Q : Maa, are these dreams just a web of our thoughts that our mind knits the whole night? Are they illusions or they do give some kind of indication about the future?
Some good dreams make us happy, some really leave us puzzled, and some are difficult to interpret. Should we recall them and deeply think over them?
Aanchal
Answer Dreams are indeed the web of thoughts. The sequences created in dreams are the sequences of your thoughts actually. These are not only the thoughts of your present life or present moments, these thoughts can be of past lives too.
You have no idea at all, how many thoughts you are carrying within you. How many thoughts are lurking in your head? How many thoughts are in a seed form and how many more thoughts are there in a form of an image, an emotion or an expression?
Well if you wish to, you can always think over your dreams. But, is there any use?
I don't think so. Dream is a dream and dream is but, an illusion. But if you have recognized it as an illusion then, you have already given a thought to it and if you see it as a reality, then there is some kind of trouble.
There are many people who keep on interpreting dreams. If you have dreamt this then it means this and if you have dreamt this then it means this. If you have dreamt of yourself drowning in water then it means you are going to face some difficult problem. If you see yourself flying, then may you will grow to be the similar kinds one day.
But I believe it is not necessary. We should just be able to register that this is a dream and then we should move on. Yes, your dreams are the reflections of what kind of thoughts are going on in your mind. In a day you might conduct yourself as a great Mahatma or as a great Sadhu but in the night you might dream yourself with woman and wine. This dream just shows, how suppressed you are and how hard you are trying to hold these things deep in your mind.
May be in the day time you are such a pious person, never doing anything wrong, but in your dreams you are stealing, fighting, quarreling and killing people. This simply shows that there is a lot of violence in your mind. But still, we have to see a dream as a dream.
And finally may be day will come in your life when you will see this world as a dream too. When this will happen, you will definitely be much closer to your enlightenment.
Gurumaa
