Questioner: What is daydreaming?
Speaker: The ones who coined this word ‘daydreaming’ used it as a kind of a pejorative, as a condemnation. Their assumption was that, dreaming befits only the sleeping state of consciousness and in the waking state, dreaming must not happen; that dreaming must not be applicable to the waking state of consciousness.
It is obvious that they assumed that there are three states of consciousness:
One in which you are asleep. And in this state, all kinds of dreams, fantasies, and hallucinations naturally do occur. Two: the waking state. In which it is proper that one must not dream and one must live in reality. And they looked down upon those who were not living in the so-called reality even in the waking state.
These are the people who take the waking state of consciousness as the highest possibility of mind. They are the materialist. They say when your eyes are open and when you’re looking at the world then you should be looking at facts and facts are much higher than dreams and imaginations. And so if you are wasting your waking time in dreaming then you are a daydreamer and you deserve condemnation.
