Guest guest Posted October 15, 2009 Report Share Posted October 15, 2009 advaitin , ombhurbhuva <ombhurbhuva wrote: > > > Namaste Shyam-ji, > Dream as a critique of reality only works if the dream is taken as reality > in the dream. Plainly it isn't as taking something traumatic in the dream > as real would create the stress that traumatic events do. But it is not > even a traumatic event in the dream as we move from falling off a cliff to > being at home by the fire with not a care in the world. > > What I am saying is that we are not as bemused in the dream world as the > standard illustrations propose that we are. It is well known that we can > build external stimuli into the dream story. How could we do this unless > we were somehow aware of them? The dream state is not a sealed off world > in which judgement is completely suspended. > > Best Wishes, > Michael. Namaste Michael, To me it is just consciousness playing and expanding in the kosas that's all. There is no real difference between the waking and dream states. People do get scared in dreams as you know they call them nightmares.We have no more control over the figures and images in a dream than we do in the slow-dream or waking state. Although sometimes we can be aware somewhat that we are in a dream, and some of the events are traumatic. Judgement in a dream is just as real as judgement in the waking state---just an illusion that's all.......Cheers Tony. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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