It represents death, aridity, and nonexistence.If you dream of being in the desert, without water and suffering from the heat of the sun, it means that you feel lonely, unloved, an...

Imagining that you are flying signals the arrival of change that will be very beneficial for you. The action of flying, however, implies the desire to evolve, to connect with the e...

The guru can represent our higher self and our innate wisdom. In dreams, she often takes a religious form—like Buddha, Shiva, or a saint—or appears in a long-bearded old man bo...

To dream of a hospital can be, to a certain point, alarming, since it manifests the fear of being sick.If in the dream you visit someone who is sick, you should take special care o...

Native Americans, Tibetan Buddhists and others claim that all people have a light body that can leave the physical body during sleep. The light body can travel great distances and ...

(see Bread, Eating)A favorable sign of accomplishing your goals and having continued good health. Selling butter portends small gains in business (e.g., making your “bread and bu...

Buddhism, far more than Christianity or Islam, has a very strong pacifist element. The orientation toward non-violence has played a significant role in the political history of Bud...

Tibetan Buddhists refer to these as "dreams of clarity" because they transcend everyday concerns and take you into a space of the divine. You may wake from such a dream with a feel...

From a Sanskrit word meaning ’magic circle or disc’, a mandala is a circular visual representation that is used as a focus point for the practice of meditation. When creating a...

A lucid dream is simply one in which you realize that you are dreaming. In one form or another, lucid dreaming has been practiced with great seriousness in certain religious and ph...

In China and Tibet, dreams that are a sign of good fortune are called‘auspicious dreams’. These may include dreams of holy or famous people, a clear lake, a spotlessly white cl...

A near-death experience (NDE) is a phenomenon reported by people who have been declared clinically dead by medical experts, or passed close to death through accident or illness, bu...

"In the state of wakefulness, dreams subtly encroach upon the individual, giving rise to a forgetfulness, or rather a memory, whose contours are transposed onto a plane of con...

Throughout history, dreams have been believed to possess extraordinary powers that transcend scientific and physical boundaries. As early as the eleventh century, Tibetan holy men ...