Bundokji wrote: ↑Fri Jun 02, 2023 2:08 pm
jwstone wrote: ↑Fri Jun 02, 2023 1:26 pm
Sometimes I have dreams about people I have never met in waking life. Their details are extremely clear, like they could definitely exist in the waking world. I always wonder if they do exist somewhere else on some level.
Or you could use Sabba sutta to use the dream to provide meaning to what you experienced. Those people you saw were not "grounded" enough for you to be called real, so they appear to belong to somewhere else.
One feature of the dream-like world is that there are no facts, only interpretations (as Nietzsche once said).
One major benefit of bring truthful is that you it keeps you grounded by providing you with references (not-self).
I sometime back read that when one is in deep sleep one's 5 senses as sight, sound, smell, taste and touch get closed from its doors while the mano or imaginative sense become conscious or aware. This can be the time one dream of stored past memories or even stored past time memories. One who has ridden them of delusions, greed and ill will or dvesha could open there past memories in a clearer manner to see them in dreams because they are not conscious about there 5 active senses.
If I may I wish to bring to note the 16
dreams by King kosala , that was interpreted by lord budda as events to happen in time to come even politically [ to happen even today was interpreted].
Another is the dream of queen mahamaya to dream a white elephant entering her womb at the time of conceiving siddartha in to the womb.
Interpretation of dreams are even a science today with modern psychology and with astrology a analists in India mostly.
With dream analysis various symbols are analysed as events to come in to the life of the dreamer..
The 16 dreams of king kosala pasenadhi and its interpretations can be read from Internet.