More Sheldrake. Turns out precognition is real as well.
So back to a conversation I haven’t made real progress with since Norman Crowder gave me J.W. Dunne’s An Experiment With Time to read in the 1960s. Speculation that our experience of subjective consciousness — the isolated ‘I’ travelling its time line, the ‘four-dimensional worm’ — is produced by the focusing to one time and place of something that is not inherently so restricted, and which in sleep relaxes its focus.
Where this conversation leads, I have no idea. But I note another unsolved mystery: why do we sleep? Or: what is so essential about sleep that we are unable to sustain consciousness and sanity without it? I remember reviewing candidate theories about 10-15 years ago without finding a tenable theory.
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