Srinivasa Ramanujan was a genius mathematician who lived in India during the early 1900s.
He is considered one of the most brilliant mathematicians to have ever lived, and his equations are still helping modern scientists better understand Black Hole and String theory physics.
But how Ramanujan obtained his knowledge is otherworldly.
Ramanujan is said to have spent countless hours outside a Temple staring at statues of deities in reverence whilst scribbling down equations.
His most profound discoveries he claimed came to him during dreams.
“The goddess Namagiri would write the equations on my tongue while I slept.”
It’s easy for us to discount Ramanujan’s explanation.
It’s easy for us to call them the ramblings of a madman, but if we do that, we’ll also have to ignore the plethora of other geniuses who shared similar stories.
In his Meditations, the great Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius dedicates the first chapter to all the people who have helped him.
He thanks the Gods, his adopted father, grandfather, and mother.
Interestingly, he also thanks his dreams.
“That by dreams I have received help, as for other things, so in particular, how I might stay my casting of blood, and cure my dizziness, as that also that happened to thee in Cajeta.”
The great inventor Nikola Tesla wrote in his autobiography about how he would ‘travel’ at night to visit distant lands and make profound friendships.
He claimed the people he saw in his visions were just as real to him as those living.
This astral travel was something that shaped his brilliant mind for revolutionary discoveries.
“This I did constantly until I was about seventeen when my thoughts turned seriously to invention”.
I believe dreams are the gateway to higher knowledge.
They are not mere subconscious garbage but have practical reality-creation applications for those with an open mind.
Dreams and the Subconscious Mind
For years I have been fascinated by the mysterious world of dreams.
My interest exploded when I began to have a series of lucid dreams at the age of 19.
For those who haven’t experienced it,
A lucid dream is a dream in which you become aware that you’re dreaming.
For most people, the excitement of this realization usually ends the experience, and they wake up.
But for those who remain calm, the life-changing journey into the dream plane begins.
When you first wake up whilst dreaming you might be surprised to see a world that feels just as real as your waking reality.
Lucid dreaming and its sister Astral Projection can’t be explained logically, they must be experienced subjectively.
Until you have done it you will never understand.
My adventures in lucid dreaming led me to explore the question
“What is real?”
For years we have been taught dreams aren’t real and are mere figments of the imagination.
This is a convenient excuse for scientists who to this day still don’t understand the purpose of dreams or consciousness.
If dreams are mere subconscious rubbish, then why do they feel so real once you gain lucidity?
Vadim Zeland, the former physicist and popular esoteric writer, posed a good question in his book Reality Transurfing.
“It is difficult even in a waking state to close your eyes and mentally imagine pictures as naturally as one would see them in a dream, and so it is pointless to indulge in flimsy arguments that claim that the mind suddenly acquires the ability to perceive imagined images perfectly as soon as it switches off in the sleep state.”
Scientists might say dreams appear real to consciousness because our brains are in the Theta state as opposed to the Beta and Alpha states of waking reality.
Perhaps when the brain operates in a different mode it might gain different abilities.
This theory still doesn’t explain one strange aspect of dreaming.
The ability to obtain hidden knowledge unavailable to the conscious mind.
This occult knowledge which sometimes comes in the form of precognition can be experienced by anyone with the patience to investigate.
Neville Goddard’s Fourth Dimensional Thinking
The mystic Neville Goddard explained it perfectly in his underrated book Out of this World.
Neville proposed that there must be a higher reality in which this world is but a shadow.
To begin with we must understand the meaning of the word dimension.
A dimension is a way in which something can be measured.
Common dimensions are Length, width, and breadth; these are used to measure physical objects in three-dimensional space.
The more dimensions something has, the more sophistication it obtains, and the more real it appears.
Neville lays out the following thought experiment to help illustrate the relationship between dimensions of different degrees.
If we bisect a 3-dimensional solid, its cross sections will be a 2-dimensional surface.
If we bisect a 2-dimensional surface, we get a 1-dimensional line.
If we bisect a line, we get a point (which has zero dimensions).
Notice how each lower dimension can be derived from a higher more complex dimension?
Now notice how inhabitants of a lower dimension can be oblivious to higher dimensions.
