Humanity is currently on a quest to know everything yet what is known about a common human activity – dreaming – is speculative and uncertain.
A dream is defined as a series of images, ideas, emotions and sensations that occur involuntarily in your mind during certain stages of sleep.
Thousands of years ago the ancient Egyptians thought dreams were a different form of seeing; and they had trained dreamers who served as seers to help plan battles and make state decisions.
More recently Sigmund Freud considered dreaming an expression of repressed conflicts or desires. Carl Jung explained dreams as formless emotions or thoughts released by the deep subconscious; and modern psychologists and neurologists now speculate that dreaming is the brain’s way of dumping excess data and consolidating important information.
Jung’s ‘deep-subconscious’ has been rejected and replaced with the neurologist’s ‘brain’ and in 2024 the Human Brain project offers a theory that dreams help your brain learn and extract generic concepts from previous experience.
That said there is rarely a moment of your waking life that thoughts of some kind are not passing through your mind. Many are now-moment sensory inputs that may or may not grab your attention.
You also engage in fantasy – wishful – thinking, take trips down memory lane, and solve daily life problems by accessing previously acquired knowledge.
Then, every now and then, you experience a major problem that you have never before encountered and you have to put your thinking cap on.
When this type of situation arises you engage in a type of thinking called objective consciousness which is chiefly concerned with new physical and mental adjustments.
The forces under which it developed embrace a limited field of mental activity so it’s concentrated on finding the best solution to a new problem – conflict – situation.
The thinking done by objective consciousness is largely in terms of words and sentences and they’re artificial and arbitrary symbols which you have learned and adopted to convey your thoughts to others and to facilitate your thinking. They enable you to think more precisely.
However, humans are not the only creatures that think. All animals think, although in the lower forms of life the mental (not cerebral) reaction is very limited.
Below the evolutionary level of the human, thinking is done in terms of symbolism that is not arbitrarily selected. And the law of association, which is the principle underlying the connection in memory between certain ideas, feelings or behavior, determines the meaning of the symbols that a creature uses in its thinking.
In certain crow-infested regions in America a farmer may walk through his fields with nothing in his hands or on his shoulder and the crows will pay little attention to him. But if he appears with a gun, or a stick resembling a gun on his shoulder, the sentry crow will give loud warning outcries and all crows in the vicinity will take to the air and keep a long distance from the farmer.
Through experience, these crows have associated a human with a long object in his hands or on his shoulder with danger. And they have learned that when the sentry crow voices a particularly vigorous and excited call, that danger is close at hand. With the thought of danger entering their minds they take appropriate action to escape the life-threatening menace.
In the hunting season, a deer through past experience with a dangerous human, associates the sound of a breaking twig with a hunter. The crack of a twig brings it the thought of being shot at, and it runs away from the sound it heard.
A dog will bark and leap with joy when its master picks up its leash, for it associates the leash with the pleasure of going for a walk.
To a crow a gun or long stick on the shoulder of a farmer is a symbol of danger, to a deer a cracking stick or the smell of a human is a symbol of danger, and to a dog a leash is the symbol of a pleasant outdoor walk.
Your dream thinking
Throughout a long evolutionary past in lower forms of life your soul, which exists on an inner-astral-plane, has acquired and used somewhat similar symbols, derived from association, in its thinking. And due to this long-established habit, instead of using the more difficult and recently acquired words and sentences in its dream thinking, it mostly uses the symbols it has acquired through association.
You think continuously during your waking hours and your thinking continues while you’re asleep. And the thoughts which at all times occupy your sleeping attention, when you remember them on waking, are called dreams.
So, your dreams have nothing to do with your brain. Dreaming is a soul activity and your brain’s electrical activity facilitates their streaming to objective consciousness. And dreams are not just a human experience.
Those familiar with dogs know from the sounds they make and the jerking of their legs that in dreams they chase rabbits, or if they have never seen a rabbit, get in fights and have other thought experiences.
In order to survive and get what you want your thoughts when awake relate logically to time and space and those things which decide what actions you need to take. But in sleep your thoughts aren’t necessarily concentrated on what your actions must be to survive and get what you want in the physical world.
They’re often concerned with your desires, your opinion of yourself and what you think of others; or they may relate to what you perceive on the inner-astral-plane through extrasensory perception.
In your waking state you can refuse to think about, or perhaps even recognize some insistent desire, which you have been taught is immoral. But back of desire is energy, and if such a desire has been repressed, it may influence your thinking during sleep while the necessity of adaptation to external conditions has been removed.
