I have always been intrigued, fascinated by the nature of dreams. I have tried to understand what is going on from a logical point of view but... it's really complicated. Let's see what we can come up with.
A dream is considered as a series of thoughts, images and sensations occurring in a person's mind during sleep.
The mind is the element of a person that enables them to be aware of the world and their experiences. It's the faculty of consciousness.
Sleep is a condition in which the nervous system is inactive. Total unconsciousness.
So, in conclusion, a dream is a situation where the mind experiences stuff without the body's direct action and reaction. Therefore dreams are experienced by the part of ourselves that is not physical. Did we say it's the Mind that creates such experience? Yes, we did. Did we say that the Mind is consciousness? Yes, we did.
Now, if consciousness is the state of being awake and aware of one's surroundings, how can the "mind" - as we know it - experience something that is not happening in the surroundings we are familiar with (the physical world), the only ones where we can consciously exist? This reasoning seems to me as a contradiction in terms, where the words used contradict one another. Sleep entails unawareness. So, while dreaming, the body does not function. Mind makes us experience the physical world of awareness. Is it consciousness experiencing unconsciousness?? Can the mind experience thoughts and feelings in a world that is not our own, that is not even real? I wonder if it could it be that not only is our mind connected to the "human" body, but it does also have a reality on a plane of existence that is beyond our physical senses, a "real" world that does not exist on our level of daily experiences but which, nevertheless, is factual, substantial. Shakespeare wrote, "We are such stuff as dreams are made on" (The Tempest, act 4, scene 1). What are dreams made on? What is the "stuff" we are made on?
The mind is the element of a person that enables them to be aware of the world and their experiences. It's the faculty of consciousness.
Sleep is a condition in which the nervous system is inactive. Total unconsciousness.
So, in conclusion, a dream is a situation where the mind experiences stuff without the body's direct action and reaction. Therefore dreams are experienced by the part of ourselves that is not physical. Did we say it's the Mind that creates such experience? Yes, we did. Did we say that the Mind is consciousness? Yes, we did.
Now, if consciousness is the state of being awake and aware of one's surroundings, how can the "mind" - as we know it - experience something that is not happening in the surroundings we are familiar with (the physical world), the only ones where we can consciously exist? This reasoning seems to me as a contradiction in terms, where the words used contradict one another. Sleep entails unawareness. So, while dreaming, the body does not function. Mind makes us experience the physical world of awareness. Is it consciousness experiencing unconsciousness?? Can the mind experience thoughts and feelings in a world that is not our own, that is not even real? I wonder if it could it be that not only is our mind connected to the "human" body, but it does also have a reality on a plane of existence that is beyond our physical senses, a "real" world that does not exist on our level of daily experiences but which, nevertheless, is factual, substantial. Shakespeare wrote, "We are such stuff as dreams are made on" (The Tempest, act 4, scene 1). What are dreams made on? What is the "stuff" we are made on?
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