DREAM UNIVERSE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THERE ARE THREE BASIC STATES OF EXPERIENCE. THE THREE STATES ARE WAKING, DEEP SLEEP AND DREAMING. ABOUT EVERY NINETY MINUTES EACH NIGHT, YOU YOU CREATE A DREAM UNIVERSE TO EXPERIENCE. THE DREAM UNIVERSES YOU CREATE AND EXPERIENCE ARE CREATED OUT OF YOUR TOTAL CONSCIOUSNESS, A PART OF YOU FRAGMENTS YOUR ENTIRE CONSCIOUSNESS INTO MANY MANY PARTS, EACH PART BECOMES A OBJECT, PERSON OR CREATURE IN YOUR DREAM. A PART WILL BECOME THE HOUSE YOU SEE, MANY LITTLE PARTS, THE GRASS YOU ARE WALKING ON IN THE DREAM, AND SO FORTH. THE "PLOT" OF THE DREAM IS CREATED BY YOU AT THE SAME TIME. IT IS SAID, THAT THE PART OF YOU THAT CREATES YOUR DREAMS FOR YOU IS YOUR "HIGHER SELF". MANY DREAMS ARE MESSAGES TO YOURSELF EXPRESSED IN PICTURES, SYMBOLS AND SITUATIONS TO TEACH YOU, AND OR TO COMMUNICATE TO YOU ABOUT THINGS THAT YOU SOMEHOW ARE NOT SEEING OR UNDERSTANDING IN YOUR WAKING LIFE, AND EVEN TO WARN YOU ABOUT SOMETHING ABOUT TO HAPPEN IN YOUR LIFE. SOME DREAMS ALLOW YOU TO EXPLORE POSSIBLE SITUATIONS THAT ARE AVAILABLE TO YOU. SOME DREAMS ALLOW YOU TO EXPRESS FEELINGS YOU HAVE REPRESSED, RESOLVE SITUATIONS THAT HAVE HAD NO CLOSURE OR ALLOW YOU TO FULFILL WISHES AND NEEDS WHICH ARE NOT HAVING FILLED IN YOUR WAKING LIFE, OR HAVE ADVENTURE AND FUN, IF THESE THINGS ARE MISSING IN YOUR WAKING LIFE. SOME DREAMS WILL SHOW YOU YOUR INNER FEARS AND OR EMOTIONS WHICH YOU HIDE FROM YOURSELF. THERE ARE OTHER FUNCTIONS THAT DREAMS HAVE BESIDES THOSE JUST STATED. A DREAM "SYMBOL" IN YOUR DREAM MAY HAVE SEVERAL LEVELS OF INFORMATION, OR COMMUNICATION IN IT. A SPIRITUAL LEVEL, A EMOTIONAL LEVEL AND A PHYSICAL LEVEL MAY ALL EXIST IN A SINGLE SYMBOL. THAT PART OF YOU THAT CREATES THE DREAMS HAS A GREAT SENSE OF HUMOR ! IT OFTEN WILL MAKE "JOKES", "PUNS", OR HAVE PEOPLE WITH VERY STRANGE NAMES, TO GET A POINT ACROSS TO YOU ! IT MAY CREATE A FUNNY SITUATION OR A REAL WEIRD ONE IN AN ATTEMPT TO INSURE YOU REMEMBER THE DREAM WHEN YOU WAKE UP AND MAKE SURE YOU "GET THE MESSAGE". THIS DREAM UNIVERSE YOU CREATE EACH NIGHT IS A "REAL REALITY" BUT A DIFFERENT REALITY FROM THE ONE YOU EXPERIENCE IN THE "AWAKE STATE". IT IS VERY VERY SIMILAR TO CERTAIN OTHER "REALITIES" THAT YOU CAN EXPLORE AND CREATE IN, WHEN YOU REACH THE POINT OF GROWTH, THAT YOU STOP BELIEVING "YOU ARE YOUR BODY", WHEN YOU STOP BELIEVING YOU ARE A LIMITED LITTLE HUMAN BEING WHO HAS LITTLE CONTROL OVER YOURSELF AND YOUR SURROUNDINGS, WHEN YOU START EXPERIENCING MORE OF YOUR WHAT EXISTS INSIDE YOU BELOW YOUR CONSCIOUS AWARENESS. YOUR AWAKE SELF, AS IT IS NOW MANIFESTED, IS A VERY SMALL PERCENT OF YOUR FULL CONSCIOUSNESS. ANY THING YOU LEARN AND OR EXPERIENCE IN YOUR DREAM UNIVERSE IS JUST AS VALUABLE TO YOU AND CONTRIBUTES TO YOUR "GROWTH" JUST AS MUCH AS IF YOU HAD EXPERIENCED IT IN THE "WAKING STATE". PRACTICE PLAYING THE GUITAR IN YOUR DREAM UNIVERSE A LOT AND YOU WILL FIND OUT YOUR ABILITY TO PLAY THE GUITAR WHEN AWAKE IMPROVES JUST AS MUCH AS IF THAT PRACTICING HAD TAKEN PLACE WHEN YOU WERE AWAKE !!!! THIS IS ONE OF THE REASONS MANY PEOPLE WORK WITH THEIR DREAMS. IT IS SAID THAT SPIRITUAL PRACTICES PERFORMED IN DREAMS, MAY YIELD NINES TIMES THE RESULTS OF THE SAME PRACTICE PERFORMED IN THE WAKING STATE. GANASHYAM DAS