by
SincerityAnna
on January 11, 2005 at 11:56 AM
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word...yeah, me neither...about anything!!
posted by
Julia.
on January 11, 2005 at 11:50 AM
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Anna, I hope it wasn't anything bad...
posted by
Julia.
on January 11, 2005 at 11:49 AM
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I'll begin with Carl Jung. He had some erudite conclusions about the nature and causes of dreams. Even dreams occur at different levels of our consciousness. Day-dreaming has a lot real life representations in them embelished by wishful thinking and fantasies. Deeper level dreaming, if recalled at all have certainly some bases on where they came from and how they came about. The mind is a frontier we haven't even scratched the surface of.
posted by
tweedhead
on January 11, 2005 at 11:32 AM
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It may be from all those
exotic scenes in those long digested movies over the years. Otherwise, I don't have a clue!
posted by
word.smith
on January 11, 2005 at 11:29 AM
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Quirky...
I often dream of walking through abandoned houses. It is so weird too...because after waking i can recall details and I just know that somewhere, someplace the house I've walked trough and the things I've witnessed in them are real.
posted by
SincerityAnna
on January 11, 2005 at 11:18 AM
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lisa,
thanks for the info. I think I would tend to go with perhaps a composite of #1 and #3. They can, I think, both be true.
posted by
Julia.
on January 11, 2005 at 11:17 AM
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voyager, thanks for commenting...and yes, I really love all of those films!
posted by
Julia.
on January 11, 2005 at 11:13 AM
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Oh man...don't get me started on dream work!
There are three possible explanations for this. I'll start with the basic and most acceptable one first.
1. You may have actually seen/read/heard of another place and just don't remember it consciously. It could be something that stuck with you even as far back as infacny. Unconsciously, those images can blend with other images and create something different and seemingly new and undiscovered.
2. You actually have a very creative imagination and have literally created that world out of nowhere. However, it is unlikely that it wasn't created with at least some input from your conscious life.
3. This is the most controversial, but there is a school of thought that believes we (humans) are all connected in an unconscious state. The collective unconscious that links us together in our dreams. You are born with an unconscious knowledge of things thanks to generations before you.
Anyway, I think dreams are fascinating... you might want to read up on it too!
posted by
lisachef
on January 11, 2005 at 11:06 AM
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Dear Quirkyalone, I gues it has to do with the subconscience; probably you've seen it before, but never realized at that moment that you were seeing or experiencing it. I had a few similar experiences. "Deja vu" as the French would also name it.
Bye the way, The Sixth Sense, The Green Mile, Dances With Wolves..... excellent choice of movies!!!
See/hear/read ya!!
Voyager
posted by
Voyager9940
on January 11, 2005 at 11:05 AM
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Symphony, a non-insightful comment is just as nice, imo!!
posted by
Julia.
on January 11, 2005 at 10:59 AM
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chris,
no, no, no, no...to be your freak buddy would be a fate I could not live with...so...off with your head then!
posted by
Julia.
on January 11, 2005 at 10:58 AM
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so very interesting...I wondered that too
I like the comments you got...I have nothing insightful to say/write.....but it fascinates me
posted by
_Symphony_
on January 11, 2005 at 10:46 AM
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Quirkyalone
To answer that question you'll have to explore the conceptz of universal energy, psychic awareness, and virtual reality. Maybe you're a freak....that would mean you and me could be freak buddies! Yay!!
posted by
chris2303
on January 11, 2005 at 10:44 AM
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Jems, but you could manufacture a person much easier than a location, imo....... I agree with you about the astral travel theory.
posted by
Julia.
on January 11, 2005 at 10:36 AM
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Good question
I have no answer. But I'd assume it's somewhat the same with the people you see in your dreams that you've never met in "real life."
I think Ariala has a good point with her astral travel theory. However, I haven't done enough research on it to know much about the ins and outs of astral travel.
posted by
Jemmie211
on January 11, 2005 at 10:20 AM
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sheilake,
I think it is really happening as well. As for not dreaming of people you know...that is different I think...I have a mix of strangers and acquaintenances in my dreams.
posted by
Julia.
on January 11, 2005 at 10:08 AM
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Quirky
I know a man that dreamed he was standing by a phone booth in London. When he awoke, he instantly picked up his phone here in the U.S. and dialed a friend that was visiting there, and found that the other person could describe the exact phone booth from the corner near his hotel! He was feeling lonely, and glad his friend had called.
I liken this to astral travel, and believe it really is happening. Tell me if the following ever happens to you: In my dreams I always interact with complete strangers. I rarely dream of my "real world" acquaintances. What does this mean?
posted by
sheilake
on January 11, 2005 at 10:02 AM
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Ariala,
that's very interesting. Re: the frequency theory....so you could "see" all the way to another continent half a world away?? I tend to think the astral travel theory is probably correct. But that begs another question: if you are really there in spirit, then whatever is going on in the "dream" is actually really happening to you?
posted by
Julia.
on January 11, 2005 at 9:48 AM
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Gypsy, if I dreamt that I read something and then actually read it, I would totally freak out.
posted by
Julia.
on January 11, 2005 at 9:44 AM
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Quirky, the military invested a lot of money in something called
Remote Viewing...people are trained to "see" places remotely (from their location) in an awakened state. I've done this myself...it happens automatically in dreams at times, too...since everything is connected, the mind's eye can see far, via frequencies (like radio waves); some think it's astral travel at work and your spirit body leaves and travels to another location.
posted by
Ariala
on January 11, 2005 at 9:34 AM
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Quirky...
I've had dreams where I read part of a book I've never read before. Later while reading the book I came across that section. It's weird but it happens. They call it deja vu. Fact is, you could have also subconsciously seen the place on tv, in a movie... somewhere and used it that way too. Either way, it's kind of cool!
posted by
RedHeadedGypsy
on January 11, 2005 at 9:06 AM
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