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My beautiful dreams

shanyinshanyin Novice YoginSault Ontario Veteran
edited January 2011 in Buddhism Basics
I know Buddhists mostly maintain an attitude of trying not to be impressed or caught up in weird experiences.

I've been having these dreams lately. In my dream, I'll see a vision of nature, as clear and reality like as looking through your eyes as your awake. For example tonight, in my dream me and my dad were talking about going fishing. Then it skipped to a vision of a lake, with a nice sky, boulders, forests. There was no like.. thought or anything. For a second is was nice then something felt like it was within me changed and I took so much pleasure in the scene it was overwhelming. I've had a lot of dream like that lately. One was just a simple cloud.

So what got me wondering is why don't I feel that way everytime I look at a cloud? Is my mind getting in the way? Probly. I wanna feel like that all the time.

Comments

  • MindGateMindGate United States Veteran
    I had a dream last night that I was going to move. This town was so beautiful. Its river, its lake, so amazing.

    I think I felt the same way about this place that you do with your dreams. Its just your mind, I suppose.
  • whiterabbitwhiterabbit Explorer
    Your pineal gland dumps DMT in your brain while you sleep, producing lots of hallucinatory experiences, and since hallucinatory experiences are often quite pleasurable... there you have it.

    Doesn't change the power of the experience, and if it's pleasurable that's a good thing.

    If you want to bring this into your daily life, cultivate mindfulness, which will lead you to a much greater appreciation for the world around you.
  • PietroPumokinPietroPumokin
    Dream within a dream
    that sounds nice shanyin my dreams are usually really bizarre and fragmented mind juices flowing and splattering all over the place
    meditating outside and camping in serene places would probably be very enjoyable.
  • shanyinshanyin Novice Yogin Sault Ontario Veteran
    I've been strugling with mindfulness lately. I wish I had a teacher, there's no monastery here.
  • shanyinshanyin Novice Yogin Sault Ontario Veteran
    My main point is a cloud seemed to be way more beautiful in the dream if I missed that.
  • shanyinshanyin Novice Yogin Sault Ontario Veteran
    Pietro apparently metta meditation helps you have pleasant dreams and helps you fall asleep. By my own experience I'm 90% sure it works.
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