I had a question about your OBE. I'm sure you've dealt with many skeptical questions in the past so you've probably heard this one before, but I'd like to know you thoughts on it.
Do you think that perhaps you had heard about some news report or something that indicated there had been break-ins reported in the area that your father's office was, and then dreamed that your fathers office was being broken in to?
Not really, the only thing I believe which might have had some effect is that there were very strong winds that night, and the backyard gate of our house was banging in the wind at the time of my experience. Hence, I might have picked that up, and incorporated it into the dream imagery. But it doesn't explain all the other stuff, although it might offer some explanation for why I got access to
that information at
that particular point in time.
For me, a clue is in Jay Giedd's
brilliant study of adolescent brain development. Geidd decided to put work into doing a longitudinal study, and he found very important non-linear changes in grey matter, something that simply did not show up in all previous cross sectional studies.
It seems that adolescents go through waves of overproduction of brain structures (dendrites etc.), quickly followed by elimination of structures that get little to no use - a bit like a sculptor carving away at a new block of stone.
I'm speculating that during those bursts of overproduction, the mass of brand new structures provide the possibilities for a much larger range of structural patterns, and therefore increased possibilities of random interaction with other matching patterns (other people).
Think of a joint the dots picture, where there are only sufficient number of correctly spaced dots to show the shape of a say... a dog. Then think of a join the dots picture with so many dots covering the the page, that you can draw any number of different objects... this would be like the overproduction phase.
These bursts of overproduction I speculate might be responsible for a range of different phenomena experienced by both the adolescent, and sometimes by those around the adolescent.