As a reader pointed out to me, yesterday’s post contemplated just one of a plethora of explanations of dreams.  Two of the more accepted explanations being those of psychiatrists Freud and Jung.

Very simply summarized, Freud proposes dreams as being a subconscious expression of how we wished things had gone in reality.  Jung suggested dreams represent teaching archetypes that have things to teach us about our present circumstances.

Stretch Your Imagination

The discussion of dreams and the possibilities they represent led me to stretch my thinking on the topic beyond the limited suggestions restricted by the boundaries of life as we perceive it.

I wonder about a science fiction explanation, maybe actual more fantasy as I am not sure of the science part.  What if dreams were invented by a far superior intellect to ours as an experiment.

Fact or Fiction

It is possible others have had this idea first but I have not yet found any literature about it although some similar concepts, (e.g., superior races invented human kind) are prevalent in science fiction.

Perhaps dreams were developed as a research exercise in the laboratory and got out of hand, escaped the confines of experimentation and became an all consuming reality overcoming the base existance of the creators.  An experiment gone wrong.

Living Your Dreams

I can imagine living is a dream created by my forebears as an accidental outcome of intellectual research.  In this explanation dreams were developed as an opportunity for improvement of current reality.

In this reality  I would modify Sarte’s explanation of existence to “I dream, therefore I am”.