If you're interested in this, you may be interested in Hyperbolica, which is a whole game about this concept: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1256230/Hyperbolica/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMKLeS-Uq_8
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Geometry from Another Universe
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#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
My favorite are the dreams I have before a semester starts: it is the end of the semester, and I've just discovered I've forgotten about an entire class for most of the semester. Then I wake up.
I'm in my 40s. For a good long while, my recurring school dream was that my high school discovered that I didn't actually finish correctly, and because that invalidates my college degrees (in dream logic land), I can't do my job until I go back and finish high school properly. For some reason in the last six months to a year it has shifted to the idea that I signed up for a full semester's worth of courses, while sti…
It's pretty bad that school elicits such stressful responses from us that we remember and relive them 20 years later.
edit: typo.
Re: Geometry from Another Universe
#63After exploring this for a while, scrolling through these comments with the up and down arrows was a bit disorienting for me. The illusion of of navigating more than 2 dimensions persisted a little while on this page for me.
Re: Geometry from Another Universe
#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
holy crap, i had the ‘missing a course’ nightmare roughly every 2 months for 2 years after graduating.
I've had variations on this dream several times. I was talking to my father about it, and he still occasionally dreams about this. As a 67 year old, 5 years retired, 40 years after graduating...
This scares me, I don't want to be having these dreams in my 60s, do you know if there any kind of therapy? this is a bit like a mini PTSD
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#65I had a dream a year ago in which I was traveling at very high speed towards an edge of our universe. In the dream I entered a null space before entering the next universe in which all star systems obeyed solid state physics type laws: stars formed an outer lattice and planets in small lattices around stars. After traveling through the second universe in my dream, I then entered a third universe that was more compact…
Wow, if you’re having these dreams without the aid of substances, I envy you. The most intellectual dreams I seem to be able to come up with “unenhanced” are falling off buildings and being late to college exams while having no pants on.
> being late to college exams while having no pants on.
The most intellectual nightmares my brain comes up with just involve demons chasing me. I've never had these intellectual dreams where there are exams, and deadlines, and being late.
I used to keep a dream diary and half of the entries were "Demons are chasing me. It is dark. I think maybe it's the xenomorph from Alien. I hear it breathing." so I stopped. Not remembering that stuff is much better it turns out haha.
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#66I had a dream a year ago in which I was traveling at very high speed towards an edge of our universe. In the dream I entered a null space before entering the next universe in which all star systems obeyed solid state physics type laws: stars formed an outer lattice and planets in small lattices around stars. After traveling through the second universe in my dream, I then entered a third universe that was more compact…
Neat!
Every now and then I recall tripped out dreams too. In the most recent one I remember, the entire universe was a discrete regular lattice whereby neighboring points would influence the "color" of each other, very much like a network of coupled oscillators.
These couplings allowed for some Game of Life-esque life-forms to exist as locally coherent "color patches" on the lattice, of which I happened to be one.
Most of the dream happened internally to this lattice, i.e. I was not some narrator looking down at it, but frustratingly that internal experience quickly faded from memory, to be replaced by the external view which ended the dream.
Fun times!
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#67Would love to see this where you can toggle between a three-sphere, flat, and 3-hyperbolic space.
And arbitraily gluable diffrrentiable manifolds!
Maybe? I suggested it because these are the three possibilities for the shape of the universe and it does a great job of visualizing the 3-sphere!
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#68I had a dream a year ago in which I was traveling at very high speed towards an edge of our universe. In the dream I entered a null space before entering the next universe in which all star systems obeyed solid state physics type laws: stars formed an outer lattice and planets in small lattices around stars. After traveling through the second universe in my dream, I then entered a third universe that was more compact…
Fun facts, all major scriptures from Abrahamic religions (Jews, Christians and Islam) mentioned about multiple layers of heavens/skies where seven (7) is the top most layer. It also mentioned in the Quran [41:12] that the galaxies/stars/planets, are all residing in the lowest heaven/sky[1].
[1]https://quran.com/41/12?translations=21,20,19,17,101,22,95,1...
Re: Geometry from Another Universe
#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
My favorite are the dreams I have before a semester starts: it is the end of the semester, and I've just discovered I've forgotten about an entire class for most of the semester. Then I wake up.
I'm in my 40s. For a good long while, my recurring school dream was that my high school discovered that I didn't actually finish correctly, and because that invalidates my college degrees (in dream logic land), I can't do my job until I go back and finish high school properly. For some reason in the last six months to a year it has shifted to the idea that I signed up for a full semester's worth of courses, while sti…
Oof. Same here. Why does this happen all these years later? High school years must have really messed a lot kids up.
Re: Geometry from Another Universe
#70I had a dream a year ago in which I was traveling at very high speed towards an edge of our universe. In the dream I entered a null space before entering the next universe in which all star systems obeyed solid state physics type laws: stars formed an outer lattice and planets in small lattices around stars. After traveling through the second universe in my dream, I then entered a third universe that was more compact…
Wow, if you’re having these dreams without the aid of substances, I envy you. The most intellectual dreams I seem to be able to come up with “unenhanced” are falling off buildings and being late to college exams while having no pants on.
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