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<p class="paracenter">WHY ARE DREAMS FORGOTTEN?
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<p class="para"> It is because dreams do not occur 
always in the same domain. It is not always the same part of the being that 
dreams nor is it the same place where one dreams. If one were in conscious 
communication with all the parts of one's being then one would remember all his 
dreams. But it is only with a few parts of your being that you remain in 
conscious contact in sleep. For example, you have a dream in the subtle 
physical, that is to say, in the domain very near the physical. This generally 
happens towards the end of the night, in the early hours of the morning just 
before you get up (say between four and five). Before rising from bed, if you 
remain very quiet, without making any movement and concentrate a little, you 
will be able to remember the dreams that you had immediately before: the 
communication between the physical and the subtle physical being close, you 
would be able to remember easily enough. Now if you begin from the beginning 
what happens is something like this. As you fall into sleep, the body becomes 
quiet and the vital too goes to rest; but the mind continues to be active, it 
has not gone to sleep. You have now what are called mental dreams built out of 
all kinds of ideas and imaginations set free. After a time the mind gets tired 
and falls silent; the vital has rested sufficiently and wakes up in its turn and 
moves about. Your dreams of the mental domain
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<p class="para">are pushed back giving place to vital dreams. When you are 
active in the vital you very often go out of your body, visit all kinds of 
places and get involved in various exploits and adventures. If you wake up 
suddenly then, you would remember your vital exploits in sleep. Some people 
train themselves to get up at fixed hour of the night. They thus bring to memory 
the dreams they had just before waking. Now the vital too after having been 
sufficiently active gets tired and goes to rest. Yet another part of the being 
now replaces the vital and comes forward. It may be the turn of the subtle 
physical to enter the arena. The vital is pushed back and you lose contact with 
it.
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<p class="para"> To become conscious of all the 
various movements of your nights, to recover them in your memory, some sort of 
training is necessary. The different states of the being in which you roam at 
night are, as you have seen, usually separate from each other. There is a gap in 
between two states; you jump from one to the other. There is no highway passing 
through all the domains of your consciousness connecting them without break or 
interruption. That means forgetfulness. When you leap from one into the other, 
you push back, that is forget, the one you leave behind. So you have to 
construct a bridge and very few people know how to do it; it requires more 
engineering skill than to build a material bridge. You may have very wonderful 
experiences in sleep, but you forget them all; perhaps you remember, as I have 
said, the last one, the one nearest to the physical mind. The
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<p class="para">best way then to remember and become conscious of the whole 
night is to begin at the end and go backward. Catch hold of the last image that 
still persists in your memory, like the loose end of a thread and then pull, 
pull slowly, till image after image comes back: it is something like the 
unrolling of a cinema film in the reverse direction. When you lose trace, stop 
and concentrate a little; try to call back whatever stray bit or faint 
impression still persists or can be more easily revived and then again pull 
slowly, gently, pick up whatever shows itself, try to join the bits. In this 
way, after some trial and training you will be able to recover a good part of 
the lost underworld.
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<p class="para"> There are, however, many ways of 
going about the thing. For you must know that your nights are not all the same. 
Each one is different and brings its own kind of sleep and dream. As each day is 
different having its own particular kind of activity, each night too likewise 
comes with its peculiar experiences. You may think that one day is more or less 
exactly like the previous day, that you are doing the same thing from day to 
day; but it is not so. Outwardly the activities may appear to be the same, but 
really their nature and significance vary from one day to another. No two 
moments are alike in the universe. Your night too is an universe of its own 
kind. Each night brings its own problem and needs its own solution.
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