PART ONE: A MULTIDIMENSIONAL MODEL OF THE DREAMING STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS

Authors

  • Christian J Hallman Ph.D.

Abstract

Dreaming has been well studied by psychologists, anthropologists and neurophysiologists. Yet few models to date have really attempted to explain the spatial domain, temporal zone and energetic substances of the dream state. Space, time and energy are all important concepts studied in physics. This paper presents a useful model by implementing some pertinent ideas from theoretical physics and mathematics to explain how the waking and dreaming states can be directly experienced through multiple dimensions of both space and time. Furthermore, these dimensions are accessed almost effortlessly simply by shifting into other states of consciousness that closely resemble waking and dreaming. Such states include hypnagogic, hypnopompic, reverie and day-dreaming. Although the realm of each of these discrete states has a distinct uniqueness, experiencing perceptual imagery is what all of these states share in common. In this multidimensional model, sensation and imagination represent two vital abilities of perception.

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Theoretical