REALITY OF DREAMS

After a beautiful morning when a close friend’s call woke me up to indulge in an hour long conversation, one could feel that it was going to be one of those “right days”…the ones when everything seems to go …well… right…

   Following that, a possibility that was probably fluttering about in the surrounding air ran into my mind at the time when all the great thoughts hit you…in the shower….

Here goes…

One thing that has always been extra-ordinarily successful in capturing my interest is the phenomenon of dreams. So what are they really?? Most of us know that scientifically speaking, we have the conscious, the unconscious and the sub-conscious mind. It is believed that dreaming is nothing but drifting away to one’s unconscious mind. We may conclude that now in the state of dreaming, the originally unconscious thoughts and elements constitute the conscious mind and the initially conscious elements fade away to being a part of the then unconscious mind. Let me know if the previous line got you confused and wasn’t explained well…I shall try again.

  Now moving on…imagine that you are now in that state of dreaming…whatever is happening around you, all that you see feels very real does it not?? I agree that most of us do not remember much from those dreams once we are awake but we also don’t seem to remember much from this "real" world when we are dreaming. As many of you must have begun to notice by now, the line between dreams and reality is now a blur and the two just might not belong to the side where we like to think they do. What if those dreams are really the reality and this reality just another dream? Or further still …what if that parallel world we fantasize and hope to find actually does exist …and not just exist…it may even be a place that each person visits quite regularly already?

   Many may disagree saying that the dreams are often quite illogical and may not always follow in sequence or are too erratic in nature…but then how can we be sure that a real world is not all of  that…its just something our mind has been conditioned to think that things are supposed to be logical and follow a constructive pattern rather than a mere existential one in reality…but just suppose for a few minutes we leave behind that conditioning and consider a different perspective…it may seem very impossible but might emit a bleak light of possibility…

   Fascinating ….is what I thought of  it when I considered it….and although I don’t “know” if  there is a reason why this thought teasingly swept my thoughts….if it has any “reality “ to it….or if its merely a teaser that took shape to amuse me…  

  For all my psychology friends… lets just call it a hypothesis which I would definitely like to experiment…but at a time when I gain a more complete knowledge on the subject…and shall be thrilled if it does turn out to be confirmed…till then I can only hope ….

But this does change one thing in my life and after reading this…it might in yours too…..

Each morning I woke up and spent those few moments drowning in the vague afterglow of the virtual world I had just visited….now I shall know there’s a chance that it may not have been that virtual after all…..