Interpreting dreams

My dreams are not just dreams, they are nightmares. I have been having disturbed sleep issues ever since my childhood. Normally it’s just day to day activities that I dream about, and on rare occasions I foresee the future. When ever I have any exams or something important coming up, I just dream of the upcoming day.

There have been times when my dreams came true in the exact way that I had depicted them in. Like, when I hear a friend talk about something, I feel like it’s a déjà-vu only coz I had earlier dreamt of the same thing. I often wake up at the owl hooting hours because of my nightmares.

When I mentioned about these dreams to a friend of mine, he mentioned all philosophical stuff that I can consider; like ‘dream interpretation’.

Last night I dreamt that my calculator rang in FD’s session and I had a tough time switching it off. Come’ on! What am I supposed to interpret in that dream; that my calculator has an extra feature, or that I need to do intense research on ringing calculators.

Only if I knew how to control my dreams, I wouldn’t be dreaming of ‘Ringing calculators’, ‘Being chased by snakes’, ‘death of my close ones’, or ‘the cute waiter from the restaurant Mast Kalandar’. With the latest updates on the world coming to an end in 2012, I have been redundantly dreaming on ‘flood survival’ and ‘ways of saving my dog’.

I only hope that someday I stop dreaming these things so that I get peaceful dreams and to avoid an appointment with the dream interpreter.

Meaningful things in life

Its human tendency to dream beyond their reach. As a kid I always aimed for the fruit on the top most branch. But it was not the fruit that mattered, it was the extent to which i was ready to stretch to reach that fruit. A few days back I went out for a long drive on the airport road with Baggy, Mr Sensitive, Lawyer and her roomy. It was fun. It was then that I actually understood the essence of my ACE training when Mr Sensitive Quoted "its not the destination that drives me towards it, its the journey".
In my ACE training (a training that every new joinee has to undergo when he/she first joins my organization), I was mentored on various aspects of managerial effectiveness, and the possible ways of achieving them. 'Setting up goals' was one of them. The session mainly dealt with the various steps of achieving short term and long term goals. The whole session ultimately implied that one has to set some goals in his life so that he can achieve them at later point of time to gain the joy of success.
WOW!! Now the question that bothered me was, WHY?? Why should I set some goal, achieve it, and then be happy. I can find the same joy in every single activity that I do. I am a happy person.
Then the idea of Pension Fund occured to me. Maybe people set goals in their life and work towards it so that they get secured happiness at a later point of time in their life. There are many things that I want to accomplish in my life, a certain certification being one of them. But is it really that important to me???
Well, the answer to that lied in my own passion, the passion to reach out for things that are hard come in my grab. It was again the same old story of the fruit on the topmost branch, just that I had to reach there in a much more organised way