The consequences of sleeping and the luxury of dreaming are now real.

Dream, dream, dream! Conduct these dreams into thought, and then transform them into action. – famously said by former President of India Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam.

The Chinese dream. The Greeks dream. Everyone in the world dreams.

The Guardian delves into the realms of what makes a dream real. What’s the science behind people dreaming?

19th-century Russian scientist Dmitri Mendeleev envisioned the periodic table in a dream. Wow! That’s for real.

But are dreams good or bad?

Oscar Wilde said it in a famous quote; “they have promised that dreams can come true – but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too”.

A study says 80% of people experience someone chasing them in their dreams.

Man spends a third of his entire life sleeping. And dreaming forms a significant part. About 20 to 30 percent.

Dreams are called REM (Rapid Eye Movement) Sleep. 

Dreams carry a message of some kind. They communicate in a nocturnal language. – says Jane Haynes. She is a London-based psychotherapist.

Research has shown that people are wrong when they say they don’t dream. They dream but don’t remember it in the morning.

REM Sleep, a Sleep Onset Phase and a Late Morning Effect are three phases of the dream a man indulges in while sleeping.

“All three of these phases are associated with dreaming,” says Prof Mark Solms, a neuro-scientist at the University of Cape Town.

Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis (The Introduction to Psychoanalysis), has been proved wrong when he said dreams mostly comprise our suppressed (sexual) desires. But Solms says, on the contrary, “many of our dreams are anything but wishful thinking”.

When you dream tonight, you know for sure that you don’t just rest, sleep but dream a big project in your head.

You speak to yourself about work, relationships, calculus, rocket-science and Jaws, chasing you in the movie. 

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/jun/20/one-night-im-a-murderer-the-next-my-husbands-having-an-affair-why-do-we-have-the-dreams-that-we-do?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1718887046

Wish I had ‘braved the weather’.

What’s a secret skill or ability you have or wish you had?

Roads in India are bad. Motorists often flout rules. Accidents, therefore, are a regular sight.

The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MORTH) says 70 percent of fatal road accidents happen due to speeding. 

And, Mr. Nitin Gadkari, the minister for transport, said people are so negligent on roads. 

It’s each individual’s responsibility to observe strict discipline while driving. One should always be on guard. With all senses open.

I wish I had the skill to spot the (most common) traps people in India fall so easily into, like cricket falling on bright headlamps.

The advanced skill that helps me (every day) spot potholes, leaking sewer holes, unmarked speed-breakers, a two-day old fallen tree, deadly blind-spots, sudden road-closures, diversions, a speeding metro truck from behind, a petrol station that’s “closed for maintenance”, a minister’s motorcade crossing, the dead-end (daily) election meetings, huge blaring speakers on either side, a falling billboard, a 15 ft cinema banner in the middle, a religious procession on foot, the auto-rickshaw in front that stops abruptly when seen a client, failed lights at junctions and a parking lot which is full (already) but without a notice.

Can I?