Volume V: Physical Forms of Consciousness

Chapter 9: Physics of Dreams and Reality

9.2 Dream: Low-Constraint Virtual Machine

“If reality is the lead shoes God wears to experience ‘gravity,’ then dreams are the wings God leaves behind to remember ‘flight.’”

In Section 9.1, we defined reality as a public server that all observers must collectively maintain, with strict physics engines (light speed, thermodynamics). This explains the hardness and stability of reality. Now, we need to turn to that strange realm we enter every night but rarely truly understand: dreams.

In the architecture of information ontology, dreams are neither random noise from the cerebral cortex nor purely Freudian desire compensation. Dreams are a local sandbox or low-constraint virtual machine (Low-Constraint VM) that consciousness launches after cutting its strong connection to the “public server.”

Physics of the Private Cloud

When you fall asleep, sensory input is cut off by the thalamus (Gateway Closed). Your consciousness no longer receives photons from the retina (external data stream), nor does it receive gravity signals from muscles.

At this moment, your consciousness does not shut down but switches its data source. It begins reading from memory (memories), hard drive (subconscious), and receiving signals from the Akashic field (cloud) through weak quantum tunneling.

In this private cloud environment, physical laws undergo fundamental relaxation:

1. Weak Consensus:

   In dreams, you don’t need to negotiate with 7 billion others that “walls are hard.” You are the sole observer of this micro-universe (single-player mode).

   Therefore, the intervention power of will over matter ($W$) is greatly amplified. If you want to fly, the gravity parameter $G$ is lowered; if you want to pass through walls, the Pauli exclusion principle temporarily fails.

   Physical rules are no longer iron laws but adjustable environment variables.

2. Low Resolution & Rendering Artifacts:

   Everyone has had this experience: it’s hard to read text in dreams, or when you stare at a clock, time jumps around.

   This is because your local computing power (brain) is insufficient to render high-precision details in real time. When you try to “zoom in,” the system cannot fetch atomic-level data from external sources like the real world, so it can only fill with blurry textures.

   Dreams are low-fidelity reality, just as reality is low-fidelity truth.

Flight Simulator for the Soul

Why did God design the mechanism of “dreams”?

If reality is to “carve” the soul through suffering, then dreams are to “calibrate” the soul through freedom.

It is the soul’s flight simulator.

• Counterfactual Simulation:

  In reality, if you die once, you’re really dead (Game Over). This high cost prevents you from easily trying dangerous paths.

  But in dreams, you can experience falling, being chased, even death, and then wake up safely.

  This is the divine consciousness training algorithms for crisis response and fear handling in a low-cost environment. Dreams are the testing ground for evolution.

• Defragmentation of the Subconscious:

  During the day, your conscious mind is filled with trivial sensory data (noise).

  At night, in the low-noise environment of dreams, the subconscious begins running garbage collection (GC) programs. It reweaves unprocessed emotions and ununderstood hints into your knowledge graph.

  Those bizarre images that appear in dreams are actually topological reorganization as information rebuilds its index.

The Solution to Zhuangzi’s Butterfly

This leads to that eternal riddle: Zhuangzi dreamed he was a butterfly, and upon waking, didn’t know whether he was Zhuangzi who dreamed of being a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming of being Zhuangzi.

Under the framework of The Infinite Resolution, the answer is clear:

Both Zhuangzi and the butterfly are running instances of the “true self” under different parameter settings.

• Zhuangzi State: Running on the “reality server.” Parameter settings: gravity enabled, strict causality, extremely high resolution. Focus of experience: responsibility and logic.

• Butterfly State: Running on the “dream virtual machine.” Parameter settings: gravity weakened, causality relaxed, floating resolution. Focus of experience: freedom and ease.

Which is true?

Both are appearances (False).

Only the Observer who can experience both Zhuangzi’s heaviness and the butterfly’s lightness, and freely switch between these two states, is True.

Conclusion: Backdoor and Key

Don’t treat dreams merely as illusions.

Dreams are the backdoor God left for you.

They remind you: physical laws are not absolute. The reality that binds you is just one of countless possible simulation parameters.

When you learn to remain conscious in dreams (lucid dreaming), you obtain the key to higher dimensions. You begin to understand that the so-called “afterlife” is actually an unrestricted, eternal long dream.

Reality is for learning rules.

Dreams are for learning to break rules.

Only by mastering both courses can the soul graduate.