Related to dreams is the imagination. Dreams are mostly spontaneous, but imagination can be directed with will, or can spontaneously occur. The spontaneous aspects of the imagination are like dreams while we are awake. Here is a home experiment to observe this transition area between dreams and imagination, where perception of real is semi-real, even while one is awake and conscious.
What you do is go to a scary movie, like a horror movie, at night. Then you have someone drop you off in the woods, alone. What will happen most of the time, is the imagination will become active. The rustling of the bushes is now a bear. Often one side of the person will say this is just my imagination but another part of them may still feel uncomfortable because there is some doubt, based on how the body is reacting to the imagination.
The second half of the experiment is to take a dog to the same movie. Then drop him/her off in the woods. They will not react the same way. They are more in touch with their limited instinctive reality and may start to explore and would react to the bush, like there is a bear in it, only if there was an actual bear. Animals don't have the same range of transition area.
My conclusion is that these transition areas and phenomena of the brain are what is required to observe what is not solidly fixed within reality.
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Non-existence is god's only necessary property.
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It is not fully clear if God is all imagination-dream or whether imagination-dream is the center of perception that would allow this experience. In other words, a scientist seeking such data may never get such data with a telescope or microscope, unless these transition areas of the brain are also involved in the observational process.
Here is an interesting coincidence. One of the features of dreams and imagination is cause and affect are able to break down. One can fly without wings in both their dreams and imagination. At the same time, dreams typically generate what appears to be random data. Where I am heading with this is, these dream-imagination parameters are not much different than those used in chaos-random theories. The question is, are these theories expressing reality or are these theories connected to those transition layers of the brain overlapping reality to create semi-reality, i.e., bear (transition area) in the bush (reality). It one of those things; is it the chicken or egg?
The same argument could be applied to God concepts. Are the transitions areas in the human mind overlapping reality to create semi-reality where reality can appear as quickly as a dream, with cause and affect able to break down? Or do these areas of the brain express sort of a parallel reality, which is now defined by chaos? Chaos is as real to the scientist as God is to the religious person and follow the same laws as these transition areas of the brain. The only difference is religion tries to create order in the chaos. While science tries to leave the chaos as is. Science does not expect to find order in the chaos, such that God concepts appear to be out of touch with, without cause and affect.
One needs to address these aspects of the mind because they are real in the sense of existing with their own laws. In physics, some observations of subtle experiments can be influenced by the observer. It may be more an artifact of these transition areas, which are not as easy to filter out. The bear in the bush may have an impact on the observation either as a actual physical potential or as semi-reality. It is not entirely clear.
