Someone asked if lucid dreams exists in a different dimension, and me being me I was thinking about consciousness yesterday as I usually do and I came up with this visualisation of consciousness that may explain lucid dreams and dreams in general.

Imagine consciousness as a cone. Got it?

Now imagine that the "pointy end" of the cone is the source. A projector, of sorts. Everything in the expanding cone shape is a projection that comes from the pointy end. Holographic projection.

Now, imagine that somewhere in that conal shape, time moves as it does here. Space feels as it does here. But in the pointy end, there is no time and no space at all.

Lucid dreams, as I understand it, is closer to the pointy end than our waking reality. Time moves differently. Space feels different. Agency feels more immediate, because the distance between intent and resolution is closer (the cone is narrower). The bandwidth is more powerful.

You can call it a "dimension" if you want. But I don't think it's that. It's just you, but with what feels like different laws. Who you really are of course, is the pointy end.

The projector.

Timeless.

Spaceless.

Not really existing at all.

The cone is just a projection of you. In ancient terms that projection is called Maya.

It's not a cone in reality of course. It is instead a singularity that projects in all directions (except that there are no directions). It is a singularity without a location. It is immanent and nowhere at all. But that is rather difficult to conceptualise and present.