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Thoughts of the day
Are our dreams what we did not have time to process during our waking life? And, in addition, where did the double-edged meaning of dreams spring from? A dream can be something we want, but perhaps are too shy to admit, too ambitious for our reality. Or, it can be what we unwillingly experience in our minds during sleep.
English author Neil Gaiman, whose work often possesses a dream-like quality, wrote:
“People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.”
If sleeping dreams come to us after a long day of trying to influence our fates, and waking dreams are what we consider to be all too impossible, at least for this life, perhaps the bigger concept behind the act of dreaming is the loss of control. If we let ourselves lose control more, who knows what we might see.
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