Originally Posted by erik
but that doens't satisfy my question
I believe that's because you are looking for a certain type of answer and - as of now - I just don't believe that dreams exist anywhere but outside the mind. I'm definitely open to it, but I have seen far too much evidence that contradicts the idea, to be convinced.
If we are not the body (I have an arm and who is the one who says that the arm in mine ?), and if we are not the mind (these are my thoughts and my emotions for example, so who am I, who possesses all of this ?), in that way the mind takes us to journeys outside the physical realms of existance (inside) to a place where it creates everything it want to transmit to us, right ?
I mean, an uninterpreteted dream is like an unopened letter fom God, many times the dream comes with a (hidden) message (for me).
Well that all depends on how you see dreams. Some people feel that they all have an intrinsic meaning. Others see them as the 'visual' manifestation of thought processes. I think this all boils down to subjectivity. Personally, I don't believe all carry some inherent message, any more than I believe any random occurrence in waking life can carry with it a message. It's all about interpretation.
Originally Posted by erik
So the mind consists of different entities which are capable of creating for us the dream (if we are not the mind, who is ?).
To take it a step further, we are soul, eternally blissful and not to be destroyed by any weapon whatsoever, and the soul is full of knowledge, only now covered by mind and body (matter).
The soul is desiring in nature, have you ever been knowing what you want to think, and when you think what you know, you already knew what you wanted to think ?
And then you think : "Damn, what a waist of energy, I already knew it!"
It happens in meditation, it's the soul who is desiring to think and it uses the mind to think, like we use a computer to expres ourselves.
That, too, is up for interpretation. The other explanation would be that, what it is we are trying to think of, is not in our conscious mind, but in our subconscious. Therefore, it takes some digging, and accessing the right channels, to think of what it is we already know.
Originally Posted by erik
Anyway, I am convinced that the mind creates the dream, somewhere else and there everything is possible, so even the girls in the dream I knew, but not in real life.
Yes ?
Again, that's a matter of personal perspective. Sure, it's possible, but I don't think it's likely.
Originally Posted by erik
By the way, you're a hell of a guitar player, man !!!
Thanks, man. Much appreciated!
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