~DREAMS~
When I was still a student in high
school, I came across a series of novel. It is about several aliens landed on
earth and how they blend in with human. They have several abilities
that help them to survive. One of it is the ability to go into people's dreams. Basically,
they can walk into anyone dream and they can even manipulate the dream to influence that
person's subconscious mind. What fascinated me the most is how the writer describes
the dream world with many sphere bubbles floating representing people's dream.
Sometimes those bubbles merge together and that is why people dreams of someone
else or reason why the dream suddenly makes a 180 degree shifting. It keeps me
wondering, what is dream? Why we dream? Is it true dream revealing our subconscious
mind or our unfinished task as people often said?
A lecturer of mine once explain what is dream, but
her explanation only makes me wondering more about dream. Dreams are so
abstract that it is hard to explain, even scientist does not have solid answer
for dream.
According to my lecturer, a dream is
a picture in our head that appears when we are sleeping. Usually whatever we
dream is related some way to our life and something that has happened or is
going to happen, it can show us our feeling about certain things. But it still
doesn't explain why; for example, I sometimes keep dreaming of a particular person? Does
this means I have something had happened or going to happen with that person or I just
miss that person?
When we are still kids, we dream something bad or scary and wake up our parents in the middle of the night, our mum would tuck us in and said, 'Husshhh, don't cry. It was only a dream'. But who know, maybe that bad dream actually means we were being disturb by some unexplainable entity?
What about nice dream? Dream that so nice we wake up with a big smile plastered on our face and make our day perfect? Does it also, ' It was only a dream'???