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DISCUSSION ON FREUDIAN AND JAIN ........ : 49 Sources of Dream According to Jain philosophy, karmas are there in the self or soul and supply material for dreaming. Karmas have the potency of giving dream reflections but it has to deal with all past and present experiences and reflect dreams according to the time, place, mode and situation, which the dreamer is undergoing. Altogether, both believe that dreaming is accompanied by sleep, and mind has a major role to play in dreaming.
Dravya (substance), kşetra (place), kāla (time) and bhāva (context) has important role to play in each event. I Even upon dream reflections they have their hold. Freud writes in Interpretation of Dreams, that content of a dream is invariably more or less determined by the personality of the dreamer, his age, sex, class, standard of education and habitual way of living and also the events and experiences of his whole previous life.17.
He has also talked about sources of dream which is very similar to the Jain sources of dream i.e. we dream of what we have seen, said, desired and done. These sources are found in the list of sources of dream in Viseșāvasyaka Bhāşya. 18 Philosopher J.G.E. Mass (1805) writes "experience confirms our view that we dream most frequently the things on which our warmest passions are centered and this shows that our passions must have an important role in the production of our dreams.” Number of writers on the other hand, assert that elements that are found in dreams, which are derived from the last few days, before they were dreamt. Hence giving over weight to infantile wishes or experiences to be the dream sources is quite inappropriate because Freud himself writes that since dreams have material from childhood at their command and as well as all know that material is from the most past blottened out by our conscious faculty of memory, these circumstances give rise to interesting hypermnesic dreams. The content of the dream and the form of the manifest dream are closely interrelated. Either can be used as a means of representation in dreams. 19
