Yoga Vāsiṣṭha Accounts of Mind, Dream and Reality
- Date of account
- Composite text with layers commonly dated from late antiquity through the medieval period
- Location
- India
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
The Yoga Vāsiṣṭha uses nested dreams, multiple worlds, mental projection and stories of unusual longevity to explore whether experienced reality depends on mind and consciousness. Its narratives include figures who undergo apparently extended histories within altered or dream-like states, making it relevant to comparisons involving time distortion, visionary experience and reality monitoring. The work is a didactic philosophical-literary composition, not a casebook of witnessed paranormal events. Its redaction history, enormous recension and relation to earlier Advaita materials make precise dating difficult.
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