That’s quite a dream. Sounds like you’ve been through some pretty trying stuff—the longer I spend around people who are interested in dreams, and the more stories I hear, the more I begin to wonder just how many of us have. Hope you’re doing OK.
Weird time stuff is pretty common in my dreams, but it’s more something that happens than something I experiment with. What happens most often is that, in non-lucid dreams, I’m using memories of the future--sometimes of various alternate futures—to decide what to do in my current situation. These are accurate within the context of the dream, but the dream setting has never resembled waking reality much, and so it’s not clear on the surface how it relates to my own life.
Except for one time—I don’t know how to describe it except that it was as if, partway between sleep and waking, I was streaming an enormous number of possible scenarios through my mind, one after another, and I reached the conclusion that making a certain life decision a certain way would have very bad consequences for me. Generally, I think it’s best to leave the question of whether a dream experience was somehow real up in the air, but that was the one time in a hundred where I actually did have to decide.
Honestly, I don’t know if the idea of alternate timelines is comforting or not, or true or not. If I were to take my own dreams at face value, I’d have to conclude that all the possible alternatives exist already in some fashion, past and future, regardless of my choices. But also that it’s still possible to guide myself towards more positive futures.
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