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A FEW QUESTIONS AND SUBJECTIVE ANSWERS REGARDING DREAMS.
QUESTION.—What is a dream?
ANSWER—A dream is an event transpiring in that world belonging to the mind when the objective senses have withdrawn into rest or oblivion.
Then the spiritual man is living alone in the future or ahead of objective life and consequently lives man's future first, developing conditions in a way that enables waking man to shape his actions by warnings, so as to make life a perfect existence.
Q.—What relationship is sustained between the average man and his dreams?
A.—A dream to the average or sensual person, bears the same relation to his objective life that it maintained in the case of the ideal dreamer, but it means pleasures, sufferings and advancements on a lower or material plane.
Q.—Then why is man not always able to correctly interpret his dreams?
A.—Just as words fail sometimes to express ideas, so dreams fail sometimes in their mind pictures to portray coming events.
Q.—If they relate to the future, why is it we so often dream of the past?