Daily Jots

Thought of the Day:
“For in dreams, we enter a world that’s entirely our own. Let them swim in the deepest ocean or glide over the highest cloud.”
Professor Albus Dumbledore
“Harry Potter: Prisoner of Azkaban”

Thinking Outside of the Box:
The word “dream” is a strange word. It can be a noun or a verb, and it can have two entirely different meanings. One definition of the word refers to defining a goal and using time and energy to reach that goal. The other definition refers to that state of mind we enter during sleep.

Many people do not remember their nightly dreams. We have been assured that all of us have dreams because of REM sleep, but I am one of those who will have to take that one on faith. I rarely remember a dream.

Other dreams stay with us. They are either good dreams that start our whole day on a positive note, or they are haunting and linger to disturb us for some time. When thought about, we can usually see what it is that is bothering us; it can be something we fear, an unpleasant memory, or some twisted version of normal events.

But what do we conclude from positive dreams – from those dreams that Professor Dumbledore referred to in the above quote? Perhaps they are guideposts that let us know we are on the right track or point the way to the proper path, if we are unsure of our journey. Maybe those dreams show us, symbolically, what we are capable of if we take a risk. Or maybe dreams are just what they seem – a theatre of the mind with a wildly unpredictable cast working from no script at all.

I know people say they are able to control their dreams. I personally cannot, but I guess if I don’t remember them, I can’t even be sure of that. I do love what Thomas Lovell Beddoes said though. “If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy?”

Just think about it.

Some Last Thoughts:
“Funny how your feet
In dreams never touch the earth…
These dreams go on when I close my eyes
Every second of the night I live another life.”
Heart, “These Dreams”

“Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
William Butler Yeats

“You know a dream is like a river
Ever changing as it flows.
And a dreamer’s just a vessel
That must follow where it goes.”
Garth Brooks

“I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.”
Calvin & Hobbes

“We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they’re called memories. Some take us forward, they’re called dreams.”
Jeremy Irons

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