Dreams

``Come to think about it, children of the last decade are more sharp, quick to learn and keen then we were at the same age. Have they been learning while they were still unassigned to bodies on earth?``

A very good perspective but there is something I would like to add.

The present generation is not more sharp/keen than the last. The previous generation had their own strengths & weaknesses, the present generation has it`s own. Some traits/characteristics have improved from one generation to next while some have detered. For example: The son is less paitient than his father due to the environment in which he is brought up. He uses the internet to chat with his cousin in another part of the world, if the cousin is not online he can email him and expect a reply in a few days. The father used to communicate with his cousin via the postal system, in which case a reply would take atleast two weeks. So the father had to wait, the son does not. Waiting is an exercise for paitience. Therefore, the father is more paitient than his son.

Todays youth is sharp `cause they have already lived a life before, too imaginative!

My theory is that our mind `defragments` just like a computer when we sleep. And the dream is the mix up of all those thoughts/images/desires/emotion that are being suffled. Furthermore, people who think a lot or are involved in relatively more cognition need relatively more sleep. Sleep is partly the need to `defragment` our mind. And we dream every night several times but are aware of only those dreams that we remember.
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Umair Naeem,

``Infinite parallel universes, all on each other, layer on layer. In each, certain events changed, and hence the whole timeline changed. Every thing one does, could lead to a whole different set of events. So considering that if these infinite worlds do exist, on the same plane of space and time, then could one not sometimes see them when there is a discrepancy in the space-time fabric?``

Astounding theory! Is this upon what you have based Synchronicity?

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quite sub-standard, given that we know quite a bit about the subject matter (dreaming)

As a child I had a recurring nightmare and I can still recollect it in all its clarity. Now, I can feel how my sub conscious had conjured up that particular sequence of happenings.
Other dreams? I dream of so many good things, so many projects, do-able, achievable things, and when I wake up, resolving to see that dream through, it falls apart. Blankness is all I am left with. Guess it’s more to do with my laziness. I fail to write/note down ideas, thoughts…and once the moment is lost. It’s lost. But yes, dreams can be an insight, the sub conscious taking charge as we sleep, and trying to tell us of our hidden potential, our capabilities. Positions we could rise to only if we tried, if we get up.
On another note, there was a riddle quite often asked (and being the dumbo that I am, I never got right): God is all knowing, all seeing, but He can’t see just one thing. What is that? You guessed it: Dreams, ‘cuz God never sleeps.

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DreamZZZ?
Yawn. Look at what you`ve done now. I had just shook off Sandman`s effect.
But yes, we are all free to dream, its only waking up to realise our dreams taht matters most.
RE: ballukhan: Yes, let`s all dream of better, humane times.
On your marks, get set, go!
Yawn! Yawn!

Despite all the religio non-sense stuff we have about dreams such as that we move to a different world and leave our bodies while we dream during sleep. Dreams remain the only indicator of `CREATIVITY`` in humans - because only dreams open up the realms of POSSIBILITY - it opens us to the posibility of getting into new and wonder ful relations with other beings, creatures, plants and other humans apart from those stereo-typical ones that have been forced on our imaginations by the religio-social babble.
The boundary between dreams and imagination are blurred moreso in day dreaming. Dreams are indeed the stuff humans are made of- so intermingled it is with HOPE and FAITH that we tend to put them on an exalted status in comparison to dreams. Afterall the faith in unknown GOD and its infinite justice is just another realm of possibility- it is another dream that we humans keep on dreaming.
And dreams are the mover of scientific creativity- conjuring a possible state of affairs is one of the drivers in hypothesis creation.
We test our hypothesis only because we can dream about a possible state of affairs. If we get overly entrenched in the religio-socio babble about God as the sole cause of all factual events in the world then no one could have thought about complementarity or alternative to the law of excluded middle. Only because we can dream that we can think of a world where woman are not projected as the anti-thesis of man- only then can we think of de-construction of polarities. Only then we can think of a peaceful world without God. Dreams are the stuff we are made of-

Let`s all keep dreaming and remain humans.

Dream are no doubt many times pertinent to our life and perhaps they have not only a connection to what we see and desire in this life but also a connection with our souls even before we are born. Souls, according to Socrates, gain the ultimate knowledge when they are successful in freeing themself of all bodily distractions. A feat acheived only through death. Once the soul sees the ultimate truth- the knowledge greater than any other lessen learned on earth- the soul returns to the world in a new body.
Seemingly, the idea of reincarnation is garbage, especially to Muslims. However, many of us would have heard the phrase ``budhi ruuh`` or Old Soul. Come to think about it, children of the last decade are more sharp, quick to learn and keen then we were at the same age. Have they been learning while they were still unassigned to bodies on earth? To me it seems like souls are recycled by Allah and breathed into new borns again and again. And every time a soul is resent to the world, it is more experienced more learned. It may not remember its past life, the people it was born into, but it is more flexible and learns quickly. Just like having to learn how to ride a bicycle only once. Years later, we may be rusty at it, but it backs soon enough.
As for dreams, scientists say that while inactivity, chemicals surge through the brain unemployed, boosting brain muscles that are falling asleep. As brain cells are re-charged, images that were previously recorded are seen fleetingly and we connect them like a story. A face from school is connected to a car seen in an autoshow and both are connected to a story of an accident read in the paper.
However, some dreams may be God send as well. It is in the state of sleep that bodies are closest to death and eventually to Allah. The process of ``Is-tikhaara`` involves trying to understand the mental condition the next morning.
I personally believe that dreams may bring omens- good or bad. Our prayers may be answered in our dreams. A year ago, I had been waiting for my passport to return from the American embassy. Three months passed although I was supposed to receive it just 2 weeks later. I prayed to Allah many times, and one night woke up with the date June 27th ringing in my head. I couldn`t imagine the significance of June 27th then. For the next couple of weeks, I kept asking my friends if it was anyone`s birthday, or anniversary...
June 27th dawned and I received a phone call from the courier service informing me that I should come to pick up my passport!
I have utmost faith in my dreams, and I don`t care what chemicals surge through my grey or white cells, as long as I can foresee when my troubles will end!