What are dreams?

Dreams. Are they just random images that our brain creates? Do those images have some meaning? Scientist and psychologists have posed plenty of theories about what dreams are and why we have them, but we’ll approach this subject from a different perspective. This perspective comes from Dr. Frederick Lenz, otherwise known as Rama, an enlightened teacher, who had unique insights about dreams and how dreaming can aid us on our journey to live our lives to their full potential.

Rama tells us that dreams are important. They are as important as your waking moments, and one could argue, that neither are more important than the other. And that’s because they’re two sides of the same coin, or rather, two sides of a multidimensional coin, one that has thousands, if not millions of sides. 

We live our waking moments in a certain dimension, a physical dimension, one that has strict rules and laws, like gravity or electromagnetism and the like, one where creating your reality is certainly possible, but not easy. Then there is the dreamscape. The dreamscape is another dimension, or actually a whole multiple of dimensions, and here the rules are a lot different. Creating the whole world is almost instantaneous, only your imagination is the limit to what you can do here. And the wonderful thing isn’t you have the opportunity to travel to these dimensions every night. (And yes, each and every one of us dreams every night, in normal circumstances at least for a period of 2 hours.)  

So are we just creating these images in our minds or are we really traveling to different dimensions? 

Well, it’s both. And more. As you may know, besides your physical body we all have a subtle physical body, and when you dream at night, when you’re asleep, your subtle physical body will very often change form and travel through a succession of different planes of awareness. We usually call this dimensional plane the astral. On this plane you make your own movies, you write scripts, hire a cast, lighting, orchestration, everything. Sometimes you’ll put yourself in the picture, sometimes you’ll just stand back and direct. These are the dreams – experiences, in other worlds, where you can go and for a time you can create your own reality. It’s like one of those places you may have visited as a kid: where we can go and make your own ice cream sundae from the 50 ingredients and toppings and fruits. 

 In dreaming, we go into a world where the forms of reality are variable, and the part of us that goes into that reality that plays with the different colors and combinations and ideas which we call dreams, is our subtle body. The sense of self that we have in dreaming is the subtle physical body. We’re relating through that. It’s the mask that we, that our soul, is wearing.