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The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of... · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Once we break out of the limitations set by Western
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  psychologists such as Freud in our attempt to understand the
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  nature of dreams, we can explore the much wider and more nuanced
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  potential causes, triggers, images and significances of
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  dreams. We find it hard to appreciate
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  that there are independent mental or vital planes or subtle
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  physical worlds that exist outside of the human frame of
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  reference. We also have a hard time
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  recognizing that forces and beings from these other planes
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  or worlds can and do impact our lives here.
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  Yet the premise is quite simple. There is a vibrational spectrum,
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  and we accept that we are only able to directly perceive a
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  specific range of that spectrum. We also accept that vibrations
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  from outside that range can be experienced by other beings in
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  the world and that they also can impact us even when we cannot
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  directly perceive them. It is thus no extraordinary leap
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  to understand that these forces and beings influence our
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  behaviour, nor that they are most effective in that influence
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  when our conscious waking guard is down during periods of sleep
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  and dream. It is also true that even
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  impulses, vibrations and forces that are known to be active in
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  our world can influence us, particularly when they act on
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  the subconscious levels where we are less able to monitor and
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  control them on a consistent basis.
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  Thus, energies we encounter in our lives can raise up reactions
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  and responses that come out in the dream state, Triorobindo
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  observes Quote. All dreams of this kind are very
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  obviously formations, such as one often meets on the vital,
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  more rarely on the mental plane. Sometimes they are the
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  formations of your own mind or vital.
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  Sometimes they are the formations of other minds with
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  an exact or modified transcription in yours.
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  Sometimes formations come that are made by the non human forces
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  or beings of these other planes. These things are not true and
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  need not become true in the physical world, but they may
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  still have effects on the physical if they are framed with
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  that purpose or that tendency. And if they are allowed, they
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  may realize their events or their meaning, for they are most
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  often symbolical or schematic in the inner or the outer life.
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  The proper course with them is simply to observe and
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  understand, and if they are from a hostile source, reject or
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  destroy them. There are other dreams that have
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  not the same character, but are of representation or
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  transcription of things that actually happen on other planes,
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  in other worlds under other conditions than ours.
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  There are again some dreams that are purely symbolic and some
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  that indicate existing movements and propensities in US, whether
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  familiar or undetected by the waking mind, or exploit old
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  memories, or else raise up things either passively stored
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  or still active in the subconscient.
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  A mass of various stuff which has to be changed or got rid of
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  as one rises into a higher consciousness.
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  If one learns how to interpret, one can get from dreams much
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  knowledge of the secrets of our nature and of other nature.
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  And quote reference Sri Aurobindo, Bases of Yoga,
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  Chapter 5 Physical Consciousness, Subconscious
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  Sleep and Dream Illness, pages 100 to 101.