Dreams

It is scientifically proven that we all dream at night, every night. Dreaming is an imaginary state that we many times remember vividly; other times, it is a blur. I had never given much thought to dreaming until recently. I woke up after dreaming about something horrendous. Now, I never wake up from a dream and scream in the middle of the night. But. That night, I did. And it surprised me.

What surprised me further was when I tried to recount it to my husband. I felt it was never sequential when I was in the dream state. And I was forcefully putting it tangibly so it would make sense. Another baffling thing I noticed was that it was colorless. When I was recalling it, I was painting it with colors.

Therefore, a dream is an extension of our thoughts minus the sensory perception. If our dreams are powerful enough, thought demands a reaction from our body to validate it. This step forces input from our bodily senses. And that is when we start organizing it as a sequential event with colors and feelings, converting it into an experience. Until then, a dream is one singular event that would get blurred and eventually deleted without being rendered as an active memory. That's why we don't remember most of what we dream about.

Here is a totally bizarro metaphysical take of mine - Dreams are a parallel reality, a memory that overlaps from our concurrent existence.

If you enjoyed this, read Yama Echo Maya.
Here is an excerpt to sample the book:
"One can never see color while dreaming or even with closed eyes. Sense of color is memorized expression. We must continually force thought-infused impressions to paint colors if our eyes are closed or when imagining. Dreams are always black and white. None and All."
Yama Echo Maya