Dreams.

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Dear friends and devotees,

 

Bhakti is eternal.

 

I happened to see the following questions from one brother devotee, in one of

the . Even though, I contributed a little along with others, I want

to share with you all the full details in this regard.

 

Questions asked by the devotee!

 

“How can we avert or stop a disaster, accident which we see in

our dream?

Also

1) how to analyse these dreams with the real life.

2) how to track with whom is this incident going to happen.”

 

My analysis:

 

Though the initial question appears to be very small, its significance is

superior and appealing. The answer should be of fact-based.

 

I am neither an astrologer nor a spiritual leader. I am a retired physician.

By the grace of God, I had the blessings of His Holiness Paramacharya and heard

many devotional secrets. I have, therefore, decided to spend some time on

spiritual matters and Sanatana dharma, in addition to my service to patients,

which made me to join the devotional groups. That is the reason that I have

been interfering in some clarifications, with the knowledge acquired from the

great Guru. I would prefer to sit in the desk as a student rather than in a

chair of a teacher. Yet, the questions of the devotee are more valuable and any

clarification should help our entire society.

 

Keeping all in view, I felt that the matter has to be explicitly clarified. I

am therefore giving some elaborate details regarding dreams on medical,

practical and even spiritual point of view.

 

Dreams are the images, thoughts and feelings experienced while asleep,

particularly strongly associated with rapid eye movement sleep (REM). The

contents and purpose of dreams are poorly understood, though they have been a

topic of speculation and interest throughout recorded history

 

 

There is a biological definition of dreaming. General observation shows that

dreams are strongly associated with rapid eye movement sleep, during which an

electroencephalogram shows brain activity to be most like wakefulness.

 

When the body decides that it is time to sleep, neurons near the eyes begin to

send signals throughout the body. These neurons are located in such close

proximity to neurons that control eyelid muscles that the eyelids begin to grow

heavy. Glands begin to secrete a hormone that helps induce sleep and neurons

send signals to the spinal cord which cause the body to relax.

 

There are many hypotheses about the function of dreams. During the night there

may be many external stimuli bombarding the senses, but the mind interprets the

stimulus and makes it a part of a dream in order to ensure continued sleep.

 

Dreams have a long history both as a subject of conjecture and as a source of

inspiration. Throughout their history, people have sought meaning in dreams or

divination through dreams. They have been described physiologically as a

response to neural processes during sleep, psychologically as reflections of the

subconscious, and spiritually as messages from God or predictions of the future.

Many cultures practiced dream incubation, with the intention of cultivating

dreams that were prophetic or contained messages from the divine.

 

The most common emotion experienced in dreams is anxiety. Negative emotions

are more common than positive feelings

 

Content-analysis studies have identified common reported themes in dreams.

These include: situations relating to school, being chased, running slowly/in

place, sexual experiences, falling, arriving too late, a person now alive being

dead, teeth falling out, flying, embarrassing moments, failing an examination,

or a car accident. Twelve percent of people dream only in black and white

 

Dreams of absent-minded transgression (DAMT) are dreams wherein the dreamer

absentmindedly performs an action that he or she has been trying to stop (one

classic example is of a quitting smoker having dreams of lighting a cigarette).

Subjects who have had DAMT have reported waking with intense feelings of guilt.

One study found a positive association between successfully stopping the

behavior

 

Dreams can link to actual sensations, such as the incorporation of

environmental sounds into dreams, or dreaming of urination while wetting the

bed. Some philosophers have extended this idea to a skeptical hypothesis about

ontology.

 

The recall of dreams is extremely unreliable, though it is a skill that can be

trained. Dreams that are difficult to recall may be characterized by relatively

little affect, and factors such as salience, arousal, and interference play a

role in dream recall.

 

According to a recent medical theory one passes in sleep through many phases

until one arrives at a state in which there is absolute rest and silence, which

lasts only for ten minutes, the rest of the time is taken up by travelling to

that and travelling back again to the waking state. The ten minutes sleep can be

called “Sushupti” in the Brahman of Brahmaloka, the rest is “Svapna” (dream) or

passage through other worlds (planes or states of conscious existence). It is

these ten minutes that restore the energies of the being, and without it, sleep

is not refreshing.

 

People's ideas of sound sleep are absolutely erroneous. What they call sound

sleep is merely a plunge of the outer consciousness into a complete

subconscious. They call that a dreamless sleep; but it is only a state in which

the surface sleep consciousness which is a subtle prolongation of the outer

still left active in sleep itself is unable to record the dreams and transmit

them to the physical mind. As a matter of fact the whole sleep is full of

dreams. It is only during the brief time in which one is in the Brahmaloka that

the dreams cease.

 

The dreams are strongly associated with rapid eye movement sleep and nothing

but hallucination, in the medical point of view. But it is natural that one

will become despair psychologically. How can we avert or stop a disaster,

accident which we see in our dream? The main remedy is meditation and Bhakti.

Any bad or good is in accordance with the Karma as per our Hindu mythology and

at the same time one can overcome bad by praying God.

 

If one is destined to get poisoned by a snake at a particular time, he/she

cannot elude and has to undergo. But in case, he/she sits at that time praying

Lord Siva in a Temple, the snake cannot enter in the midst of all. Then what

about the destiny? Then also he/she gets poisoned by a small scorpion bite

which can be cured by an ordinary physician. It does not mean that one should

always sit in the temple. It would only emphasize that Bhakti on God is the

ultimate, even to overcome the preordained bad or torment. Why bad, anguish.

disaster or accident? Even death! The example is our Markandeya Purana.

 

Please therefore ignore the dreams and think them as night-mare. Come out of

them and live happily.

 

With love and regards,

 

Sastry.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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