This week’s theme from the game of Gyan Chaupar is Dreams — a mysterious and illuminating square on the board.
These days dreams are seen as a sequence of sensations or images passing through the mind of a sleeping person. However, in the ancient traditions, dreams are not distractions. They are messages — symbolic whispers from the soul, from the deep self that often speaks in symbols when words will not do.
Carl Jung called dreams the royal road to the unconscious. He believed they are not random or meaningless, but rather a living theatre of the psyche — revealing what we’ve ignored, suppressed, or forgotten.
Dreams show us truths our waking minds might resist.
A recurring image.
A strange landscape.
A conversation with someone long gone.
All of it means something.
The dreamworld speaks in metaphor — not in facts, but in feeling, archetypes, and symbols. Just like the game of Gyan Chaupar, where every snake and ladder, every square and question, is a mirror.
Jung wrote: “Who looks outside dreams; who looks inside awakens.”
So perhaps our dreams are not escapes — they are invitations.
Invitations to pause and listen. To take the inner world seriously.
To ask: What is stirring beneath the surface? What truth is trying to emerge?
This week, I invite you to honour your dreams. Both the ones you have at night — and the ones you hold quietly in your heart.
You can begin by simply noticing.
Keep a journal by your bed.
Let yourself write, even in fragments.
Draw an image. Whisper the dream aloud.
And in your waking life, give attention to your deeper longings.
The life that is trying to live itself through you.
The dream that’s been waiting patiently for your attention.
Stay still in your dream and notice what it’s trying to teach you. Once you’ve learnt the lesson, the dream won’t come back. Give it a try.
Mantra for the week:
“I listen to the quiet language of my soul. I honour the wisdom of my dreams.”
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As usual, below are our 4 thoughts and 2 questions about Dreams.
4 thoughts on Dreams
From Carl Jung
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens.
From Marsha Norman
Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.
From Eleanor Roosevelt
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
From Edgar Cayce
Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
2 questions about Dreams
What have my recent dreams been trying to show me — symbolically or emotionally?
What soul-dream am I quietly carrying, and what small step could I take to honour it?
If you’d like to explore these inner symbols through the sacred structure of Gyan Chaupar, feel free to reach out.
May your nights bring insight, and your days bring courage to dream more fully awake.
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Much love
Vineeta
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