Re: Scientology's teaching regarding dreams? Title: Re: Scientology's teaching regarding dreams?
Author: Warrior <warrior@electrotex.com>
Date: 6 Apr 1998 11:04:25 -0700
In article <6g95fu$p3f$1@godzilla.zeta.org.au>, nobody@zeta.org.au says...
>
>  What does Scientology teach about the meaning of dreams? Are they
>  supposedly the restimulation of engrams, of past lives or one's
>  body thetans 'mocking something up'? Do they give dreams excessive
>  significance (such as if you dream you kill someone you're really
>  a murderer)?
>
>  I ask this because of wgert's obsession with the pig dream a critic
>  supposedly had, and we know wgert is OSA. Perhaps this 'obsession'
>  is because wgert/OSA gives Scientology's signicance to dreams, while
>  most people don't give much literal signicance to the meaning of dreams.
>
>  Of course perhaps the likely explanation is that wgert (or his OSA boss)
>  simply is obsessed with pig sex himself.
>
>  Betan

Here are a few things Hubbard had to say about dreams:

  "Dreams are crazy house mirrors by which the analyzer looks down into
the engram bank."
 
  "Dreams are puns on words and situations in the engram bank."

  "Dreams are not much help, being puns."
 
  "Dreams are not much used in dianetics."
 
  "You will hear dreams from patients. Patients are hard to shut off
when they start telling dreams. If you want to waste your time, you
will listen."
   -from _Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health_, pgs. 296-297

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  "A frantic effort to orient, just to locate himself so that he can feel
secure, that's what a dream is and a dream of course is pretended knowingness
because he is at none of these places."
   -from Saint Hill Special Briefing Course tape 39, "Q & A - Anatomy and
    Assessment of Goals", August 15, 1961

***

"A pretended knowingness about location."
   -from Saint Hill Special Briefing Course tape 50, "Subjective Reality",
    September 6, 1961
 

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  "Dreams are alter-ises of the things you can't not-is."
   -from Saint Hill Special Briefing Course tape 122 "The Bad Auditor",
    March 19, 1962

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  "Dreams follow a sudden loss. It's an effort to orient oneself and get
something back." 
   -from HCOB 29 March 1965 "All Levels ARC Breaks"

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  "The imaginative reconstruction of areas of randomity or the re-symbolization
of the efforts of theta."
   -from _Scientology 0-8_, first edition, 1970

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  "A dream in its normal function is that powerful and original mechanism
called the imagination compositing or creating new pictures."
   -from _Dianetics: The Original Thesis_, 1970 edition

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Warrior
see http://www.entheta.net/entheta/1stpersn/warrior/