The human mind is an unexplainable phenomenon and its senses were a subject of study since times immemorial. No complete findings or conclusion has ever been able to provide this mystery of the mind. How has the dream been poignantly interpreted? As Freudian science foretells, the aftermath of such a notion and Freud’s most speculative work “The Interpretation of Dreams”, well documented on how dreams really made a mark in the day to day life. It is a very deep and insoluble powering effect, the true essence of the dream state of mind.
When the physical body is strained and needs rest, your mental state too requires the same moment of rest. You fall into a state of bliss and sleep conquers one’s mind and inducing the propensity of life. Psychological studies have many explanations and answers to the phenomena of human dreams, its occurrence and secured movement of thoughts. Abraham Maslow’s excellent hierarchical order of man’s needs into different choices, do tell the various pointing phases of life, what man needs, and the goals to fulfill, step by step.
The merchant of dreams, architect of dreams, are some of the colloquial clichés we hear in the capacity to comprehend, but the reality of dreams is absolute and different. Studies have proved that a dream is only the illusion of the brain and reality is subject to constructivism and moreover it is empirical. The experience of life with realism is an abject truth and the real day is different from the night when compared to dreams or imagination. Nightmares have nothing to do with occultism or mysticism as the science proves it is only a factor that brings the darkest visions. There’s no hindsight to nightmares, as studies open up.
Late President Dr. Abdul Kalam has made his own interpretive understanding of dreams. Kalam’s more optimistic views as he mentions, “Something that doesn’t let you sleep”, is an element of hope and struggle to realise one’s own goals in life. Each life is meaningful, purposeful and the need of the hour is to do the dream of your life, go all the way up to scale the possibilities of life. That is what Dr. Kalam’s life teaches every Indian to be.
(The writer is a Kerala-based columnist)
