Love bleeds out between universes, and what is reality, really? And what is consciousness?

Had the strangest dream last night or rather early this morning as I slept over 9 hours finally. Have struggled for years with sleep deprivation and insomnia, but as I’ve gotten older I often feel sick after only three hours of sleep. But last night slept a heavenly 9 hours and 6 minutes although an additional 1 hour and 19 minutes were spent awake. My Apple Watch monitor tech, however, showed 52 minutes of Deep Sleep, 5 hours 32 minutes of Core Sleep, and, yes!, 2 hours and 42 minutes of REM Sleep. REM, Rapid Eye Movement, the phase most dreams occur. Often I woke up because I had to go pee, and sometimes because my shoulders and hips got uncomfortable or my legs and feet got twitchy. One of the weirdest, most remarkable part of this sleep cycle was every time I fell back asleep after waking up I fell back into the same dream I woke up from. Furthermore I didn’t simply fall back into the same dream but fell back into the same parallel Planet Earth in the same parallel universe as an alternate reality. Even felt the characters within the dream sensed my presence, my consciousness, the avatar or person that represents the real me was absent, missing, and they awaited my return. Ever have such a dream, you?

All during the month of June and back into the month of May I’ve spent time inside dreams that felt unusually vivid, hyper real, true, as if my consciousness aspect had found a way to portal thru different dimensions into alternative realities. All while asleep. Without any psychedelic drugs or any alcohol. Often I use herbal blends of sleep aid supplements in capsule form and sometimes supplements such as 5-HTP or GABA and occasionally 3mg of Melatonin. And that’s it. Sometimes I meditate and pray before bed, read intellectually stimulating books (currently Dr. Diana W. Pasulka’s American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology) or articles on high strangeness and esoteric religions on Substack, or scare myself silly with short, AI-generated Cosmic Horror space opera flicks on YouTube.

These dreams go on and on and on, twisting and turning in labyrinthine ways as if moving thru unfamiliar cities in distant foreign lands. I wake up, pee, turn over, move my arms, and fall back asleep back into the same dream. My dreams were intense, so real, hyper real, meaning the experiences and time within the dream itself felt as real as being awake and conscious in this current, mundane cosmic reality. Earth feels so tiny, awash within a vast ocean of darkness and stars, and thus so precious. And there are many Earths going around many Suns in numerous solar systems revolving around so many galaxies in so many different universes. Some I am familiar with from past experiences there in other, older dreams. In others the dreamscape felt unfamiliar and strange for twas my first time there. What should one make of such odysseys?

There is a clear barrier of distinctions between this world we are all in now, this waking consensual reality of mundane consciousness, and the different parallel universes and alternate timelines accessible via dream-states. Makes me wonder, however, if non-locality in consciousness exists simultaneously between more than two points in spacetime. Suppose multiple non-local points connect via conscious projection or simply within an actual expanse of consciousness? We don’t really know how far consciousness may extend beyond a planet or a star system, do we?

In last night’s dream, I somehow ended up in a parallel universe as real as the one we’re in now as I write and you read. Certain differences were revealed in this dream. I worked in a gigantic REI-Amazon combo store in Seattle, Washington. Inside a huge, cavernous warehouse. People and robots moved thru as easily as thru any store back on our “normal” Earth. Oddly, my maternal grandparents’ beloved old home on Draper Road in Blacksburg, Virginia was in the dream. Twas the Ussery home, and it was attached to the rear of the REI-Amazon warehouse store. In the dream my grandparents’ home, at its peak in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, was modernized and updated for 2026. They were still long dead in this dream, too, and no explanation seem to exist for how all of these buildings were connected as one despite the geographical differences still in our “real” world. Except within this dream there weren’t the same geographical differences we’re used to here. For example the map of the alternative reality globe showed different shapes for land masses. The UK and the USA were also all one country in this parallel universe. Canada, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, Ireland, South Korea, and Japan were all part of this strange “America.”

