I've read as one grows more integrated and aware through meditative practices, night-time dreaming can diminish, or disappear completely. Easterners might see such a development as positive.

Western researchers report that depriving people of REM sleep (when most dreams occur) creates disorientation and daytime hallucinatory experiences, which they see as a matter of concern, an experience to be avoided.

Perhaps the consciousness-altering effects could be described as both rich and risky.


(This sidewalk in Huntsville, Alabama was the source of the leaf photos posted these last few days.)