Originally posted by Scorpiotropic
Personally I never put any significance in dreams or dreamlike states. Always thought it was the brain just blabbering about when you are relaxing...like speaking to itself kinda and organizing the events you experienced.
i look at dreams as the higher self communicating to your mundane Earthly body...and that consciousness has to use one's brain as the communication device.
The brain has to rely on the individuals knowledge, learning, experience in life as the complete 'vocabulary' available to the higher consciousness to 'speak' to your mortal self.
Mush of the dream language is symbolism, metaphor, abstraction, characature... the only meaningful 'words' the higher self can use which you might be able to understand --- 'If' one is willing to unmask, decipher,
the dream message & the language it speaks.
i guess they (dreams) seem to be disorganized ramdomness, flights-of-fancy and such to the average person... but i see many lessons are addressed, options visualized, that are all concerned with one's physical body & mental health/growth and one's connection to the etheral realms & the cosmos (time-space )
but that's my take on the purposes of dreams

