Dreaming

Sleep is such a luxury. The eyes close and the mind rests. Sometimes, we fall into a void and the fall seems to last forever until the alarm rings or your mind says "Stop sleeping". Other times, even though the mind is supposed to be resting, we see pictures in our mind, one after another and we wake up feeling like we've just gone through a movie marathon.

Some dreams-you forget the moment you open your eyes. Others-you remember for a long time in the waking world. Then there are some which you'll dismiss when you wake up but one day recall when that scene from your dream transforms into reality. Yes, déjà vu.

Dreams tell the past, reflect the present and foretell the future. An instance of dreams telling you the/YOUR past: YP once had a dream in which the setting was in olden times. A few years later, she'd a continuation of that same dream.

About dreams being reflections of the present reality, scientists say that dreaming is a way the mind releases stress. As we dream, the mind sorts through the information we come across and trashes useless stuff in the form of dreams which is why we dream about the things which concern us at the present moment.

Déjà vu is a little unpredictable. Ironic since it's supposed to predict the future. I'm sure practically everyone wants to have déjà vu of the next winning lottery number. Haha. Anyway, déjà vu is unpredictable in the sense that you never know WHEN what you saw in your dream will appear before your eyes in reality. There is the time factor. It could happen tomorrow. It could happen next week, a few months later or a few years down the road. I think one needs to be extremely sensitive (in the sixth sense manner of speaking) to be able to know WHEN that déjà vu is going to become reality.

Dreams on the whole are unpredicatable and incomprehensible. You can never be sure if a dream is indicative of the past or present or future. Anything can happen in a dream. Math can go wrong. Heights go haywire. The world reverses. You can be flying. You wake up running. Or crying. Or shouting. You wake up with a sweet aftertaste. Everything is in disorder yet it is perfectly normal.