Dreams

I recently heard one of my friends who said she goes to bed probably at 12.30-1.00 and wakes up by 4 am. I immediately wanted to know the reason why she spent so little time sleeping, for which she said she wanted to enjoy each & every moment of life to the fullest, instead of wasting time by sleeping.

Well, I surely feel we need to appreciate anyone who wishes to enjoy life to the fullest by sacrificing (for us sacrificing, however for her it may not be the case) one’s sleep. However, I’m not the one who’ll say “sleeping is good for health, one should sleep for at least 6-8 hours a day” and stuff like that (nevertheless the statistics are of course true !!). All I’m saying is, when we sleep, we get dreams and I’m a big fan of “Dreams” :) I surely don’t want to miss them or enjoy them for a short period of time.

By the way, why or how are dreams formed ? Of course, each one might come up with different reasons or theories. So here is mine: We perform a lot of activities in our day to day life. We also think a lot on most occasions and we also talk about different things to the people around us.

But it happens so that some or many of these activities get interfered, i.e, we don’t complete the activity fully. During half way through a conversation about Sachin, someone interferes and we start talking about something else. Or maybe we wanted to say something to someone, but when we meet that person we forget to tell them that.

So where are these “incomplete data” stored in our minds ? Well, who really cares about that ;) Anyways, once we go to sleep, these incomplete thoughts or data are all grouped together by our brain and some meaningful story is created out of it.

Most of us would have had an exercise in our 4th or 5th standard where there’ll be hints given and we had to form a story based on that outline. This is very similar, where our (intelligent) brain tends to form a story based on these incomplete data. But on most occasions, it may not make complete sense to us (come on, don’t tell me whatever you wrote on your exams alone made complete sense ;) .. even there it was you, even here, its your brain only :))

So that’s the reason we’ll be traveling in a lift, suddenly we’ll find ourselves in a car going to some unknown place along with our favorite hero / heroine & end up having a fight with a close friend of ours right in our home itself about a cricket match. (Now don’t ask if I got such a dream, partly it’s true  but remaining was my build up ;))

However, some assumptions I want to make are that we cannot really control our minds to get some particular dream because as per my explanation above, the collection of thoughts that we had forgotten are consolidated into a dream, obviously we cannot intentionally forget something.

Moreover, we don’t get dreams when we are in deep sleep. Deep sleep is something really peaceful; we don’t get easily disturbed during that time. However, only when we are half asleep, we get dreams. About controlling dreams, I guess we need a separate session for it. Its time for me to go to bed people, wish you Sweet Dreams ;)