Have you ever dozed off and had a dream that was very elaborate, and "long" - only to wake up and find that you were only asleep for a short while? I'm talking about a much shorter amount of time than the dream seemed to have lasted. I think that time (as fictitious of a concept that is) has no bearing on actual dreams. All time is really is just a measurement based on movement, synchronizations, and gravity. It very much differs depending upon where you are in the solar system and even on Earth itself. Among many other physical properties of the world and Universe, dreams either transcend them OR take us past our normal limits (or perceived limits) of interacting with the physical world. Unless we enter into a different realm, or dimension...or UNIVERSE ALOTOGETHER where possibilities are different...it makes me wonder and marvel at "dream speed".

Hollywood and media seem to always represent dreams with some fuzzy, unintelligible imagery. This image is from Wick Park in a city called Youngstown, Ohio — where I was born and raised mostly. IG: @flywavez

Here's something that mainly brings this wondering about, and Freud's book "The Interpretation Of Dreams" touched on this as well. I once had a dream that I was in a car getting gas (some dream, eh? haha!). After fueling up I went to shut the car door, and when I did it made a sound of course. The interesting part is that when I "heard" the noise in the dream, I woke up into "real life" and soon realized that the noise that I "heard" was nothing more than a loud bang or some sorts (I forget what it was actually) close by me. It could be purely coincidental, but this sort of thing has happened numerous times, and it causes me to question how the hell my mind/body could know that I was going to hear a sound/bang, and to construct a dream to accommodate it (i.e. - the car door closing in the dream). It can't be. My theory is that I began to hear the sound and in those few nanoseconds (or faster) of hearing the first parts of the bang in real life, my mind in that ultra-brief time span fashioned a dream to make sense of the sound that was a stimulous to my hearing senses (perhaps even touch senses since the sound is a vibration, but that is another topic).

A dream can happen fast, in zero time even (my theory). It works this way with traveling in the dreams too. Many times I was in a dream and began a journey to someplace that would in "real life" require hours of time to get to, but I would perhaps be in Cleveland and want to travel to Chicago, and get up and walk down some stairs and I would be there in the small amount of seconds that it took to descend a flight of stairs. This is the stuff that astro and quantum physicists drool over to be able to do in "real life"...they believe it's possible via wormholes or some other form of space/time fabric manipulation.

Dreams are often weird, uncanny, or unimaginable things and situations that would be seriously inconceivable in the waking life. This is a digital manipulation of a photograph I took of a female mannequin. |IG: @jtjwhite

What do you think? Feel free to contact me and let me know your thoughts.