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>>I personally feel, dreams come when we do not have proper sleep and it does 
>>not have any influence on us.<<

Dreams are an essential phenomenon. 
Seem to be more important or as important as sleep it self. 

Here is teh response, I sent o Ms. Sripriya:

Dear Ms. Sripriya,

Sorry to hear about your cousin. One of the mind's most exciting creations is 
the dream. Hope the dreams help you to heal your loss.

Dreams are the portals through which we gain access to the unconscious and its 
miraculous content and process. As for as we can tell, for the first time, it 
is the Upanishadic Royal seers who consciously discussed our unconscious. They 
talked about the dream state. Brihadaranyaka Upanishad is one such example. 

We do not know what exactly exists in our unconscious mind, precisely because 
it is unconscious! -- but the dream is our greatest and most prolific tool for 
comprehending what we have stored in this vast part of the mind.


In my own experience, usually whatever is bothering me within, fear, 
uncertainty, unfulfilled desires/fantasies,
anxiety, etc. often make up dreams.
Rarely, my pleasant experiences show up in the dream-
they come to my memory when I am awake or at times I may go to sleep thinking 
of those pleasant experiences. 


These are somethings I found on the internet on what the modern thinkers have 
to say on dreams:
Well, there are many theories out there to explain why we have dreams. Evans (a 
psychologist) believes that dreaming is our body's way of storing 
information... while Crick and Mitchinson believe that dreaming is our mind 
dumping the information. Freud thinks that dreams carry information about our 
hidden desires. Finally, Jung thinks that dreams carry meaning... and the 
dreamer can interpret their dreams.
Pagans believe that dreams have meanings in them. Certian things in dreams can 
symbolize different meanings of what is happening or will happen in the 
person's life.<<<

Soul it self is never born and never dies. "a-jaaya maano bahudaa vijaayate"

I don't think we should attach too much value or meaning to death ceremonies. 
They are meant for the alive to handle grief with some activity and sort of 
social welfare (feeding and monitory gifts to people). In this day and age we 
have numerous other things to keep busy, and other means of social welfare.   
In the Bhagavadgita, the lord was not at all bothered about Arjuna's concern 
about "patanti pitarohyeshaam lupta pinDodaka kriyaah" (ancestors are doomed 
because of absence of water and food offerings). What's good enough for the 
lord is good enough for us. 
It is okay to keep thetradition, without reading too much into it.


K. Sreekrishna Tatachar





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