A very tricky question indeed.
And quite an old question too. Most of us, do repeat the question, more freely within ourselves. But to others, we ask a bit diplomatically, avoiding repetition. Safe to ask a 'totally' different person! (I remember, during school days, our class mates used to discuss, about whom to ask such questions.... not all the teachers were 'student-friendly'! It is only now, that we got ourselves well-tamed, and 'used' to facing 'barking-people' at public places which are manned by government servants!).
No soon somebody talks about a dream, people around start putting on their own pair of glasses. Some look through dark glasses, some through yellow ones (what we derive from the saying 'everything looks yellow to a jaundiced eye'... etc), some through green ... some through opaque ones!!!! (the opaque lens users prefer to claim, see, 'I still see' showing the open eyes, eye-lids not closed, but lens opaque, hearing without listening!)...
The reason, why the 'dream-interpretation-sessions' finds very little team-spirit is simply because of the very nature of state in which they occur. Even when awake, the mind wanders, and very little is fully grasped. So, the hearsay later on churns out only distorted versions. Then what about dreams? That is the contention, and quite valid too.
The question does not seek the asker's permission to arise from within. When the situation outside is very precarious, the mind does turn towards a dream like that drowning man willing to even trust a piece of straw floating!
(It is up to the individual, to continue the inclination towards a dream)...
psn(17th June, 2011)
Is there any relation between dream and real life?
My answer:
The "relation" could be
1) about the dreamer
2) about the events in the life of the dreamer, and the dreams
(other relations are derived ones from the above two. There is the dream and the dreamer, and it is out of these two only, that we can try to find any relation.
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1) If the dreamer has peak levels of self-awareness, the dream and the real life (the events) can be related based on the levels of awareness. For example, a child has very low levels of self-awareness. We see a child farts, and turns back to find out where the sound has come from! A mentally ill patient may not be able to relate events within the real life itself, so, even our 'real' life for that patient is almost as mixed up as a wild dream.
2). The state of mind during the dream decides the relation of the dream with real life. With the sensory level perception withdrawn (not plugged or shut off... we do not smell though our noses are open, even if a hot food is place near us during sleep.. we do not hear even if somebody calls us, our ears are still open!), so,, with the sensory level perception withdrawn, the mind can be active, or the mind can be still. If the mind is active, it is free to take out old CD's and replay them, and make permutation and combination, feel the related emotions, choose to remember the results, and confuse us further during the next wake-up period. This is just a dream. If the self awareness is also there, it becomes a hallucination. That is the only difference. There is a third possibility, though very rare. A good deep sleep in full awarenesss. The body is at rest, with sensory perceptions withdrawn. The mind is at rest, with almost zero thoughts. Just the 'being' the witnessing aspect within us is fully conscious, and aware. In such a state, the perceptions are very deep, and real. In fact, such state allows filtering of even the distortions due to wake state which are purely due to limitations of sensory level of perception.... that is why there are stray instances of 'dreams' coming true for some people. Spiritual people strive to reach this state at will. For others, it is just a matter of luck, or chance. The possibility is there for all, everyone without exception. The question is, whether we leave it to luck to allow it to happen by 'itself' or we are on a fast-forward, like those spiritual people!
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Good question. Thanks. Enjoyed answering it yet again, afresh.
1 comment:
I think there is some relation between real and dream and sometimes its not.I myself want to know what is the truth? Sometimes dream is bad or non-moral type and it makes someone depress tht these things should not happen.
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