When a big mountain rolls out I am standing looking at it with a cup of coffee. I am running but the visuals are not changing. I am flying, I got wings. These are impossible in life but it can happen in your dreams. What is dream? What is happening to us, if we can find ourselves in our dreams then how we could say we slept? Dreams can raise many questions? Many of the questions go unanswered because there is no logical reasoning behind it. We can’t control our dream it happens we experience it.
Have you ever seen your dreams in color, many say yes, but I think that is not true. Dreams are always in black and white. I am thinking the reason could be because you are dreaming with your eyes closed that gives a dark filter to the thought. Dreams are the combination of higher imagination with bit of reality. Reality is you can see some of your known faces.
It is amazing that our brain works at its best when you dream. Scientist says that even animals have the ability to dream! To get more confused see Hollywood movie “Inception” where one people dream is shared with others. I dream as if I am standing at the top of the hill and somehow fall from there and really fell from my bed. And when I run in my dreams I run very hard but nothing moved, I am still in the same place. Wired!
Remembering dreams is another big thing. Have you ever tried to remember what you dreamed one month back? The answer is big NO, why? It fades away from memory. Who put that erasable ROM in our brain? All these questions will ends with almighty. Sleep well get some good dreams and let you dreams come true. Some of the great inventions had come from dreams. For example Gum Benzene found the benzene ring structure from his dreams he saw a snake catching its own tail. That is the spark, make use of it.
Dream a lot and try to achieve the possible.
Good article.
I have a different view on couple of statements you mentioned.
I cant agree on ‘Dreams are always in black and white’
Have you ever felt a dream as black and white? Or can you say you never seen any color in your dream?
If you feel your dreams are natural, then it cant be black and white. If you have felt it as black and white, you would have realized that you are in a dream, even though you are in a dream.
And why don’t the ‘dark filter’, filter out the white color too, when the eye lids are closed?
I think we started using the term black and white only after the invention of television, but dreams existed before.
But its true that,
“A small minority of people say that they dream only in black and white”
I disagree with the following too.
“Remembering dreams is another big thing. Have you ever tried to remember what you dreamed one month back?”
I can see the above term not as remembering but as forgetting, however these two terms differs very little.
Remembering is a term which is used for representing the importance. On the other way Forgetting for representing lesser importance. Here the only difference is importance.
If you give importance to ‘any thing’, you will ever remember. And your dream is a part of this ‘any thing’
If you can remember a dream for a single day, it is possible to remember for ever.
And FYI,
Technically we call ‘that erasable ROM’ as ‘EPROM’ and it does the job well.
Sweet (colorful) dreams with everlasting memories.
Thank you for a very vast analysis…
And your are correct about the color dreaming.may be this link give you more info on that dream concept.
http://www.boredpanda.com/15-interesting-facts-about-dreams-dreaming/