Are Dreams Real Astral Experiences? – (794)

Introduction

This article presents a very thorough explanation of what dreams are and how they relate to astral travel. The short answer to the title of this article is yes, dreams are astral experiences. The only difference is that our sate of consciousness during a dream is not as lucid as it is in a conscious and positive astral unfolding. There are dreams which are majority, are simple mental projections that are projected while we are out of the body and our consciousness not being alert enough identifies with the images and remains fascinated by the projections of its own mind the whole night until the body wakes up.

The main feature of this article is the following excerpt from the Secret Doctrine of Anahuac by V.M Samael Aun Weor.

Excerpt on Dreams

“Gnosis teaches that the modern, decadent psychology of the Western Hemisphere is ignorant of the various kinds of dreams that exist.

Dreams have a diverse and specific quality, for they are closely related to each of the psychic centres of the human body.

In fact, we do not exaggerate when we state that most dreams are linked to the motor-instinctive centre. That is, they are the echoes of everything we see during the day: simple sensations and motions — a mere astral repetition of our daily life.

Some experiences of an emotional type such as fear — which harms humanity so much — usually fit in with those chaotic dreams of the motor-instinctive centres as well. There are then, emotional, sexual intellectual, motor and instinctive dreams.

The more important dreams, the inner experiences of the Being, are associated with the two centres the Superior Emotional and the Superior Intellectual. Dreams related to the two superior centres are certainly interesting. Their main feature is what we could call a dramatic array.

Now then, if we think of the Ray of Creation, and the Superior and Inferior centres, and the influences descending throughout the cited cosmic ray, we must admit that some luminous vibrations appear. These intend to heal us, to inform us about the state in which we are, and more.

It becomes useful to receive messages, and to be in contact with the Aztec, Mayan, Toltec, Egyptian, and Greek adepts.

It is marvellous, as well, to have intimate dialogue with the highest, diverse parts of our Being.

The superior centres are fully developed in us, and they send us messages, which we must learn to consciously grasp.

In this chapter, those select people who have had a moment of self-remembrance (in which they saw a common thing or person in a totally different way) will not be surprised, if I tell them that such moments have the same quality as one of those rare and strange dreams related to the two Superior Emotional and Intellectual centres.

The meaning of such transcendental dreams matches — undoubtedly — the same level of the realization in oneself, of the Ray of Creation, and, in particular, the lateral Octave of the Sun [sic]

The beginning of our realization of the deep significance of this specific type of dream is the sign that some forces struggle to awaken, heal or cure us.

Each of us is a mathematical point in space that is used as a vehicle by determined sums of “values” (black or white).

Death is a subtraction of fractions. Once the mathematical operation is completed, the only thing left is the “values” (good or bad).

In accordance with the Law of the Eternal Return, it is certain that the “values” return, they are re-embodied.

If a man starts taking into account more consciously, the small cycle of recurring events of his personal life, he will be able to verify directly, throughout mystical experience, that, in daily sleep, the same mathematical operation of death is always repeated.

In the absence of the physical body, during normal sleep, the “values” merge into the astral light, attract or repel each other in accordance with the Law of Universal Magnetization.

The return to the vigil state rightfully implies the return of the “values” to the interior of the physical body.

Extraordinarily, people think that they only interrelate with the external world.

Gnosis teaches us that we interrelate with an inner world, which is invisible to the physical, ordinary senses, but visible to clairvoyance.

This inner, invisible world is much wider, and it contains many more interesting things than the external world, to where the five windows of the senses are always opened.

Many dreams relate to the place where we are, in the inner, invisible world from which the diverse circumstances of life come forth.

The language of dreams is accurately comparable to the language of parables.

Those who interpret everything literally, think that the sower of the Christic Gospel went to sow, and that the seeds fell on rocks, and so on, but they do not understand the sense of the parable, because it belongs to the symbolic language of the Superior Emotional centre.

Needless to say here, that any dream as absurd or incoherent as it may be, has some significance, for it indicates not only the psychic centre to which it is associated, but also the psychological status of such a centre.

Many penitent people, who presumed to be chaste, failed in the sexual centre, and had a nocturnal pollution when they were submitted to trials in the internal world.

In the perfect adept, the five psychic centres, intellectual, emotional, motor, instinctive, and sexual, function in full harmony with the infinite.

What is our mental activity during sleep? What emotions move or shatter us? What are our activities outside the physical body’? What instinctive sensations predominate’? Have we considered our sexual states during sleep?

We must be sincere with ourselves. Plato rightfully said: “Man is known by his dreams.” The matter of the erroneous work of the centres is a topic that demands a lifetime of study by way of the observation of oneself in action and of the rigorous examination of dreams.

It is not possible to achieve the understanding of the centres, and their correct or incorrect function, in an instant. We need infinite patience.

All of life unfolds as a function of the centres, and is controlled by them.

Our thoughts, ideas, feelings, hopes, fears, love, hatred, deeds, sensations, pleasure, satisfactions, frustrations, and so on, are found in the centres.

The discovery of some inhuman element in any of the centres must be the strongest motive for the Esoteric Work.

Any psychological defect must be previously understood by way of the technique of meditation, before proceeding to its elimination.

The extirpation, eradication or elimination of any undesirable element, is only possible by invoking Tonantzin’s (Divine Mother Kundalini) aid, a variation of our own being, or particular fohat of each of us.

This is how we die from moment to moment. Only death brings forth what is new.

Influences of all kinds reach us, in the levels of beings and things. If we have understood the Ray of Creation, we will also acknowledge that, in any instant of life, influences, which are of various qualities, reach us.

We must always be aware that there are superior influences that act upon us and are recorded by our psychic system. If we are, nevertheless, attached to our senses, and we do not pay full attention to our inner life, we will not be able to perceive these influences.”

Excerpt from the book: “The Secret Doctrine of Anahuac”, by Samael Aun Weor.

Summary

Dreams that very lucid are astral experiences and they are also direct reflections of our psychology. Dreams in most cases are also just mental projections and in that case they are very useful for us to study so that we can know ourselves better. The very wise statement from Plato that says “Man is known by his dreams”, says it all. Any dream that is a projection is an expression of our psychology.

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