I suppose the best way to begin this is by asking the question:
Did you know (were you aware) while you are in a dream that you are dreaming? To put this in other words, did the realization that you are in dream occurred to you when you are still in a dream? I believe the normal case is the dreamer becomes aware of the dream state only when he is awake and not while he is still in dream. Dreaming while knowing you are dreaming is a very rare experience...but it may happen in almost all humans.
This is my own personal experience of strange dream:
"I was taking afternoon nap after a tiring day of study. I was mentally occupied with all study stuff for the next day's exam. I was sleeping with my face up and back down. After a while I suddenly knew that i was dreaming and I could see myself (hereinafter called "the one") on the floor sleeping beside my brother. I could hear the noise of the fan and i could see the door of the room wide open. The dreamer (the one) in my dream had seen something spooky trying choke his throat. The one in the dream in my dream wanted to wake up to escape the choking sensation since he already knew that this is only a dream and he could escape this if he wakes out of it. I felt I had woken out of sleep.
The one tried to wake up and found his body is not responding to the will of the mind. The one tried moving with all his force only to find his body is not responding and with choking sensation and the fear of death imminent. He felt the body is paralyzed. All of sudden, I open my eyes and check if my body is moving and responding. It is after all moving and responding to my will. This experience I felt was very profound and disturbing and this happened some 5 years back."
I think the two highlights of the dream are:
1) I knew I was dreaming and could see myself on the floor dreaming feeling both dream of me on the floor and the experience of seeing myself on the floor dreaming.
2) I felt I woke out of dream which I knew I didn't only after I actually woke up. I experienced both dream experience in the dream in the dream and wakeful experience in the dream.
I googled this experience online to find the following: Lucid dreaming
I will now relate this dream as it progresses with the feeling of awareness, illusion and reality.
The sensual experience is verified by your senses in your Dream. We accept the fact that the things which we feel with our senses are true (so called evidence and verifiability). Can you agree with anything which you cannot experience (perceive with any of your senses)? You label such things false. The wetting of sheets is actual physical consequence which happened in real world as a consequence of the experience you have gone through in the Dream world (another proof that the experience is true).
Having accepted the truth of dream in the above manner, you wake out of the dream only to find these things do not exist at all. But then, you have experienced them in the Dream world with all your senses (and felt in the dream to be absolutely happening). The same senses cannot perceive the things you have seen in the dream world in the real world once you wake out of the dream. So, how do you know which one of these is the truth?
(Read Dream Argument)
By definition Truth is something which can always be perceived and experienced through the medium of senses. But now you feel these very senses seem to be playing tricks on you when you switch from dream state to waking state.
The following are the conclusions drawn as per this philosophy:
1) Things which happened in the Dream world are not false since you experienced them with your senses. But it is not the truth which is your actual wakeful state. So these 'Dream things' which are neither true nor false is 'Maya' or Illusion.
Did you know (were you aware) while you are in a dream that you are dreaming? To put this in other words, did the realization that you are in dream occurred to you when you are still in a dream? I believe the normal case is the dreamer becomes aware of the dream state only when he is awake and not while he is still in dream. Dreaming while knowing you are dreaming is a very rare experience...but it may happen in almost all humans.
This is my own personal experience of strange dream:
"I was taking afternoon nap after a tiring day of study. I was mentally occupied with all study stuff for the next day's exam. I was sleeping with my face up and back down. After a while I suddenly knew that i was dreaming and I could see myself (hereinafter called "the one") on the floor sleeping beside my brother. I could hear the noise of the fan and i could see the door of the room wide open. The dreamer (the one) in my dream had seen something spooky trying choke his throat. The one in the dream in my dream wanted to wake up to escape the choking sensation since he already knew that this is only a dream and he could escape this if he wakes out of it. I felt I had woken out of sleep.
The one tried to wake up and found his body is not responding to the will of the mind. The one tried moving with all his force only to find his body is not responding and with choking sensation and the fear of death imminent. He felt the body is paralyzed. All of sudden, I open my eyes and check if my body is moving and responding. It is after all moving and responding to my will. This experience I felt was very profound and disturbing and this happened some 5 years back."
I think the two highlights of the dream are:
1) I knew I was dreaming and could see myself on the floor dreaming feeling both dream of me on the floor and the experience of seeing myself on the floor dreaming.
2) I felt I woke out of dream which I knew I didn't only after I actually woke up. I experienced both dream experience in the dream in the dream and wakeful experience in the dream.
I googled this experience online to find the following: Lucid dreaming
I will now relate this dream as it progresses with the feeling of awareness, illusion and reality.
The sensual experience is verified by your senses in your Dream. We accept the fact that the things which we feel with our senses are true (so called evidence and verifiability). Can you agree with anything which you cannot experience (perceive with any of your senses)? You label such things false. The wetting of sheets is actual physical consequence which happened in real world as a consequence of the experience you have gone through in the Dream world (another proof that the experience is true).
Having accepted the truth of dream in the above manner, you wake out of the dream only to find these things do not exist at all. But then, you have experienced them in the Dream world with all your senses (and felt in the dream to be absolutely happening). The same senses cannot perceive the things you have seen in the dream world in the real world once you wake out of the dream. So, how do you know which one of these is the truth?
(Read Dream Argument)
By definition Truth is something which can always be perceived and experienced through the medium of senses. But now you feel these very senses seem to be playing tricks on you when you switch from dream state to waking state.
The following are the conclusions drawn as per this philosophy:
1) Things which happened in the Dream world are not false since you experienced them with your senses. But it is not the truth which is your actual wakeful state. So these 'Dream things' which are neither true nor false is 'Maya' or Illusion.
2) Secondly, the happenings in the Dream World are purely born out your memories (read Freud and others).out of your mind which has its base in the physical brain (this mass of flesh is true). The mind and memories are the cause of the happenings in the dream. You also know that if your physical brain (true object in real world) is damaged or crushed the happenings in the dream also come to a stop. So we can conclude that these dreams cannot exist independent of the physical brain and the terra bytes of memory stored in it (the cause of the dreams). Therefore, Dreams are subjective (illusionary).
3) In wakeful state you know that Brain is the source of happenings in the world. These happenings happen whether you exist bodily or not. So in wakeful state happenings happen independently on their own without any sort of cause.This is objectivity and the truth.
The above dream in dream is often called “Lucid Dreaming”. Many lucid dreamers reported that they were able to control the direction of their dreams. The dreamer knows of inherent the fakeness of the dream and so was even able to control it to some extent. So if we become lucid dreamers in the world we live in we can continue dreaming but with the knowledge that it is a dream after all. This concept beomes more clear when you read my post on Dreams and Matrix.
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