This is a continuation to my earlier article "Living in your dreams" which was incomplete. Say a person average lifetime is 60 years. He does so many things in this span of life. But on an average he will be sleeping for 8hrs/day. It means out of 60 years of life, 20 years he will be just sleeping and doing nothing else. Now how many of you think that this is a waste?In my case, the time I spend for sleeping is not wasted, because sleeping is not just like any other thing that I do in my life. Through sleeping, I get a chance to live in a different world, that is "my world of dreams"(dream-world) or you can also call it "the second world" or "virtual world" and I named it as "DreaMatrix".
DreaMatrix is a virtual world were I have the control on most of the things that have/can/will happen. I get plugged into this world once I go to sleep on my bed. I can be anything and do anything I wish in this world. I can be a super hero, a college going guy, a passoinate lover, a common man or just be myself. In this world I even have the ability to travel in time. I can go back to my childhood, my college days and even in to the future. I can just switch between countries and places in few seconds. Most the people I know in this real world also exist in the virtual one just playing their original characters. I also do see some virtual characters, like a monster when I am a super hero, or a unknown girl with whom I am in love. If I am really missing someone, and they are too far from me in the real world, I can just go and see them in the virtual world. Like I can just go to India and see my parents, I can go back to the past college days, see my college and friends. Nothing can stop. I can even go to the future and see my friends, my sister or sometime even myself getting married. For some reason if I get kicked out of the virtual world in the middle of a situation/scene, like any disturbance, or if I have to wake up (as I have to go to work); there is a possiblitly that the next time I go back to sleep, I enter the virtual world and can continue from where I left. Though I break a lot of rules that we follow in the real world, I do respect some.
Often, it is really easy for me to get into this world, but most of the times it turns out to be tough to get out of it, because I have to wake up and I am very lazy to do so. And most of the times it is tough to figure/find out that I am actually in a dream, then I would be thinking that's the reality and would continue in that mode. It is really strange that sometime, I will know that I am actually in my dream world. That is when I tend to have a control over it. I am a big time movie lover. So most of the things/scenes happening in the virtual world would be filmi/movie style. So every time I enter this world there is a specific story with a theme. The story is then processed and a script is written with interesting scenes. These scenes are directed one at a time with tight screenplay and crisp/sharp editing. And I hold the total control of all these. In some cases I might just leave the control to "fate" as it happens in real world. But all this goes in vain, because the moment I wake up, I hardly remember any of this stuff, my mind will be just left with some traces. I think really hard to trace it back, but doesn't help much. But, I do remember some of them.
------------------
In general, it is not just me, but most us do dream a lot. Many a times when we are surprised by some action/situation we pinch ourselves to feel the difference between dream and reality. It is the nature of most dreams that we take them for reality and while dreaming we are unaware that we are in fact in a dream-world. Even if we know we are in a dream, would we be able to take control of the situation and circumstances and take or change any further actions that take place in the dream? Would we be able to respond the way we want to? Would we be able to do anything in the dream? Does our senses work in a dream? Tough to answer these questions. It is obvious that we eventually wake up, and realize that it is in fact a dream and the most or some part of the experience is stored in the mind. It is really hard for most of us to remember where it started or where it ended and what all happened in a dream.
Most of us, at one time or another, have been struck with the thought that we might mistake a dream for reality, or reality for a dream. When we dream we are often blissfully ignorant that we are dreaming. Given this, and the fact that dreams often seem as vivid and realistic as real life, how can you rule out the possibility that you might be dreaming even now, as you sit at your computer and read this? It seems we have no justification for the belief that we are not dreaming. If so, then it seems we similarly have no justification in thinking that the world we experience is the real world. What if the world round us is not real? Then are we just some fictional characters living in a dream of the Almighty?
No comments:
Post a Comment