Contents: 1. The enigmatic nature of dream and sleep. 2. Psychology and cognitive neuroscience. 3. The awe-evoking world of lucid dreaming. 4. Ontology of dreaming. 5. Epistemology of dreaming. 6. Svapna darsana: the dream yoga. 7. Advaita of dreaming. 8. Epilogue. Bibliography Index. Dreams play a significant role in our life, meaningfully affecting us in the development of our personality and our spiritual journey. They are an everyday experience for any human being. Dreams have always been of great interest to poets and philosophers alike since ancient times and examples are aplenty in Indian and Western scriptures. However, it is an uphill task for an ordinary person to fully appreciate the intricacies and significance of dreams in the day-to-day life. It is here that this book proves as an invaluable guide providing deep understanding on the nature of dream and sleep. This book is a repertoire of human wisdom gathered for centuries and attested by the modern science offering enormous insights into our dream and deep-sleep states. It asks, from a common man s point of view, many a question that perturb us and provides answers to them from the scientific and spiritual perspectives in a captivating way. Some such questions include: Do we see dreams in black and white or in colour? What does a visually-challenged person see in his dreams? Why are some of our dreams extraordinarily vivid with electric colours, the clarity and brilliance of which, we may never encounter in our ordinary waking lives? Why are we non-reflective, irrational in our dreams? Are the dream time and waking time equal? How does our memory work in dream state? Why do we forget our dreams and is it possible to improve dream recall and cultivate awareness in dreams? Why do we fail to distinguish a dream object from the physical world object while we are dreaming? If the dream experience exactly feels like the real world and we fail to distinguish it from the waking world while we are dreaming, how can we be certain that we are not dreaming now? How does a dream contain various persons exhibiting opposite emotions at the same time when all the dream characters including the witnessing dreamer are produced out of single mind of the dreaming person? Can we intentionally transform the dream scenarios? If so, what would be the philosophical implications of it? Can dreams and sleeps be utilized for spiritual elevation? … and many more questions we always wondered about the daily eight hours of our bed time, but never got the right answers to! We find new meanings and ways in dealing with our dreams in this volume, therefore, it is a must read for every dream enthusiast as well as any serious spiritual seeker." This volume factors many a question that perturb us about sleep and dreams and provides answers to them from the scientific and spiritual perspectives in a captivating way. We find new meanings and ways in dealing with our dreams, making it a must read for every dream enthusiast and a serious spiritual seeker alike.
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