Wake Up!!

[YoungSeeker]

Started analyzing my dreams and find out that when we're asleep we do the same things that we do when we're awake. We satisfy our needs. I didn't have that rich social life recently. Working a lot and I dream about my friends. I'm socializing in my dreams basically. It isn't completely true that I satisfied my need but in a sense it's like that. In our everyday life that's what we do we satisfy our needs. Comfort, security, money, love, respect and so on. So how our life is different from dream? It's the same. Just got me thinking.

[Prabhaker]

35 minutes ago, YoungSeeker said:

So how our life is different from dream?

Life is a dream so enjoy it; but do not ask for more because then you only disturb the dream and get nothing except a disturbed night. Be a witness to the dreaming mind and then there is transcendence: then you go beyond dreaming and beyond mind itself.

[Frogfucius]

43 minutes ago, YoungSeeker said:

So how our life is different from dream?

It's not at all. Since I've become more conscious and aware, I am able to remember in great detail all of my dreams at night. I can recall them at later times during the day, and remember all of the details and the going-ons.

I've come to the conclusion that real life is no different than a dream. ‘You’, the inner you, is watching some identity play out in some illusion created by your mind, and ‘you’ aren’t in control of anything. Just as the occurrences in dreams are illusions and not reality, so too is how you interact with the universe in reality. Everything is a creation in your mind; every story or fantasy, idea or thought.

[YoungSeeker]

3 hours ago, Prabhaker said:

Life is a dream so enjoy it; but do not ask for more because then you only disturb the dream and get nothing except a disturbed night. Be a witness to the dreaming mind and then there is transcendence: then you go beyond dreaming and beyond mind itself.

I like how you put it. Not saying that I'll go and enjoy life now. Not that easy to let go. But really nice said. I understand what you said with my mind. Probably I'll get it later, maybe I'm not ready yet.  I'm becoming more and more aware that life is pointless. Not like I'm depressed about it. I'm just accepting it. I'm becoming more like a nihilist or something like that.

[YoungSeeker]

4 hours ago, Frogfucius said:

I am able to remember in great detail all of my dreams at night.

@Frogfucius

Do you keep a journal? Do you record your dreams there? That's what I do. I can remember a dream only if I woke up in the middle of it. Right at that moment I record it because otherwise I'll fall asleep and forget it. Tell me some more if you can how are you able to remember it. Did you work on remembering it? I'm interested in remembering my dreams because that's pure sub-conscious there. I think the best way to know what's going on in your sub-conscious is to analyze dreams you have. I was able to remember only couple of dreams but those already gave me a lot of information about myself. So in case you know any technique I could use please share.

 

Edited October 12, 2016 by YoungSeeker

[Frogfucius]

@YoungSeeker I wish I could help you out there, but I really don't have any technique on remembering them. I just remember them, and I assume it's a byproduct of my enhanced consciousness through self-inquiry and always being in a watchful state of my mind and surroundings. In real life and in my dreams, it's like the fog has been lifted. It's nice to see my dreams so clearly, because it reinforces to me that reality as I interpret it is all an illusion of my mind.

I do not journal them, but I do know I have at least 4 dreams I can remember per night, and can recall them mid-day, and maybe even days or weeks afterward, depending on how much of an impact it seemed to have had on me. I do see that I have recurring people and situations in my dreams, which is helping me understand my mind better. For instance, I dream about my sister and brother a lot. And it usually has to do with hanging out and drinking. Since they're my closest two companions, it makes sense. I also dream a lot about snakes, and it usually results in the death of the snake. I had one last night, where a snake was sneaking up on me in the grass of my parents backyard, but my dad saw it and shot it with a shotgun and killed it before it could do anything. In other dreams, I strangle the snake or snap its jaws apart with my bare hands... very strange stuff.

I may have the potential to lucid dream at a frequent rate, if I worked for it. I've had maybe 5-6 lucid dreams in my lifetime, but it's been a few years since I've had one. 

[YoungSeeker]

@Frogfucius

4 minutes ago, Frogfucius said:

very strange stuff

It is. I have some very fucked up dreams too. We all do. If I would tell you some of my dreams you would laugh but you won't understand a thing. It only makes sense to me. Usually all you need just to remember the dream and the meaning of it comes automatically. I'll research this topic in the future. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.