The world into which one enters is the dreamer’s own secret, even someone in an adjoining bed, whether awake or asleep, cannot enter it. The scientific explanation of the continuity of the waking world as contrasted with the discontinuity of the dreaming world, is of course, the fact that the former draws its existence primarily from the Cosmic or World Mind’s permanent master-image whereas the latter draws it solely from the individual mind’s ephemeral visions. It is of profound significance that each dreamer’s world belongs to that individual alone whereas the waking world is common to all mankind. Here nature gives every person, in one’s own personal experience a key to the mystery of world creation. In fact an individual is able to create one’s own image of one’s dream environment, one can then comprehend how one can receive and reproduce one’s own image of the waking world emanated from the Cosmic Mind. Most people do not know that this larger being exists within them; even those who do know it do not know what an important element it really is in making their world experience; while those who realise its importance know very little about its operations anyway. Here, in the image making power of the finite self, they are provided with a suggestive glimpse of the image making power of the infinite Self.
Imagination is the first characteristic of the Cosmic Mind. Consequently it is also the first characteristic of the conscious beings who are its progeny. This wonderful image-making faculty is a natural possession of the mind. The faculty of forming pictures is as innate in the individual as in the Cosmic Mind. It is perfectly natural for the restraint-free mind to go on evolving pictures. This is the very same faculty with which one unconsciously creates the form of one’s world during waking hours, but it works then under the stimulus of the world-image provided by the Cosmic Mind’s Karmic potential. The seed-like karmic energies of the world-image are transmitted from the habitat of the Overself (or the habitat of a part of the individuals cosmic spirit) in the heart and received within the head. Here in a sensitive centre within the brain’s outer layer it undergoes tremendous magnification and through the other specialised brain centres breaks into the individual consciousness as one’s sense - impressions of external world experience.
Why is it that rational order and natural unity seem to disappear so often in these motley dreams? Figures and events appear and disappear haphazardly without logical connections.
The disorder and confusion are explicable when one remembers again that the brain-reception has been partially and temporarily set free from the heart-transmission so that the image making faculty works mechanically to a large extent on its own. In the dream state awakened consciousness recedes to the heart centre. The force of suggestions drawn from the memory of waking experiences motivates many of these dreams.
The episodes are fed either by previous thoughts, emotions, passions and action, when both scene and circumstances can be easily traced to something said, thought, felt or done during the previous twenty four hours.
The article is taken from the book ‘Life Beyond Death’ by Anil Sharma