Dr Bernard Auriol
translated by Elisabeth Boyreau and Marie-Claire Nguyen
'Should we dream every night of the same thing, we would be as much affected
by it as by the objects we see every day. And if an artisan was sure to dream
every night, during twelve hours, that he is a king, I think he would almost
be as happy as a king, dreaming every night, during twelve hours, he is an artisan.'
( Pascal, Pensées, 386)
That thought isn't exclusive to the oriental mind, for which there is something
not only uncertain or superficial about each experience, but even illusory.
'Maya': Unsubstantial sparkles leading us constantly to the pursuit of new illusions...
Amiel, the philosophe,r writes: "In dreams, our individuality isn't closed;
the whole environment is, so to speak, wrapped in it; it is the scenery and
all its contents, including us. The individual who is dreaming is being dissolved
into the universal fantasy of maya..." (Amiel, Journal Intime, 1 12 1892)
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"the dream is the phenomenon we only observe during its absence". (Tel Quel II, 258)
Jean-Paul Sartre even thinks that if the consciousness of the dream appears, it is because we are awake! He asserts that
"any appearance of the reflexive consciousness in the dream is a momentary waking up, although the power of the consciousness that dreams is often such that it annihilates the reflexive consciousness straightaway, like during nightmares when the sleeper desperatly thinks 'I am dreaming', without managing to wake up, because his reflexive consciousness disappears as soon as the dream takes him over again". (The Imagination, 207)
Delage adds:
"allowing for exceptions, the dreamer believes his dreams are objective, simply because he has no reason not to believe so, in the absence of any possibility of comparison with the waking state life, the existence of which he is not aware of in his dream". (The Dream, 668)
This author was wise enough to use the initial clause 'allowing for exceptions':
Here again the physiology says that those exceptions exist. The indians knew
so. They even affirm that a conscious sleep is possible, in between the dreamlike
phases also.
"As a matter of fact, the dreams are productions of the unconscious soul.
They are spontaneous, unbiased, not influenced by the arbitrary of the conscious.
They are pure nature and therefore, of a natural truth.(...) Pondering over
our dreams is like returning to ourselves. We ponder over our Self, not over
the ego; over that stranger Self which is essential to us, which constitutes
our base, and which, in the past, created the ego" (Jung, L'Homme à
la découverte de son âme, 57).
Therefore, "an unknown faced stranger lies dormant within each of us. He
talks to us through dream and let us know how different the vision he has of
us is from the one we take pleasure in" (Jung, L'Homme à la découverte
de son âme, 63).
Someone in white said : "you've got at least one month left,
one year at the maximum (tears).
The same night a friend dreamt I came to her in tears and said:
- a doctor said I had only one month left !
- Who told you so ?
- My father amd mother ! (dead)
Comments : She actually died in september, that is
6 months later; the prediction was correct (0 month + 12 months)/2 = 6 months...Of
course the development of her disease, and the fact that several women in her
family had already died of the same disease enabled her to predict a quick end.
However truly premonitory dreams most certainly exist; the parapsychologists
use the term 'precognitive'. Here are some disturbing examples :
I dreamt general J.died, and shortly after, on 12-3-85, he did dye.
His son had sold us the property. In the last few days an officer came because
he bequeathed all his possessions to his two maids, except for the castle, given
to his son, who sold it to us. Incredible !
Rather her husband than her daughter (precognitive dream about her daughter's
death) :
I had a dream which deeply moved me. I was sitting on a sofa in a very well-lit
room; next to me was my daughter, dressed in black. Her being really alive made
me very happy. I asked her "how is it you took such a long time to come
?" I related to her about all the events that took place since her accident
and her death. I had a hard time to pull myself together afterwards...Before
the accident, I dreamt her dressed in long mourning veils. I told my husband
"let's hope nothing happen to Jean- jacques !". The contrary happened
!
She went cycling. They met in the mountains. They had to choose between two
roads. She chose. He went ahead; then waTted for her...A car, with the aim of
passing another cyclist on the opposite side, came upon her and smashed her
into the ravine. I don't know if she saw it coming or if...
She was dressed in cycling shorts down to her knees. The bike was in bits. When
she was placed in the coffin, her clothes couldn't be got off. My son-in-law
put an evening dress on her; long, black !... I didn't see her ! I didn't want
to ! I can't think of her but alive !
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