DREAMS - GATEWAYS TO OTHER REALITIES

1. Who is the Real Dreamer?

We spend nearly a third of our lives asleep, and in that sleep, we enter a strange world called the dream. It is a universal experience, a stage where the most irrational things become normal and the deepest emotions are revealed. Modern science has a reasonable explanation for this phenomenon: dreaming is the process of the brain reorganizing information, consolidating memories, and processing unresolved emotions from the day. It is a physiological activity, a “housekeeping program” for the brain.

However, there are questions that this model seems to leave unanswered. It cannot explain why some dreams are so vivid and real that we are still shaken upon waking. It doesn’t explain prophetic dreams, dreams in which we meet deceased loved ones and have meaningful conversations, or dreams that take us to strange lands we have never seen.

To find another perspective, we can try asking a fundamental question again: When the body is lying still in bed, who is the real dreamer?

Let’s return to our multidimensional map. If a human being is not just a physical body, but also has a core spiritual essence—often called the Primordial Spirit or Soul—then a new possibility opens up. Could it be that when the physical body falls asleep, the “driver” (the Primordial Spirit) is temporarily freed from the constraints of the “vehicle” (the body)?

Viewed from this worldview, sleep may not be the shutting down of consciousness, but a shift of consciousness from the external material world to the inner world and other realms. Another hypothesis suggests that the Primordial Spirit is the true subject of the dream, the one who experiences, travels, and feels, while the body is merely a charging station, a docking port for the Primordial Spirit to return to after its journey.

If we try to accept this hypothesis, the dream world can be seen as a vast territory with its own rules, a potential gateway to other realities. And to make it easier to visualize, we can temporarily divide these dream journeys into two main types: journeys into the inner mind, and journeys to the outer worlds.

2. “Internal” Dreams: When the Mind Plays Its Own Movies

The majority of our dreams seem to belong to a type we can call “internal” dreams. These appear to be dreams created by our own consciousness, a private cinema where the mind is the director, actor, and audience all at once. The “scripts” for these movies come from the vast archives of our brain and consciousness:

Memories and Daytime Impressions: This is the simplest type of dream, where the brain “replays” and processes events, conversations, and images we have experienced. It’s like re-watching old films.
Deep Attachments and Desires: What we long for, yearn for, or regret most often finds a way to manifest in our dreams. Someone wishing for wealth might dream of winning the lottery. Someone regretting a past love might dream of being reunited. The dream becomes a stage for us to temporarily satisfy what is unattainable in reality.
Hidden Fears and Anxieties: This is the source of nightmares. The things we fear most—fear of failure, fear of abandonment, fear of death—are magnified by the mind into terrifying scenarios. Eastern wisdom has a saying, “zi xin sheng mo” (the mind itself gives birth to demons), which seems to capture the essence of the mechanism that creates nightmares. The “monster” chasing us in our dream may not come from a strange place, but is born from our own fear.

In these dreams, perhaps the Primordial Spirit does not actually travel to another place. It seems to be merely experiencing a film of its own making. These are dreams that reflect our inner state, a mirror showing what we truly care about, desire, and fear.

3. “External” Dreams: The Real Journeys

Besides the “self-produced” movies, there is another type of dream that feels completely different. They are clear, coherent, and carry a deep sense of reality, as if we had actually been somewhere. These could be “external” dreams, when the Primordial Spirit actually travels to other realms.

Meeting Deceased Loved Ones: Many people around the world have had the experience of dreaming of a loved one who has passed away. In the dream, they talk, receive advice, or simply feel the peaceful presence of the deceased. The model of the Primordial Spirit opens up the possibility that this is not just an imagination born of grief, but could be a real encounter, where the dreamer’s Primordial Spirit has traveled to an intermediate realm (often called the spirit world), where the soul of their loved one is temporarily staying before reincarnating.
Traveling to Strange Worlds: Some dreams take us to places that are not in our memories—futuristic cities with strange technology, fairytale lands with brilliant scenery, or barren planets under skies with two suns. Could these be unconscious “out-of-body” journeys of the Primordial Spirit to parallel dimensions, other planets, or even higher realms?
Prophetic Experiences: Some dreams seem to foretell future events. This is a complex phenomenon, which could be interpreted as the Primordial Spirit, in a state free from the linear flow of time in the material realm, being able to perceive the “ripples” of future events.

In these external dreams, our role seems to shift from that of a director to an explorer. We may be truly experiencing another reality, and the memories we bring back upon waking are the entries in the Primordial Spirit’s “travel journal.”

4. Frequency Resonance and Purposeful Encounters

So what determines whether on one night we watch an “internal” movie, and on another we have an “external” journey? And if it is a journey, what determines the destination?
An explanation may lie in the “frequency resonance” mechanism we discussed in a previous chapter. Our state of mind before and during sleep—our thoughts, emotions, and especially our deep moral level—seems to determine the “vibrational frequency” of our Primordial Spirit.

A mind heavy with anger, hatred, or base desires may resonate with low-frequency, heavy realms. This is why people in negative emotional states are more prone to nightmares or dreaming of frightening scenes.
Conversely, a pure and tranquil mind, filled with compassion and kindness, may resonate with higher-frequency realms that are more bright and peaceful.

However, there is a special type of encounter that does not entirely follow this rule: when we dream of beings from very high realms, such as Gods, Buddhas, or Bodhisattvas. The vibrational frequency of these beings is on a level so much higher than ours, like a radio station broadcasting at 10,000 MHz while our radio can only tune up to 108 MHz. It is difficult for us to “tune in” to them on our own.

In this case, the encounter can be interpreted as a purposeful “manifestation” on their part. Out of compassion, they can actively create a special space, a “dream realm” with an intermediate frequency that both parties can enter. They “lower” their frequency a bit, and “raise” ours a bit, so that the meeting can take place. In that case, the experience is less like a journey of our own, and more like an invitation, an enlightenment bestowed upon us.

Viewed this way, dreaming is no longer a passive phenomenon. It is a vibrant, interactive space that accurately reflects who we are, and reveals to us the existence of vast realities beyond the world our five senses can perceive.

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