Yoga Vāsiṣṭha’s dream, mind, and multiple-world narratives
- Date of account
- Large composite work, probably compiled between roughly the sixth and fourteenth centuries CE
- Location
- Sanskrit intellectual tradition in South Asia
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
The Yoga Vāsiṣṭha uses stories of dreams, imagined worlds, time distortion, parallel experiences, and mind-dependent reality to teach non-dual liberation. Episodes such as Queen Līlā’s encounters with layered worlds are sometimes compared with lucid dreaming, virtual reality, psychedelic phenomenology, or alleged interdimensional experience. The work is best treated as a philosophical and literary text rather than a collection of paranormal case reports. Its extensive interpolation history, multiple recensions, and uncertain dating make edition and translation selection central to verification.
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