While watching a program which involved an attempt to explain quantum mechanics to average people, it struck me that the explanation of how things work on the quantum level sounded a lot like the kind of things that happen in dreams. There are a number of interesting observations that seem to fit the picture of correlating dreams with visits to the quantum world.

In quantum mechanics, time does not function the same way as it does in our waking world. Past, present, and future get all jumbled up and random on the quantum level. Events seem to occur in a chaotic and unpredictable random fashion, slipping in and out of time, and possibly universes. These characteristics seem to describe dreams pretty well. In dreaming, there is often a rapidly changing, chaotic flash of different perceptions that seem to make sense when we are asleep, but often have no apparent bearing or correlation to sensibility for our wakened mind.

It is common knowledge the our brain activity remains high during sleep, and many theorize that sleep is a process that allows our subconscious mind to attempt a resolution of issues and conflicts we have been unable to solve with our conscious thoughts. Since we are equally immersed in the realms of macro and micro mechanics, what would be the implications of exploring the possibility that our minds can be tuned to interact on multiple levels of reality as well.? If sleep represented the descending of the mind to interaction with reality on a level somewhere between the macro and purely quantum level of our existence, would the significance of the dream experience be elevated to a more meaningful level? Would there be such things as quantum crimes? Certainly in historical times, dreams were often viewed as spiritually and sometimes physically important. Interpretation of some dreams as recorded in Biblical references were seen as symbolic representations of disasters and events to come.

We do not remember many dreams on awakening, but we know that people dream whether they remember the experience or not. Would a quantum correlation to unexplained aspects of why we need sleep and dreams shed light on another level of our innate complexity as beings? How could such a theory be disproved or proven scientifically? The theory of correlation between dreams and quantum mechanics may be pure bunk, but if we do interact with reality on a quantum level, what would be the implications of controlling and directing those natural functions through conscious effort? It might be one more reason to elevate dreams back to a position of more significant importance than purely psychological implications, taking the study of dreams into their effect on physics. At any rate, such a study might create a few new jobs that sound good.