The human mind is like a cosmic playground, and dreams are its wildest rides. Every night, as we drift off to sleep, our minds slip into a fantastical realm where logic takes a backseat and imagination runs the show. In dreams, we can fly through the sky, chat with long-lost friends, or explore strange worlds that defy the laws of physics—all without ever leaving our beds. This curious nightly adventure reveals just how powerful and mysterious the mind truly is, blurring the line between reality and fantasy in the most fascinating ways.
In a question and answer session, Sadhguru responds to a participant’s question about the relationship between dreams and karma:
Sadhguru: “If you bring a certain level of awareness into your life, dream will completely disappear. Psychologists don’t believe this; they don’t believe that one can live without a dream. I think Freud went to the extent of saying you can live without sleep, but you can’t live without a dream. Dream is so important, all the time it’s on, you know? So in sleep this is all the time going on.”
:Because these Freud’s and Jung’s and other people, they never get to study a Yogi or a Buddha, they only study sick people. Yes? They study sick people and make conclusions about the whole humanity, and these conclusions are, you know, there is a certain usefulness to it – at the same time they are phenomenally wrong. They are phenomenally wrong; they are just taking away the other possibility of what a human being can be, saying that this is what a human being can be, nothing more, nothing less. Insanity is just one face of humanity, compulsiveness is just one face of humanity; that’s not everything. There is a way of raising beyond all those things. If only Freud has a subject who could – you know, suppose he found a yogi and studied him, then all his conclusions would have been very, very different.”
“I will not go into the whole gamut of what dreams are. Actually, there are four types of dreams; one can have four different types of dreams. 90% of the dreams that people have are simply unfulfilled desires, just unfulfilled desires trying to find expression when you are in sleep. If people don’t dream, lot of them would be much more frustrated than they are right now because dreams sort of satisfy their desiring process. Many things that they cannot do in their life, they will do in their dreams. Yes. So that’s why the dream makers, the dream machines, have become so popular. The cinema and television has become so popular because now you can just sit there, popping the corn. Without doing anything you can fall in love with somebody, you can fight, you can bash the whole Martians who have come from somewhere, you know? You can do everything, still popping the corn. It gives you – you don’t have to do anything with your life.”
“So, the dream machines are so popular because dream satisfies; without living you can live. That’s the significance of dream. Without any risk you can fall in love, without any risk you can fall out. If you do it in your life, all these things will cost – it will cost life, you know? But in the cinema three hours you can fall in love and fall out, you can fight, have battles and works, and come out without a scratch on your body. It’s, you know, it gives you a free experience of life, but it’s not life – there is a very big difference. So dreams are also just like that. Projection is just happening in your own mind, but it is the same thing. 90% of the dreams belong to this. But there are other kinds of dreams which could be giving you access to other aspects of life, which are rare. If I talk about it, you may start imagining everything about every little dream that you have, which is dangerous.”
“So, I would generally say discount the dream as just empty nonsense that’s happening. If some dream is of a certain significance, anyway it will manifest in a much more powerful way than just being a dream that you saw and you forgot – it will anyway find much bigger manifestation. Instead of trying to read meanings into dreams – because once you enter that space, your imagination you can’t control; it will just fly off. Everything, every corner you will start seeing spirits and this and that and works. You know, anybody you see and you get little attracted, you think ‘oh I know them from their past life,’ and you know this is happening to all the new-age people. Everyday on the street they are meeting their past life connections and all this because you have no brakes on your imagination. Once you set it forth it will just run – it will simply run. So it’s best to be skeptical and say, ‘ok, all this is just nonsense.’ If something is beyond the nonsense, it will anyway pursue you; it won’t leave you. So, how to stop them? Why? Make them nice. Can’t you produce good movies? Free cinema, why don’t you enjoy it? But if you want to stop it, don’t try to stop it. If you become meditative, dreams will disappear.”
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