When I have dreams about people/things that I wouldn't normally entertain a thought about when I am awake... the morning after seems foggy. It's like a new door of possibility has been opened to me; like I've been shown that my way may not be the best and only way.

It's hard to dream about things that differ greatly from your life, but I also enjoy them. I like the escape and the carefree attitude I get to have in dreams... I like running and jumping, flying while everyone else mills around below. I like the people I meet that I know in real life, that adapt very different personalities, and that I have a very strong relationship with there. It's strange that when I wake up, I am forced to give them away when I only just met them.

What I was thinking about concerning the creation of the universe and space-time, I also think has a very strong connection with our feelings about dreams. Read the following if you care to hear about my odd theory.


Time as we know it does not exist as an absolute, but is in conjunction with and created through the interaction with space and the great bodies of mass that inhabit it. (See Einstein's General Theory of Relativity for more information) Time closer to a large body of mass moves slower than time further away from the body -- this was theorized and then proven using two extremely accurate clocks, with one at the bottom of a mountain and one at the top. It was found that the clock at the bottom of the mountain operated more slowly than the clock at the top.

We know that if a body travels at the speed of light, time will stop for it, its mass becomes infinite, and due to the relationship between mass and energy (E=MC^2), its energy also becomes infinite. It is said that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light - so I'll assume that God, Himself, follows this rule.

In Genesis it is stated that God created the universe in 6 days. It does not specify a translation from these days to an earth day, and so people read it as if he had really created the sky (which could indeed have happened, with immeasurable power) in 24 hours. If God, in essence, were very far away from the mass of the universe (this distance being completely obscene, and very possible for an omnipotent being), or if He were traveling, at the time, at speeds approaching the speed of light (assuming that there is no general, absolute coordinate system, this is reasonable) time would be moving at a pace perhaps millions of times faster for God, than here on Earth. This would allow time for the dinosaurs to come into existence and die out, as is not accounted for in the bible, and it would allow much time for the Earth to come to exist as it is today in 6 "God" days. Seems reasonable to me.

Dreaming, then. If you believe in astral projection, this won't be very hard to swallow. If not - well, even I don't know about it.
My brother and I used to fall asleep in the car on the way to Massachusetts to make time go by faster. When I was younger, I believed that, when asleep, time really did go by faster - and only for the individual that was asleep. Upon awakening, any sleeping person can ask a friend how much time has passed, and be astounded that it has been several hours - but the person who has been awake for all this time knows that time has not sped up, but has continued in a normal fashion while the other was sleeping.

What, then, causes this difference in time? How can a person have an extremely elaborate dream in the space of 5 minutes?

This is odd, I know - but perhaps the "essence"/soul of a person, when sleeping, really does physically travel away from the body. In order to experience a kind of speeding-up of Earth time, the soul would move miles and miles away, into space or somewhere else (wormholes, my dear - who knows) in order to manufacture the odd sensation of being asleep for minutes when it has really been hours.

Sleep is a very odd thing - you can't tell where you are, what is happening when you are sleeping. Your mind creates and animates elaborate plots and characters of "dreams" while you sleep, but why? This separation, I think, explains a lot.