Dream

Definition:

• The cosmic play of Brahman experiencing itself through subdivision into Atman and multiplicity.

• Not “unreal,” but a mode of self-experience within the infinite.

Dream-1 (Ego View):

• The dream feels heavy, solid, and binding.

• Life is experienced as serious, restrictive, and something to be struggled through.

Dream-2 (Self View):

• The dream feels light and playful.

• Life is recognized as Brahman’s self-reflection — an infinite being enjoying its own possibilities.

Additional Detail

• Nature: The world exists because Brahman, being limitless, manifests subdivisions (Atman) to experience itself from within itself.

• Mechanics: Identification determines the tone of the dream: ego perceives it as binding, Self perceives it as play.

• Metaphor: Like a lucid dream: when asleep (ego), the dream feels heavy and real; when lucid (Self-aware), it is recognized as one’s own creation.