After concluding his discourse on intuition and dream, Hazrat Inayat Khan began to answer questions, which mostly concerned themselves with particular types of dreams.

Question: What about dreams of flying? Many people say that they are a bad sign.

Answer: I think this is the most interesting thing in the world. You do not need airplanes! Dreams of flying have much to do with biology. Psychologically, they are expressive of the soul’s continual effort of rising above the imprisonment and limitation that it experiences in this earthly life. Also, dreams of flying signify a journey awaiting one in the future.

Question: Will you please tell us what makes a person sing in his sleep?

Answer: The dance of his soul.

Question: What is the condition of the mind of people who nearly never dream? Are they not imaginative?

Answer: I think that they are better than imaginative – they are happy! The truth is that either a very advanced person does not dream much, or a very dense person who never troubles his brain to think. He is quite happy and content without troubling to think. He does not have many dreams. Do not think that you seldom find such souls. You often meet with souls to whom thinking is a trouble, and they would rather not trouble themselves about it.

Question: What is the difference between the dream that may be called a vision, and the real vision?

Answer: Vision is vision. The more one knows reality, the less one uses the word ‘real.’ There is one vision that is seen in the dream, and there is another vision that is seen in a state of trance, a state between dreaming and wakefulness.

To be continued…