Dreams

Talking about dreams, H. P. Blavatsky stated:

In that strange state of being which, as Byron has it, puts us in a position “with seal’d eyes to see,” one often perceives more real facts than when awake.

Psychological dreams

C. W. Leadbeater wrote:

Any fairly advanced and cultured man has consciousness fully developed in the astral body, and is perfectly capable of employing it as a vehicle if he were only in the habit of doing so. But to do this a definite effort would be necessary. The enormous majority of men know nothing at all about the astral body or its uses, and so naturally make no effort of any kind. They have behind them the tradition of the immemorial custom of along series of lives in which the astral faculties have not been used, for these faculties have been gradually and slowly growing inside a shell, somewhat as a chicken grows inside the egg. The shell is composed of the great mass of self-centred thought in which the ordinary man is so hopelessly entombed. Whatever may have been the thoughts chiefly engaging his mind during the day, he usually continues them when falling asleep, and is thus surrounded by so dense a wall of his own making that he practically knows nothing of what is going on outside. Occasionally, but very rarely, some violent impact from without, or some strong desire of his own from within, may tear aside this curtain of mist for the moment and permit him to receive some definite impression; but even then the fog closes in again almost immediately, and he dreams on un-observantly as before.

Additional resources

Articles

• Dreams at Theosophy World
• Are Dreams But Idle Visions? by H. P. Blavatsky
• Dreamland and Somnambulism by H. P. Blavatsky
• On Dreams by H. P. Blavatsky
• Dreams a collection of articles by H. P. Blavatsky and W. Q. Judge
• Remembering the Experiences of the Ego by W. Q. Judge

Books

• Dreams by H.P. Blavatsky Edited and Rearranged by A.L. Cleather
• Dreams by C. W. Leadbeater
• Dreams and Dream-Stories by Anna Kingsford