Dreams...

When is the last time you dreamt? What was it all about? Can you remember the details every time you dream? Can you dream what you want to??May be, I don’t know, I am not sure. In most of the cases I cannot. Yes I can think about it, but that is before I sleep. I don’t know what happens in my dreams when my sub consciousnesses take over me. How often do I dream? Who comes and who goes?? What role they play? How can I be walking talking or singing or dancing when my eyes are tightly shut and my hands and legs are immobile? Why is it that even the vague picture I get soon after I wake up fades like the water I try to hold in my hand??

Speaking about my dreams, when I was a child I do not know what I dreamt of. I remember one dream though. It was about a golden snake crawling through my compound wall and entering my bed room. I was scared. I am scared of snakes even in the dreams. In Hindu mythology golden snake or Sarpa is treated as a God so dreaming about a golden snake was not a god omen according to my Mom. Soon they started doing every available pooja for sarpa dosha. But I cannot provide any interpretation to this dream of mine. Was it for the good that a sarpa came into my dream?? Did it prevent me from any harm???Did that do any good??I cannot say…

Another one I can remember is a long river and its valley, just a calm river and its beautiful bank. Nothing more. This may be because I think about them so much. I think about living in a small wooden home by the river, the greenery around and the serene atmosphere. It reminds me of my village a lot though there wasn’t an actual river in my village. Why then that river?? May be that river was the only thing I missed badly in my village…

And my recent dreams make a lot of sense. After the demise of my grandma I see her a lot in my dreams. I see myself sitting in her lap, she feeding me as a child, both of us roaming around in the garden and so many vivid pictures of our past .The interesting part is that I can recollect them even after I wake up. Why is that? This must mean something. May be because I miss her so much. Then does that imply dreams aren’t altogether out of reach? It must lie deep inside us. So why are some dreams repeating, some we can recollect and some soon forgotten??? Does that speak about our desires??? Can these flashes of images give an insight into the future??? Are they warning us of any danger?? Is it true that the deepest of desires lying unknown to us can surface in the form of dreams??

If I am given a choice of what to dream about, what will I choose? May be those which I cannot reach in my lifetime. May be something like going back to the good old times, visiting Pluto, building a palace in the deep ocean and living with mermaids…God! Dreams can be wild