The idea that the mind might time travel, is not new - but i feel that the theory itself hasn't been taken seriously enough. The reason why i think it must be considered with interest, is because the history of our past and the history of our future are experiences of the consciousness that exists [only in time] - never in space. Time is somehow the realm of both mind and the imaginal. Because of this, we must assume that it is very possible that the mind is not necessarily bound to the present time.
In fact, we display time in various ways. The mental projection is just as important. For instance, we can psychologically go into the past - however, the truth in physics indicates that the mind 'recreates a past' in the present. Our future exists as a time we cannot remember, but to us, it feels as though we can 'jump' into the future and write a particular path we might take. (However), because nothing in time is fixed, and physical actions/reactions have not yet transpired, we must imagine that these 'thoughts of the future' statistically play a role in any physical outcome. So we can recreate the past, and statistically influence the future. Though because the mind is bound to the here and now, how can one say the mind can exceed the barrier of present time?
One way to imagine this, is to create some new idea's about present time. Present time, (i believe) binds the mind only when awareness is present. To imagine this, is to say present time is the shadow of a particular collapse of the wave function, coupled by awareness - and quite possibly intelligence: I mention intelligence here, because it may not be enough to be simply 'aware' - since the leading contention on the collapse theory, is that intelligence must be involved.
Thus, if present time is a reality only ever real through awareness, then the logic would suggest that time travel would be possible for a 'less aware mind.' One way to imagine this, is when a person is asleep. The mind during a dream state is never fully occupied with the world around it. Whilst certain neural functions still maintain when asleep, our objective awareness is not. By lessening awareness, are we making the mind more prone to violate the present time laws?
There are ways to explore this theory - but they are delving into worlds that are very difficult to measure. The haziness of memory during sleep plays a big barrier in the experimental means of testing the theory... for instance, one could use psychics here. Certain people when asleep, claim to see visions of a time past or a time in the future. Some of these visions may accurately show a time that has yet still to happen, and as many people claim, 'they happen.' The only way to take this seriously, is to take the people who have these experiences seriously.
Instead of ''blind'' faith, perhaps we need to be looking for people who are naturally not as aware as the next person. Perhaps, people who have certain senses stripped from them, such as sight and hearing, might be perfect candidates, since the world we see, hear, touch, smell and taste are all built up on sense alone: Realty, the normal composite of three spatial dimensions, is built up on nothing more than senses; perhaps the mind can perceive reality, because it is tied up into higher dimensional plains?
Ok... Let's leave all these ''exotic dimensions'' that the mind could be inexplicably tied to, and let us see some other reasons how mind might see into the future. Firstly, we need to understand, that for anything to breach time - and by that, i mean this strange, undefined presence of here and now - time must be an illusion. What we consider as past, present and future, is all somehow the same thing - though, it isn't when a mind is present. The present time takes on real attributes, and the past and future don't seem to exist.
How wrong we are if we hold onto the belief of time. Time would all happen in an instant without mind, and the past and future would become just as real as the present time. Perhaps the mind fall's into a state of present time, but when we are not aware of it, it oscillates throughout the time barrier in a sinusoidal movement. In fact, the human brain must be quite unconscious... The more conscious we can be, the more the mind will fall into a defined state for reality. Remove the conscious state, and we might be seeing what reality after life is like. Death might just be a state of unconsciousness... a state of psyche not to far off dream state.
Here is another example of a mind not fully bound by reality. This example is found in hypno states. Some individuals, when put under deep regression hypnosis, have found themselves ''seeing'' events, either in the past and in the future. Some of these events have been tied to some type of previous life experiences. Is this the mind again, 'delving into the past or future,' because it is not fully occupied with the here and now? If so, then hypnotism is the perfect experimental way to find the mind doing some extraordinary stuff.
And, here is where my hypothesis get's even stranger... Some of these individuals have experienced 'being in the bodies' of some soul that had lived, let's say 50 to a 100 years ago... Not each of these can be false; some have to be true surely? And if they are, is past life really always the answer? It's a nice thought believing we might keep living on, as new individuals; however, can there be another answer - one just as bizarre and interesting?
In Einstien's relativity papers, the past and the future is paradoxically happening right now. To understand this, we need to take an imaginary journey in a time machine. If we moved from this day and age, let's say, 400 years into the past, we would end up in another present time. If we had moved into the future, we would have also ended up in a future present time, where hopefully people still exist. How can a present time exist in the future? Wouldn't that mean that both the past and the future where happening right now? And if the future was happening right now, which future is this?
Some physicists opt for the parallel universe interpretation here... For in this interpretation, the future you jump into, is the present time in a parallel universe. I shall give a more conservative answer here, without using parallel universes... The future we have jumped into, is the most likely, probable future. Though, understanding this shows us that time is not fixed, and that the present time is an illusion. It's just like the big bang... As the big bang occurred, a big crunch also occurred, almost simultaneously!
Now, with time not being absolute, the mind may not have difficulty leaping into the past or the future. Indeed, if this is what is happening, what is happening when a mind enters another soul’s body, in a totally different time? Is this ''us'' in another lifetime? The idea is novel; however, i am going to present another idea, using Ludvic Bass' notion that all minds are a product of one mind only. Now, if this is true, then this must also mean all minds in the past and the future - not only the minds here and now. If all minds are connected to one single mind-unit, then can one mind merge with another? Can the psyche of one person, enter the psyche of another person’s body?
As bizarre as this might sound, it may hold some key's to some pivotal questions concerning well-known phenomena throughout the whole world; such as psychic connection between twins, for instance. Twins tend to feel the same emotions and thoughts. Whereas many scientists will put this down to them being together for many years, other scientists welcome the idea that they can experience each others emotions and thoughts. Their connections are very strong, from a quantum physical view.
