What is your perspective on the dream world?

Physically: It’s the central nervous system’s reaction to melatonin and dmt, two chemicals that are known to cause hallucinations and which are released at night.

Mentally: Subconscious thoughts rendered as sensory input form dream worlds which we observe and experience with our ever-waking awareness.

Spiritually: It’s the separation from our animal bodies, a step into a previous stage of existence. This is my theory.

wow intense theory there manimal. i cant say i understand it. i dont understand any thing about dreams, im sorry tamara, but i am a big dreamer and it interests me incredibly. i have been writing my dreams down in books for years now and sometimes i have the same dream scenes, but the plot is different. these places are not where i live. i take a bus 23 under a freeway underpass. how are we to understand this. is this sensory imput of chemicals in my sleeping brain. who knows. or am i time travelling. or is it a parrelle life.
it seems like that. some times it seems dreams can clean your emotions. last nite i was so angry in my dream, when i woke up i had to drink water and then say whew well i got that off my heart.
so perhaps they are just having many different functions which we can not understand. i just love them that is all…

that is a good point there spiralout.
i had some sensors placed on my head recently and they detected that i see images in my waking brain like people normally do in dream state.
and it is true, i barely think in words. but in colors and images. that is why i can not do math.because i get all fuddled up with the colors and shapes and can not do abstractions very well,
math is quite pshycadelic for me.
i wonder how many people here see like this. ??
but the question here is about dreams. we wonder why we have those images thundering thru , and what does it tell us about our inner impulses?

I think it was Alex who was saying how everything we see is actually the past because the light reflecting off a surface does not reach us instantly but is delayed by the speed of light. If you think about a dream, we see things but it is not light reflecting off an object like we see when we are awake. So reality we see is the past but a dream is more the present than than that reality because it (the dream) is not delayed by the speed of light. (just thought it was an interesting point to make)
My culture (Australian Aboriginal) has at it’s core a philosophy known as “the Dreaming” that states dreams and the imagination are not only another type of reality but are actually more real than reality because the dream is composed of pure life.

@christian. ya i can remember stuff that i have seen or felt fairly easily but i forget names of things. peoples names. especially french ones baffle the hell out of me. christine and katherine i always mix those two names up! it is the number thing tho that is the worse for me.
@ray i am super interested in that dream time idea of the aboriginals. tell us more about it. i read a book once by … something chapman. see i forgot his first name. he explained it quite well. but you tell us about it please. it is super interesting to think that dreams are more real than reality of waking life. and like christian said there are dimensions we dont know yet.

animus do you see colors when you hear numbers and words dont look like words but images and like if i say banana to you right now you see a banana. i mean who doesnt. everyone must think like this, isnt it???

banana. what color is number three????

animus that is why you are so philosophic and smart, to see the diagrams is really a gift. i saw that on a program about geniuses, i think they were autistic tho. im not saying you are. but one guy could do amazing hard calculations in math by seeing the numbers in realtions to each other in diagrams. perhaps you have that.! i think i have that synesthesia, i heard about it but couldnt remember what it was called.
how many of you have this syndrome. i guess it is a syndrome?

Nothing really changes when we fall asleep, other than our human consciousness and mind being separated from our lower consciousness and mind.

This dream stuff is constantly going on, but we’re not aware of it because we are focusing too much on the material world. All these distractions and illusions that are really nothing but effects. We’re constantly dreaming, but when we’re awake we tend to focus on the animal and material aspects of being. Not everybody does this, for some people the difference between sleeping and being awake is very small, maybe even nonexistent.

Since people are so associated with their animal consciousness and mind, they feel unconscious and out of control when they sleep. When you return to human consciousness while you sleep, you have a lucid dream. When you return to human consciousness while awake, you become enlightened. When the border between the two starts to dissolve, you become a master.

Things like visualisation and emotions are simply dreams that shine through while awake even if you’re oblivious to this dream connection.

How’s that for a perspective?

Well, kind of. But with no Star trek involved :)

Ever heard of ascended masters? Or those indian adepts? If not, check that out.

wow it is morning here i sit in the sun waking up slowly after my nite of dreams. im trying to integrate it all into this animal world. the dogs lay on the carpet chewing thier bones. that is the animal world. the dreams are superimposed still in my mind like a thin film so transparent over this animal reality. im integrating what both of you guys are telling me and listening to boten anna over and over. just to get into some kind of groove here.
i saw many enlightened masters in the Himalayas. i suppose you are right about what they were up to. i couldnt tell. im so naive and i never understand much of what is going on. but one was dead for three years already, and was still intact, just sitting there in meditation. his body was smelling like a rose. i guess he was in a deep dream state. slowly his hands were starting to dry up. it was a strange thing. thanks for the explanations. food for my contemplation breakfast….