Weird Buddhist Dream V

I tend to have a weird religious dream about once a year or so, especially after some troubled sleep. The last is mentioned here and another here, and an even older one here. Older ones did not survive the previous blog.1 After writing my previous post, I went to bed shortly thereafter and later dreamt I was outdoors on a hot, summer day somewhere. I was walking down a long, long stone and gravel path toward a brilliant, shining white and gold Buddhist stupa (vaguely similar to the ones linked here) wearing a light cotton shirt and some khaki pants and maybe carrying a book, but not much else. Around me, lots of other people were walking toward the stupa of various nationalities.

At some point, as I walked toward this stupa, I bowed, then I took a few more steps, and then prostrated fully upon the ground. It was at that point I woke up.

I don’t like to attach too much meaning to such dreams, and the Buddha did discourage the interpretation of dreams as yet another superstition, but I am more fascinated about what the subconscious mind is telling me through such dreams. Oddly enough, I did not read about stupas or anything like that in recent times, so this was not the kind of dream I would have expected.

Strange.

P.S. A friend recently contacted me after my last post, and some of what he stated coincides with this dream, though I had the dream before reading his email. Coincidence? Who knows. :-p

1 I still remember one from years ago, where my wife and I offered a huge bundle of incense to a statue of Kannon Bodhisattva, which actually looked more like the red-faced Chinese hero Guan Yu. In another dream, I once remember being in a massive, massive sandstone-colored temple watching a great number of monks bowing and paying homage to the Buddha, while I hid behind a pillar shyly.


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One Comment on “Weird Buddhist Dream V”

  1. Lee says:

    I dream white cloth guan yin. I move towards her and bowed to her. Her shining gold and silver light at the back so bright.


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