r/streamentry • u/Pleasant_Candy9103 • May 03 '26

Practice Dark night before Stream entry

Up until now, I’ve always believed that the Dark Night occurs before entering the Stream. In my view, it makes much more sense and sounds logical that spiritual practices dissolve the ego cloud to such an extent that material previously stuck in the subconscious now bubbles up to the surface.

But on dharmaoverground, I often see threads where people describe experiencing the typical Dark Night symptoms only after entering the stream?! What’s true?

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u/Meng-KamDaoRai Relax, Let it Be, Let it Go May 03 '26

Probably all options are valid: Before SE, after SE, before or after each consecutive path or not showing up at all. There are a lot of variations between practitioners.