Buddhist Abhidharma Accounts of Dreaming

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Studies of Indian Buddhist Abhidharma and related sources discuss sleep, dreams, mental events and the reliability of cognition. This material helps compare classical analyses of dream consciousness with contemporary debates about predictive processing, lucid dreaming and memory construction. It is not a collection of modern precognition cases. The relevant literature spans Sanskrit, Pali, Tibetan and Chinese transmission, with doctrinal differences among schools. Researchers should identify the textual layer and avoid treating later Tibetan explanations as direct quotations from early Indian sources.