Places I dream of are rarely real places, though they contain elements that are influenced by real places. For instance, last night I dreamed of being in an ex-classmate's house. I've never seen his house, and I doubt it actually looks like that. But based on a lot of other similar experiences, I expect there are details in it that do come from his actual house. Other details come from other impressions of the person, because the house is also a metaphor for his mind. And I also mix in impressions of other people and their experiences that my ex-classmate and his life is a metaphor for, since I haven't met those people in person. I can sort of feel the differences, how much it is him and how much its not, but its mixed together.
Some people say that everything in the world is a manifestation of thought, which is sort of a concretization of who we are spiritually. I don't think that's quite true, but I think its sort of true. The dream is also a manifestation of thought, so it bears a resemblance to things in the physical world that are related to the same thoughts. But the emphasis is different in the dream, because the perspective is a little bit different, so it comes together differently and doesn't quite match the corresponding physical places and events. I think that premonitions work sort of like this too, or at least mine do. They're not a vision of a possible future, they're a partial vision of a result or 'solution' to existing karma, which has some resemblance to a physical future. But the vision is different from reality because the perspective is different, so what I feel and see doesn't actually correspond to a "possible timeline". To make up a crude metaphor, its like a bunch of ingredients are sitting on the kitchen counter, and I can see half of them, and from there I can imagine what can be cooked. But I'll be partially wrong, because I can only see some of the ingredients, which makes me even more likely to misguess how they get put together. My guess does have a recognizable supernatural element to it though, because I'm not just extrapolating from my own past experience. Some kind of awareness of 'fate' or providence is included, so there are often details which aren't connected to my own experience.
In the unlikely event that a math metaphor helps, a place in one of my dreams is like an alternative basis for a vector space. The equations x + y = 2 and x - y = 0 represent the same thing as the equations 2x + y = 3 and 2x - y = 1. The dream representation doesn't quite match the physical world representation, but the underlying reality is the same. All of these dreams are projected from a standpoint where I can feel something of that karmic reality, I'm not "seeing the future" in a physical sense. Likewise for "shared dream" experiences, which are the same kind of experience with more of an emphasis on identity and less of an emphasis on how it connects with physical events.
I'm not suggesting that premonitions are exactly like that for everyone, I'm just describing how they are for me.
When I share a mental space with someone, can I ever separate myself from them again? Or is it more like sex, where you have a child and your DNA is joined after that and its not reversible? I still feel people I met 30 years ago even if I wasn't very close to them. I think it hurts me, because I must move in directions that aren't the same directions that they must move in, and I feel the being pulled in different directions. The effect on them is probably much smaller, but I suspect its not good for them either. Is it possible to let go? Am I doing it wrong? Or is it like a divorce when there is a child, and what must happen is unavoidably painful, and I should be more careful about who I allow myself to feel in the first place? But I am cut off as it is, shut down psychically compared to what I am capable of, and that's painful too. I wish I could find better advice on this sort of thing, books by people who actually know what they're talking about. It seems we're all grappling around in the dark.
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