Why Do We Dream



Introduction:

Everybody will surely experience Dreams. It will flashes in our brain in the form of images, videos, and feelings. Some say that we may know the future from dreams. Is it true can we know our future by dreams, why actually do the dreams come, can we control them? What kind of dreams are good and bad. In Vedas, there is a sastra for dreams called as SwapnaVidya.

Scientifically we can say that dreams will come from REM(rapid eye movement)sleep. A kind of hallucinations that was created by our subconscious brain when the body took a rest while sleeping. Our mind is more active while sleeping than awake.

Swapna vidya:

The Swapna Vidhya has been a science from the ancient ages. This Vidhya is like Ayurveda and Siddha. In India most of the popular sages or siddhi's like Sushrutha, Varahamira, Markandeya rushi, Parashara smriti and etc., had been created the science of dreams, Dreams are divided into 7 types:

  • Drusta
  • Shrushta
  • Anubhuta
  • Kalpikata
  • Prathita
  • Bhavika
  • Dosaja

Drusta: It means what you see in the daytime it comes into your dream.

Shrusata: The Dream of which you heard.

Anubhuta: The Dream that what we see and hear before we sleep.

Kalpikata: The Dream that shows what you imagine.

Prathita: This Dream is about the Aspirations

Bhavika:  In this dream, we can see our future. If we see the future at the time Brahmamuhurtha that will comes true. This is why that dreams may come true.

Dosaja: It is due to disorders of the body

Among all these seven categories of Dreams, the Bhavika is only a reliable Dream and other dreams will depend on other factors. Only dreams come only we are in Swapnavastha, if we are in deep sleep we won't get dreams.

In Swapnavidhya the night was divided into 4quarter's/parts each with 3hours. Evening 6pm to 9pm is the first quarter, 9pm to 12am the second quarter, 12am to 3am the third quarter and 3am to 6am is the fourth quarter.

The Bhavika dream in the first quarter may come true in one year or more, in second and third quarters it may take six to eight months, and fourth quarter Bhavika dream, it comes true quickly in ten days of time. In the second quarter means in the time of 9pm to 12am if you get any bad dreams it shows negative's. That means the Bhavika dream that comes in Brahmamuhurtha will surely come true. so this is the reason for saying that the early morning dreams may come true.

If you see any god or goddess, cow, bull, kings, flames, wise men, and pure water it is a good sign of dreams, which means something good to happen in the future. If your dream is about temples, hills, elephants you will get money. Rivers, sea or ocean is also a good sign for the future.

According to Hindu sculptures, the Dreams had given a valuable place like other vidyas. There are various types of Swapna mantras regarding the different deities. There are mantras for both good and bad and to avoid nightmares dreams.

In general, people will say that dreams are five, three, nine types in their opinions, but coming to Hindu scriptures certainly, it is a special vidya.

I will give you a brief description of the experiments regarding dreams, and they are divided into 5 types.

Recurring Dreams: These dreams come very repeatedly, these dreams maximum comes, at the age of between 10-24years, some times for the above ages also but not repeatedly.

Psychic Dreams: These dreams are used to reveals some message, it will make to communicate with the help of colors as a medium

Telepathic Dreams: Some incidents that took place in our life is felt like already done, these dreams are considered to be a warning. These dreams may come to not more than 2 or 3% of the people.

Lucid Dreams: The dream is you know that you are dreaming, but we will continue to dream, and there is a possibility to control the dream, whether it is bad or good.

Nightmares: These Dreams will make frighten and weak, strangely bad dreams. We will feel that it like so real, you can't notice the dream as a dream until you wake up.

Scientifically the dreams will help to create inventions. yes, many of the successful inventions are done on the basis of these dreams. some are:

  • The Sewing Machine
  • DNA
  • The Periodic Table
  • Einstein's Theory of Relativity
  • Benzene and Aromatic chemistry
  • The Terminator
  • Twilight
  • The Theory of Relativity and many more inventions took place.

Conclusion:

These are the brief description of the dreams from both scientific and Vedic. Swapnasidhi is a sastra like other sastras in India. Dreams are one of the parts of every life.

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