Living the Dream: Cognitive Dream Interface Theory (CDIT), a Philosophical and Scientific Inquiry into Consciousness and Reality

di Andrew T. Jaffe, M.D. (Autore)

Collective Ink, 2026

Living the Dream: Cognitive Dream Interface Theory (CDIT)�reframes one of humanity�s oldest mysteries: the nature of reality. Instead of treating consciousness as a late byproduct of complex matter, CDIT presents awareness as a natural phenomenon -�timeless, ever-present, and as fundamental as gravity or light. Its intrinsic property is to generate experience, to render form and story the way gravity pulls or magnetism attracts. From this perspective, matter, time, identity, and memory are not foundations of reality but symbolic content within awareness�s unfolding. Drawing on neuroscience, physics, evolutionary biology, and philosophy, this book demonstrates how everyday experience -�including its anomalies, from dreams to quantum paradoxes -�is better understood as dreamlike renderings within awareness. Evolution�s imperfections, the puzzles of the observer effect, and the illusion of a stable self all become coherent inside this framework. What sets CDIT apart from other theories is its clarity. By using the dream analogy, it brings nondual insights down to earth, showing that what sages and contemplatives have pointed to for millennia can be grasped directly and simply: awareness is not in the world; the world is in awareness. Accessible, rigorous, and deeply original, Living the Dream�invites its readers to see reality in a new light.

• Autore: Andrew T. Jaffe, M.D.
• Editore: Collective Ink
• Anno: 2026
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 160 p.
• Dimensioni: 216 x 140 mm
• EAN: 9781917991629

Testo in English