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Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Can we feel any physical sensations in a dream? Our subtle body and physical sensations

The following is an excerpt from my "body awareness journal" in the Somatic Psychology class.

I keep a dream journal every day, describing a situation in my dream, drawing a picture, and naming a title. I had a dream today. I noticed that I didn’t any physical sensations in my dreams. As Ken Wilber explains, we have three types of bodies: gross, subtle, and causal. In accordance with his theory, we have a subtle body in a dream state. I have one question: Can’t we feel any physical sensations in our dream? If so, why can’t we feel that? Or if we actually feel any physical sensations in a dream state, how can we feel that?