Tag: dream

If only I knew that it is a school.
But if I knew, it would not be a school anymore.

If only I knew that it is a dream.
If I knew, there would not be a dream anymore.

I want to wade into hot waters but I hope readers will give me a little indulgence. I want to break this myth of the popular stuff that says that we must live in the Present.

This other morning on the beach, a sea gull followed me all the way up the shore - flying in circles directly over me and making a constant sound that I had not heard from a sea gull before -

Can it be possible that reality is a dream we generate?

I mean literally, every bit of it, not just our biased perception of reality. I mean the same way we generate our night dreams.

(Warning, 'hardcore nonduality' follows ;-)...

People talk a lot about the 'dream theory' in Advaita, that life is only a dream.

To me the Advaita's stand that reality is just a dream and that you can wake up from it is too radical.

Has anyone experienced it? Anyone waked up? Is it the meaning of enlightenment?

In advaita-talk, the world is often referred to as a dream, or it's said that folks are dreaming in some way. On what is this dream (fantasy, imagination) based?

I went to sleep one night. I had a dream. In the dream I was a river-flowing. On either side were piled up cardboard cartons-piled up high one on top of the other-scores of them....!!!