"A child's rhyme stuck in my head...
Telling me that life is just a dream...
I spent so many years in question
To find I've known this all along."
-THIRD EYE, Tool
I've been toying with this idea that every part of this reality is someone else's dream. Of course this is something that came to me on a mescaline trip, and I've been occasionally wrestling with it in those deep, existential twilight hours of insomnia.
I'm not a stranger to psychedelics to any meaningful extent. I want to do many more than I've done, but still... Psychs are a good way to expand ideation beyond the mundane and earthly into something far more meaningful.
My hypothesis is that we are all a part of some other much higher being's dream. Restlessly sleeping and tumultuous, dreaming of an entire universe which learned to self-actualize. Now this is where the idea gets really difficult to talk about...
When we die in a dream, we wake up into cold reality. I don't think anyone ever actually dies in a dream. Why? Well simply put, the mind can't grapple with such a shock, and doesn't even know where to begin in processing any further input...
Play with this idea for a while and you come to all sorts of interesting conjectures.
There are many different levels of dreams you need, many dimensions and recursions if you will to make this theory work.
That's the beauty of nature is that in the immortal words of Finn from Adventure Time, "EVERYTHING SMALL IS JUST A SMALL VERSION OF SOMETHING BIG! I UNDERSTAND EVERYTHING!"
Perhaps we die in this "real life" dream and are shocked awake into a new plane of existence. We are just buried so deep in this level, we're just a part of this higher being's active mind.
Where do you go with such a mind-melting idea? Ask me, I say put it on a shelf and leave it alone until you're heavily stoned or tripping balls. It's a bit of an ontological cul-de-sac.
You have been put to no test but such as is common to man: and the Spice is true, who will not let any test come on you which you are not able to undergo; but he will make with the test a way out of it, so that you may be able to go through it.