17 May 2012 - QA 3

I had dream that I am coming this course and I have had dreams about you. Are dreams a sort of intuition?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: There are 6 types of dreams. Do you want to know?
The first type is daydreaming. Let us leave it aside. It is not a dream per se.
The second type of dream that comes to you is about your past experiences. Your past experiences and impressions come to you as dreams.
The third type of dream is your desires and fears; they come to you as dreams.
The fourth type of dream is your intuition or premonition. Whatever is going to happen may come to you as a dream.
The fifth type has nothing to do with you, but with the place where you sleep. You see faces and hear languages that are strange to you.
The sixth type is a mixture of all this. And 99% of the dreams are of this type. So, it is best not to try to interpret or worry about them too much. You never know, some dreams could be your premonition or intuition, and some could just be your fear or anxiety. So, it is best to just let go, drink a cup of tea and be happy. Wake up from the dream.

The wise people see even this life as a dream. You should see the whole past as a dream. It is all gone, isn’t it? It is like a dream.
Dreams are nothing but memories of impressions. It is all gone. And this (the present) will become a dream. It will be gone. And tomorrow, day after and three days later, you will all go back home and say, ‘Oh, we were in Bulgaria. It is all like a dream.’
Similarly, if you think about it, you will live day after day, day after day, for another 50 years on this planet, and then you will wake up and say, ‘Oh, it is like a dream, it is all gone’. Correct!
And it is knowledge that turns every nightmare into a sweet dream.