@JLeslie – reminded me of something odd I encounter in my dreams very occasionally.
The one instance I remember best was the instance that prompted another ‘crikey, that was weird!?’.
In my dream I was in a building that somehow became a prison, or my perception of the building was such that I was under the impression that it was a prison even though when I first walked into it, it served some other function, though this function was not known to me.
Whilst in the building I noticed that there was a song playing in the background and I was trying to sing along to it, but couldn’t remember all the words, the thing that surprised me on waking up, was that in the dream the song played in its entirety, as if it where playing on the radio or a cd player in the waking world, the song was Bon Jovi’s ‘keep the faith’.
On waking I thought ‘WOW’...... my mind was replaying a song and I couldn’t sing all the words, but all the words in the song where crystal clear to me suggesting that on some level, certain things we experience are recorded in their entirety.
I often sit and ponder on the workings of the universe whilst I try and design mechanical devices at my desk in work, whenever I come to an opinion of these ponderings, I write the conclusion or resultant question down as a sort of reminder of what I was thinking about.
A few weeks ago I wrote these two:
Can the mind conjure up an image of something it has no memory of? &
Does the mind record every detail of everything we experience?
It would seem to me, that the answer to second question is yes, or at least in part based on my own experiences.
I think the first question could open a can of worms and a massive determinism/free will debate.