I queried Google Search Engine—
400 million results on diets
to reduce weight and dream meanings:

Google Search Engine gave 400 million results

Once the question came up, decided to do a Google Search "What is the weight of a dream?" since it's the most popular Search Engine. Whether the question is put in "quotes" or without quotes, it fluctuated from 368 million to 440 million, averaging around 400 million. Most of the answers are from commercial sites touting diets to reduce weights. Because "dream" is in the questions, lots of web sites offered dream interpretations, which are cited below. Photo Source: Google Search Results (wisdomportal.com)

weight loss— less responsibilities, weight gain— overburdened by work— No philosophical answers. Weighing on Scale Dreaming of Weight Loss Dreaming of Weight Gain Browsed through several pages of Google Search Results, but found no philosophical answer to my query. However some of the dream interpretation web sites offered intriquing answers. If you dream that you've lost weight, it means you got less responsiblities so you could relax more. However if you dream that you've gained weight in your dream, it means that you're tired, overburdened by work. Photo Sources: Weighing on Scale (auntyflo.com); Weight Loss (kuulpeeps.com); Weight Gain (kuulpeeps.com) Is the dream as heavy as Chuang Tzu or as light as a butterfly? Is the dream heavier than deep sleep "Chuang Tzu Dreaming of Butterfly" Zen and Zenga, Worcester Art Museum, 1977 Child Sleeping Yoni Freedhoff MD site Chuang Tzu (369 BC-286 BC) is considered the greatest Taoist sage of China after Lao Tzu. In Chapter II: The Identity of Contraries, Chuang Tzu recounts his "Butterfly Dream"— "Once upon a time, I, Chuang Tzu, dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of following my fancies as a butterfly, and was unconscious of my individuality as a man. Suddenly, I awaked, and there I lay, myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man. Between a man and a butterfly there is necessarily a barrier. The transition is called Metempsychosis". When I became an Assistant Professon in Chemistry at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (Sept. 1977), there was an exhibit "Zen and Zenga" at the Worcester Art Museum. I bought the Catalogue, & found a lovely painting of "Chuang Tzu Dreaming of Butterfly". Photo Sources: "Chuang Tzu Dreaming of Butterly" (wisdomportal.com); Child Sleeping (weightymatters.ca); where there is no world, nothing but pure emptiness— What is the weight of empty space? Is it zero? "Deep Sleep" by Ana Yael Deep Sleep Music Audio Weighing Empty Space In deep sleep, the world is unmanifest, nothing but pure emptiness. So it seems lighter than the dream state where lot of activities are going on. Since deep sleep is like empty space, what is the weight of empty space? Is it zero? The image of a bowl of space seems to weigh a nanogram (10-9). There is no weight in outer space, since there's no gravity. Does space have mass/weight? is discussed in Physics Forums. "Why are astronauts weightless in space?" is discussed in Universe Today. Photo Sources: Ana Yael, "Deep Sleep" (oprah.com); Deep Sleep Audio (playlists.net); Weighing Empty Space (quantamagazine.org); In Nature Neuroscience journal (2017) they found "posterior cortical hot zone" of the brain was involved in dreaming. MRI Scans of Human Brain Nature Neuroscience Posterior Cortical Hot Zone Nature Neuroscience 20, 872-878 (2017) published "The neural correlates of dreaming" by Francesca Siclari, et. al. This reseach was reported by Guardian "Scientists identify parts of brain involved in dreaming" (By Nicola Davis, The Guardian, 4-10-2017) and The Scientist "Scientists Identify More-Precise Neural Correlates of Dreaming" (By Ashley Taylor, The Scientist, 4-10-2017). The scientists reported that the "posterior hot zone" is involved with dreaming during both REM and non-REM sleep. Photo Sources: MRI Scans of the Human Brain (theguardian.com); Nature Neuroscience (nature.com); Brain Hot Zone (ocf.berkeley.edu) Siclari said "the dreaming brain and waking brain are similar using the same areas for their experiences." Dr. Francesca Siclari University of Lausanne Picasso's The Dream (1932) Steven A. Cohen collection Heavy Dreamer by Vanishing Kids Dr. Francesca Siclari, from University of Lausanne is the lead author in the paper "The neural correlates of dreaming" publsihed by Nature Neuroscience (April 10, 2017) with neurologists from Center for Sleep and Consciousness at the University of Wisconsin. She's quoted in The Guardian: "Maybe the dreaming brain and the waking brain are much more similar than one imagined because they partially recruit the same