I’ve been sitting with something lately, not as a belief, but as a quiet realisation that unfolded slowly through deep reflection. It started with something simple: dimensions.
Living in a 3D World
We’re taught that we live in a three-dimensional world. Length. Width. Height. Plus one dimension of time. Everything physical fits inside those parameters. Our bodies, our homes, the trees, the sky, all of it occupies space in these three directions which is experienced on a linear timeline. Solid. Tangible. Familiar. Moving forward.
But what if the reason we struggle to perceive “more” isn’t because it doesn’t exist but because we’re already standing inside the limits of our perception?
The 2D and 3D Dimension Analogy
To understand this, I found myself thinking about a two-dimensional world.
Imagine a being that lives entirely on a flat plane like Pac-Man moving across an iPad screen. Its world consists only of length and width. Forward, backward, left, right. That’s it. Height doesn’t exist as something it can move through or even truly comprehend.
If a three-dimensional being like us were to interact with that 2D world dipping a finger, a toe, or even our whole body into it, how would we appear?
We would seem impossible. We would emerge from nowhere, perhaps first as a small shape, growing larger as more of us intersected their plane, then shrinking again before disappearing entirely. To them, we would appear god-like: arriving and vanishing at will, seeing inside enclosed spaces, touching objects from no visible direction. We wouldn’t just seem bigger, we would seem as though we existed above their reality.
Here’s a fun visual video to help you visualise what I’m saying: Watch Here
But the truth is gentler than that. We wouldn’t be above them in a spiritual or hierarchical sense. We would simply be extended in a dimension they cannot access. Height wouldn’t be somewhere else, it would be part of their world, just beyond their capacity to perceive.
Why the Fourth Dimension Feels “Above”
And suddenly, that familiar spiritual language starts to feel different. Because this is exactly how we tend to talk about the fourth dimension.
We describe it as “higher.” As “above.” As somewhere spirit lives. Somewhere consciousness ascends to. But what if that’s only because, like the 2D being, we’re reaching the edge of our perceptual limits?
What if the fourth dimension isn’t above us at all, and what if it isn’t simply just time either like science says, but instead a field folded quietly into the depth of the physical world we already inhabit and time is the temporal interface in which consciousness experiences this dimension?
4D as an Extension of Depth
In a three-dimensional world, we can never see all sides of an object at once. We can see the front, the sides, maybe the top or bottom depending on what angle we observe from but the back remains hidden unless we move. That hidden side isn’t imaginary. It’s real. It’s simply out of view.
Now imagine being able to perceive all sides simultaneously. Not by moving through space, but by expanding perception itself almost like you can see through things.
That’s how 4D perception began to feel to me, not as a new direction floating somewhere beyond physical reality, but as an extension of unseen depth and expansion. A deeper way of seeing what’s already here, woven through our world. The part of the object we can’t access from a single position. The fullness of form that 3D perception can only ever glimpse in slices and maybe the same laws apply for time. Maybe time can also be perceived from all angles. Past, present, future, simultaneously.
This idea connects closely to how vibration and consciousness shape what we’re able to perceive across dimensions.
[Learn more about vibration and dimensional perception here. Link coming soon]
The Quantum Field and the Space In Between
Something that helps me see this more clearly is this reel by Dr. Theresa Bullard. She describes the quantum field as the vast space of seeming nothingness between particles, where matter doesn’t move smoothly from one state to another but disappears and reappears based on probability.
From a 3D–4D lens, this helps explain how higher dimensions may allow instantaneous perception seeing all sides, through, behind, and beyond things at once by accessing the space between where waves and probability exist rather than moving through space and time linearly.
What I began to notice is that density can’t exist on its own. Solid form requires something lighter, more fluid, to hold it in place, much like the atoms Dr Theresa Bullard talks about. A wave can only exist because of water. A shadow can only exist because of light.
In the same way, the dense physical world seems to rely on a subtler dimension we can’t fully see one that is less rigid, more permeable, more mobile. Perhaps what we call the fourth dimension isn’t separate from the physical plane at all, but the unseen field that allows form to organise, move, and exist.
Not an escape from matter, but the quiet medium through which matter happens.
From this perspective, ideas that once felt mysterious begin to feel… almost logical.
Time in the Fourth Dimension
And this is where time quietly enters the picture.
Because time behaves in much the same way. Linear time is a feature of density.
From this model:
Time = depth of form across change.
It’s how a 3D object is stretched through moments. You are not just a body. You are a 4D structure extending from birth to death.
We experience life moment by moment, one “slice” at a time. We remember the past, imagine the future, but we only ever stand in the present. Yet our lives clearly exist as a whole. From beginning to end. Stretched across time in the same way a three-dimensional object is stretched across space.
There’s also something subtle but important in how we experience time itself. Although science often describes time on earth as a single linear dimension, a line stretching from past to future, our lived experience of it is far narrower. We don’t move freely along that line. We occupy only one point of it at any given moment: the present. In that sense, our conscious experience of time is almost zero-dimensional, a single dot sliding along a one-dimensional structure. Perhaps this is the temporal interface that allows consciousness to experience change without becoming overwhelmed by the whole of time at once. And perhaps the reason time behaves so strangely, looping, stretching, collapsing in certain states of awareness is because there is more to time than the slice we’re able to inhabit. I explore this idea more deeply in a separate reflection on why additional dimensions of time may exist.
