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Lightnings. Aurobindo. Reality and Unreality of Dreams (Life Divine. Chapter: The Cosmic Illusion)

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In the Blog entries titled "Mithal or Mundus Imaginalis" we are approaching dreams from the point of view of Creative Imagination, considering them part of the Mithal ontological plane, to which not only dreams but all imaginative activities belong. The idea is to establish a continuity between sleep and wakefulness, a continuity of all human existence.

In these Lightnings on the nature of dreams we are focusing on a different perspective, in a certain sense, it is a preliminary discussion about the "Reality" or "Non-Reality" of dreams.

“Dream is felt to be unreal, first, because it ceases and has no farther validity when we pass from one status of consciousness to another which is our normal status. But this is not by itself a sufficient reason: for it may well be that there are different states of consciousness each with its own realities; if the consciousness of one state of things fades back and its contents are lost or, even when caught in memory, seem to be illusory as soon as we pass into another state, that would be perfectly normal, but it would not prove the reality of the state in which we now are and the unreality of the other which we have left behind us”.

Sri Aurobindo. Life Divine. Chapter: The Cosmic Illusion.

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