I have never been really curious about dreams. I think they are very much an extension of your subconscious. We see the people we have known or meet everyday. A refelection of our own fears, hopes, ambitions, some which we very well know about and some which we consciously or subconsciously ignore. In a way, dreams are a great medium to understand your own thoughts in a gist. For example, if you have a recurring dream about certain people, they are the people who you value the most or maybe desire the most. Or maybe if you see some place where u have been .. that’s where you really want to be or really not want to be, depending on your experience.
I’ve had two most recurring dreams since childhood, since I was maybe 12 or 14. One, that I was smoking a cigarette…. And I concluded that was because I hated it and I was scared that someday I will also fall prey to it. ( somehow, it came true..for whatever reasons! And I have never smoked in my dreams since then.. which is obvious) And the other one…. that somehow I am all alone in this planet. Alone as in completely alone… and it would freak me out…and somehow that’s because it is one of my insecurities. Having to abandon friends and loved ones very often, which was because of frequent moving from one place to another or other arbitrary reasons.
So, somehow I tend to rationalize all my dreams and they are not that intriguing to me.
However, recently I have started to get very violent dreams, ….rape, murder, accidents, fire accidents, where I always seem to be the victim somehow. .. and for the first time in years I wasn’t sure how I should interpret these nightmares. I think I got my answer in a passage from the book I am reading…
“.. dream is a place where wish and fear meet. Where the wish and the fear are exactly the same, we call the dream a nightmare.”
Till next time!
2 comments:
Dreams...well its the most intriguing aspects of the human mind, but its not only humans who dream. Animals dream... I have seen dogs dream...and shaking in their sleep. Bono would get up at night, as if scared seeing a dream, and would walk up and down the room, sometimes come near me as I pretended to sleep. I guess dream is a phenomenon that occurs to all (not only the conscious) in their sub-conscious state. the scary ones are disturbing though ... I wonder how it all comes about ...I act choosy about my dreams, I dont bother about the dreams I dont like, and I believe in the ones I like - makes me happy.
hummmm....gud if u can do that..wish i could..! The good ones only make me feel sadder coz they are just dreams and not real .. tch.. what a cribbdoo i am !:)
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