So, in reaching objective consciousness, the thought realization of the desire may have to disguise itself to pass the objective censor.
Freud’s concept of dreams chiefly revolves around such ‘infantile wishes’. Jung’s school of thought, on the contrary, emphasizes the higher aspect of dreams. It sees them as the expression of moral or religious experiences, the ‘true picture of the subjective state.’
But in reality, your dreams are your thoughts while you are free from the logical laws which exercise necessary controls over your actions.
Your sleep dreams
Your sleep dreams may express immoral longings, moral aspirations, the opinion of your soul about some person, what is perceived by extrasensory perception, or thoughts about other matters in which your soul is interested.
And just like your fantasy thinking while you’re awake your sleep dream thoughts are not bound by factors which in the waking state seem logical.
They revolve around your desires and opinions and are not subject to the same time-space restrictions that influence your waking state thoughts which seek to find actions that will better adapt you to the space-time environment of the physical world.
Instead of using artificial and arbitrary words your dreams employ the universal language of symbolism to explain sensory experiences and actions derived from experiences with your local environment.
Your dreams quite precisely express your soul’s desires, its opinions, and what it perceives on the inner-astral-plane where it resides and where time and distance restrictions no longer apply.
The fact that the language used in your dreams is not the one you use in your waking life doesn’t make the language illogical; nor does it make your dreams illogical just because you seem to do impossible things in them.
Your dreams are expressing something which is quite true but if you are to understand the truth that is being conveyed you have to understand the language that is being used.
There are no ‘ifs’ in your inner-plane soul thinking
With objective consciousness you may think of a friend who died many years ago and say to yourself, ‘If he were here, he would help me out of this dilemma.’ This is logical objective thinking. But if you said, ‘My friend is here helping me out of this dilemma,’ it would be illogical.
Yet in your inner-plane soul-thinking you do not say, ‘if he were here’. Instead, in your dream your friend is actually present and helping you. And if you understand inner-plane soul language it conveys the thought that you wish your friend were here to help you. And that is quite logical.
Or if you have put a call through by tuning in on your friend, he may actually be trying to advise you from the inner-astral-plane.
Or another friend may be overseas and you may be talking to her face to face in your dream. In the realm of physical reality this is illogical, but your dream may express your desire to talk to your friend, or you may have in some measure contacted her telepathically. Giving the symbols a correct interpretation, instead of trying to make them mean what they would in physical life, shows such thinking to be logical.
Objectively you may say you are very close to a relative. In a dream you may actually be that relative. This is illogical from objective-life experience, but on the inner-astral-plane two people having the same vibration are practically, for the time being, identical. The dream merely indicates the closeness of the relative to you.
You may dream that a highly respected member of the community is a snake, and see him wriggle off the street into high grass. That is illogical from the standpoint of objective thinking. But your soul, using ESP, may have appraised this person as an untrustworthy citizen. And later their actions may prove that your objective thoughts about him were in error, and that your inner-plane soul opinion, as conveyed by the dream, was correct.
Your dream life
It is well worth learning the significance of your everyday waking thoughts and your dreams are just as significant. They do contain a lot of fantasy thinking, but even this fantasy thinking reveals strong desires. They see through the shams of modern culture, and often dispel the influence of propaganda.
Your dreams are associated with your desires and interests.
If your attention is habitually focused on your external life your dreams will mostly revolve around your physical desires and the problems of your daily life. And if you learn their language they will assist you markedly in revealing these desires and solving these problems.
You need to know that in sleep your soul – free from the limitations imposed by physical life – can perceive what is physically distant in space, or distant in either the past or the future.
By synchronizing its vibrations with another mind your soul can tune in on it and gain information telepathically. Or it can tune in on past or future records of happenings and discoveries and acquire any information that your intelligence is capable of understanding.
When your attention is turned outward your soul perceives the happenings of the physical world; but when your attention is turned inward your soul can perceive, through extrasensory perception, the happenings of the inner-astral-world, where time and distance and physical barriers have no effect.
When your soul acquires information it has the problem of making objective consciousness aware of it. And the customary way it uses to convey information to you – your soul’s objective consciousness – is by the language of symbolism. This is the language employed in dreams.
Take home messages
All dreams mean something and it is well worth your effort to learn, as nearly as possible, what each dream means.
When you learn the language used in your dreams you can gain important information that your soul has acquired which is otherwise unavailable.
And within their own frame of reference your sleep dreams are quite logical.
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