Who Are You? What Are You? WHERE Are You?

Are you spiritual?  Are you religious?  Are you Atheist?  Do you believe in Nothing?  What will happen when you die?  What happens when you sleep?  Do you know?  Are you sure?


I'm not sure of a whole lot anymore. 


     Lately, I tend to subscribe to the theory that all of reality is merely a product of the COLLECTIVE human (yes HUMAN) consciousness.  And that everything only stays here -- and by 'here' I mean in our piece of the multiverse -- because at any given time there is always SOMEONE awake to keep the reality intact.  This drives a line of thinking that wonders if the RULES of reality are only such because everyone AGREES that 'these are the rules'.  If our reality is just a mental construct, could we not CHANGE THE RULES if we BELIEVED hard enough?  Can we change so easily?  Could we 'UNLEARN' what we 'KNOW'?  Can we use these NEW RULES to EXPLORE the workings of the world?  The MIND?  Imagine the IMPLICATIONS.  If you believed hard enough, maybe you could see atoms.  Maybe you could fly.  Maybe you could TAKE THE WORLD APART.  What would others think?  Would they perceive you as a god?  Perhaps they would kill you for BEING DIFFERENT.  That seems to be the standard practice.  'I don't UNDERSTAND IT.  I'll FEAR IT.  Then I'll KILL IT'.

The genesis of thought goes on. 

     If, by chance, EVERYONE that exists were to go to sleep, -- by 'sleep' I mean the traditional concept of sleep, not the apparent lessening of consciousness or 'dumbing down' of society that is happening -- everything that IS would CEASE TO BE.  Reality would hang on and continue to SURVIVE until the LAST PERSON lost consciousness and fell into darkness.  

Poof.  Gone 

     Perhaps a NEW REALITY would be conceived and born in the DREAMS of the people who fell asleep before the last person blinked out of existence.  Perhaps every person who fell asleep would create a SEPARATE REALITY in his/her dreams.  Would those realities go on after the disappearance of the dreamer?  Maybe the new realities operate on a different TIMESCALE that is faster then ours.  What happens if the people IN THOSE realities fall asleep?  Will they dream new universes that exist on a timescale that must encompass ALL EVENTS over 20 billion years in the time it takes those dreamers to get a good night's sleep?  Do THOSE universes cease if all of THEM fall asleep?  How many dream levels are there?  Which one are WE on?  Who was the FIRST dreamer?  Is this being the proverbial 'God'?  What happens when THIS BEING wakes up?  Is it possible to communicate to higher or lower dreamers?

     Maybe that's all WE are anyway.  What if that's all EVERYTHING is?  Maybe the END won't be of fire, but some super-celestial being -- from OUR point of view -- 'WAKING UP'.