The world of dreams,humm it's a dramatic place,one minute you are flying over the streets of Lagos the next you are running from a pack of wild animals in the bush,and then again you are screaming someone's name and again seeing yourself as if you are teleporting,then to working on the clouds and immediately you wake up you feel like....what just happened?Did I act that?Ohhh its not real.......?
So do I remember my dreams when I awake up?
Sometimes,I do,and to tell you most times ists more like trying to recall a movie I have watched a long time ago,trying to recall every scene and details,but some still remain blurry.
Theres this one dream I had,when I was still very young,here's how it goes,I was home,playing with my brothers,(dad has warned us not to ever play since we live in a 3storey building, and we occupy the topmost,other down neighbors do complain)we were running around playing football in a very tiny passage that leads to the sitting room.But suddenly,my brothers began to disappear one after the other,i was alone with the ball and the bottles we used as a goal post,immediately my dad came in and saw me,he shouted my name and immediately I woke up,I found myself shouting"dad I won't do that again"Am not the only one"daddy please "....it was just too real.It took me a while to shake off the feeling after I woke up.
There was this other time I had a dream where my dad was driving his car,and then he just Parked it in a way that it(the car)was double crossing the road,then he gave me the key and got down and ask me to bring the car home to meet him.I was dumbfounded,reason being that I don't know how to drive,not to talk of a car parked in a way that was doublecrossing the road.I woke up with a jolt,my heart pounding,unlike the first dream which I want to believe was as a result of the too many play or the fear I had for my dad,this particular dream seems to be trying to tell me something,trying to pass a news across to me,but I couldn't come to understand what it was.
I want to believe that most of our dreams are trying to tell us something,trying to pass a message across to us,in the other way our dreams might be messed someway with something's like what we had done during the day or something we are anxious of of overthink about.
My grandmother used to say something back then,that dreams are a way for our ancestors to communicate with us,she holds the believe that our dreams held secrets messages that could guide in life.Do I believe that?Well am not sure about the "ancestors" aspect but I do believe that our dreams can reveal hidden truths.
I remember talking to one of my friend and then he shared what made him decide to go to the aviation school,he said he always has this dream that he often sees himself flying from city to city about his dreams.I asked him funnily that was he flying with wings,did he see himself inside a olan flying, why did he concluded it is that he was meant to be someone who flies an aircraft..but it was what he always say anytime we were asked what we want to become in school back then,he always says he wants to be a pilot,thinking about it now,I come to realize that our dreams can be a reflection of our desires also
Now,what about the dreams we can't remember? Do they still hold anything of importance or are they just lurking around.
Well,may be possibly it has a way of influencing us,I remember a friend telling me something happened to her recently, and immediately she knew she has seen such scene somewhere before and then after much thought,she said it was in her dream,and that just few things changed with what happened in reality.
To me,theres more to most of the dreams we have,some are hidden secrets to something for us,some are not even for us,maybe a close person, but even though they remain shrouded in mystery,it make us remember that there is still so much we don't understand about ourselves and the world.
Do I remember my dream when I wake up?,well sometimes I do,but even when I don't,I know that they are lurking somewhere, waiting to be uncovered.Till then.... 😉.
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