What are dreams? Why do we get dreams? If you think about it for a minute the very idea of a dream sounds so magical.I mean when you are dreaming not for a second do you know that you are dreaming.Everything seems so real.You believe that whatever is happening is real.Only when you wake up that you realize that everything was just an illusion and was happening in the confines of your mind.
Now imagine if only we had the power to control what we dream about. Of course we can always just sit and 'imagine' things.But there is a difference the two scenarios.
First scenario is being awake and imagining an event.The second is being in the state of sleep and dreaming about the same event.No matter how deeply and richly you imagine an event,you know that its all fake.But when you dream in your sleep you believe that its all real.Therein lies the key difference.So the experience of dreaming is in my opinion a wonder in itself.
Consider the following scenario.You want something to happen in your dream.So just before sleeping you imagine the whole event.And you get the same thing in your dream.Only difference is now you believe everything is real.You don't know you are dreaming.It will be like a part of your brain is creating an illusion for another part.That part wants this part to believe. Isn't it fascinating? Generally our brain is taken as a individual entity but if we look at this dream aspect,it is as if the brain is divided into two parts.One part creates the whole dream and the other part believes it.
Dreams,though so fascinating,leave mixed feelings.Somebody(I don't know who) summed it up quite nicely.
''I prefer nightmares. I wake up from bad dreams relieved, because I know they're not real; I wake up from good dreams disappointed, because I know they're not real"
Now imagine if only we had the power to control what we dream about. Of course we can always just sit and 'imagine' things.But there is a difference the two scenarios.
First scenario is being awake and imagining an event.The second is being in the state of sleep and dreaming about the same event.No matter how deeply and richly you imagine an event,you know that its all fake.But when you dream in your sleep you believe that its all real.Therein lies the key difference.So the experience of dreaming is in my opinion a wonder in itself.
Consider the following scenario.You want something to happen in your dream.So just before sleeping you imagine the whole event.And you get the same thing in your dream.Only difference is now you believe everything is real.You don't know you are dreaming.It will be like a part of your brain is creating an illusion for another part.That part wants this part to believe. Isn't it fascinating? Generally our brain is taken as a individual entity but if we look at this dream aspect,it is as if the brain is divided into two parts.One part creates the whole dream and the other part believes it.
Dreams,though so fascinating,leave mixed feelings.Somebody(I don't know who) summed it up quite nicely.
''I prefer nightmares. I wake up from bad dreams relieved, because I know they're not real; I wake up from good dreams disappointed, because I know they're not real"
