Thread: a dream muse as a waking poltergiest, with reference to two cartoons

Two years ago, a few hours after thinking about whether or not physics theory permits historically inconsistent causal threads to be woven into the same reality, I was sitting and holding my driver's license in my hand when it vanished as if it had never been there, reappearing in my wallet. I had previously gone through a several year period of skepticism and critical thought in relation to precognitive dreams, during which time the dreams increased in strength, frequency, and complexity, until my 'rational explanations' became quite untenably ridiculous. The driver's license incident scared me, and I didn't want escalating demonstrations of the same type, so I just took it at face value. I had one other similar experience immediately following that however, as if to say, "OK, I'll stop, but here's one more to illustrate how far I can reach". In about 2002 my wife and I had found a black and yellow tortoise in the woods, which we took home for a few hours before reconsidering and releasing it near where we found it. When I returned home after the driver's license incident, there was a bottle of turtle vitamin supplement in the garage dated 2008.

As I have posted previously, my dream premonitions are generally connected to questions I ask prior to going to sleep. The dream that follows is a metaphor illustrating a possible answer to the question. Its a premonition sort of by side effect, because the images that are cobbled together to form the dream are more likely to be pulled from my future sensate experience from the past. There would be less point to using past images because I would already have thought about them. As I have also mentioned elsewhere, all of my dreams require input from at least one other mind. They sort of occur at the intersection of my thought and another person's.

A little over a year ago, my dream premonitions abruptly diminished in strength and frequency, down to a weak one or two every week. At that same time, my thoughts started showing up in other people's dreams. One of the first examples of this was a dream my sister had. I'm not particularly close to my sister, since we grew up apart and have only met a few times, but she sent the dream because it seemed foreign to her, not something that seemed connected to her own thoughts or that she could make sense out of. In the dream she picked up a mouse, and it bit her finger, while it was raining outside on account of the anisotropy of acidity. That previous day I had read a story containing a mouse that had bitten the talon of an owl, which is also a metaphor for my dream muse. And the anisotropic acidity was, to me anyway, a response to a thought I had the previous day critical of ideas about 'astral' matter which are indirectly based on Greek ideas about four elements. The point I got from it, which was a surprising and valid point, was that I was confounding kinetic energy with something more akin to valence electron balance.

Coincident with the beginning of that type of asynchronous shared dream experience, I also started getting a much higher rate of striking metaphors in waking life, a couple of which completed dreams that I had years earlier. These weren't strictly premonitions though, the experiences themselves seemed to have been architected by the same muse that created the dreams.

As I've expressed in other posts, I am skeptical of a lot of people's tendencies to assign megalomanical karmic roles to themselves, as if they're God's Jedi Knights. And yet, since I have an unusual set of experiences, combined with a stronger science background than is possessed by most people who report having such experiences, I still wonder what its for, if I should try to do something with it. [Added note: My use of the word 'report' rather than 'had' wasn't meant to imply skepticism of people's experiences on account of their background or for any other reason. I mean that there are other people who have such experiences but don't talk about them.]

As often as not, when I post this sort of thing here its met with skepticism. So taking all of this in context, I thought the following cartoon was relevant and funny:

http://xkcd.com/842/

A couple of you also know that my name is Mark, and that to a large extent I understand my spiritual condition in terms of my human sexual polarization, making me a fitting member of the PEN15 club.

The other cartoon comments on the isolation and boring mundanity of life, in contrast to the weird and complex stuff that we have buried inside ourselves:

xkcd: Desert Island

I thought that binning these as 'senseless banter', while understandable, was a bit harsh, so I've posted them again with more context.