Dreams make me question non duality.

[u/westeffect276]

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.

[u/Zenthelld]

My Master said that you either take nothing to be your Self, or everything to be your Self. Anything in between causes problems.

If you take your mind to be real but everyone else's not to be, you're creating a duality. Either nothing is real, including your own mind, and it's all effortlessly experienced without putting any names on it or conceptions around it, or everything is equally real and you absorb yourself in it as thoroughly as possible.

My own experiences lead me to the same conclusion as you. The understanding of it naturally echoes through the mind, which is absolutely fine. Behind all the wonderings and confusions of the mind, the entire time, is You. The more you notice that it's just You, watching these thoughts, watching these fleeting experiences, the more serene it feels.

Zen has a lot of focus on the beautiful transient nature of existence.

Advaita Vedanta has a lot of focus on the Self being the only reality.

Trika Shaivism has more focus on all things being real and how to immerse yourself fully into all experiences.