Normally a disciple could have supremely auspicious visions in dreams during the night prior to the performance of an initiation or any other special ritual. If such dream occurs in the first quarter of the night, the disciple would reap its benefit within one year. If it occurs in the second quarter of the night, the effect of the dream would materialize within six months. If it occurs in the third quarter of the night, the effect of the dream would be seen within one month. If the dream occurs in the fourth quarter of the night, its effect would manifest immediately.
Dreams as the best way of understanding a person’s unconscious mind, most of the times, it is very difficult to put words on what one feels inside. We usually just experience the symptoms, and our sophisticated abstract language and cognitive functions do not help that much when it comes to understand what makes us suffer or act the way we do.
Many symbols surprisingly indicate the opposite of what you might expect, while others are cognate with what they seem to portend. Objects, characters, and emotions that appear in a person's dreams all take on symbolic meanings to be analyzed and interpreted. Some symbols are harbingers of great luck or grave danger, while others may predict a mix of fortunes.
If you see your Guru in a dream state, so clear and real, then, it is recognised that the Guru thereby acknowledges your devotion. The Guru - Disciple relationship, in the true sense is very deep. The Guru will also help with and take over your past Karma. In telepathy, guide you, bless you with spiritual energy and attend to your daily needs to allow your spiritual growth. In this process of self knowledge, dreams interpretation offers a shortcut.
The collective unconscious a part of the mind expressed in humanity and all life forms with nervous systems, and describes how the structure of the psyche autonomously organizes experience, archetypes to describe the universal images that arise in intuition and dreams, in psychoanalysis to probe the unconscious mind for clues to causes of neuroses and other problems. To these inputs we respond actively, emotionally, mentally etc.
Dreams tell us much more about who we are than our self conscious representation can do, though words are crucial in understanding our personality. The unconscious mind speaks to our cognitive mind, in addition to providing the foundation for cognitive thought. It is communicating the awareness of contextual information required to perform tasks well.
The reason most people do not know about this is that the language the unconscious mind speaks to the cognitive mind in is the language of metaphor (symbolism). And this language needs to be decoded before it makes any sense to us at all. The unconscious mind constructs a framework of associations, outside of the awareness of our cognitive mind. Our cognitive mind is designed to help us implement the tasks our life consists of, so it does not need anything but awareness of things related to the tasks at hand.
In addition to the knowledge they provide us with, dreams can also help us in our daily life by advising us about what we should do. It is not rare to find a solution to a problem during the night. This is because the mind is reorganising and reprocessing the events and challenges that make our daily life, trying to make them fit in our personal life plan. Dreams are an essential part of this process. They send us messages in a symbolic way. Understanding the meaning of these messages can be very valuable.
This means that contrary to what most humans believe, the unconscious mind is actually the aspect of our conscious existence that is the most objective (most insightful-most aware of the context of everything), and most responsible for what we become conscious of, not our cognitive mind. And it is not so difficult to decipher our dreams when we get used to it, though a psychoanalyst can help in the early phases.
Dream interpretation helps you at times in finding which area you have been thinking about a lot absent mindedly. The interpretation is looking at how these constituent parts relate to each other and what theme may be behind that narrative. So any good dream interpretation needs to correlate to as person’s experience, character, history or circumstances.
The book "Interpretation of dreams" by Sigmund Freud described; As super species we have grown progressively more afraid of our unconscious mind the more we have become what we think of as being civilized. Civilization is that force that is brought to bear in the shaping of human behavior by means of us trying to force rules upon our selves (in order to make us more able to fit into our social surroundings).
In trying to force ourselves to conform to these subjectively, task-oriented, subjectively formed rules, we end up suppressing the natural function of our unconscious mind, and as a result have rendered ourselves less functional, less natural members of our species. We are the species with the highest level of cognitive function, and we are, with this higher level of cognitive function, also the only species capable of choosing to act unnaturally, and becoming dysfunctional by choice.
Intuition and Dreams, and all the other ways the unconscious mind communicates its metaphorical insight to our cognitive mind (which are far more than you probably have any idea of), is how our species is designed to counteract the oppressive, destructive reactionary dominance of the cognitive mind (and its subjectively generated rules for our life).
The unconscious mind (the aspect of us we have long referred to as the spiritual aspect of our existence), is constantly working to provide our cognitive mind the insight, the awareness of the context of our life (and its situations and circumstances) that it requires in order to implement the tasks of life more effectively. And, in as much as we have made so many decisions that, due to the toxic influence of civilization’s rule of law, have rendered us dysfunctional, it is also working hard to take (guide) us through the therapy we need in order to get well.
The unconscious mind is synonymous with the energy we have of God(s) and Goddesses. As a representation of our unconscious mind, for there is an ordering of the material expansion of the universe that seems to follow the same pattern of expansion of consciousness in a sentient being. In order to become comfortable with this decoding process, you will need to become comfortable with your unconscious mind.
Authored by Dr Anadi Sahoo
