Quote Originally Posted by The Cusp View Post
Dreams are the wave counterpart to physical reality.
Clearly there's some truth in that. I've been messing around with that idea for many years, but haven't been able to get the details to work.

Quote Originally Posted by The Cusp View Post
Physics describes probability waveforms that collapse when you focus your attention on them, dreams have archetypes that likewise collapse when you focus your attention on them.
The waveforms 'collapse' partially when they interact with other waveforms. This isn't explained at all well in popular science publications or undergraduate texts. Although the use of the words 'observed' and 'observer' seems to imply that the mind of an experimenter is involved somehow, what is really being discussed is a physical system which is partitioned into those two parts for the sake of mathematical description. Although the waveforms necessarily collapse wherever there is interaction (without that there would be no chemistry), the collapse is defined only for the system involved, as illustrated by the cat in box example.

It seems to me that whether or not archtypes collapse under attention depends on what a person is doing to them with that attention. Maybe we're not using words quite the same way though.

Quote Originally Posted by The Cusp View Post
Think of it that way, and dream control starts to work even while you're awake.
To the extent possible, I prefer to deal with all of this stuff while awake. While asleep, I'm resting.