The Week

I'm really excited about Obama possibly visiting our school.  It would be the experience of a lifetime to meet Barack Obama, although he hasn't exactly been revolutionary.  I wish he would be more bossy about the environment.  Someone has to do it.

I think, though I'm not sure, that even if science can give us infinite more brain connections and cells, we won't be able to access it all.  You know how they say we only use 10% of our brains?  Well, we know that some parts of our brain are dormant or underused because we live in civilization--parts of the brain used for walking on rough terrain, for example.  Also, the way we view the world is much different from the way uncivilized cultures viewed the world, and I wonder if this accounts for differences in brain activity.  It will be interesting to see how we can use our new, bigger brains.

So I've been thinking

I've been thinking about Malcolm Godwin's hypothesis in The Lucid Dreamer that the world we see around us is about as substantial as our dreams are.  The idea has been presented before that the way our relatively little brains store so much data is by creating holograms of the universe inside our heads.  This conjecture can be used to explain many mysteries of the brain, and the workings of holograms oddly parallel dreams.

I've started to have dreams when I'm half-asleep and half-awake, drifting in and out of consciousness like when I'm on an airplane.  I know everyone has these kinds of half-awake dreams, but I'm having a lot of them, and they seem to be as vivid as normal dreams.  Like in normal dreams, I believe that what I'm experiencing is real reality, but the difference is that I am often experiencing the real world simultaneously, with the part of me that's awake.

Maybe what Dr. Richard Alpert, a.k.a. Ram Dass, said is true: that we are all existing in multiple realities, only aware of one at a time.  And traveling between the realities in which our consciousnesses exist is like changing the channels on a TV (On Lost, Desmond got caught between multiple channels several times).