Einstein’s Dream:

The Engineering of Lucid Dreams

"I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn."---Albert Einstein "We are not scientists!" Einstein announced, as he looked me square in the eye. "Not yet! Not by a long shot. As scientists we should be able to create a new synthesis of consciousness. Piaget stated that an infant, slowly, over a six-month period of time learns to assemble or learns to 'synthesize' a highly unique and significant relationship between its consciousness, its body and the objects of the world. However, what scientists have failed to realize is that every night our conscious minds attempt to create another synthesis but, since our imagination is untrained, we fail miserably in uniting our conscious mind with the dream environment. Not that engineering a concious experience is dreaming not by a long shot. We fail, much more so at creating an intentionally engineered conscious experience." His arm fell to his side, pencil in ha...

"Learning is experience. Everything else is just information." – Albert Einstein "Cement!" "Hmmm?" Einstein said turning in his chair, his glasses mounting the lower half of his nose. "Cement!" He took off his glasses and looked at me puzzlingly. "I . .. uh . . umm . . well." I didn't want to tell him that I had done the best I could in repeating 'I intend to find my hands in my dreams' for two days and when the third day approached I couldn't stand it any longer and happenstancely, found a handprint in sidewalk and chucked the whole assignment. "Come, come. Sit, sit." He urged me to sit on the floor in a corner of his lab and then sat down on my left. He nodded his head towards the window. "It kills us so softly." I looked at him puzzled. "Look! Look at the light!" Light streamed in through the window. A slow wind bustled a tree and created a very fluid like shadow that gave the light a kin...

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity." – Albert Einstein I walked in and found Einstein ruminating and slowly walking along the length of his laboratory. “Why doesn’t this moment feel impossible? Given all the random and chance events that went into creating this moment we should be experiencing the impossible!” He saw me and announced with a finger pointing skyward, “It is only by the slimmest possible chances that life arose on this Earth. Do you know how slim a cord we dangle on? The universe exploded into a flurry of matter and anti-matter. Thus, matter and anti-matter should have canceled each other out leaving nothing. Among scientists it is unanimous; matter and anti-matte...

A human being is a part of the whole, called by us the "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts, and feelings as something separate from the rest – a kind of optical illusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us . . . Our task must be to free ourselves from the prison. – Albert Einstein “Your imagination has never been trained.” “Huh?” “Your ability to imagine has never been harnessed. At its worst, your imagination is merely a distraction from the monotony of the daily world, and at its best it is an escape hatch into worlds of fantasy.” I didn’t know what to say. Before I had a chance to formulate a question, Einstein peered at me, “Don’t you think it is odd that we can imagine limitless possibilities and yet we cannot attain them? Wasn’t it Hume that said, “Nothing we imagine is absolutely impossible?” Einstein grabbed the armrest of his wooden chair and pulled himself out of his s...