Thread: Dreams or Something Else? The VOICE

Hi Dreammouse, in answer to your question, I only "know" that the voice is from within as a belief, but a belief based on scientific reasoning and the balance of probability. For me the simplest answers are usually the right answers (Ockham's razor), and the idea that dreams are simply the constructs of the mind is the simplest explanation. Now I'm not saying that I totally dismiss more spiritual explanations, but I'm not aware of any references that are backed by hard data for such things so while I try hard to keep an open mind, I still see the mind creating this voice as the simplest answer. It is also beautiful, and I don't think it needs any fantastical embellishment.
Your time travelling example is, for me, a case in point. I have had not dissimilar time travel experience in dreams, and one lucid. I don't want to give the impression that I am belittling your experience in any way. It was obviously an epiphany for you, but I would say it is simply your mind coming up with the concept, making it seem like it was a future you coming back to console and support you, but I think it highly unlikely that it was in any way a real future you.

On your point about "soul retrieval", I'm not even sure what the soul is, or even if anyone else does, so I can't really comment on how it relates to anything.