Ego Loss During Sleep

I was just thinking how during sleep (aside from dreams) I experience no perceptions at all. I have no thoughts of any kind. I never think about who I am or any aspects of my life. Could this mean that during sleep we achieve ego loss to some degree?:love:

 

Sleep Is When The Body And Mind Repairs And Rebuilds Itself....

The Ideal Nights Sleep Is When Mother Nature Flicks The OFF Switch

When We Retire, Then Flicks The ON Switch At Dawn....



Cheers Glen.

 

the most likely time you're not going to be dreaming is when you're not in REM cycles but even when you're not in a REM cycle, it's still possible to dream.

how do you know you have no thoughts in your head if you weren't thinking?

 

I Thought The Same Thing, I Guess He Wasn't Thinking...:willy_nilly:



Cheers Glen.

 

When I dream I experience the gamut of emotions/perceptions. I have woken myself up numbers of times from (rather awful) dreams, having felt scared, sad and confused as to why I or someone else in my dream was being treated a certain way. I have had many dreams where I am frantic and "on the run" from someone or something...but I don't really know why or what. I have seen people murdered and been terrified. In another recurring dream I'm angry at my friends and family when they did not recognize a clever enemy. :toetap05: (I usually do get the pleasure of telling them "what is what" and exposing said enemy.)

I have talked to dead people and liked it. :sunny:

I have had some good dreams and have even woken up laughing. Unfortunately the good ones seem to happen (much) less frequently than the other kind.

You are lucky if you are able to have no thoughts (I think anyway) while dreaming and are able to just observe.

 

sleep is what Sivananda called dark samadhi, samadhi, but without consciousness, it is ego-loss, but its not a solution to anything, just a part of rest and such.

 

Sometimes we leave our bodies when we sleep

 

all i can say is that the op's dreams must be very different from my own. what i instead experience the absence of, in dreaming, that is almost constantly present when awake, is anxiety. will is no more absent in my dreams then it is in waking life. it is also no more powerful, nor any less fallible. but it is certainly not completely absent. i can and do make free will decisions and choices in my dreams. much as i do in real life. granted it is often more like being the passenger in a car then the driver of it, but this is not so uncommon an experience in waking life either.