Is There Only One Person in a Dream?

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The person who's asking said that in the dream example, it seems i see many people, and they all seem to have consciousness. But when i wake up, i see that there was only one person there with consciousness. Thatis, he means i the dreamer, i was there in the dream. I was conscious, but all those other ad just appeared in my dream. They were not actually persons with consciousness. There is no one person in that dream. You feel that because you wake up and you realize, oh, i was dreaming but even when the dream was going on,. Was that really a person? No, because there was no body there. It was a figment

Q&A session lead by Swami Sarvapriyananda at the Vedanta Society of New York on June 5th, 2022. List of questions with timestamps: 00:00 - Intro 01:32 - How is it that the self is in all beings from the chit (consciousness) perspective? 18:37 - Where is my consciousness when I am sleeping? Can I use sleep as a spiritual practice? 26:55 - Will a realized person retain their individuality after enlightenment? 40:38 - Why do we call this world false? 55:53 - What does Sri Ramakrishna mean by going into the black water (in reference to samadhi)? 01:00:30 - If we want to take up a life of renunciation, what practices should be followed?