With dream yoga, instead of using your mind as an entertainment center, you turn it into a laboratory. You experiment with dream meditations and study your mind using the medium of dreams. For example, one dream yoga practice is to change the objects in your dream. You can turn a dream table into a flower or transform your boat into a car. You can also add or subtract things in your dreams, or shift their size: expand a home into a mansion and then shrink it down into a dollhouse. Why would you want to do this? Tenzin Wangyal says:
Through the practice of dream yoga, you become a spiritual oneironaut. Oneirology is the study of dreams, and oneironauts are those who navigate the dream world. Just like astronauts explore the outer space of the cosmos, oneironauts explore the inner space of the mind.
The science behind modern lucid dreaming has been a huge boon for dream yoga. With their sophisticated analysis of dream cycles, sleep pharmacology, and high-tech gadgetry, Western lucid dream researchers have vastly increased access to lucid dream states, and therefore the ability to practice dream yoga (no lucid dreams means no dream yoga). In my own experience, I had hit-and-miss results with traditional induction methods. But when I added the modern techniques, my lucid dreams increased dramatically. Ancient dream yoga and modern lucid dreaming make fantastic sleeping partners.
Have you ever had to get up early and not had an alarm clock? By setting a strong intention to get up at a certain time, we often wake up at that time despite not having an alarm. In the same way, we can set an internal alarm to wake us up within our dreams by setting a strong intention.
Sleep is a unifying factor of humanity. Everybody sleeps and dreams. This biological camaraderie is just the outer level of a deeper spiritual union and points to one of the greatest benefits of the nighttime yogas: their ability to yoke us to all sentient beings.
2-3. My father! The Sāmaveda is regarded an authority in all matters. Now, please listen to me discussing the auspicious dreams that always give meritorious results, as described in the Puṇya Kāṇḍa of Kanva recension of the Sāmaveda.
5-6. Dreams of the first quarter (Yama or Prahara) of the night show results in a year, of the second quarter in eight months, of the third in three months, of the fourth in a fortnight, of the dawn in ten days. Dreams of early morning meet immediate results if the seer wakes up after the dream.
11-12. (He) contracts fright by disclosing the dream to an enemy, quarrel by doing it to a fool (or an illiterate person), loss of wealth by doing the same to a woman; he gets into fear from thieves if he discloses it at night, bereavement if, while drowsy, but attains desired object if he discloses the dream to a learned man. But, O Nanda, dreams though good should not be disclosed to a person who belongs to the Kaśyapa lineage even if he is learned.
13-14. A man receives wealth if he (in his dream) rides an ox, an elephant or a horse, or climbs up a tree or a mountain or eats or wails. He gets filed rich in harvest if he receives a lyre (VINA) in dream.
16-17. He receives favourable news and immense wealth if he performs the following in dream: viz. incest, wedding, drinking of semen mixed with urine, entering a city (at night) or hell and drinking of blood mixed with urine or nectar.
18-20. Fame and vast wealth will be attained by one who sees in dream the following : an elephant, a king, gold, an ox, a cow, a lamp, food, fruits, flowers, a maiden, an umbrella, a chariot, a flat, or his relatives. He gets fortune if he sees (in a dream) a pitcher full of water, a twice born person (i.e., a Brāhmaṇa, a kṣatriya or a vaiśya), fire, flowers, betel, a temple, white, Paddy, a dagger or a public woman. He also gets merit and wealth if he sees (in a dream) cow milk or clarified butter (ghṛta)
34. Wealth is obtained by seeing the fruit of Amalaki or haritaki (embolic myrobalan) and lotus flower in a dream. A man gets whatever he sees in a dream offered to him by deities, Brāhmaṇas, cows, the manes or monks.
39. Goddess Durgā herself is pleased with him who enjoys in dream the pleasure of a Brāhmaṇa, a Brāhmaṇa lady, a deity, a celestial maiden, a girl of eight wearing ornaments studded with jewels.
42-43. One, who sees (in dream) a contented Brāhmaṇa entering his house, is blessed with the entrance of Nārāyaṇa, Siva and Brahma to his house and obtains vast property, renown and welfare, he also gathers bliss, name and fame at every step.
22-23. One suffers from calamities as a result of seeing in dream, a broken vessel, a wound, a sudra, a patient suffering from ulceros proriasis, a piece of red cloth, a person with matted hair, a lion, a pig, a buffalo, deep darkness, an awful car crass and male or female organ.
Namaste ji, Aj mene raat 3am ko bichoo ki bahat sare Bache ka sapna dekha,, and again unki maa Matlab bada bichoo ka sapna dekha or o phir mera pehena hua dress se nikalte hue or they are black and head is slight red,, so I wakeup and again sleep after one hour, so I just want to know what is the meaning of that dream?
namaste sir,can anyone help me. i just had a dream of having lion in my society injuring and harassing everyone but i didnot get hurt. dream between 5 to 6 am. i sleep around 3 am. is there any significant meaning of it because i generaly dont remember dreams but i cant forget this.
