Quote:Sleeping and dreaming. Experiences while falling asleep and experience in the land of dreams have always preoccupied, frightened, and sometimes even shaped people's lives.
Arthur Schopenhauer called sleep the little brother of death. Psychologists analyze dreams and try to derive encrypted meanings from them. And while in rural areas, back in the 20th century, the fear of spirits who haunt unconscious and unprotected sleepers was widespread, science assumes that dreamt experiences, like any experience, only take place in the brain.
But nocturnal events that touch every human being also have a significant, scarcely researched, spiritual component. There are apparently dreams that anticipate events from the future. Dreams that accompany the process of death. Or shared dream experiences that affect two or more people. What can consciousness do while we are sleeping and dreaming?
Does a door to an immaterial world of experience open every night? Is there a connection to what awaits people after death?
'Historically, we may regard materialism as a system of dogma set up to combat orthodox dogma...Accordingly we find that, as ancient orthodoxies disintegrate, materialism more and more gives way to scepticism.'
- Bertrand Russell
- Bertrand Russell
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