I enjoy transporting myself in my own mind. Life is not always perfect or how you want it to be so sometimes as an example when I am drifting off to sleep I pretend in my minds eye that I live somewhere other than where I do. Where I live is ok, not a great place but it serves its place as being quite low cost, a bit run down and not very beautiful. I have this thing in mind that I would like to live in the countryside, in Glastonbury and maybe in Totnes or in the Cotswold's or Worcester/Gloucester in a nice rural place. (UK) Or maybe in Wales though it is very damp and wet there. I also occasionally imagine myself being cosy in a tent or a camper van, it enhances the cosy and comforted feeling. And so I think that my room indoors could be at any of these places of my choosing and it feel nice to drift off with that thought in mind. It also brings the spirit of that place to me as well, the atmosphere especially Glastonbury. As if I lived in a cosy 2 up 2 down small house in Glastonbury with a wind chime in the garden, colourfully dyed sun catchers on the windows and little birds visiting and I could wander off down the high street to get some bread or whatever and look in the shop windows and toddle off back home and sit and relax in the garden. Do a little star gazing in the garden at night. When you think about it your garden or indoors favourite room could be anywhere in the country you live or even in another country. Especially on those hot days, maybe the Mediterranean or India or Northern Africa. I often will burn a little lovely incense as well to transport me to India, I find smell really helps me shift my mind to another place if I want. I find smell a very underrated and mystical sense. Like it fires off some specific parts of the brain and it can be very sensuousness and makes me reminisce and feel comforted. I suspect this might be fairly uncommon, any other mind transporters here ?
With me , it's places I've been that I loved or places I wish I could go. Not as extensive as your mind travels.
Youtube '4K walk about' videos can be a good one for seeing places virtually. Just type in any place you want and someone will have walked around with a high res camera so you can take in the sights laying in bed or sitting down. Not exactly the same as an actual visit but quite a nice and relaxing thing to do.
Over the years, this has always been something that has both interested and puzzled me, which has now lead to a hypothesis. One common factor, is that all my dreaming seems to go back to locations that are indicative of the past, so I imagined that they may have been inherited from my parents. Now that they are in my mind, could I pass them on again. If so they could simply be an accumulation of thoughts going back centuries. If this is the case, it could turn the entire theory of reincarnation on it's head. When I first visited the Royal Festival Hall in London at the age of about 8, I somehow felt at home. Discovering that it's heating was via heat pumps, where the evaporators where on the bed of the Thames newer surprised me. Some years later, I found out that my father, who died when I was a child designed the system. I could and still can, describe the workings in great detail, but I was not there. When I look back at composers who were performing and even composing major classical works in their early teens, does this support my hypothesis.?
I cannot be sure. I kind of believe in reincarnation, I have had no real deep insight on a personal level but it seems like the most likely eventuality. I am reasonably sure that there is spirit or residual energy from a person from a few experiences when people have passed away. But nothing crystal clear regarding certainty of reincarnation. Karma and reincarnation have a cyclic feel to them, which falls into the patterns of vast numbers of events in life, cyclic, renewal, ebb and flow from one state to another. Dissolution back into the whole and re-emergence it has a natural feel to it. Truth be known, I have nothing to back it up just thoughts and feelings. I did not understand the "evaporators where on the bed of the Thames" part. Composers, maybe just hugely naturally talented and able as some child prodigy's are, not sure. I know what you mean about dreams and nighttime semi awake thoughts about the past, past places, people, childhood recollection, times gone by, they always seem to be part if dreams for myself as well. When I have them. It is most amazing what can pop out of your brain cells when the right conditions are met. I had a few things that thought I would never have ever through about again, then they pop into mind and they are almost something holy. Something lodged in a covered recess of your brain since childhood. Incredible and mystical, often oddly not of great consequence but they feel loaded with mystery. I recalled a moment of playing cards with my nan once with a specific character on the cards. Once I recall the name of the character I was convinced that i would never have recall the name ever again till I die. But something triggered it. Sadly often deeply sad events, grief etc. trigger parts of the brain to release thoughts and phrases, memories that you never even remembered were there.
If these events were before our birth, we could not possibly recall them. Lately, due to the bizarre part of my dreams, I tend to know that I am dreaming and try to recall details such as the architecture of the buildings, particularly the brick and stone, which would have been local to the buildings. Could this be the reason that I wake up and design things like this. I am always drawn to the theatre. Is this me, or part of my inheritance. My grandfather who died in 1890 was a church builder, but he died 60 years before I was born. The evaporator. where the cold part of a refrigerator is cooled by the evaporation of liquid (sucked by the compressor) evaporates liquid into gas, the exact temperature depends on the pressure. Since hot water rises and ice floats, a few degrees is locked in the water below the ice, thus trapping the heat there. The exact details of how water below 5 degrees C, was used to heat a building without freezing the river, would take me hours to explain.
Archetypes can be just as powerful as a reincarnational belief. & there may be a 3rd factor being alternate timelines. & ascension as well.
Do you ever wonder whether things as simple as thoughts by you ancestors could locked away in your brain and like the tens of thousands of roles if film in a studio vault are there for you to access.?
Yes, also too. Wouldnt it be nice to not lose ones childhood powers. Because of the falsehoods that sway us as we age. Some children have these accesses ripped from em. & some never recover from just that alone. I know i really havent. But i am understanding it. Also too practially the whole planet lost alot 12000yrs ago. Its a wonder that anything was saved. & if it werent for these memories nothing woulda. So they are quite real. Thanks abt the ancient refrigeration techniques i kinda needed that. A few episodes of lost worlds on our quest tv channel over the air tv non data non wifi featured it. Quite a synchronicity. Funny too this was emphasized over heating techniques. Because thats easier mostly. & too was a problem then.
