Tag sleep

Dreaming, Wakefulness A Thin Line

This is all the maximum explanation Science could provide biologically on Sleeping?Slumber apart from making loud noises about the Brain needing rest, the body recharging during sleep.

Psychologists as usual try everything under the sun for explaining away Sleep.

Sigmund Freud says it is the repressed desires expressing themselves , Jung states it is the Human personality asserting itself in Sleep.

Behaviorist say, well, it is Behavior!

But the main question has not been answered.

What happens during Sleep and what is dreaming and deep sleep?

Buddhist Schools speak of the Etheric body, Astral Body..
Rene Descartes the Great Rationalist( Philosophical term , not to be confused with the self-styled rationalist jokers like Karunanidhi and Kamal Hassan) proves the Existence of God the External World and Mind.

While describing the process of enquiry he says he can not trust his senses for they are not always right.

He can not others words as the truth for he does not know whether they can be relied upon.

As he goes on in this vein he exclaims,

" Am I awake or Dreaming, May be It Real world I was experiencing when I was dreaming and this world might be a Dream.

Sleep Stages, ‘Not Absence Of Thoughts’ Yoga Sutra 1.10

Sleep and Dreams, are the two states of which we know precious little.

Sigmund Freud, in his attempt to interpret the Dreams, has set up a system of Psychiatry, blames every one for their actions but themselves.

He had interpreted Dreams only as an expression of Sex and depressed desires.

Jung professed 'Freud conceived the unconscious solely as a repository of repressed emotions and desires. Jung agreed with Freud's model of the unconscious, what Jung called the "personal unconscious", but he also proposed the existence of a second, far deeper form of the unconscious underlying the personal one. This was the collective unconscious, where thearchetypes themselves resided, represented in mythology by a lake or other body of water, and in some cases a jug or other container. Freud had actually mentioned a collective level of psychic functioning but saw it primarily as an appendix to the rest of the psyche'

Then we have many Behavioral Psychologists.

These scholars saw Mind as a Blind seeing An Elephant" seeing a part and interpreting it to suit them.

Patanjali goes to the basics.

Since we do not remember anything in sleep, is Sleep 'Absence of Thoughts?'

He says NO.