Dreams

This is another scintillating topic. I’m not referring to day dreaming here. I mean the visions that we see when we are asleep and our sub-conscious mind takes us through a journey that is sublimely mysterious and unpredictable. At the end of it, we wake up, flummoxed, trying to gather the fading glimpses of images that were so much a part of our inner state of memory. Sometimes we succeed in recollecting what we dreamt and sometimes we are denied of this.

Dream, perhaps is the mind’s way of unfolding its colossal potential. We humans, as science has depicted, use a very meager percentage of its power. I believe that the mind, in the shape of dreams, fulfills the void that we create by not giving it its desired workout.

Everybody see dreams. So do I. Sometimes, the dreams that I see influence me. I have dreamt of doing well in a game of cricket and I have done well in the field on the succeeding day. I have met sages in my dreams and I was molded towards spirituality based on the conversations that I had with them. I have dreamt demons and death and have woken up with unpleasant feelings. I have dreamt of strange romantic encounters with unexpected people and wondered the reasoning behind this. The dreams have been very diverse and I have reacted in different ways to these sundry dreams. Some made me get positive and some had resentful feelings and I had to overcome such thoughts.

Nobody knows why we see dreams. It could be some incident from the past life or it could be something that’s about to happen.

In the Vishnu Sahsranaama, we come across the following stanza:

|| Uttarano Dushkutiha PunyoDusswapna Naashanaha ||

Part of this means “One (Vishnu) who is the destroyer of bad dreams”.
So there we have it. It’s documented in the puranaas that dreams are inevitable and the almighty can relieve us of the thoughts created from bad dreams. We need to pray for good, positive dreams and take learning’s from them. Sleep well folks and more importantly, dream well!!

-Sandeep Mahagaonkar