WHAT IS IN A DREAM?

Your idea of a perfect world: where things never go wrong. Thoughts, pictures, images and scenes roam freely without any hindrance. What you want appears to happen how, where and when you want it to happen. No energy is expended. Just you and your thoughts: those solitary trips in the pathways of your mind. Interconnected twists and turns of mental images at the corners of your mind; stretching the elasticity of your mind beyond the limitations of the physical world; creating your own movie, where all the characters are created by you and in which the hero or heroine of the movie is definitely YOU. Refusing to allow the external overwhelm the internal. Drowning in a sea of imaginary ideas and absorbing every moment of its fantasy. Ignoring the present while envisaging a glorious future.
It is good to dream, believe me. I am not referring to those images we see when we sleep, no; I am talking of those times we make a conscious effort to conceive images and pictures in response to the happenings around us; a personal reflection of you in the society and the world at large after considering the factors in favour or against you. What is going on in your head right now? Your mind must be busy; it all starts from there, it is the activities that take place in our minds that we translate in the physical, just like U.S rock singer and song writer, Jim Morrison once said: “Those first songs I wrote, I was just taking notes at a fantastic rock concert that was going on inside my head.”
When dreaming, a trip to America would cost you nothing; a limousine ride, not a dime; a holiday trip, free of charge. You just need to dream, even if the dream is right in front of you and you do not take up the challenge to see it, then it never even becomes a dream, talk less of becoming reality because you failed to see it. Do not be afraid to dream, rule your thoughts, do not allow anybody to steal from you that one thing which is personal to you- your MIND- and more importantly- Your DREAM.
It may look too big for you to attain, too intimidating for your small frame, but you can do it. Remember it is YOUR dream, not someone else’s, so you can do it. If you can DREAM it, you can DO it. Forget the fact that of your ten-point dream list, not even one is close to fulfilment, forget that your dream is different from every other person’s idea of a perfect dream, forget that those you call your friends do not believe in YOU or YOUR DREAM.
When you dream you give your mind the freedom to predict its own course, to mark out its boundaries. You transport yourself form into a realm of possibilities, endless fantasies and the most unrealistic possibility- a happy ending. Yes, I agree, most times when we translate some of these dreams to our physical environment, the equation is always imbalanced, the picture does not rhyme, and the whole ‘dream thing’ does not just fit into your life’s puzzle. It’s like you are building castles in the air, the real world does not seem to agree with your fantasies. The real world is saying,
“How can I become a doctor, I have written UTME 3 times already, this is my fourth attempt, and my score is hardly anything to write home about.” How? Just tell me how?
Is that how the whole ‘DREAM’ thing seems to you? Unrealistic, illogical, impractical and in fact impossible. Well, maybe, but why don’t you dream first. It would cost you nothing except your consent and of course YOU. Let go of your reservations and doubts and leave your passion and desire to take a definite shape, building up a mansion of potentially beautiful endings and a, perfect picture. Just dream. So what is wrong in having a happy ending? But that cannot happen if you do not dream.
A dream in a broader sense is a goal, a mental picture of a desired or preferred state. If your mind does not have an idea of what it wants, your thoughts, actions and even words would have no bearing. In the twinkle of an eye, you are past the ‘morning’ phase of your life and you begin to wonder where all the time has gone, because you never had a DREAM, so you never had a LIFE. You just existed; you never really optimised your potential as a human being, so you never LIVED in the deeper sense of the word. When you dream, you permit yourself to leave the physical world and LIVE in the REAL world which comes from the inside. You release your senses to pick up signals beyond the boundaries you or your environment has created.
If this “Dream Factor” is lacking, you are not different from any other animal, because God gave you a mind so you could create and recreate the world around you. God does not expect the same breed to do the same things the same way. He commanded us to be fruitful and to multiply and subdue the earth. How can we do this if we do not explore virgin lands, untapped potentials and unused senses?
Be sensitive, relate with your environment. Feel it, understand it, listen to it, discover it and rediscover it. There are voices in your head you do not want to listen to; you shut them up with seemingly more