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I had a dream a year ago in which I was traveling at very high speed towards an edge of our universe. In the dream I entered a null space before entering the ne

I had a dream a year ago in which I was traveling at very high speed towards an edge of our universe. In the dream I entered a null space before entering the next universe in which all star systems obeyed solid state physics type laws: stars formed an outer lattice and planets in small lattices around stars. After traveling through the second universe in my dream, I then entered a third universe that was more compact because space was curving back onto itself in a way that was not understandable but I kept looping back to where I was before. When I woke up I thought I was dreaming of a very high dimensional space where everything was happening in lower dimensional manifolds curving through that space where “all the action was.” Definitely one of my better dreams!

mekal 5y ago
Have you read the Three-Body Problem trilogy? There's some stuff in the third book (Death's End) that sounds a lot like your dream. Specifically the different dimensions of space. If your dream didn't come from that book, perhaps you should consider writing some science fiction!
- KronisLV 5y ago
  Personally, i really liked the series! Curiously, it seemed that the books got more and more wild with each following entry: at first it was almost like "hard science fiction" with mostly feasible technologies, whereas the later books seemed to throw that idea to the wind. That's not to say that it was a bad thing, though.
bopbeepboop 5y ago
melissalobos 5y ago
> everything was happening in lower dimensional manifolds curving through that space where “all the action was.” I feel like this would have to be true in a very high dimensional space, since an infinite dimensional orange is all skin. > systems obeyed solid state physics type laws: stars formed an outer lattice and planets in small lattices around stars. This sounds really fun, could you try explaining a bit more about it? Thanks for sharing.
- Jeff_Brown 5y ago
  > an infinite dimensional orange is all skin Huh?
  - jerf 5y ago
    As you increase the dimensionality of a sphere, an ever-increasing proportion of the sphere is within epsilon of the surface. This 3Blue1Brown video addresses enough related stuff that the rest should become reasonably comprehensible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwAD6dRSVyI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwAD6dRSVyI This particular result is tossed in as a side note around 23:25, so it's not addressed directly, but it'll help.
- mark_l_watson 5y ago
  Sort of like the manifold hypothesis in deep learning.
ryandrake 5y ago
Wow, if you’re having these dreams without the aid of substances, I envy you. The most intellectual dreams I seem to be able to come up with “unenhanced” are falling off buildings and being late to college exams while having no pants on.
- all2 5y ago
  My favorite are the dreams I have before a semester starts: it is the end of the semester, and I've just discovered I've forgotten about an entire class for most of the semester. Then I wake up.
  - kelseyfrog 5y ago
    I have the same shared trauma response. Really does have me thinking back to my school years and trying to grapple with the two opposing feelings of "that was a lot of fun" and "gosh, why is it still giving me nightmares?"
  - ballenf 5y ago
    My version of that dream has me unsure where the class meets (I have a syllabus but can't decipher it somehow) and not sure if I have the right textbook for the class. I keep trying different classrooms but they all just allow me to enter without a hint of whether I'm in the right one.
  - jvanderbot 5y ago
    I still have those dreams -- except now I know they are going to take away my degree, and thus job.
  - jonsen 5y ago
    As a student or teacher? I've had exactly this recurring dream, forgetting to teach a class. What a nightmare when they are not ready for the exam.
  - jerf 5y ago
    I'm in my 40s. For a good long while, my recurring school dream was that my high school discovered that I didn't actually finish correctly, and because that invalidates my college degrees (in dream logic land), I can't do my job until I go back and finish high school properly. For some reason in the last six months to a year it has shifted to the idea that I signed up for a full semester's worth of courses, while still trying to work my full time job, and I'm flunking all of them because I keep going to work and never attending the classes or doing the homework. Either way, coming up on nearly 20 years since I've been in any kind of school and my subconscious is still freaked out about it, one way or another. By contrast, my subconscious appears to not give a flip about whether I'm doing my paying job correctly. Don't tell my boss.
bckr 5y ago
Thanks for sharing this. I love dreams like this. Flying, space travel, and alternate physics are some of the most fun. This actually makes me want to go to sleep and have a nice dream. Does anyone know of any communities specifically for sharing awesome dreams? DreamerNews?
xelxebar 5y ago
Neat! Every now and then I recall tripped out dreams too. In the most recent one I remember, the entire universe was a discrete regular lattice whereby neighboring points would influence the "color" of each other, very much like a network of coupled oscillators. These couplings allowed for some Game of Life-esque life-forms to exist as locally coherent "color patches" on the lattice, of which I happened to be one. Most of the dream happened internally to this lattice, i.e. I was not some narrator looking down at it, but frustratingly that internal experience quickly faded from memory, to be replaced by the external view which ended the dream. Fun times!
teleforce 5y ago
Fun facts, all major scriptures from Abrahamic religions (Jews, Christians and Islam) mentioned about multiple layers of heavens/skies where seven (7) is the top most layer. It also mentioned in the Quran [41:12] that the galaxies/stars/planets, are all residing in the lowest heaven/sky[1]. [1]https://quran.com/41/12?translations=21,20,19,17,101,22,95,18,85,84 https://quran.com/41/12?translations=21,20,19,17,101,22,95,1...

mekal 5y ago

Have you read the Three-Body Problem trilogy? There's some stuff in the third book (Death's End) that sounds a lot like your dream. Specifically the different dimensions of space. If your dream didn't come from that book, perhaps you should consider writing some science fiction!

