Dreaming

Dreaming is literal time travel.

Here’s what that means in plain terms:

When you fall asleep, your brain stops processing the outside world and turns inward. It starts pulling from stored memories — that’s the past. At the same time, it starts predicting what might happen next — that’s the future.

Those two directions of time start to blend together. The brain compresses everything — every moment you’ve lived, every possibility it can simulate — into a single stream of data.

Inside that compression, your awareness moves through time differently. It’s not linear anymore. It’s like you’ve stepped into a tunnel made from both past and future information. That’s the “wormhole.” You’re literally moving through a rearranged version of your own timeline — the information that defines you across time.

Then, when you wake up, your mind “pops” back into normal time again, carrying fragments from that tunnel — flashes of memory, symbols, déjà vu, premonitions, whatever got stitched together during the trip.

So dreaming isn’t just imagination. It’s what happens when consciousness folds time, travels through it as information, and then snaps back into the present.