😳 What DREAMS may BE. Metaphysics of Dreams 🧐

About this Video

• Video Title: 😳 What DREAMS may BE. Metaphysics of Dreams 🧐
• Channel: Theoria Apophasis
• Speakers: The speaker's name is not explicitly mentioned in the transcript.
• Duration: 00:27:17

Introduction

This video explores the metaphysics of dreams, differentiating between common interpretations of dreams as manifestations of unconscious fears and desires, and a less understood aspect: dreams as opportunities for contact with other beings. The speaker uses analogies and personal anecdotes to explain these concepts.

Key Takeaways

1. Three Types of Dream Experiences: The speaker distinguishes three types of experiences often labeled as "dreams": (a) typical dreams reflecting unconscious fears, desires, and anxieties; (b) opportunities for contact with other beings; (c) what the speaker considers actual dreams, which are rare and involve a different quality of experience.
2. Dream Control: An African tribe's teaching emphasizes taking control in dreams to avoid being at the whim of external forces, unlike in nightmares. This control is presented as a form of mental dominance.
3. Radio Analogy: The speaker uses the analogy of a radio: a drained battery (sleep) causes the signal (consciousness) to invent its own reality, often manifesting as typical dreams. A "dream" involving contact with another being is different, analogous to a conscious interaction.
4. Wisdom and Dreams: The speaker asserts that greater wisdom leads to fewer dreams because it reduces unconscious fears and anxieties.
5. Apophaticism: The speaker introduces apophaticism (also known by several other names) as a process of separating oneself from false identity, a deliberate disunion of consciousness from the body, contrasting with the tethered disembodiment of a dream state.