I get where you're coming from, but I firmly, although respectively, disagree. >The thing that made these 'thoughts' different is that they felt real. I experi

I get where you're coming from, but I firmly, although respectively, disagree. >The thing that made these 'thoughts' different is that they felt real. I experienced hearing something in another language, - So do schizophrenics. That doesn't make their experiences any more concrete. >What if we just needed a little bit of faith to see something that most people can't see? What does a kid see when they play in a box? - Faith in things is important - probably intrinsic to our existence. It gives us things to aim for, to believe in. Systems of rationalisation. But believing something that is not possible will not make it so. Kids are playing. Daydreaming. creating possibilities. You can do that when you're grown up too. I daydream all the time. But that reality doesn't exist outside of the story, the fantasy in the head of the creator. It could be argued that the greatest inventors and innovators (not to mention story tellers and artists) are able to mobilise their vision and dream into reality through faith. But there are still lots of things that can't, won't, exist. >For a while, I had a spurt of thinking about some new tech idea and seeing it within a week of thinking about it - This is a relatively well known phenomenon. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_discovery http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_discovery - It has happened throughout history. I have personally felt this a number of times - that I have come up with an idea independently - and then you see the idea out in the wild. On closer reflection I realise that I was more likely influenced by my extensive readings and my day-dreaming to make links between existing technologies, discoveries and inventions; formulate and write up an idea - but these ideas are in the 'potential space' of possible ideas and concepts; and someone was more on the cutting edge than me; and did it better and faster. >What if you could control the world, and you were the center of the 'relative universe'? - interesting, and i've had similar thoughts. Forever unprovable however; and the idea of us each controlling a 'relative universe' I think on some level is true - i.e. we can do amazing things if we just set our minds to them and rise above apathy and entropy; but on another; we still exist as part of the universe, which has universal rules. we are the universe experiencing itself; there is so much we don't know; keeping an open mind is important; so is dismissing things that are not the truth; the hard part is filtering the wheat from the chaff.