Sorcha - Oh. Well, I probably don't remember most of them, but there are a few that remain fairly clear. There are some that are so vivid that I think I am probably meant to remember them. There are some that I have had over again several times, which I gather means it is a pretty significant message.

Usually I only have fragmentary memories.

It's a mysterious business.

The teachings of yoga indicate that there are several levels of reality, as follows...

1. waking consciousness - while we are awake and using our physical senses and surface mentality, logic, memory, emotion, and so on...dealing with tactile, physical reality.

2. astral consciousness - a deeper level, where one experiences not through the physical organs or senses, but through the astral body. This is the dream state. We still can see, touch, walk around, drive a car, etc...but none of it is physical, it just seems that way, although many things can happen which would not happen in physical reality. It's very convincing, and most people don't realize that it is not physical until they wake up. This doesn't mean it's not real. It just isn't physically real. The yogic teachings indicate that the astral is very real indeed. It's a spiritual realm. Much of what we term the "subconscious" is expressed powerfully in the astral, and we work out emotional challenges there too.

3. deep sleep - this is an unconscious state, in which the mind is silent, and the body rests.

4. self-realization, the soul, samadhi, full awareness - this is the (as far as we know) deepest level of awareness, the actual immortal self that each one of us is, the part that is completely beyond mind (and far wiser), which never sleeps, which never dies, which only loves, which does not fear. It is the individualization of what many people call "God".

Needless to say, most people don't believe in or have any idea whatsoever about number (4). I believe in it, but have not much succeeded in reaching it yet. One meditates and contemplates in order to reach it, and there are other ways too...a number of them.

One in 100,000 people manage to do it in a given lifetime. If that.

If you don't believe it, that's okay. I just thought someone might find it interesting to consider.

- LH