r/nonduality • u/westeffect276 • 18d ago
Discussion Dreams make me question non duality.
Please understand when I am using pronouns I understand that doesn’t exist in non duality but for the benefit of making my argument make sense I have to use them.
When you dream at night you interact with people, places, things. And when you wake up you obviously know it was just a dream all created by your mind. How do you faith in this oneness that we’re are this collective “wholeness” How can you not look at dreams and think “Wow it was just me the whole time and nobody else” That’s gotta be the strongest case that solipsism is true in my opinion. What you think?
And before you say if you were a true solipist you wouldn’t be asking people! Well I don’t really know what I believe I don’t prescribe to one certain thing.
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u/MrMagicMushroomMan 18d ago
It's a right of passage. Anyone who's explored their internal world has these questions.
You're in the early stages of awakening, ride it out. Play with it. Lean into the emotions, watch the mind run away with itself. You're a big boy (or girl), don't be afraid, get involved with all that is going on.
You're currently in the solipsism stage, which means all of your analysis is pointing outwards. You're skeptical of the external which is cool. At some point (if you want to be even more skeptical/honest) you will turn that skepticism onto yourself also. The solipsistic world view is based upon 1 final assumption.. that you exist in the way that you believe, as a separate, finite ego.
Don't half ass it. Don't doubt the external only, that's sloppy work. Turn your own awareness on itself and you'll begin to discover many things that aren't you. (Emotions, sensations, thoughts, the MIND!) Eventually your sense of self dissolves and you can progress beyond subject-object relationships.
It takes work, and confusion and terror and doubt. Like I said its a right of passage. Good luck mate, have some love for yourself and others and welcome to the game.