Are Dreaming and Sleeping the Same Thing? "As I was walking through the wilderness of this world, I came to a place where there was a den. There I lay down to sleep: and while I slept I had a dream. .Before I Entering this essay, I need to clarify the true meaning of dreaming and sleeping is when your body is resting and you are generally not aware of your surroundings. In the state of sleep, it is not. There is no desire for particular emotions. The dream occurs when you sleep. It is basically a false reality. The dream occurs when a series of events occur in our waking life, but we deny this reality. Most of the time, dreaming is like a message to your soul about what you are denying and trying to say in your waking state. Everyone has their own definition and perspective on dreaming and sleep. of Bunyan about dreaming is that by dreaming you see God's truth and communicate directly with God, as we see in the book Pilgrimage Progress (which is just a dream). Throughout the text, he reminds the reader that he knows all this precisely because he dreamed it. The fact that a dream occurs only in a person's mind highlights the importance of the internal, personal aspect of the entire pilgrimage. Bunyan describes sleep, on the other hand, as blindness to God's truth. By blindness, I mean the way everything has been slowed down. An example is when Christian sleeps in the arbor and when he wakes up he realizes that it is late and that he must continue on his way, while walking he realizes that he has lost his certificate. ..... middle of paper... ...sleeping brings him a vision of spiritual improvement. He can't dream without sleeping. Bunyan dreams of heaven, he longs to make it come true, and to let people know it, that's why he wrote this book. In conclusion, sleeping and dreaming are two very different things. Sleeping and dreaming are the most used symbols in the book. In reality, the story begins with the author's dream. Sleeping is generally seen as a sin and a potential danger for pilgrims on their journey to the Heavenly City. It is a kind of blindness towards God while dreaming is accepted as the direct relationship with God. Basically, in Pilgrim's Progress, Sleeping is the potential danger to achieving salvation and to the Heavenly City. This seems more like a spiritual disaster. When pilgrims sleep, they lose control and direction to the Heavenly City..