[Read more about the nature of time and dimensional consciousness here. Link coming soon.]
Perhaps time isn’t something we move through perhaps our awareness or consciousness slides along a time slice of ourselves.
And perhaps moments of intuition, déjà vu, deep knowing, or timelessness aren’t violations of reality but brief expansions of depth. Little glimpses of the whole object instead of the single face we usually occupy.
This is why the next dimension always feels mystical at first. Why it feels unreachable, elevated, divine.
The next dimension always feels like “above” until it feels like within.
4D Beings, Ghosts, and Dimensional Interaction
If I take this idea a little further, something else begins to unfold.
If a two-dimensional world existed flat like a sheet of paper we could move through it without ever truly entering it. We could step over it, around it, or above it without interfering at all. From our perspective, the 2D world would remain untouched. From their perspective, nothing would seem to happen.
And yet… we would still be there.
Only when we chose to press into that plane to place a finger through it, to cast a shadow across it, to intersect with it would we become detectable. Even then, we wouldn’t appear as a full being. Only fragments would register. A shape. A pressure. A distortion in their reality that couldn’t be explained from within it.
If I apply this same logic to our own world, it invites a very different way of thinking about the fourth dimension.
A being not fully bound to three-dimensional space wouldn’t experience walls as solid barriers. Just as we don’t experience a sheet of paper as an obstacle, a 4D being wouldn’t experience our physical structures in the same way.
This offers a gentle explanation for why spirits are often described as walking through walls, appearing and disappearing, changing shape, or manifesting seemingly from nowhere. They wouldn’t be breaking the rules of reality, they would be operating from a different depth within it, much like the particles in an atom disappearing and reappearing.
This brings me to reflect on the fact that maybe that in-between space is the fourth dimension. The unseen depth and expansion that I speak about.
This same framework also softens our understanding of time, which science often calls the fourth dimension. But what if it’s a bit deeper than that? Maybe time is not bound to a linear perspective. It all exists at once as waves and probability as one of the building blocks of this dimension.
If a being exists across a broader dimensional field, the past and future wouldn’t be distant points. They would be accessible regions of the same structure.
This could explain why some experiences feel replayed rather than “happening now.” Residual energy. Repeating scenes. Places where a moment seems to loop as if the imprint of an event is still being observed from another angle. Not a conscious spirit necessarily, but a moment being perceived again from a different depth.
It also reframes the work of psychics and mediums.
Rather than predicting the future or summoning the past, they may be perceiving more of the structure at once through quantum entanglement, the unseen connection that allows information to be shared within the field of probability.
If the quantum field is the space where everything exists simultaneously, entanglement is what links two points within it. A resonance. A relationship.
[You can read my blog on quantum entanglement and multidimensional perception here. Link coming soon.]
Because we are made of particles ourselves, this kind of connection isn’t abstract or distant. It’s something that can occur between people, places, moments, or states of awareness.
Through that connection, patterns, probabilities, timelines, or entities that sit just outside our narrow slice of perception become accessible. Not because they are leaving this world, but because they are momentarily perceiving more of it.
Dimensional Shadows and Partial Manifestation
Something else began to unfold for me when I watched a visual explanation of dimensional shadows.
In a two-dimensional world, an object would cast a one-dimensional shadow, a line. In our three-dimensional world, objects cast two-dimensional shadows. And in a four-dimensional world, an object would cast a three-dimensional shadow.
The shadow is always a dimension lower than the world it’s cast in.
So it made me wonder: if something existed in a higher dimension and briefly intersected with ours, would what we perceive be its “shadow”? Not the being itself, but a projection translated into a form our senses can register.
Perhaps this is why apparitions are often partial, fleeting, translucent, or shifting. Not fully solid. Not fully absent.
Maybe what we sometimes see isn’t something entering our world at all, but a higher-dimensional presence brushing close enough to leave an impression, a shadow cast into three-dimensional space.
From this perspective, stories of ghosts walking through walls, appearing and disappearing, or morphing in form begin to feel less fantastical and more… geometrical.
Less supernatural and more perceptual.
Walls block us because we are fixed in three dimensions. But something extended beyond that constraint wouldn’t experience solid matter in the same way.
This doesn’t require belief, only curiosity.
It suggests that what we call “paranormal” might simply be normal phenomena observed from the edge of perception. Moments where another dimensional layer briefly intersects with ours, then slips back into a depth we can’t follow.
Not because it’s hiding.
But because our senses aren’t designed to stay there.
A Gentle Closing Reflection
From this perspective, spirit and the spirit world doesn’t sit outside matter it exists within it. It’s the unseen non-physical quantum realm of our entire universe. What I earlier described as “unseen depth and expansion.”
Consciousness isn’t floating somewhere else. Everything is entangled, layered, interwoven, inseparable.
What we call “higher” may simply be deeper and more expansive. The unseen space in between. And it’s fundamental right down to the quantum level. Science has observed it right there within our atoms.
What we call “beyond” may simply be within.
Just as Yeshua said:
“The kingdom of God is within you.”
I don’t offer this as an answer. Only as a reflection.
A way of softening the edges between science, spirituality, intuition, and lived experience. A reminder that just because we can’t see all sides of reality at once doesn’t mean they aren’t there.
Sometimes, depth doesn’t ask to be proven.
It only asks to be felt.
As always if you feel called to connect please comment below!
Love & Light,
J♡