In this parallel universe I meet a beautiful English woman dressed all James Bond-like as she is also a CIA-MI6 agent. She wears a golden necklace of pearls. Her tan skirt is trim, came down to just above the knees, and she wore a brown sweater-like blouse. Brunette hair, straight with some curl at the bottom, shoulder length. No glasses. No other jewelry. Pretty in a natural, clean, soap’n’water way. Not my type at all! I would never ever date anyone who works in the CIA or MI6 as they’re gone all the time and busy manipulating and deceiving you in the name of whatever national security bullshit they’re chained to. Yet she flirts with me and asks me lots of questions about REI outdoor adventure products. We chat, we laugh, and, OK, to my surprise I feel a deep connection. I know her. She is familiar. Someone from another life in another time in another place; maybe this place? Don’t know. At the same time am confused as to what happened to make Amazon and REI now one superstore? And my grandparents’s old home is out in the back? And this is a different universe from my own? And am mindful I am still married to Faithlyn back in “my” original universe on my original Planet Earth. Faithlyn never shows up in this dream, however, except within my mind in my memories as my wife from our original universe. But who is the English woman from the CIA-MI6?

Now I am in this universe with a whole different set of social rules where monogamy does not even exist as a word. While I chat with the English James Bond-type woman, disaster strikes. An unknown apocalypse of some type. The building collapses amid fire and smoke and explosions and quakes. Falling debris knock the CIA-MI6 agent unconscious. 

I rescue this beautiful, bloody English woman dressed all James Bondy as she is also a CIA-MI6 agent. I scoop her up in my arms, surprised at my strength at my age, and carry her unconscious out of the rubble. She wakes up in my arms, waves her arms and hands about, and blurts out, “Hey, I’m only 12 years younger than you.” She already knows me from back when we were together in an alternative reality I don’t remember as it was a different embodied William Bass.

Nevertheless, we fall in love. But we don’t even kiss because I know I am very much still happily married to Faithlyn back in the other universe. Crazy! But I want to have sex with this well-dressed English lady. She dresses so prim and she is anything but prim, almost lusty in a polite, sophisticated, James Bond sort of way. Gosh, wasn’t the next James Bond movie character supposed to be played by a Black woman? We end up fleeing from zombie monsters, weird infected humans with jellyfish heads, by running into the old Ussery house, still standing, to hide. We squeeze thru tight, narrow, hallways hidden inside Grandma Ussery’s new-old house. She still has bandages on the left side of her forehead and temple. I get stuck between the walls, but my god I hafta PEE REAL BAD so I wake up from the dream and go pee. Strange dream. What does it mean? Multiple loves multiple lives multiple timelines and universes…

Yeah, and I know that woman in the other universe. I recognize her from over there but not from over here. A parade of faces from across television shows and movie films flutter thru my mind at high speed as I search for her thinking she is merely my mind creating some dream avatar from an actress I watched once upon a time. Didn’t find her image in any of those pictures. She does not live in our world. So I get back into bed, fall asleep, and fell back into the same dream.

“I’ve been waiting for you to come back,” she said standing there with hands on hips.

Dreaming this dream reminded me of Captain Picard living 40 years in 25 minutes as a man named Kamin from a now-extinct civilization on a doomed planet. The episode, “The Inner Light,” a classic from Star Trek: The Next Generation, first aired in 1992. It’s considered one of the best Star Trek episodes ever crafted. Waking up, I felt like Captain Jean-Luc Picard did when he reached for the flute as I reached for the pen. 

Life went on, and in the time of another universe and entire life was lived out. Consciousness must be everywhere like the uncontained ocean of the Kosmos. What’s real? What is consciousness and in what ways does it intersect with what is reality? What happens at the intersection of esoteric spirituality, UFOs and Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, and Non-Human Intelligences whether they be from other dimensions, other planets and stars, or from parallel worlds invisible to us? When do dreams become more than mere dreams and are portals to other realms? What happens if one goes thru such a portal and can’t get back home to here?

The thing is I don’t even know her name. I just know the person behind the name. What is this person? Merely a character in a dream where my mind processes stress? An avatar in a holographic projection within a simulation? A real person in a parallel universe? Who is she? 

William Dudley Bass
Tuesday 30 June 2026
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