As I ponder more and more on the infinite complexity of the human mind and human behaviour, I am glad in a way that I have taken DREAMS as central to unfolding the mysteries.
For dreams are had while one is asleep and therefore they are productions by processes already there within the individuals but disallowed while awake because of ego concerns. The ego interference is minimal while asleep and hence glimpses are had of the unconscious forces that are always active. This also gives the notion that if while awake we succeed to go to sleep i.e. dull the Ego then we put ourselves in a position to have glimpses of the unconscious while still awake! We can follow the workings of the unconscious as if watching a drama or a stage play. The psychologists studying dreams call such dreams "lucid dreams" as the person is still awake while witnessing the unfoldments of the Unconscious.
Dreams, though are related to the current predicaments of the dreamer, are NOT productions of the individuals. Having dreamed he can react in so many ways ---reject it, forget it, seek out its meaning etc. We can ACT consciously upon it as a finished product in so many different ways.
This gave me the idea for developing Psychology as a field belonging to Hermeneutic Science in which what are analysed are TEXTS with Duality of Structure, the Surface and Deep.
The notion of DREAM is generalised to everything, whatever that is apprehended by man are PRODUCTIONS or as Meykandar calls it ThORRiya Thithi, and man can react in so many ways only because there are such productions by forces beyond his jurisdiction. Even when he ACTS consciously and produces, within the ego regulations there are processes beyond his control that enables the fulfillment of his ego aspirations . That he ACTS is also ultimately a constituted matter with the DESIGN to instruct him about something that he is still IGNORANT about. His brehaviour , like his FACE, is a TEXT and he can understand himself only when he sees his own behaviour as a TEXT and unearths the Deep Structure elements that in fact constituted it.
When we begin to live like this the presence of BEING as the Primordial Cause, is noted and understood experientially and a person henceforth becomes a believer ie. someone who subscribes to the presence of BEING in himself and everywhere and learns also to be submissive to BEING in absolute trust.
It is at this juncture that I want to reply those who have been asking me that they do not dream at all and hence how can they also understand their unconscious? Here I wish to quote Richard M. .Jones from his interesting book "The New Psychology of Dreams: While everyone dreams about FOUR dreams a night, "..............investigations have suggested that dream recall ability under both laboratory and home conditions is at least partially a function of the personality structure, recallers being generally inner-oriented and non-recallers being generally outer-oriented. " (Page 45).
This difference , I think, must be seen in terms of the ability to subdue ego and the inability to do so. The inner-oriented are those who can relax ego concerns and see even self in a detached and objective manner as if SEEING another person. The outer-oriented must be then those who cannot do this and hence push the ego concerns in whatever they do.
Dr Loganathan Krishnan @ Ullaganar
( editing and re-paragraphing by his students )
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