| In my relationship to anybody, there is a division, a friction, an unpleasantness or pleasantness. All that is going on, which we can call friction. That friction the brain can’t stand, because the moment friction comes in, the brain gets disturbed. It is like a marvellous machine, like that Nagra tape recorder, a marvellous machine – if you put sand in it, it cannot function. So here is a marvellous machine, and conflict is a factor of disturbance to the brain, and the brain becomes disorderly, doesn’t want it, and therefore it has to bring order. Either you do it during the day or it will try at night. Dreams can be an indication of the disorder which exists during the day. The brain says, ‘Please bring order in my life,’ because I can only function in order – it may be neurotic order, it may be sane order, it may be irrational order or reasoned order, but I must function in order. If my relationship with you is normal, healthy, sane, I don’t have any dreams about you at all. It is only when there is discord between us that the dreams become necessary, which are an indication of trying to bring order in that relationship. From a Small Group Discussion, Rishi Valley, 30 December 1972 Lire la suite | 