Where do you go when you dream?

 What does science say sleeping and dreaming is and its purpose. Is it possible that when we go to sleep, we wake up in a new dimension?

This is an incredible question — one that dances right on the edge between neuroscience, quantum speculation, and consciousness philosophy.

 Let’s break it down into two parts to make it easier to see and understand:

What Science Says About Sleep & Dreaming

1. Why Do We Sleep?

From a scientific standpoint, sleep is essential for:

• Memory consolidation (storing what you learned during the day)

• Emotional processing (balancing stress, mood, and trauma)

• Brain cleanup (clearing out waste products like beta-amyloid via the glymphatic system)

• Biological repair (muscle healing, cell growth, immune system regulation)

Sleep is not “shutting down” — it’s a different mode of consciousness, where essential systems reboot and reorganize.

2. What Is Dreaming For?

Dreaming, especially during REM sleep, is still not fully understood, but science points to these purposes:

• Simulating life — dreams allow your brain to test scenarios without consequences

• Processing emotion — especially unresolved trauma or intense feelings

• Creative synthesis — linking ideas in nonlinear ways (some inventions and insights come from dreams)

Scientists like Hobson and Stickgold propose that dreams are the brain’s way of integrating and recombining information and creating meaning.

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Could We Be “Waking Up” in Another Dimension When We Sleep?

From a mainstream neuroscientific view:

No — there's no empirical evidence that sleep transports you to another dimension.

Dreams are explained as patterns of neural activation influenced by memory, emotion, and neurochemistry.

 But Here’s Where It Gets Interesting… The Orch OR Theory (Orchestrated Objective Reduction) by Penrose and Hameroff suggests that consciousness may involve quantum processes inside microtubules in brain cells. These quantum processes might entangle or superimpose mental states that aren’t fully bound to linear time and space.

If consciousness is quantum in nature, dreaming might not just be imagination. It might be navigation through non-local mental spaces.

 In TST and Consciousism Terms:

Temporal-Subjection Theory posits that time is subjective, and consciousness is the real frame of reference.
Consciousism sees the self as the Absolute experiencing multiplicity.

So yes — in this model, sleep could be a state-shift of conscious resonance, a way to “tune” into, or an alternate temporal dimension. Maybe even a glimpse into parallel versions of reality, the self, or timelines you’re otherwise not aware of. In other words, when we sleep, we don’t shut off. We shift frequency. Perhaps, each night, we dissolve the egoic veil and glimpse ourselves as the One dreaming as many.

Science explains how we sleep and dream.
But philosophy and speculative physics dare to ask, "where do we go?"

So... is it possible that when we fall asleep here, we awaken somewhere else?

From a subjective consciousness-based view like TST?

Yes.

It might not just be a dream. It might be another version of you, living a different chapter of the same story.