I was just listening to "The elements of spiritual growth" lecture and I have a question: The lecturer states that an ordeal may be in a dream. He then states that if you are running and can't move, it may mean that you are weighed down, etc. So do the ordeals happen in the internal planes, physical plane, or both? Or are does the internal plane just reflect what's going on in the physical world? Do the ordeals we face in the internal planes CAUSE things to happen in the physical?
As a side note: I have had dreams of water, floods, waves, boats, etc. dominating every night for as long as I can remember. I'm sure I need to meditate on this (as is the usual advice
) but how else could I approach that in light of the 'ordeal' concepts?