Sweet Dreams

 

It’s not always but I think you should have heard about people who study some strange subjects and later became an expert of it. One very good example is the study of sleep, and yes, with the help of Google, I manage to find a few experts in this field (The Sleep Foundation Website). I do not know how accurate their research or theories are but one thing for sure, I do like their job because basically, an expert needs a lot of practices and we can guess what’s the best way to study sleep then. But what I wish to blog about now is something else pretty much related- Dreams

An interesting article which I read recently (How to have a lucid dream) teaches us on how to have lucid dreams which means that you actually know that you are dreaming in your dream. And if you have achieved this stage, you can basically control your dreams by creating anything your mind can imagine and change the course of it. A few examples are like, you can fly like a bird, live like a millionaire, date Jessica Alba, and the list goes on

Sounds fascinating eh? And if you are interested, the article also provides steps on how to practice and achieve this lucid dreams level. But what makes me wondering are the side effects, yes the side effects which were not mentioned by the writer. Now imagine one day if everyone has mastered the way to achieve this stage of divine and live happily ever after in their dreams. And when this continues, we have another problem which is called un-lucid life, where people couldn’t tell that they are in real life.

Since I can always taste a very delicious hamburger in my dream, what’s the point then to pay for one at McDonalds? And since I can always enjoy myself in my dream, what’s the point of waking up just to go to work? Yah, maybe the only reason to work during that time is just to meet my needs so that I can have a continuous supply of dreams.

And since I can do whatever I want in my dream, what if I mistakenly judged my real life as a dream and try to alacadabra my annoying neighbor so that he can turn into a dog? What if I accidentally jumped off from the 21^st floor of my building and only realized that this is actually my real life when I reached the 8^th floor? All these will make me doubt my life and when I doubt my life, I will certainly doubt my dreams. And when I doubt my dreams, this will only lead back to the very first question, how do I know that I’m actually dreaming?

It says that people can also use lucid dreams to improve their waking life too, like for instance improving in piano playing, ice skating and etc. Well, will it come to the stage where we can even control our dreams so that it will never end and we will never wake up?

Yeah enough of jokes, but sometimes I do experience this lucid dream. Furthermore, I still remember some of my experiences last time when I woke up in the middle of the night subconsciously because I couldn’t get my dreams or “imagination” out of my head until I shouted and woke up the whole family. I knew that I was dreaming at that time but I couldn’t do anything to control it and I kept telling my mum things that she couldn’t understand. It makes no sense to me either when I regained consciousness. It happens quite frequently that time but anyway, it has stopped now. So do I have the potential?