Namasthe sir. I had a dream that i was taking arthi at shiv mandir. I saw shiv ling early in the morning between 4-5 a.m. and again two shiv temples only after few days and it was monday. I dont remember whether again i slept or not. On the same day monday night i shared this dream story with my mother. So whether the dream becomes futile.?
hi sir im from srilanka .i have been worshiping ganesh and god saraswati for about 10 years with their mantras , flowers and with a pot filled with water and Jasminum grandiflorum. recently i broke up with my boyfriend he and i are both madly in love we had to break up because of his parents . his parents want him to focus more on studies but we still like if we can get back together . everyday when i worship ganesh and god saraswati i tell them to help us get back together . and i told the gods if we are getting back together as time passes to show me in my dreams so i can make up my mind . yesterday i saw the pigeonwings plant in our garden filled with dark bright pink roses instead of pigeonwings flowers in my dreams . what does this dreams means ? what this symbalises ?
Guruji,I dreamt of a haunted house,I went with my parents.then I was chanting gods name,wore some red china rose garland.my mother later removed that one.n told me to perform pooja by offering agarbati
Namaste, respected Sri, where can i Find full teachings of lord Krishna about dreams? and where can i find full version of Brahma Vaivarta purana? last days i found some resume of BrahmaVaivartha purana but not the full English version, please Help.
Thank you Sir your web site is wonderfull
It has to do with Maharṣi Kaśyapa (कश्यप) who is the first of the saptarṣi in the present manvatara and is the root of the blood-line of Surya. His sons from Aditi or Adityas (Sons of Aditi) were, Aṃśa, Aryaman, Bhaga, Dhatr, Mitra, Pūṣan, a daughter Bhumidevi, Śakra, Savitṛ, Tvaṣṭṛ, Varuṇa, Viṣṇu, and Vivasvat or Vivasvan,[3] who went on to start the Solar Dynasty (Suryavansha), which later came to be known as Ikshvaku dynasty, after his great grandson, King Ikshvaku, whose subsequent kings were, Kukshi, Vikukshi, Bana, Anaranya, Prithu, Trishanku, and finally King Raghu, who gave it the name, Raghuvansh (Dynasty of Raghu), and then further leading up to Lord Ram, the son of Dashrath.
Now, the Sun is the ruler of the day and banishes night/darkness. Dreams are associated with the night/darkness. If dreams are disclosed to one belonging to Kaśyapa gotra, then they will be destroyed just as the Sun destroys the night.
A clever person will surely disclose a bad dream to one of Kaśyapa gotra.
Unfortunately, the key interpretation of this dream is that you have a lot of anxiety in your waking life. If your brain turns something small into something dangerous, it can symbolise feeling overwhelmed. Many dreams about being chased are a sign that you lack control, manifesting in your sleep as absurd but scary dreams.
The decision to approach dreaming as an embodied phenomenon, with a particular focus on the role of dreaming and waking bodies in dream narratives, helps shed light on the complex and multifarious understandings of the oneiric realm that were held and employed by medieval Chinese Buddhists. In addition, focusing on oneiric bodies in these texts has inspired me to reflect upon the somatic qualities of certain dreams described in these sources, which, in turn, led me to propose the following comparative typology of dream narratives, based on the spatial logics employed therein. Specifically, I would suggest that such narratives can be broadly subdivided into three types:
philosophy, however, can provide a means of reawakening us so that we can see things more clearly, experience them more fully than we can in sleep (real or figurative), when our eyes are closed, our senses dulled, and our minds either blank or obscured by dreams.15
In contrast, many medieval Chinese Buddhists viewed dreaming as a significant, meaning-generative activity: one they engaged with not only through the active social processes of dream telling and dream interpretation, but also through the more somatic process of dream incubation. This helps to explain the ubiquity of accounts in which significant life changes were precipitated by dream experiences.
Unlike the stereotypical Western characterization of the Buddhist tradition as a bloodless, disembodied quest for personal perfection, proponents of historical Buddhisms have reliably demonstrated great interest in the physicalities of both historical and celestial buddhas and bodhisattvas.35 This tendency became especially pronounced amongst Mahāyāna Buddhists, who integrated earlier Buddhist teachings about the particular traits of buddha bodies (such as their oft-discussed Thirty-Two Marks) with the notion that such bodies could (eventually) be attained by practitioners of the Greater Vehicle.36 Thus, among medieval Chinese Buddhists, many of whom actively employed dreams to verify spiritual attainment, we would expect to find dream narratives concerned with these sorts of exemplary bodies, especially within hagiographical storytelling.
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