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The mysterious question, “Why do we dream? is rather easy to ask but difficult to answer. Dreams are also one of the functions of the human body in both physiological condition as well as pathological condition. Dreams have a long

According to the Vedic tradition of yoga and Ayurveda, one should come in a state of sattva before going to sleep for getting a deep, healthy and rejuvenating sleep. This sleep is devoid of claptrap dreams about the activities of

The dream always happens when you are asleep. The vision always happens when you are not asleep. This is the first distinction: you are fully awake. And the vision always appears to be coming from outside, reaching to you. And

Dream is no dream to the dreamer. Only by one who is awake, dream is known to be a dream. Similarly, waking appears to be real to one who is still in the waking state. Profound wisdom comes through reflection

The first dream which we have considered was the fulfilment of a wish; another may turn out to be the realization of an apprehension; a third may have a reflection as its content; a fourth may simply reproduce a reminiscence.

Integral Deep Listening (IDL) notes that dream yoga and lucid dreaming are unreliable indicators of enlightenment. IDL also notes that your current degree of waking clarity and objectivity determines the decisions you make when you become lucid in your dreams.

The importance given to the Atman in the process of dreaming by the ancient texts is similar to the opinions of the modern psychiatrists who identified dreams as an interaction between the unconscious and the conscious. In the Indian as

We must wake up from our “dream within a dream,” before we can know that we are actually sleeping through our lives. After awakening there is no need to dream any longer. Following a Buddhist example, how are we supposed

Ayurved Sutra | Double Issue | Vol. 3 | Joint Issue 1-2  | On the Cover : Decoding Dreams