Five Types of Dreams

There are five types of dreams.

1. One is that which comes up in the form of cravings or your unfulfilled desires. They appear in dreams as fulfillment. Have you experienced this? Your latent desires always show up in your dreams.

2. The second type of dream is stress release from the past. All you have experienced in life comes up as dreams.

3. The third type of dream is an intuitive dream — where you think of what might happen in the future.

4. The fourth type of dream has nothing to do with any of these. It is to do with the place where you are sleeping. For instance, if you are sleeping in a hotel in Italy, in your dream, you may experience Italian sounds and feelings.

5. The fifth type of dream is a mixture of the four. You never know one from the other. So you cannot really distinguish a dream and say, "this is my intuitive dream". It could be, it need not be. A wise person would simply brush them aside.

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Q. Should we follow the advice we get in dreams?

Sri Sri: There are five sources for dreams:

1. Your dreams may come from your desires

2. Your dreams may come from your fears

3. Your dreams may be delusions

4. Your dreams may be premonitions of future events

5. Your dreams may be a result of the place you are sleeping in

We experience different things in our dreams. Usually, our dreams are a mixture of the above. Our dreams are of things from the past, future, and of various types.

Don't analyze your dreams too much. If a dream comes, let it come, and just go ahead with your life.