this happens to me repeatedly every year i come back from burning man... usually lasts at least a few days, sometimes a week or two. i feel myself inside my bedroom, but my bedroom is really just the inside of a prop, out on the playa. the wind blows through, the dust... the noise and fire and stars and swirling rivers of humanity flow around and through. . . its eerie how strong a sensation it can be.

I just had my first nightmare dream for the year... mine are also almost always about forgeting something... usually my costumes and they always start around june, every year. I have good ones too... but the nightmares always start around now... I guess my brain is just working in overtime designing, scheming, and planning for the best week of the year!

I allways dream ive forgot all my clothes, water, food and forgot my gas and propane so nothing works, and still somehow have a good time , The closer to the Burn the more often and vivid the dreams become.

Burning Man is an intense physiological experience.
The interesting question is: " Are intense physiological experiences the same as spiritual experiences?"
A spiritual experience transcends time and space... is the same true for a intense physiological experience?

Reflection of one's mind, sure. Parallel universe? In the metaphorical since, ie the universe of Lord of the Rings or the universe of what Dave is thinking about? Sure. Parallel universe in a literal sense, I doubt it.

What happens to this universe when you wake up? Does all the merchandise get hauled off to the dreamlandfill? Do the people you dream about die when you wake up, or just become unemployed? Do people you dream about have their own dreams? Do you become responsible for continuing to dream about people night after night so they can fulfill their own lives and dreams? If you dream about someone who is dreaming about you, and in your dream they wake up, do you die? Or is your dream merely you peering into a preexisting parallel universe? In which case, if you interact with people there, say, melt their heads, do they interpret you as an invading alien or god? Or are they just the result of random neuronal activity being interpreted by your subconscious in terms of recently active neuronal pathways?

btw, good on ya for protesting.

I worked in Sichuan provence a few years ago, where a lot of laborers were Tibetan. Made me feel like what it must have been in our antebellum south.