The Voyage Within was very interesting to read. I was hooked on every word and description given and it made me wish it were longer. I agree that internal images can be powerful enough to be mistaken for external ones. I think our dreams are made up of deep feelings, wishes, images, and a library of memories that we all have. Our mind is so grand that it can store all of this information and later produce a combination of these images and memories and create our dreams. There are things we have seen in our lives that are very impressionable and perhaps disturbing at times that also become stored in our minds and later produce those very pleasing dreams we have where we don't want to wake up and when we do, we try very hard to go back to sleep to continue that particular amazing dream. At the same time, some those disturbing images or experiences we have that are so impressionable to us, create those bad dreams, or nightmares, that upon awakening leave us with very real feelings of fear or sorrow depending on what the dream was about. Although we may experience the feelings we have during our dreams and upon waking up, whether good or bad, we know they were only projections created by our brains, dreams, and they are not real.
The only question I'm left with is, what do these projections created by our brains while we are in a different state of consciousness have anything to do with whether or not gods exist? The belief in gods is formed during our awake and conscious state. I don't think that there is room to compare the two in order to form an assumption on the truth about the existence of gods.
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