Bhagavad Gita on the Connection Between Dreams & Parallel Universes: Are We Living Two Lives?
Riya Kumari | Mar 01, 2025, 22:30 IST
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Look, I hate to break it to you, but your dreams might be more than just your brain throwing a greatest hits compilation of your subconscious fears. Maybe they’re stolen moments from another version of you—the one who didn’t ghost that person, or the one who actually learned French instead of just downloading Duolingo. Whether it’s science whispering about quantum entanglement or the Gita reminding us that time is a joke we take too seriously, one thing’s for sure: Reality might be way weirder than we think.
You wake up from a dream so vivid it lingers. For a moment, it felt real—not just real, but more real than the life you just woke up to. Maybe you were in a different city, speaking a language you never learned, loving people you’ve never met. And then suddenly, it’s gone. Just a dream, right? Or maybe not. What if dreams aren’t just scattered thoughts from your subconscious but a window into another existence—another you living somewhere beyond the limits of what you call “here” and “now”? This isn’t just late-night philosophy. Science, ancient wisdom, and the nature of consciousness itself all hint that our experience of reality is far thinner than we assume.
1. The Many Worlds of Science and the Mind
Modern physics has been toying with a bold idea: the multiverse. The theory suggests that every choice, every possibility, doesn’t just vanish—it splits reality into countless parallel versions. If that’s true, then maybe the person you were in your dream isn’t imaginary at all. Maybe they exist in another strand of reality, and for reasons beyond our understanding, your mind remembers a life that isn’t confined to this one.
It’s not as far-fetched as it seems. Neuroscientists already struggle to define what consciousness is—where it begins, where it goes when we sleep, or if it’s even bound to the brain at all. Could it be that, in sleep, we access something bigger than ourselves? A network of selves stretched across time and space, each experiencing life in ways we can barely grasp? And if this is true—if we exist in many forms across realities—what does that mean for who we really are?
2. What the Bhagavad Gita Knew All Along
Ancient wisdom, long before modern science, hinted at something eerily similar. The Bhagavad Gita speaks of the soul as something beyond time—unbound by birth or death, existing through infinite experiences. Krishna tells Arjuna: “Never was there a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor these kings. Nor in the future shall any of us cease to be.” If time is an illusion, if existence is not linear but eternal, then the idea of multiple realities isn’t science fiction—it’s simply a deeper truth we haven’t fully understood yet.
The Gita doesn’t speak in equations or theories, but it does say this: you are not your body. You are not your circumstances. You are something much greater—something that exists across lifetimes, across realities, and perhaps, even across universes. What if the dreams we so easily dismiss are moments where the illusion of separation fades? What if they remind us that the self we cling to—the one defined by a name, a job, a single story—is only one piece of something vast?
3. So, Who Are We—Really?
Maybe the real question isn’t whether parallel universes exist, but whether we’ve been living with blinders on, convinced that the small part we see is the whole. Maybe you have lived a thousand lives. Maybe they are all unfolding right now, intertwined in ways the mind struggles to grasp.
And if that’s the case, then what is there to fear? If you are not just this fleeting identity but something far beyond it, what is stopping you from living fully, from embracing life without hesitation, from knowing—deeply knowing—that nothing is ever truly lost? So the next time you wake up from a dream that feels like more than a dream, pause. Don’t dismiss it. Maybe, just maybe, another version of you is waking up too.
1. The Many Worlds of Science and the Mind
It’s not as far-fetched as it seems. Neuroscientists already struggle to define what consciousness is—where it begins, where it goes when we sleep, or if it’s even bound to the brain at all. Could it be that, in sleep, we access something bigger than ourselves? A network of selves stretched across time and space, each experiencing life in ways we can barely grasp? And if this is true—if we exist in many forms across realities—what does that mean for who we really are?
2. What the Bhagavad Gita Knew All Along
The Gita doesn’t speak in equations or theories, but it does say this: you are not your body. You are not your circumstances. You are something much greater—something that exists across lifetimes, across realities, and perhaps, even across universes. What if the dreams we so easily dismiss are moments where the illusion of separation fades? What if they remind us that the self we cling to—the one defined by a name, a job, a single story—is only one piece of something vast?
3. So, Who Are We—Really?
And if that’s the case, then what is there to fear? If you are not just this fleeting identity but something far beyond it, what is stopping you from living fully, from embracing life without hesitation, from knowing—deeply knowing—that nothing is ever truly lost? So the next time you wake up from a dream that feels like more than a dream, pause. Don’t dismiss it. Maybe, just maybe, another version of you is waking up too.