Dream And Reality. Poem by Subrata Ray

Dream is reality and reality is dream,
The return of Sanskaras in shadowy gleam.
The broken image from the Vast Unconscious,
Through the gate-way of sleepy mind finds focus.

From the Sumerians, to the ancient Hebrew thoughts,
Dreams were the links between man and God.
The figures, Solomon, Jacob, Joseph in the Bible,
Speak of Dream’s glory through, divine fore- tale.

, In ancient Egypt dream incubation began.
In troubled person’s sleep, prophecy rang.
Hippocrates, the Greek, thought dream a reverie,
What one receives in day, at night returns as dream’s story.

Freud’s dream of “royal road to the unconscious.'
Either from id or ego, finds a subconscious burst.
Delusions and illusions of one’s psychosis
Produce dreams to fulfill the hidden wish.

To Jung the deeper layers of unconscious psychic,
In dream stimulates the subconscious with a click.
His “collective unconscious” in people all,
Through dreams reveal archetypes symbols.

To my vagabond dream is live intuition in inert-mind’s rest,
In it all the accumulated past, and future’s shows enjoy the best.
It has its validity, and yet it, parts from one’s deep meditation,
As therein the Vast unconscious creates a commotion.
There is no difference between dream and apparent reality,
Until one attains the Soul, -the both prove illusion’s frailty.