I Had a Dream About an Entity Explaining Time and I Can’t Stop Thinking About it
Had one of the strangest dreams of my life last night and I can’t stop thinking about it.
In the dream, I met this “entity” that told me it had existed for over 400 years. It started explaining time to me in a way that honestly messed with my head. It said that all of time has already been written, and that humans only perceive it as linear because that’s the only way our minds are capable of experiencing it.
The best comparison it gave was a record player. A song already exists in full from beginning to end, but when you play it, you only hear it one moment at a time. According to the dream, time works the same way: the past, present, and future already exist simultaneously, but we experience them sequentially.
What’s weird is how calm and matter of fact the entity sounded, like it was explaining something obvious. The dream felt way more vivid than normal, almost like I was being told information instead of just dreaming random nonsense.
Has anyone else had dreams like this? Or are there actual theories/philosophies that describe time this way?