KronisLV 5y ago
Personally, i really liked the series! Curiously, it seemed that the books got more and more wild with each following entry: at first it was almost like "hard science fiction" with mostly feasible technologies, whereas the later books seemed to throw that idea to the wind. That's not to say that it was a bad thing, though.

bopbeepboop 5y ago

melissalobos 5y ago

> everything was happening in lower dimensional manifolds curving through that space where “all the action was.” I feel like this would have to be true in a very high dimensional space, since an infinite dimensional orange is all skin. > systems obeyed solid state physics type laws: stars formed an outer lattice and planets in small lattices around stars. This sounds really fun, could you try explaining a bit more about it? Thanks for sharing.

Jeff_Brown 5y ago
> an infinite dimensional orange is all skin Huh?
- jerf 5y ago
  As you increase the dimensionality of a sphere, an ever-increasing proportion of the sphere is within epsilon of the surface. This 3Blue1Brown video addresses enough related stuff that the rest should become reasonably comprehensible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwAD6dRSVyI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwAD6dRSVyI This particular result is tossed in as a side note around 23:25, so it's not addressed directly, but it'll help.
mark_l_watson 5y ago
Sort of like the manifold hypothesis in deep learning.

ryandrake 5y ago

Wow, if you’re having these dreams without the aid of substances, I envy you. The most intellectual dreams I seem to be able to come up with “unenhanced” are falling off buildings and being late to college exams while having no pants on.

all2 5y ago
My favorite are the dreams I have before a semester starts: it is the end of the semester, and I've just discovered I've forgotten about an entire class for most of the semester. Then I wake up.
- kelseyfrog 5y ago
  I have the same shared trauma response. Really does have me thinking back to my school years and trying to grapple with the two opposing feelings of "that was a lot of fun" and "gosh, why is it still giving me nightmares?"
- ballenf 5y ago
  My version of that dream has me unsure where the class meets (I have a syllabus but can't decipher it somehow) and not sure if I have the right textbook for the class. I keep trying different classrooms but they all just allow me to enter without a hint of whether I'm in the right one.
- jvanderbot 5y ago
  I still have those dreams -- except now I know they are going to take away my degree, and thus job.
- jonsen 5y ago
  As a student or teacher? I've had exactly this recurring dream, forgetting to teach a class. What a nightmare when they are not ready for the exam.
- jerf 5y ago
  I'm in my 40s. For a good long while, my recurring school dream was that my high school discovered that I didn't actually finish correctly, and because that invalidates my college degrees (in dream logic land), I can't do my job until I go back and finish high school properly. For some reason in the last six months to a year it has shifted to the idea that I signed up for a full semester's worth of courses, while still trying to work my full time job, and I'm flunking all of them because I keep going to work and never attending the classes or doing the homework. Either way, coming up on nearly 20 years since I've been in any kind of school and my subconscious is still freaked out about it, one way or another. By contrast, my subconscious appears to not give a flip about whether I'm doing my paying job correctly. Don't tell my boss.

bckr 5y ago

Thanks for sharing this. I love dreams like this. Flying, space travel, and alternate physics are some of the most fun. This actually makes me want to go to sleep and have a nice dream. Does anyone know of any communities specifically for sharing awesome dreams? DreamerNews?

xelxebar 5y ago

Neat! Every now and then I recall tripped out dreams too. In the most recent one I remember, the entire universe was a discrete regular lattice whereby neighboring points would influence the "color" of each other, very much like a network of coupled oscillators. These couplings allowed for some Game of Life-esque life-forms to exist as locally coherent "color patches" on the lattice, of which I happened to be one. Most of the dream happened internally to this lattice, i.e. I was not some narrator looking down at it, but frustratingly that internal experience quickly faded from memory, to be replaced by the external view which ended the dream. Fun times!

teleforce 5y ago

Fun facts, all major scriptures from Abrahamic religions (Jews, Christians and Islam) mentioned about multiple layers of heavens/skies where seven (7) is the top most layer. It also mentioned in the Quran [41:12] that the galaxies/stars/planets, are all residing in the lowest heaven/sky[1]. [1]https://quran.com/41/12?translations=21,20,19,17,101,22,95,18,85,84 https://quran.com/41/12?translations=21,20,19,17,101,22,95,1...