Many people believe that dreams can be interpreted to help you understand a issue or situation that you are struggling with. Do you believe that understanding your dreams can help you in your conscious life? If so, do you believe that dreams have a super-natural presence, or is it just a manifestation of your mind?
Many people view drug trips/meditation the same way, but of course trips are usually a lot more abstract, and are a lot less relateable to the physical world. Despite this many people claim that the geometric shapes/patterns ect. do in fact reveal truths about their physical lives.
What's your opinion?
as someone who has meditated with and without drugs, and lucid dreams(not by choice, in fact I hate lucid dreaming) I can't deny that there is definitely a connection, but how pure and truthful that connection is I'm unsure of.
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First, I'd like to say your name fits very well with this topic. I can say that dreams do have a very relatable connection to both he conscious world and in many ways the state that one can achieve on a drug. During sleep your mind will replay a different scenario in many different, sometimes outlandish ways. One of the most common and my favorite theory is that our mind is actually playing through this scenarios to properly prepare us for the upcoming days/weeks. This theory was created by scientists who had mice run the same maze over and over, observing their brain patterns when they backtracked and such. They discovered that the brain waves were the same while subconscious, meaning they were, in a way, practicing the maze. In this same way, we as humans may inhibit the same methods. Which could explain why we sometimes dream about a movie or a video game; the subconscious mind may feel the connection with this fictitious idea, but not understand the line between reality and fantasy. This could also explain déjà Vu, as you have played this situations before, just not in a conscious state. It is very likely that, if you have a similar day to day schedule, you possibly dreamed of an outcome of the upcoming days which have extreme similarities with an actual, future day. And in this way we can discover things that are not technically open to us in the conscious state. Our basest, most ignored wants and fears and hopes are all hidden somewhere in the subconscious plain. It's just a matter of knowing how and where to look. So yes, it could be considered very relatable to at least tripping on shrooms. I hope this helped.