Dynamics of consciousness in dreams.

Abstract

The state of consciousness changes between dream and wake spacetimes. Subjects in disparate cultures were studied to determine the transformations of consciousness from physiological state to dreams. Consciousness was in the physiological state when the observables of self, perception, cognition, language, and emotion were as expected in the population. Pathological states of consciousness in dreams include loss of self-awareness, high-resolution perception, enhanced cognition, entanglement, and teleportation. Observables were extracted from dream narratives of medical students and Dream Database subjects using natural language processing. Control narratives were novels, novellas, tweets, and public documents. Whole narratives, sentences, noun phrases, and verb phrases of corpora were embedded in multidimensional vector spaces for topological data analysis and clustering. Syntax and emotions were compared with control narratives, whereas semantics and cognition of subjects' groups were compared. Spacetime, entities, and consciousness were dynamic in dream spacetime. Events in dreams were unique to subjects' groups (,.0001). Visual and auditory sensations dominated dream spacetime. Physiological observables of self, perception, cognition, language, and emotions dominated dream events. Consciousness in physiological state was observer in most dream events. States of consciousness in dreams were symmetries of physiological, pathological, and superposition states. Consciousness transforms from physiological state to all possible states in dreams. Reality changes as consciousness oscillates spacetimes. The ontology of consciousness is independent of spacetime, self, and entities.