DocM
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I have heard of astral travels into fictitious worlds, where characters, and plots apparently played out as if they were real. In Focus 27, we hear about this all the time. If we want our own home by a mountain lake, we visualize it, and suddenly we are there, in great detail (apparently). Our minds are always creating scenarios, and our thoughts are the only "real" reality there is.
Given all this, there is no reason why, if while watching a movie, you may not be so in tune with it that you smell the smoke, or feel you are in the movie. The movie has its own world in thought. I remember as a child growing up, I had a vivid dream about Star Trek in which I picked up one of the small hand held phasers and fired it (in self defense) in a dream. It was just before waking up, and the "reality" of the phaser stayed with me. I was certain even after being fully awake in C1, that I had fired a phaser. Somehow, my consciousness was intertwined and playing with that TV/movie reality.
Thought itself is the true reality. As such, fiction and make believe can have their own universes to interact with. We agree that certain commonalities in conscious experience on earth are "real," but they are simply dependent on earthly senses for us to define how real they are. I'm not denying there is a common C1 experience, but we sometimes forget that all the sensory input of sight, sound,smell and taste have to be interpreted into thought. Only in thought do we find what is real.
Matt
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