Category: TSDD Appendix 2 – Dreams

"Q:  Is it a good thing to cultivate dreaming?   A:  It is by cultivating the power of what is called "dreaming" that clairvoyance is developed.   Q:  Are there many means of interpreting dreams - for instance, the interpretations given in dream-books?   A:  None but the clairvoyant faculty and the spiritual intuition of [...]

"Q:  Can there be any connection between a dreamer and an entity in "Kama Loka"?   A:  The dreamer of an entity in Kama Loka would probably bring upon himself a nightmare, or would run the risk of becoming "possessed" by the "spook" so attracted, if he happened to be a medium, or one who [...]

"Q:  What is the condition of the Linga Sarira, or plastic body, during dreams?   A:  The condition of the Plastic form is to sleep with its body, unless projected by some powerful desire generated in the higher Manas.   In dreams it plays no active part, but on the contrary is entirely passive, being [...]

"Q:  How does sleep differ from death?   A:  There is an analogy certainly, but a very great difference between the two. In sleep there is a connection, weak though it may be, between the lower and higher mind of man, and the latter is more or less reflected into the former, however much its [...]

Q:  Is that which is termed "unconscious cerebration" during sleep a mechanical process of the physical brain, or is it a conscious operation of the Ego, the result of which only is impressed on the ordinary consciousness?   A:  It is the latter; for is it possible to remember in our conscious state what took [...]

"Q:  Is the apparent objectivity in a dream really objective or subjective?   A:  If it is admitted to be apparent, then of course it is subjective. The question should rather be, to whom or what are the pictures or representations in dreams either objective or subjective?   To the physical man, the dreamer, all [...]

"Q:  But what is a dream?   A:  That depends on the meaning of the term. You may "dream", or, as we say, sleep visions, awake or asleep. If the Astral Light is collected in a cup or metal vessel by will-power, and the eyes fixed on some point in it with a strong will [...]

"Q:  What, then, is the process of going to sleep?   A:  This is partially explained by Physiology. It is said by Occultism to be the periodical and regulated exhaustion of the nervous centres, and especially of the sensory ganglia of the brain, which refuse to act any longer on this plane, and, if they [...]

"Q:  What is the difference between the dreams of men and those of beasts?   A:  The dream state is common not only to all men, but also to all animals, of course, from the highest mammalia to the smallest birds, and even insects. Every being endowed with a physical brain, or organs approximating thereto, [...]

"Q:  Are so-called prophetic dreams a sign that the dreamer has strong clairvoyant faculties?   A:  It may be said, in the case of persons who have truly prophetic dreams, that it is because their physical brains and memory are in closer relation and sympathy with their "Higher Ego" than in the generality of men. [...]