Alice Bailey & Djwhal Khul - Esoteric Psychology II - Chapter II - Dreams based
upon Brain Activity







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1. Dreams based upon Brain Activity. In these cases,
the subject is sleeping too lightly. He never really leaves his body and the thread of
consciousness is not completely withdrawn as it is in deep sleep or in unconsciousness. He
remains, therefore, closely identified with his body, and because of the partial
withdrawal of the thread of consciousness, his condition is more like a dazed, benumbed
self-recognition than real sleep. This condition may persist throughout the entire night
or period of sleep, but it is usually found present only in the first two hours of sleep
and for about one hour prior to returning to full waking consciousness. The problems,
worries, pleasures, concerns, etc., etc. of the waking [500] hours are still agitating the
brain cells, but the recognition and interpretation of these vague or agitated impressions
is uncertain and of a confused nature. No importance whatever need be attached to this
type of dream. They indicate physical nervousness and poor sleeping capacity but have no
deep psychological significance or spiritual meaning. These dreams are the most common at
this time, owing to the prevalence of the Atlantean consciousness and the stress under
which people live today. It is easy to attach undue importance to the wild and stupid or
jumbled vagaries of a restless brain, yet the sole trouble is that the man is not sleeping
soundly enough.The effort to make people dream and to train them to recover their dream
life when they are naturally sound sleepers, and drop easily into deep and dreamless sleep
is not good. The evocation of the dream life, as brought about through the methods of
certain schools of psychology, should only be brought about forcibly (if one may use this
word in that connection) through the determination of the will during the later stages
upon the Path. To do so earlier produces frequently a kind of continuity of consciousness
which adds the complexities of the astral plane to those of daily living upon the physical
plane; few people are competent to handle the two and, when there is persistence in the
endeavor to evoke the dream life, the brain cells get no rest and forms of sleeplessness
are apt to supervene. Nature wills that all forms of life should "sleep" at
times.
We now come to two forms of dreams which are related to the astral or emotional nature
and which are of great frequency.





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