One dreams of many things you will never experience in this life, such as "He dreams of flying in the air."
A dream is not a completely new experience, because it is most often a memory of past experiences.
In the waking state, light is mixed with the functions of organs, intellect, mind, external lights, etc. In dreams, the self becomes clear and isolated because organs do not act and lights like the sun help are lacking.
The dreamer is not affected by any result of good and evil that he sees in the state of dreams. No one is considered a sinner because of sins committed in dreams. People who have heard of them do not condemn them or avoid them. Therefore, he will not touch them.
The dreamer seems to do things only in a dream, but in reality there is no activity.
Sruti says, "He sees that he is enjoying himself in the company of women." He who has described his dream experiences uses the words "as if"; "Today I saw a herd of elephants running." Therefore, the dreaming self has no activity in dreams.
The action is performed by the contact of the body and the senses, which have a form with something else that has a form. We never see that a formless thing is active. I am formless.
Therefore, it is not connected. Since this Self is not connected, it is untouched by what it sees in dreams.
Therefore, we cannot attribute activity to it, because the activity is based on the contact of the body and organs. There is no contact with the Self, because this infinite Self is unconnected. That is why he is immortal.
Doctors say, "Don't wake him suddenly or violently," because he sees that in dreams he will come out of the waking body by the gates of his organs and remain isolated outside. If I am violently aroused, I may not find these organ gates. If it does not find the right organ, the body becomes difficult for the doctor. I may not get back to those gates of the bodies, the things he sent when he takes their radiant functions, or he may mislead those functions. In this case, defects such as blindness and deafness may occur. Your doctor may find it difficult to treat them.
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Dreams are caused by mental impressions received in the waking state. Consciousness in a dream depends on previous knowledge acquired in the waking state.
The purpose of dreams is to either encourage or grieve and frighten a sleeping person to repay him for his good and bad deeds. His Adrishta thus provides an effective cause of dreams.
Even in the state of dreams, the instruments of themselves are not at peace, because the Scriptures say that even then it is connected with the Buddhas. "He became a dream and together with the Buddhas he transcends this world."
Smriti also says, "When the senses are at rest, the mind that is not at rest is occupied by objects, know that this state is a dream."
Scripture says that desires, etc., are modifications of the mind. Desires are observed in dreams. That's why I wander in dreams only with the mind.
The scripture that describes our actions in dreams qualifies them "as if." "As if rejoicing with women, or laughing, or seeing terrible sights." Ordinary people also describe dreams in the same way. "I went up as to the top of a mountain, I saw a tree as if it were."
Creating dreams is unreal. Reality includes factors of time, space and causation. Furthermore, reality cannot be sublated or stultified. Dreaming does not have these qualities.
The dream is called the "Sandhya" or middle state because it is halfway between the waking and deep sleep states, between Jagrat and Sushupti.
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Dreams, although strange and illusory in nature, are a good index of the dreamer's high or low spiritual and moral condition. He who has a pure heart and immaculate character will never get unclean dreams. A candidate who sometimes meditates will dream of his Sadhana and the object of meditation. He will worship the Lord and recite His name and Mantra even in a dream by the power of Samskara.
383.093 SRY