What Are Dreams: The Vedic Explanation.

Dreams are ever popular because of their enigma. It has managed to keep thinkers engaged for years to make out its’ meaning. Hundreds of efforts are made to create patterns of everyday dreams. Philosophers like Freud, Jung and Hall spent their lives to find out suitable answers of this question. However, a well accepted and satisfactory answer is still out of reach.

In this article, I shall try to describe the Vedic view of dream with reference to the modern physics.

Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity geared the possibility of parallel worlds, existing in a specific space at the same time. It further proclaimed that beings from some dimensions might have access to other versions of space-time. Recently gravitational wave has been detected which helped scientists discover more mass on the other part of the universe. They say science needs to be re-written.

Dreams are not inside your brain, it is inside your mind

Let me tell you at the beginning, before I present the Vaidic view that I do not believe in any kind of conflicts between science and religion. Religion is nothing but a package developed by our fore-parents which contain all types of subjects. It has science, astrology, biology, mathematics, architecture, sociology, psychology, medical science and, of course, arts. Our ancestors coded the secrets into high-quality pieces of literature for braves to decode.

Ved says that every individual carries a universe in his mind that is called the Chidakash. When we think something we create a temporary image, rather structure, in our mind. It has the physical existence in our mind. Each though creates an impression in our mind. It is like a wave leaving marks on the sand under the sea. It remains intact even after years. A similar feeling or to say a feeling with similar frequency strikes the thought and all other thoughts which belong to that frequency. When we recall it works like you search the internet.

Like Google finds related contents with similar keywords to that you entered; our mind also finds similar thoughts. It also works similar to Google while creating the search result list. A popular and recent thought or fact always tops the list. And then, we drop into that and forget others.

Here Comes the Important Part about Dreams:

Above stated facts are pretty much familiar to those of western psychology; but, this part will not be. You can rather find similarities to the witchcraft and wizardry Sadhna of ancient Europe.

There are at least seven different types of levels of subtle world

Veda says that there is two part of the body. One is thicker part of the body and other is thinner part of the body. Thicker body is made of worldly materials whereas thinner part is made of cosmic energies. Our thinner body leaves the thicker body while we fall asleep. It comes out of the body and flies away to the subtle parallel levels of this planet. According to Indian philosophy, there are several physical levels of every planet. The ancient Indian philosophers divided the levels into seven major collections of layers. Each layer contains numerous levels. Thousands of people with thinner body lives there for billions of years. According to Vedic philosophy, a soul never dies. The residence layer of a being is decided in accordance with his level of humanity.

While sleeping, thinner body flies to the lower part of the subtle world, known as the “Bhubarlok”. It wanders around. It communicates with the people around. There are also other sleeping people from earth and also those who already left the world. These places are generally chaotic. All of them creates images rather impressions. They are not even aware of the fact. When you reach this world you also start creating impressions. It is not possible for you to discriminate this world from the Earth. You carry our “Sanaskar”(belief) along and treat the thing like you would have done if you were on earth. That is why people with above average ability can control their dreams to some extent.

If your body is not is deep sleep due to some reason then you will not be able to reach this chaotic world; you will end with a more chaotic world which will cause a nightmare. You can also figure out things around you sometimes as you are roaming around your worldly body then. Let me tell you a story of my friend. One day he got out of his bed to turn on the alarm for several times. He was using a touch phone then and tried to tap the screen again and again but he could not. Finally, he discovered that he was in the dream and fell asleep and got up in this world.

Things run faster than earth on these layers as time bend is higher. It is difficult to remember facts from your dream because you have to leave your brain here on earth. Your nervous system can create only a few flashes of pictures out of the limited memory you can access after you wake up. Sometimes dreams help to recall some past memories or future memories because of the general cosmic status of those levels.

Keep dreaming

I shall vastly discuss the facts from the last paragraph in short future in some other posts. Please share this post if you like it and don’t forget to leave your valuable comment and suggestion. You can also ask any question you have.