Lucid Dream Loops and Sleep Paralysis, A Possible Connection to Quantum Theory, Schrodinger cat paradox, and Infinite Posibilities

[wonderer29]

've been experiencing recurring dreams where I know I'm dreaming, but I feel stuck in my room, trying to escape. Every time I reach the door, I reset back to my bed, creating an endless loop. It feels like a combination of sleep paralysis and lucid dreaming, where I consciously try to escape, but I’m unable to break the cycle. In these dreams, it seems like there are multiple versions of myself, all trying to escape at once, but we all end up stuck in the same loop.

This dream experience reminds me of concepts like Schrödinger's Cat experiment, where multiple possibilities exist at once until one is observed. Similarly, in my dream, it feels like I’m trapped in a state where different outcomes (escaping or not) exist simultaneously but never fully resolve. It also resonates with the idea of alternate realities or timelines, similar to the concept explored in the "Dark Matter" TV series, where characters experience different versions of themselves across multiple realities. Interestingly, I’ve been having these dream loops before the TV series came out, so it’s making me wonder if my dreams reflect the concept of being stuck between different possibilities or realities. i know maybe im in a stress condition after a hard day and etc, i just want to know what does people think about it.

kindly share your thought

Edited October 26 by Phi for All
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[iNow]

Your dreams reflect your conscious brain trying to make sense of unconscious activity and striving to apply a narrative to that makes sense in context of the items you’re thinking about while awake. 

You’re obviously thinking of physics concepts and sci interfere that’s the frame under which your mind explains your dreams to yourself. 

Nothing to do with quantum theory tho 

[joigus]

3 minutes ago, iNow said:

Nothing to do with quantum theory tho 

I totally agree. Perhaps under Psychology?

The Schrödinger cat paradox is not about time looping round and round though. It's about two classically-incompatible realities coexisting in some way in a quantum state. Very different.

A very close friend of mine who underwent a very serious surgery (transplant) years ago once told me of an experience he had when he was under the effects of a very powerful drug. He forcibly removed either one or several of the tubes that the doctors had stuck in him, and one of the hospital personnel run towards him asking 'what's the matter?', and he responding 'this scene is repeating itself!'

It was obviously a hallucination, but he told me it made him doubt for a moment whether causality was being violated there! : What caused what?

[MigL]

54 minutes ago, wonderer29 said:

it’s making me wonder if my dreams reflect the concept of being stuck between different possibilities or realities

If you actually think that is the simplest, most likely explanation, and not just being unable to sleep because your subconscious is regurgitating your conscious thinking, maybe it would be wise to consult a mental health professional.

[wonderer29]

38 minutes ago, iNow said:

Your dreams reflect your conscious brain trying to make sense of unconscious activity and striving to apply a narrative to that makes sense in context of the items you’re thinking about while awake. 

You’re obviously thinking of physics concepts and sci interfere that’s the frame under which your mind explains your dreams to yourself. 

Nothing to do with quantum theory tho 

yea i know, i know this is kinda like a sci-fi kinda nerd dreams but, i know im in unconscious but sometimes i just wondering why it keeps happening, and why its always the same, ive had a this kind of dream when my friend and i sleep in one room and one bed, i know im on this kind of situation and try to kick him out again and again looped. and i also ever did checking a watch on my phone one of my situation and the time gap between the time i see on my dream and my watch is not far, nearly the same.. im just want to share my story tho, ive checking and surfing online, and just trying this method what a science forum thought about my conditions

 

 

31 minutes ago, joigus said:

The Schrödinger cat paradox is not about time looping round and round though. It's about two classically-incompatible realities coexisting in some way in a quantum state. Very different.

 

1 hour ago, wonderer29 said:

concepts like Schrödinger's Cat experiment, where multiple possibilities exist at once until one is observed.

i say that many possibilties exist because when i dream this off i was wondering and that i can reach a certain point on that dream, i know im on my dream because iam dissapointed why this dream is looping again when i reach the door, like its more like a quantum superposition, what if the result if i can open my door. i keep thinking about that i would see my self on another room trying to open the door too. infinite room, tesseract.. im just want to hear yall thought tho nothing serious btw

 

32 minutes ago, MigL said:

If you actually think that is the simplest, most likely explanation, and not just being unable to sleep because your subconscious is regurgitating your conscious thinking, maybe it would be wise to consult a mental health professional.

yea maybe

1 hour ago, iNow said:

Nothing to do with quantum theory tho 

i know i seems crazy but dream is simply a wish or even a weird emotion of mine, logically its clearly a fiction haha, quantum physics is still a huge mysteries beyond us, Some say that quantum reality depends on consciousness

[Phi for All]

2 hours ago, wonderer29 said:

i know i seems crazy

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Moderator Note

I removed this reference from your title. Your idea may seem crazy, but not you. 

