Chapter: 9

POWER OF DREAMS
24th January 2004


Do you believe in power of dreams? Is it possible for our dreams to come true? Why do we see these dreams? Do they serve any purpose? Can we interpret our dreams and understand their purpose?

Too many questions right. And all these are questions for which there exists no unique or correct answer. Ok, I will try to ask a simple question then. What is a dream? According to me it is a powerful tool of representation of everything that is active in your subconscious mind. You are not even aware of things going on in your subconscious mind but somewhere in your mind there is a repository, a vault which captures all these thoughts. Dreams are means to broadcast these thoughts to your conscious level. After these thoughts reach your conscious level, you can try to interpret them and by working on those thoughts you can turn these dreams into a vision which can then be translated into reality.

Simple Right, but too many times we try to ignore these dreams, dismissing them as absurd or unreal. But sometimes, we witness a very powerful dream. A dream so powerful that it shatters the barriers of virtual world and enters into the realm of reality. You no longer are just watching the dream but you become a part of that dream. You start feeling all types of emotions that you experience in real world like pain, anger, joy. You become totally involved in it and suddenly there comes a moment, a pause, and then you experience a complete blackout. And then you wake up. You still remain in between the virtual world and real world trying to figure out the meaning and purpose of the dream.

It happened to me on that fateful night of 24th January. I was pretty tired after the day’s ordeal and went to bed quite early. At around 2 am I felt a pain so unbearable, so real near my left chest. The pain was excruciating, as if someone was driving a burning stake right through my heart. I could literally feel my heart being split apart. And then all of a sudden, I felt something got detached from my body. I could experience, that something, I don’t know what, but something definitely was going away. It was as if that thing was leaving my body and going far far away. I tried to scream, to fight it but no use. I lay there motionless and then everything went black. And I woke up; I was really scared at that time. I was sweating profusely. It took sometime for me to come to the real world. Damn it, I could still feel something burning near my left chest.

I went out and drank 3 glasses of water. After that I went to the balcony to get some fresh air. After 5-10 minutes I started to recollect the dream. It was hardly a dream, it was really weird I could not see anything; I could only feel the things happening. The dream didn’t make any sense to me. Why would I feel such a pain (I sincerely hope it was not a case of heart attack, just kidding) but seriously I felt the pain and I have no clue, what that thing was that parted away. After giving a thought, I rejected the dream, thinking it was some anxiety which led to this chest pain. And went back to sleep.

I underestimated the power of that dream, it definitely wanted to signal something, give some sort of a warning. That night if I would have understood the purpose of that dream, probably this book would never have been written.You guys will soon find out the reason why.