The Aspirations of the Manas

When the body gets cold while sleeping in the middle of the night and needs to be covered with a blanket, how does the manas express its demand? Because the manas cannot directly process sense objects and various problems, and can only resolve its own problems through the cooperation of the six consciousnesses, when the manas encounters a difficult problem, it will find a way to alert the mind consciousness so that it becomes aware; only after the mind consciousness becomes aware can it find a way to solve the problem. Having fallen asleep in the middle of the night, how then does it alert the mind consciousness? It can only do so through dreams. What kind of dream can express that the body is cold?

Ru She: Give the mind consciousness a dream of freezing cold weather.

Ru Chun: Sometimes there may not necessarily be a dream; instead, the body reacts directly, for example: a tightness in the chest, slight trembling of the body. The mind consciousness feels discomfort, wakes up, and goes to discern what the situation is, discovers that it is too cold, and then goes to deal with it.

Zhiqin: The manas can make an impression of the cold for the mind consciousness to interpret. Since there is no help from the eyes and ears, the manas can only hand the impression of tactile feeling over to the mind consciousness, and the mind consciousness may then describe this impression as a world of ice and snow.

Jun Ruolan: Sometimes in a dream one steps into a rather cold river; sometimes in a dream one is blown by a cool wind.  Someone with high blood pressure dreamed that they flew up into the air—flying means being high; the manas used spatial height to symbolize the rise in blood pressure.