 

[StringJunky]

3 hours ago, joigus said:

I totally agree. Perhaps under Psychology?

The Schrödinger cat paradox is not about time looping round and round though. It's about two classically-incompatible realities coexisting in some way in a quantum state. Very different.

A very close friend of mine who underwent a very serious surgery (transplant) years ago once told me of an experience he had when he was under the effects of a very powerful drug. He forcibly removed either one or several of the tubes that the doctors had stuck in him, and one of the hospital personnel run towards him asking 'what's the matter?', and he responding 'this scene is repeating itself!'

It was obviously a hallucination, but he told me it made him doubt for a moment whether causality was being violated there! : What caused what?

His mental stylus that's playing his perception got stuck on a scratch.  

[joigus]

8 minutes ago, StringJunky said:

His mental stylus that's playing his perception got stuck on a scratch.  

Yeah. Clearly the brain can't handle the narrative of the ongoing events. It's clear to me that his mind must have re-edited his immediate experience, so to speak. He was startled for some reason that could not be retrieved by the senses, and had this automatic reaction of removing the tubes, but not because of the scene repeating itself. Only later, when that nurse or doctor came in asking what's the matter, he "re-edited" his immediate memory as if it had been the looping had been the cause of his disturbance... His brain must have filled in the details of this illusion that the whole thing was happening because he was experiencing the looping. Why am I startled? Because the scene is repeating itself.

Something like that.

Weird. The OP's experience reminds me a lot of that, but without the 'parallel universes' version of it.

[StringJunky]

6 hours ago, joigus said:

Yeah. Clearly the brain can't handle the narrative of the ongoing events. It's clear to me that his mind must have re-edited his immediate experience, so to speak. He was startled for some reason that could not be retrieved by the senses, and had this automatic reaction of removing the tubes, but not because of the scene repeating itself. Only later, when that nurse or doctor came in asking what's the matter, he "re-edited" his immediate memory as if it had been the looping had been the cause of his disturbance... His brain must have filled in the details of this illusion that the whole thing was happening because he was experiencing the looping. Why am I startled? Because the scene is repeating itself.

Something like that.

Weird. The OP's experience reminds me a lot of that, but without the 'parallel universes' version of it.

Yeah, the looping is the symptom and not the cause. Perhaps his brain refused to or couldn't parse it because it might create certain negative mental consequences.

I used to dream of being chased by someone/thing, and could do the most impossible things to evade, jumping like a gazelle, flying over buildings etc. Sometimes I would be lucid part way through and control the direction of the dream, but didn't know what initiated the escape narrative.

In my early twenties, I told a friend of mine and he said "Why don't you stop and turn around?".

Some short time later, the dream narrative recurs and I'm running in complete fear, and as I'm crossing over a precarious rope bridge, I stopped. My friend irl had asked in our prior conversation if I could see in colour, see my hands, and feet as well. I looked down, and said "Yes, I can see my feet, and, yes, I can see my hands, and, yes, I see in colour." I slowly turned around with this electric fear and there was no one there, only myself. I surmised that was who I had been running from for the previous few years.

I was in denial about being deaf and other stuff. It was avoided by my mother as a talking subject, so I thought it was something that was essentially forbidden to think or talk  about. It was in her body language. She is a perfectionist and I wasn't 'perfect'. My stepfather took me to get my first hearing aid at seven years old, when it was realized I was deaf. She couldn't face it. That rubbed off on me. The dreams stopped after that. 

Edited October 27 by StringJunky

[joigus]

I've always found it interesting that these dreams are recurring. Seems like the brain is bumping into morsels of code for unresolved issues... No wonder people have been trying to interpret dreams for millenia.

Edited October 27 by joigus
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