tsdd appendix 2 – dreams

(Appendix 2: Dreams)

 
Q:  Do not the thoughts of the one impress themselves upon the other?

 
A:  Not during sleep, at all events; for the real Ego does not think as his evanescent and temporary personality does. During the waking hours the thoughts and Voice of the Higher Ego do or do not reach his gaoler (jailer) – the physical man, for they are the Voice of his Conscience, but during his sleep they are absolutely the “Voice in the desert”.

 
In the thoughts of the real man, or the immortal “Individuality”, the pictures and visions of the Past and Future are as the Present; nor are his thoughts like ours, subjective pictures in our cerebration, but living acts and deeds, present actualities.

 
They are realities, even as they were when speech expressed in sounds did not exist; when thoughts were things and men did not need to express them in speeches; for they instantly realized themselves in action by the power of Kriya-Sakti, that mysterious power which transforms instantaneously ideas into visible forms, and these were as objective to the “man” of the early third Race as objects of sight are now to us.

 
Q:  How, then, does Esoteric Philosophy account for the transmission of even a few fragments of those thoughts of the Ego to our physical memory which it sometimes retain?

 
A:  All such are reflected on the brain of the sleeper, like outside shadows on the canvas walls of a tent, which the occupier sees as he wakes. Then the man thinks that he has dreamed all that, and feels as though he had lived through something, while in reality it is the thought-actions of the true Ego which he has dimly perceived.

 
As he becomes fully awake, his recollections become with every minute more distorted, and mingle with the images projected from the physical brain, under the action of the stimulus which causes the sleeper to awaken. These recollections, by the power of association, set in motion various trains of ideas.”

 
H. P. Blavatsky