When did the dream begin?

Everything depends on your perspective. One view is that desire is born from memory and this happens within, not beyond consciousness.  Any sense of psychological or linear time, such as beginning and end, is also within consciousness.  As such, dreams do not begin and end.  They are in perpetual motion, connected with events in a continual flow. You are connected with all of this. You are also it.

Another view is that dreams are a state of mind in the 'here and now.' If you view the mind as a series of states in transition, then you detach from the notion of a localized dream. You realize states of mind invite you to merge experience with experiencer.  Its all now.

Comments

[Alexys Fairfield]

Hi Liara,

The dream began when we began. When we stay asleep, it becomes a nightmare. When we wake up, the dream gets better and better and better. As Edgar Allen Poe said, "All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream."

[Hilary]

Hi Liara .. I don’t tend to dream to my knowledge, but I constantly mull during the waking hours .. and to view the mind as a series of states in transition would make sense .. and actually as this process is occurring I experience and re position my thoughts based on that experience .. so merging views and ideas .. It is all now, as you say – thanks Hilary