It's a (Good) Dream

I dream a lot and I have always loved dreaming. I can do a lot many things which I could never do in reality; defying gravity, walking on water, revisiting my past and getting few things right this time to name a few. During a bad day at office, I always end up debugging some code and ending up in a recursive loop in my dreams. When I was kid, when I was told of freedom fight, I had this series of dreams in which I was fighting for the freedom, was chased by British police. It used to run like TV serials, night after night. At times I have weird dreams like death of loved ones. I even saw myself dying so many times and interestingly I was left with a pair of eyes and nothing else, just to see how people take my death!

Good thing about dreaming is even when I wake up after having a bad dream, I love to realize that I was living in a dream. It’s all so relieving, as I know that I was not close enough to reality at that moment. Though it scares the hell out of me when I was still dreaming, now I can go back to my sleep peacefully. But there was time when I cried my heart out to wish it was a dream, nothing but a bad dream. I even dream of getting back those things which I have already lost in my reality, only to wake up that I was having a good dream and the things are bad in reality. It works both the way. At least such dreams give momentary happiness. Dreams do good!

I don’t think I will be close enough to completion if I don’t mention about Inception movie, when it comes to Dreams. I just loved the movie and the best part of the movie for me was the way movie ended. Not because the way Nolan left us wondering about the confusion he had created by letting the totem spin around its axis, but for what Cobb does in the end. Basic idea in the movie to know whether you are still dreaming or not is to spin the totem, which would stop if you are not dreaming and wound not stop at all otherwise. And when Cobb goes home to join his kids, he spins his totem, and he doesn't even bother to look at it. All he cares is he can be with his kids; whether it’s in reality or in dream. It was for us that Nolan showed that spinning totem. We either worry about the spinning totem or Cobb finally uniting with his family. I chose to enjoy the good dream!