Dream in Disguise

Dream is an inevitable part of the human’s daily routine. It has no rules of chronology and sometimes is very obnoxious. Freud says that the dream is composed of what we see or come across in our day to day life, may it be the people we interact with or the places we visit. 

What you think is what you become, but does it apply for our dreams too? Have we ever come across people saying that what you Dream is what you become. If that is the case then I would have been a Dragon Ball Z warrior when I was 13, and this would have been often changed during various time period of my life. I believe that dreams are the influencers which help you achieve your deepest desire, in my childhood days to become the cartoon superhero that I adored was my desire and dream. But as we grow up and reach the adolescence age, we have a clear image of what we want to become in our life. Though the path that we take may digress in between, we still reach it.

 A dream is capable of influencing people to a greater extent; it is said that the things lying dormant in our subconscious mind is getting active in our dreams. Let’s consider the example of a football player in our country; his ultimate aim is to play in the English Premier League. He works every day for his progress and in his subconscious mind he creates an image of himself wearing the jersey of the club that he wishes to play. This thought is tapped during his dream and it recreates the entire scene, but now he is actually playing the game in the Club amongst the thousands of fans who chants his name. After waking up though there is a small disappointment, he realizes the joy and proud moments felt in the dream. Thus he goes out to the field and practices so hard that he converts that bogus moment to a truth.

Dream has disguised and has never revealed itself to us, but was always there running behind influencing us in all possible ways. As Abdul kalam said “Dream is not what you see in sleep, but is the thing that doesn’t allow you to sleep. So stop thinking and start Dreaming.

John Richard

john.richard@northpointindia.com

PGP MR 2015-16

Northpoint Centre of Learning