To Eric and those taking an interest in dreams….
Sufi Muslims incorporate a type of dream incubation in their worship or practice lucid dreaming in order to reach higher consciousness. Ibn Arabi, a 12th century Sufi philosopher, described the "great benefits" in training oneself to experience lucid dreams.
Sufism and Dreams
Posted by CHISHTI on FEBRUARY 15, 2018
A gypsy came to a Sufi master as he often received a small amount in charity from him. One day the gypsy told him about his dream, about which the master was very astonished. At the same time the son of an important official came to visit the Sufi, because the parents of the boy wanted the Sufi to give the boy regularly some pocket-money. He asked the young man if he wanted to exchange his pocket-money for the dream of the gypsy. The boy accepted the offer but was not happy with it. A little later he found out what the gypsy had dreamed. The gypsy had dreamed that he would become the Grandvizier and as the boy had bought his dream he later on became installed as Said Pasha in this position.
The dream of the gypsy is a true dream (ru’yaa saadeqa), which is the inheritance of prophecy for us in our days. Dreams are 1/46 part of prophecy. Why? Because nowadays true dreams still are possible. True dreams come from God Himself and are clear, so they don’t need any interpretation.
There are several types of true dreams:
1. They may give you an order to do something.
2. They may forbid you to do something.
3. They may give you a good tiding.
4. They may give you a warning.
Some interesting questions are:
· How can we have true dreams?
· Who can have true dreams?
· Who sends us true dreams?
https://sufi-tavern.com/sufi-doctrine/sufism-and-dreams/In The Red Book, the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung wrote: “Dreams are the guiding words of the soul.
“Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?”
‘Dreams are the guiding words of the soul’
– Carl Jung
For Jung, dreams were a platform where symbols, both common to all humans and unique to the individual, arose to warn the dreamer of problems in the conscious life. His contemporary Sigmund Freud believed every aspect of a dream carried a symbolic significance, no matter how outwardly trivial it seemed.
https://themuslimtimes.info/2022/06/10/while-you-were-sleeping-the-importance-of-dreams-in-middle-eastern-culture/
