Post by samy03 on Dec 16, 2013 4:58:43 GMT
Remembering dreams, re-enacting and experiencing them in the waking state, could be useful as the first step on the path of higher consciousness and truth – but to a very limited extent. Otherwise people are such that first they waste their time in dreaming, then in enacting the dream in the waking state; then they waste their time on some psychoanalyst's couch talking about their dreams -- and the psychoanalyst analyses them. Then the dream becomes too important. That much importance should not be given to them.
There is a great need of a shift of consciousness from content to container.
Have you watched your dream? When you wake up in the morning, for a few seconds some fragments of the dream float in the consciousness -- just for a few seconds -- then they have gone. You have washed your face, taken a cup of tea; finished with the night, you don't remember now. And even when you awake in the morning, only fragmentary things are there. And those too are the tail parts of the dream. When you dream, you dream in a certain way: you started the dream at five o'clock in the morning, then you went into it, and at six o'clock you woke up. That was the end part of the dream -- it is as if you were seeing a film and you were only awake at the end part. So you remember the end part of the dream, not the beginning or middle. Then you have to go upstream. If you want to recollect the dream you have to move in the reverse order, as if you are reading a book backwards. It is difficult.
When you are conscious you again start interpreting the dream content, you don't allow the whole message to be received. You will drop many things. If you have murdered your mother in the dream, you will drop it. You will not remember it; you will not allow it to become conscious.
The dream is a message from the unconscious to the conscious because the conscious is doing something which the unconscious feels is unnatural. And the unconscious is always right, remember; the unconscious is your nature. The conscious is cultivated by society, it is a conditioning.
Rather than remembering a dream, re-living a dream is more useful. When you remember, you remember from the conscious; when you re-live, you re-live from the total. In re-living there is more possibility that the unconscious will again be able to give some messages.
For example: you dreamed during the night that you were walking on a road. You go on walking and the road never ends. The non-ending road creates tremendous fear in you because with anything non-ending the mind cannot cope, the mind becomes afraid.
Re-living is totally different. Again you are on the road. Look around. What type of road is it? Are trees there or is it a desert? What kind of trees? Is the sun there in the sky or is it night? Visualise it, stand on the road and let it be as colourful as possible -- because the unconscious is very colourful. The conscious is just black and white, the unconscious is psychedelic. So let it be colourful. And through this sensitivity of taste, touch, air, feel, coolness, warmth, greenery, colour; it again becomes real. Again the unconscious will start giving you messages. They can be of tremendous value.
Cheers!!!
God Bless Everyone!!
