About dreams

 

About Dreams

Preliminary note: This is my third article on dreams. The first two were in Nepali languages. Among them, the second is still with me and I lost the other one.

The Dream: It was the first week of December 2021. I was in Dhulikhel, a cold city near Kathmandu, Nepal. I made a normal day and went to bed with my wife as usual. Then I saw a dream at about 4:00 in the morning.

In the dream I was in a completely new city. It was new because I couldn't read any signboards, menus, notices and couldn't understand human conversation. Due to this I was afraid little somewhere inside. I was having something with a different taste in a roadside restaurant which had wide windows of glasses. I was talking some sips unwillingly from a cup. I couldn't change my order because of language problem. A robust waiter was watching me with his threatening looks in his eyes. There were some people standing outside the restaurant, some were in police uniform. In case of emergency I made a quick plan to open the window and shout loudly to the police there.  After sometime, two strangers, I guessed them of being pickpockets came close to me and started looking at me like that of the waiter. I knew where my wallet was and planned not to take it out even for the bill until they are there. I slowed my sips in casual and seemingly relaxed way though I was not feeling relaxed then. The assumed pickpockets messed up with my body parts and with my wallet. I was sure to be looted there. I gave a vain utterance of help to the police outside. Then my wife entered the restaurant and asked me few rupees to be paid immediately to a doctor because my daughter had a head injury a few minutes ago. I must take my wallet now. It was an emergency; I had to go with her and I had to pay the bill as well. I had to do the same thing which I was trying to avoid. The three persons were watching me. I put my hand in the pocket but there was no wallet. I became very sad; a true helpless person in the world. Then I said sadly to my wife, "PAISA HARAAYO", meaning I lost my wallet.

Not in the Dream: It happened that my utterance "PAISA HARAAYO" in a little loud voice made my wife awake for a second and she asked what happened. I, fully woke up now answered her with little difficulty and in broken sentence that I just uttered some words in the dream. When I asked her in the next morning about our night talk, she was unknown about it.

After the Dream: When I woke up, I noticed that my physical condition was bad. I was not feeling much pain in other parts of the body but my throat and mouth were in worse condition. Before going to bed I/we forgot to close the window and cool humid air of December night ran down through the curtains. I was sleeping just a foot far from the curtain ends. After continuous inhaling of that air in my sleep, my mouth had gone dry. I was breathing through my mouth, not through the nose when I was awake. My tongue was stuck in one side of the mouth and my throat was being dried down. There was no saliva in my mouth. I tried to drink but I couldn't because there was no liquid there. It took some seconds for me to collect and drink a small sip of saliva that let my throat liquidize and feel normal.

Thesis points of the Topic:

i. Dreams are normal mental processes to make body parts function well when the body is asleep.

ii. Suppressed desires are expressed in dreams but they are only the byproduct; visualization of the unfulfilled desires is not for the fulfillment of the desire but they are means to achieve the first thesis point.

iii. Mind is detached with God.

Supporting Details for the First Thesis Point: Normally I don't dream. It means I sleep well. It's over. Some other times I forget dreams. It is because there might be minor problems in the body parts and I'd have minor dreams. It's also over.

Why did I dream on that particular night? It was because I had a problem with my body parts (mouth and throat). Why didn't I solve my problem? It was because I was not conscious; I was asleep. Had I been conscious, I'd have taken a glass of water, I'd have closed my mouth, I'd have closed the window or I'd have done something else. When I could do nothing, my mind started to solve the problem in its own way. It sketched the best way to solve it. Why did my mind do it so? To save itself. It knows that if the body is well, it remains well. It knows that if my mouth and the throat faced the same problem for a long time, the whole body might not function well. I mean, I might die. And when the body dies, the mind is useless.

Next point, how it sketched the best way to solve this particular problem? My mind knows that to save my mouth and throat at that time, it had to close my lips. It tried the same thing. I was sipping something in the dream. It did not work. I tried to speak by changing my order. It did not work. I shouted for the police. It again didn't work. And finally, when I said, "PAISA HARAAYO", it worked. My lips were closed and I was able to make some unclear utterance. The problem was solved. If the situation was minor, I'd fall asleep again when the lips were closed and would forget the dream.

In most of the dreams, I fly like birds. In case I woke up then, I found my hand/s being pressed by my body and the blood circulation in the veins of the hand/s be disturbed.

Same thing happens in sex organ as well. If any fluid happens to stuck in pipes or in its course when asleep, mind chooses the best of all alternatives and sketches dreams related to sex and starts motions in sex related parts so that the stuck fluid passes out, making the organ feel comfortable.

Supporting Details for Second Thesis Point: I don't have desire to go to restaurant; after COVID 2019, not even a percent. Other things in my dream like daughter's head injury, being looted, being in a problem, losing the wallet aren't desirable dreams.

It's true that I might have seen a nice restaurant, might have seen someone's head injury or some looters and might have thought consciously or unconsciously about those things. Scenes in the dream might have transformed in my mind but none of my desires were fulfilled in the dream.

Normally most of my dreams end in sadistic way. Sexual dreams aren't sad because we can't have good sex in fearful and frightening situations. There should be beauty, affairs, erotic visualization and lustful moments, to get ready to work for sex organs. So, mind creates similar scenario. And here again, the primary intention of the mind is to ease the organ's internal function. Selecting the sex partner in the dream is always secondary work/byproduct. Those who believe in the secondary work of the dream only believe that unfulfilled desires are met in the dream.

Supporting Details for Third Thesis Point: After that particular dream of that particular night, I planned to write this article but it took me about two weeks to start. What stopped me to write for those two weeks was an unanswered question that I asked to myself. Why did my mind make me utter the sentence, "PAISA HARAAYO?" This question bothered me a lot. Normally I remember God in difficult situations, I chant some Mantras. In happy situations also I do the same. I don't think I am a money minded person. I mean, why didn't I utter Hari Om, Om Nama: Shiwaaya or something like that?

After two weeks, I think, I got its possible answer and I wrote this article. The answer is: my mind's primary intention was to close my lips; so it selected the first bilabial /p/ sound in PAISA HARAAYO. Without joining my lips I could not produce /P/ sound. And this is the first bilabial sound in my native alphabets. What a clever mind! My mind knew no Hari or Rama or Krishna at that time. /P/ was everything for it then. It knew no Gods. In fact it needs no Gods. It is attached with body and wants all body parts function well all the times. It can create and destroy any Gods in a second and remains detached with Them.

Ending Notes: Two of my relatives had told me years ago that they had sequential dreaming. I mean, they dreamed something, they woke up for few seconds, they slept and had the second part of the same dream.

This is possible. At the end of the first part of the dream when the person woke up, mind believed that it was able to solve the problem. However, the person slept in the same position and/or had the same problem in the sleep. The mind had already sketched the required visualization before. It gave continuity to the remaining parts.

It's just like (though I didn't wake up) I woke up after sipping something but I didn't close my lips or I woke up after shouting help to the police but I didn't close my lips.

Thank you!!