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? Continue reading