Sleep is a school of nature where we can learn quite a bit about ourselves if we understand their language. Generally speaking the dream material consists of the following contents.
1) Material picked up from the daily experiences that gets mixed up with various things. These are not of much consequence.
2) Wishes and desires suppressed in the subconscient that try to satisfy through dreams. Alternately fears and anxieties that show up through dreams.
3) Our present state of consciousness and whatever is going on in our inner life though they are hidden from our surface life.
4) Premonitary dreams that are indicative of the future.
5) Actual visions and experiences taking place on other planes of consciousness.
Everyone dreams but most don’t remember it. It is only as consciousness develops and expands that it begins to extend into realms where we are ordinarily not conscious. This extension of consciousness happens naturally through yoga and we begin to become aware of things, movements, forces, energies, beings, states of consciousness of which we were earlier not conscious.
On waking up one should remain quiet for a while and slowly try to recollect the dream. At first one remembers the last bit and slowly pulls out the rest of the dream.
Gradually as we grow in consciousness the dream and its intuitive interpretation becomes spontaneous and natural.
Affectionately,
Alok Da
