Dream on...

Life doesn't give us, mere mortals, much options when it comes to dreaming... Along the long and tiresome journey of life, we choose our own frame of references and based on them we select the canvas to paint our dreams on. Colors of imagination fly wild initially (when we are too naive to be cynical)...then we gain what we so proudly call "experience"; and then those colors start turning to their own grounded versions... what remains in the end is a faint watermark of the vividness, dream world used to be once upon a time... for each of us!

And then there is the ultimate reversal of it all for some of us...living in our own worlds, some of us tame our dreams from the very beginning. Then at some point in life, the bubble bursts and the horizons of our little world expand drastically! It is then that boundaries of our dreams also start redefining themselves!

I am not referring to the dreams that dictate our lifestyles to be...or our career goals and other such mundane things... I am talking of the dreams we dream when we are sleeping...when our brain is at its primal best! In essence, those are the dreams that depict our true mental status; an apt reflection of our interior selves; what we are in our mind's eyes... Freud has given intriguing ways of interpreting these snippets of a person's self interpretation and has suggested exciting theories about what leads us to dream. I find myself wondering most mornings, what could have caused my mind to make some really exceptional mental images...but what I rarely wonder is "what if these dreams ever came true?"

Dreaming of food and supermarket aisles brimming with snacks when one is on a strict diet is quite cliche...but dreaming of missing trains or buses with relationship problems in real life...or dreaming of vacations on queer locations with mountains of work pending in real life...or dreaming of old school friends sitting in your office with no reason to explain it, whatsoever... The more random you feel the dream is, the more ingrained it is in the ups and downs of your real life...

Its like our dreams are our own personal "Mirrors of the Erised", depicting our deepest and most desperate desires, when we are at our receptive best! The fuel to drive one's intentions and subsequently, one's actions for all future endeavors is generated from these dreams only. So dreaming on is the only way to be...dreaming on can guarantee bringing you in touch with your inner self... dreaming on needs no interpretation, but a simple connection with one's mind and the ability to understand what your system keeps telling you... :)