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I thought about "the law of attraction" - and it made me think - if this is really possible, could reality be no different than an extremely difficult lucid dream where we would have absolutely no control at all?
I also have a theory about why this would occur, and why dreams are so easy to control and why reality itself is not. My theory is - assuming that the universal subconscious is actually a very real thing, the universal subconscious must accept your thought and make it a reality - meaning you cannot directly force an event to happen like in a lucid dream because it would not be allowed. I'm not sure if I am making much sense so an example is below.
For example, I want to go the mall with my friend right now. In relevance to everyone else, this event is so irrelevant to their lives that it is automatically accepted among the universal subconscious except for one person - my friend. If my friend is busy, this one "no" inside of the universal subconcious makes this event unable to happen. No matter how hard I try to "will" this event to happen - it's just not happening, the rules are already set. Take this same scenario and make it a dream. Because I am the only one in my dream world, it is just me, and my own subconscious. In my dream world, I can go the mall with my "friend" and will it to happen because from my subconcious point of view, it is ok for this happen. I can easily change the rules because there is no universal subconscious where everything has to align properly for a certain event to happen. It is just me, and no one else is affecting the world that I experience in a dream.
May also explain why some lucids are hard to control for no reason. Maybe you are actually sharing a dream with a few people without knowing it - and this few amount of subconscious(s) amounts to a miniture "dream subconscious" consisting of the subconscious of everyone participating in the dream, and specific (though not many) "rules" are set. For a rule to broken, the dream subconscious must be in agreement that this "event" is ok to happen. It's still easy to walk through walls, or fly, because usually you not be directly affecting anyone else.
But then you may ask, why in a room where no is around for miles, can I not alter reality just inside of the room temporarily? Your own subconscious would pretty saying "its not ok" because we are so wired into this physical existance our subconscious could never accept something like that really happening.
However, you can influence an event far into the future. Maybe this is how the "law of attraction" works. You think about something, and this thought is thrown into the universal subconscious, and because there are so many people that you directly affect, and they directly affect you, the alignment for this event to happen would take some time. This would also mean that there has to be some kind of external driving force (God, or some metaphysical force), or maybe the universal subconscious itself is the driving force. This would also mean that other people are real, and that we are not alone.
http://img174.imageshack.us/img174/876/realitiesea0.jpg
http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/3...lities2cn5.jpg (image of show the driving force fits into the picture above)
Now this isn't post trying to say that reality is a dream, life is pointless. This theory would suggest that reality is one giant shared dream, and because of that, life in this reality would still matter, because we are affecting other people. Our actions affect others, unlike in a dream. It's just one of my crazy theories trying to explain how reality/dreams coincide with eachother.
Hope I got my point across. It's not something I believe, but something (a possibility) I just thought about like 10 minutes ago ;)
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Hmmm, interesting....
I've had similar ideas to this before as well. I like the idea because it allows for the "laws" of science, and supernatural things as well, and it also discounts the possibility that other people aren't "real" or aren't here with us.
I like!
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I like your post... I have had similar thoughts and theories about RL resembling a LD. However my thoughts vary some. I think that the reason that you may feel it impossible to change or alter your reality in the present, is the agreement that "the laws are set" inside your mind. I take the exact opposite stance. RL is a waking LD that I can control and influence to my liking. For instance you may not be be able to "will" your friend to go to the mall with you... However you may be able to influence your friends decision with an unbending intent that they go to the mall with you... I believe in limits and restrictions to reality, however. But I believe the laws of reality are based soley on the idea of "free will". You can't MAKE anyone do or think any thing. Everyone has the universal right to choose the manner in which they will act, and the path that they will follow. But... you can influence their thinking to the point where they decide of their own "free will" that they will follow you to the mall. But certain conditions must be met before this type of act would be possible for someone. I think that there is such a thing as "competing intents" ideas and actions that others want to be placed into reality....Because your friend has their own intent not to go to the mall. Your intent must be stronger and more unyielding in order to bend your friends current path into the desired result. I do agree with your thoughts on the "Law of Attraction". And believe it is also possible to affect events in the future. Though I do think that whoever wrote the book, and the movie "The Secret" (another movie with the same explanation of the LOA), hardly mentions the affect of how your own personal power afftects the LOA. If someone is continually wasting the energy needed to attract what they want, then they can think about attracting whatever they want and it simply will not happen, and they lose their belief that it works. Rather I should say it will not happen until they have enough personal energy to accomplish the feat, which may be never.
- " Your Being Attracts Your Life..."
- G.I. Gurdjieff