A circle can live peacefully on a piece of paper without knowing about the existence of a sphere.
According to Neville, there must be a 4th-dimensional reality more foundational than our 3-dimensional reality.
A higher dimension which influences our lower one in ways we can’t understand whilst inhabiting the physical.
To Neville, this higher dimension can be experienced through imagination and dreaming.
Dreams and Precognition
“MANY persons, myself included, have observed events before they occurred; that is, before they occurred in this world of three dimensions. Since man can observe an event before it occurs in the three dimensions of space, life on earth must proceed according to plan.”
—Neville
Have you ever experienced an event in a dream only to be shocked to see it happen in reality?
This precognition from dreams is more common than you would imagine.
I believe dreams are behind the unsettling feeling of Deja-vu.
Many of the experiences we have in waking share a resemblance to dreams we have had.
The connection between dreams and waking events can range from very weak to spooky accuracy.
I once had a dream of an eagle grabbing me with its talons and lifting me into a tree.
The next day whilst watching a movie I saw a scene in which an eagle picked up a dog and took it up into a tree.
Many people would consider this a coincidence, and perhaps it was.
But when you develop the daily habit of journaling your dreams, the coincidence theory quickly flies out the door.
When you journal your dreams, you tell your subconscious mind they are worth remembering.
You deconstruct this notion that dreams are pointless or meaningless. There is no gift given to Man from God which is pointless.
Everything has a purpose even if we don’t understand it.
Soon, you will remember most of your dreams and can track the connection between them and your waking life.
Many people understand how waking life can influence dreams.
You might remember watching a horror movie at night only to have a similar nightmare.
However, many do not realize that dreams do influence reality.
This can only be discovered through a commitment to journalin
Neville Goddard SATS Explained – Create Your Reality
“In dreams, Seth says, we write the script for our daily lives and perceive other levels of existence that our physical focus usually obscures.”
—Jane Roberts
According to Neville, dreams are ‘uncontrolled four-dimensional thinking’.
When we dream, we usually have a low level of awareness about our surroundings.
Weird things happen in dreams which we do not dare to question.
It’s as if we are under a spell.
In moments of heightened awareness, we realize the high strangeness around us.
These moments become portals to lucid dreaming.
Once awake in the dream we realize our latent powers.
If you want to fly, you can fly.
If you want to ride a Tyrannosaurus Rex, you can ride one.
Manifestation is instant on this Mental Plane.
It is during this state that you have the power to think fourth dimensionally and influence the events you will experience in the physical world.
Remember, your dreams are tied to your physical existence as dreams exist on a higher level or dimension.
What we experience in dreams gets experienced in life not as a carbon copy of the exact sequence but as a re-arrangement of elements.
For example,
I once had a dream in which I met the entrepreneur influencer Manny Koshbin.
When I woke up the next day, I was followed on Instagram by a fake profile, someone impersonating Manny Koshbin.
Dreams often hint at what you will experience, but how you experience it in the physical world is beyond your control.
So, to influence reality in your favor, Neville suggests you create a scenario that you will witness upon successfully realizing your ideal.
“For example: suppose you desired promotion in office. Being congratulated would be an event you would encounter following the fulfillment of your desire.”
Maybe you want to lose weight. Stepping on the scale and seeing your goal weight might be something you would experience upon reaching the goal.
This scenario can be created within a lucid dream for more potency, but it can also be done in a state akin to sleep (SATS).
Scientists call this the hypnagogic state, a period of restfulness when the body is immobilized and visualizations become more vivid whilst the mind is alert.
“The twilight is the crack between the worlds. It is the door to the unknown.”
—Carlos Castaneda
Mentally feel yourself into the event as if you were experiencing it in real life. Don’t see it from the 3rd person view but from the first.
Make the event short so you can maintain your concentration and repeat it until you fall asleep.
If you’re doing it within a lucid dream, keep repeating it while you maintain your lucidity.
Upon waking up live your life as normal.
Do what you feel intuitively drawn to and soon you will be surprised when you re-encounter what you saw 4th dimensionally in your physical world.
Do this, and you will be one step closer to living and dying well.