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The Gift of the Night School

Jenny Gillespie Mason

Abstract
The opportunity for inner progress is afforded to us not only in the waking hours, but during
sleep. Understanding the various planes we move through in sleep, as well as asking for
more consciousness before sleep, allows us to gain incremental mastery of our dream states.
Consciousness in dreams can lead to decisive positive movements in yoga. Dream scenarios
involving adverse forces provide chances to implement what we have gained thus far on the
path. Recognising the inner being as more active during the sleep state motivates us to aspire
for conscious contact with our inner being in dreams, which is supported by maintaining a
practice of remembering our dreams.

Tapping into the Potential of the Night Aurobindo and the Mother on sleep and
School dreams, I now recognise dreaming as a
chance not only to become more conscious
I have for many years been invested in of my human complexity, but as a field in
remembering my dreams and connecting them which true spiritual progress can unfold.
to my waking state, to try to understand what Dreamtime is a school gifted to us — the
the symbols and situations in the dreams are open doors of which we usually pass by,
trying to tell me about the mystery of myself. hurrying to get through the night and on to
But since discovering the teachings of Sri the next day. In the words of the Mother:

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