Towards a New Science of Dreams. An Approach Using the Information Fields Physical Theory.

Dreams are geometric projections of a person's energetic state as constituted by an information field, not random noise or meaningful messages. The theory explains the universal conviction that dreams matter, ancient practices linking visceral states to dream quality, and modern findings from REM research, Solms' overturning of activation-synthesis, and the enteric nervous system's role. Autonomic evidence from 162 sessions with 31 subjects showed subject-listener physiological correlation rising from 2% during problem stage to 96% during dream reporting. The paper proposes falsifiable terahertz experiments using a dodecanograph to test the physical framework, which treats the dream image as a reversible projection of a nucleus state with distortion during ascent to consciousness.

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Abstract

This paper applies the information fields physical theory to the problem of the dream, proposing that a dream is the geometric projection, at the level of conscious image, of the dreamer's energetic state as constituted by the field in which the living organism stands. The account is offered as a third path between the two verdicts that have divided dream research — the dream as meaningful message and the dream as random noise — both of which are argued to be incomplete. The paper first sets out the phenomena any theory of the dream must explain: the trans-historical, trans-cultural conviction of the dream's significance, framed as explanandum rather than evidence, and including the ancient discovery, encoded in incubation practice and stated soberly by Aquinas, that the visceral state governs the quality of dreaming; and the modern scientific record, from the discovery of REM through the activation-synthesis reduction to its empirical overturning by Solms and the identification of the enteric nervous system as an important, though not exclusive, contributor to the generation of dream content. It then introduces the physical framework — the information field as a form-carrying, non-energetic guiding degree of freedom, on the de Broglie–Bohm precedent, and reality as three continuous regimes mirrored in the organism's five-stage transduction cascade — and develops the central hypothesis: the dream image as the reversible projection of the nucleus state, the symbol as the envelope of an energetic state, and the distortion introduced during its ascent to consciousness. Decoding is defined not as symbolic interpretation but as the recovery of the energetic state through the organismic criterion, referring the full method to White Paper III. The paper presents the published autonomic evidence (162 sessions, 31 subjects; subject–listener physiological correlation rising from 2% at the problem stage to 96% during dream reporting) and proposes two experiments extending measurement to the terahertz substrate via the dodecanograph: a sensory-identitary pilot and a shielded field experiment measuring autonomic and terahertz signals together. The decoding method rests on four decades of clinical and psychosomatic practice documented across this series; the physical account and the terahertz experiments are the new and falsifiable contributions built upon it.