areas for the same type of experiences." It's amazing that modern MRI research on the brain is leading scientists to observe similarities between the waking and dream states. This verifies the experience of enlightened sages that the mind makes both waking and dream states that are illusory. See quotes of Ramana Maharshi, Paul Brunton, Shankara, and Swami Chinmayananda below. Photo Sources: Dr. Francesca Siclari (chuv.ch); Picasso's The Dream (wikipedia.org); Heavy Dreamer (vanishingkids.bandcamp.com) Sage Ramana Maharshi declared: "The same mind stuff making a dream is creating the waking state now— India #539: Ramana Maharshi (issued 4-14-1971) Ramana Maharshi (1879-1950) Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi (1968) Ramana Maharishi (1879-1950) was introduced to the West by Paul Brunton in his A Search in Secret India (1934). Both sages have become my spiritual mentors, from whom I've learned much on spiritual awakening. I have over a dozen books by and about Ramana. In Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi (p. 1), Ramana covers the three states of consciousness: "In the waking state (jagrat), the gross body perceives gross names and forms; in the dream state (swapna), the mental body perceives the mental creations in their manifold forms and names; in deep dreamless sleep (sushupti), identification with the body being lost, there are no perceptions; similarly in the Transcendental state (turiya), identity with Brahman places man in harmony with everything, and there is nothing apart from his Self." (May 15, 1935). Paul Brunton's Notebooks: "That this World, so solid to our touch, so important to our lives, is 'such stuff as dreams are made of', in Shakespeare's haunting phrase, is incredible to the ordinary shallow materialist, whether he be of a scientific or a pious mind." Photo Sources: India #539 (colnect.com); Ramana Maharshi (wisdomportal.com); Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi (wisdomportal.com). and both states are illusory!" The sage abides in pure consciousness, essence of waking, dream & deep sleep. Sunrise (Waking) Splendor Solis (1535) Jacob's Ladder (Dream) Mutus Liber (1677) Black Circle (Deep Sleep) Goethe's Colour Wheel (1799) "Awakened" (1794) Zahlenlehre in Natur Ramana: "There is no doubt whatsoever that the universe is the merest illusion... the Vedas teach the true nature of Brahman after showing the illusory nature of the universe. That the world is illusory, every one can directly know in the state of realization which is in the form of experience of one's bliss-nature. [Collected Works of Ramana Maharshi (1968), pp. 10-11]. "Beyond the reach of those who experience the waking, dream, and sleep states, there is a state of waking-sleep known as turiya (literally 'the fourth', meaning transcendental experience). As that state alone is real and as the other three which appear are unreal, know that turiya is itself turiyatita (beyond turiya). (p. 128). From Alexander Roob's Alchemy & Mysticism (1997), found images depicting waking (p. 235), dream (p. 377), deep sleep (p. 689), and enlightened (p. 267) states. There are 712 pages of images in Roob's Alchemy & Mysticism from museums and libraries. Selected "Lambda Λ from Sun to Earth" (p. 267) to represent "Awakened State" as sun rays forming the triangle shown is 10th triangular number = 55, same as Platonic Λ, the "World Soul" known to awakened sages. Image Sources: Sunrise (wikimedia.org); Jacob Dreaming (davidpatrickharry.com); Deep Sleep (sound-colour-space.zhdk.ch); Awakened State, Turiya (pinterest.com); That's why Swami Chinmayananda sang— "Get out! Get out! Roll up the universe and carry it under your arms!" Shankara (788-820) Vivekacudamani by Shankara Swami Chinmayananda (1916-1993) Universe in a Scroll Creationist Cosmology (2010) Shankara (788-820) is one of India's greatest sages. He wrote numerous commentaries on the Vedas, Upanishads, and Bhagavad Gita. One of his classics, is the Vivekachudamani (Crest Jewel of Discernment), a treatise within the Advaita Vedanta tradition of Hinduism. Swami Chinmayananda has lectured on this text, translated it with commentaries. In Verse #170: "The waking state is similar to dream state, & both states are but a hallucination". In his commentaries, Chinmayananda sang: "Get out! Get out! Roll up the universe and carry it under your arms!" It's interesting to find in Isaiah 34:4— "and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll". The sage can do it! Photo Sources: Shankara (shankara.redzambala.com); Vivekacudamani (books.google.com); Swami Chinmayananda (wisdomportal.com); Universe in a Scroll (icr.org) — Peter Y. 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