Requiem for Reality

Current mood: Contemplative
Listening to: Synthesizer - Outkast

How do we know things that we don't know we know...before we realize we knew that? Have you ever wanted to answer a question someone asked, but decided against and thought I should have answered that way...I knew I was right! I suppose it's possible that everyone thinks that almost as many times as they are wrong with their original assumption. But, where do the correct answers to questions, to things we could never know come from?

How do you explain a dream that you can remember so vividly, happening exactly as it happened in your mind?

Some time ago I posited (and so did many others) that the waking reality we know is merely a vale filtering out information because there is so much to take in. However, when we sleep our filters are down and we are able to experience information being transmitted through many other wavelengths.

If we think about brain as a telephone I think it becomes a little clearer. Each one of your thoughts is a telephone number. Everything you know is attached to a frequency in a part of your brain. When you dial, or recall, that information, the frequency is called and then the information is received.

Now lets assume your brain is Michigan. Outside of your brain there are 50 other states. All who can, as long as they have long distance, call Michigan. But the incoming call can't be received if your currently on the line. Sometimes they leave messages. Sometimes they have the wrong number.

Am I saying that people can tune into you while you sleep? YES!

But that is not all. At any time of the day you can receive electrical signals. In the same way a phone can receive and dial frequencies, a phone can receive radio signals. Or signals that may not have been intended to receive from strong transmissions in a near vicinity.

I remember when cordless phones first came out. The antennae on the one we had was pretty much unshielded. When I was a kid, I would take and put tinfoil on the antennae, and could listen to one nearby radio station. We did the same thing with our old TV using the UHF dial. My brother and I would sit in his room in the basement and turn the channel to 99, and place the antennae (tinfoil intact) on to a piece of metal on the house (pipe or something similar). We would be able to hear the phone calls of some neighbors as well as radio stations.

I'm sure the radio stations doesn't seem very exciting because essentially they are transmitted over similar spectrum. But what about the brain? What about all of the signals that we are sending all day long? Are they merely kept internal? Certainly not. Take for example the EEG.

Perhaps though we are thinking about things to linearly, and directly. Perhaps brainwaves aren't just Alpha, Beta, Delta, and Theta waves. If we look at Delta waves which are frequencies up to 4hz, we can see that humans don't "hear" or rather consciously interpret the data being received at 4hz. But is that information simply discarded? It goes no where? Or perhaps it is received and travels on...like radio, or television waves.

Perhaps, we receive signals when a certain part of our brain is able to receive that frequency. It doesn't seem too hard to comprehend. Our eyes receive frequencies of light. Our ears receive wave frequencies from 20-20000hz (depending on where you get your info). So perhaps there is an "organ" of sorts to receive delta waves or other brain wave types.

If this organ were activated you could possibly receive waves and frequencies that are below AND above our "understood" modes of reception.