Dreams: SOS of Our Subconscious

Have you ever slept? Ok, m’bad, we all have, quite obviously. But have you ever had any dreams while sleeping? Have you ever remembered any of these dreams? Scientifically, it is not possible. Some scientists say that we generally can not remember most of our dreams. But have you ever had a dream so vivid and so detailed that not only does it feel real but you remember it so clearly in your memory as if those things happened in real life. Some of these dreams stick with us and sometimes they repeat themselves again and again like a cassette going on in a video player directly streaming into our minds without any control.

So what do you think of dreams, the recurring ones or the ones you remember. According to me, these dreams are a way of communication between our subconscious and conscious mind. I think they are a way of our mind to tell us what it really wants or what it really fears or what is it stuck onto in our current situations. It is kind of scary and kind of fascinating at the same time. I mean the power of the human mind is not only limited to when it is active and focused but it increases ten folds when it is considered to be inactive. All sorts of things it can imagine and present to us, sometimes just to prove a point and sometimes just to show itself and beg for help. You know, subconscious mind is like a really aggressive, scary but private villain. It likes to play dark tricks, controlling everything, messing up with the hero, secretly mocking him, all from the shadows where nobody can find it. But sometimes, it gets scared, that’s when it begs for help from the same hero, our conscious mind. And this SOS signal translates itself in form of dreams.

Let me give you a personal example. Due to an unexpected tide of events, I recently lost a very close friend of mine. I was trying to process it and was not done with it and I suddenly lost another very close person. And unfortunately, this happened right before my exams. So, there was no time to process anything. While I was awake, I was trying to evade these thoughts and studying or distracting myself all the time. But the problem started when I fell asleep. Every single time I was sleeping, there were one of these two dreams which constantly came back on repetition. I was in pain and every time I woke up, I felt more stressed and scared than before. I couldn’t tell anyone because it felt very personal. Both of these dreams grew on me so much that I started reliving them in the time I was awake. It felt like some sort of gravitational pull dragged me back into those dreams and I just started spacing out for sometimes minutes, sometimes even hours. At that moment, Sir Abdul Kalam’s quote, “Dream is not that which you see while sleeping; it is something that does not let you sleep” started to feel true, much more in a scary way rather than motivational sense. That’s when I decided to confront these dreams. As soon as I found time, I wrote down every single detail, the colour of the sky, my outfits, number of people, did I know those people from my dreams, the scenery, the events, the outcomes, basically every single detail that I remember. Because in the realm of dreams, every single detail is related to each other, it has to make sense. After all it is a creation of our most real thoughts unadulterated by our hearts. And I found how the theme and nature of both these dreams, was not close or related but was exactly the same, just altered manifestations. Let me tell you, writing them down didn’t solve anything, I still continued having those dreams. But it gave me a clearer idea of what I am going through, everything started to fit in, everything started to make sense. I was finally awake. I understood what needed to be worked upon and I was more relieved.

I am sure some of you might have had constant nightmares about something as well. So, try to take my advice. Write down every single detail possible about this dream, try to analyse yourselves, try to understand what is scaring your scary ass villain. Because keeping your hero happy is great, but keeping your villain happy is necessary. There is a lot of talk about self-love these days, but people often neglect their dreams thinking them as stupid and unnecessary. But do you really think you can practice self love when you are neglecting the only one who is going to be affected by it the most, your very own subconscious, your very own villain.