Dream to Reality

Dreams become the basis for our reality. This may seem fanciful, but I do not mean this figuratively. I mean that the device you are using to read these words was dreamt of before it was created. One might argue most ideas were imagined, but consider how much better our subconscious minds are than our conscious minds at compiling ideas. This means that if you have an idea, and start in on it, that night you are almost certainly going to dream about it. Even for the ideas that somehow started and were completed in the same day, one must ask: why did that individual think to imagine that thing on that day to begin with? Why did they get into the field where they invent such things to begin with? Often the answers, even to these questions, spawn from dreams, either directly or indirectly, remembered or not. So, every man made thing is an example of a dream made real.

This idea, presented in this way, shifts from absurd to obvious once understood, like an illusionary logical barrier broken down. There is a second illusion within this idea, however, which is as strong as the first, an illusion that only presents itself once the first is overcome. Let's assume at this point that you accept my premise that dreams become reality, and that underpins all man-made reality; the next incorrect assumption is that we understand fully the manner in which this is done. Today one might describe that manner of dream crafting to be drawing up schematics, plugging them into a computer, perhaps manufacturing a prototype for say a new type of computer screen. Consider though that 100 years ago, many of the mechanisms you are using to turn dream into reality would have been unknown. Consider that 500 years ago the entire process you are using would have been unknown. Now try to consider what the process for turning dream into reality might look like in 500 years if our current technological path continued unabated. This is to demonstrate that we have not come anywhere close to marking the paths by which dream becomes reality, we can only really grasp the ones used right now. Who is to say some of these methods that will be discovered in the future are not available to the subconscious today? Innovation is not a steady slope but a jagged one, who is to say the process of turning dream into reality might not fundamentally change tonight, in a way not foreseen, and possibly not even imagined as possible, today. 

What is most interesting about this to me is that if either of these preceding thesis statements were made in a vacuum, they would likely be lumped in as new age nonsense. However, when supported in the ways I describe, both are logical, and easily provable: dreams become reality, we do not presently know anywhere close to the methods that are available for this to happen, and a new method could happen tomorrow. It seems an underlying point to this which is revealed is that we want to believe this world makes sense, more sense than a dream, even though everything we have made in this world is the creation of a dream. The brain cannot often tell the difference between dreaming and awake, and perhaps this intertwined nature is part of the reason why. Just try to make sure that in attempting to make this reality makes sense, you do not put it in a box so small that you lose touch with the mechanisms that underpin it, thus losing touch with the real and amazing nature of reality in an attempt to make sense of it.