Title: Can You Keep A Secret?
Author: Michelle M.B
Rated: M for coarse language & violence
PROLOGUE
What are dreams? What are nightmares? Do dreams have purposes? Are they omens of some sort, trying to tell us something important? If they are not, then why do we have them? Are dreams our biggest desires? And are nightmares what we fear the most? Every morning someone will recap the dream they had the previous night to someone else and then defend themselves by saying they have never thought about that before. And we've never thought about the strange things that occur in our dreams, right?
We can grasp the basic concept of what dreams are. We understand that they are a series of images, ideas, emotions and sensations occurring involuntarily in our minds during sleep. But we will never know exactly what they are and why we have them. They aren't just sequences of abnormal images, there is something more to them, and we must read between the lines if we want to interpret our dreams. Our dreams are unique, no other individual can have your background, your emotions, or your personal past experiences. Every dream is connected with our own "reality." When interpreting our dreams, we must look into our past of life experiences.
A dream unifies the body, spirit, and mind. They provide us with insight into ourselves, self-exploration. Once we understand our dreams, we will have a better understanding and discovery of our true selves, who we truly are. In our dreams, we can be anybody, do anything, be anywhere. When we dream we are like passengers on a moving train, unable to control our actions or choose our surroundings. We let our minds take over. Sometimes, dreams can be understood in the context of repressed thoughts. Dreams are like outlets for those repressed thoughts that we avoid throughout the day until we go to sleep. When we do go to sleep at night and fall into dream state, we feel liberated and behave in a manner that we do not allow ourselves in our waking life. Dreams can help us to solve problems or look at life in an entirely different perspective.
And nightmares. Nightmares are like warnings, messages in our minds telling us something is bothering us, something is wrong and we are troubled by that something. We are stressed, depressed, worried. When we have nightmares we just procrastinate instead of immediately tackling our conflicts that will avoid a disastrous outcome. Nightmares are like a last ditch effort to scream for your attention. There's nothing like a heart-pounding, eerie dream that grasps our attention and makes us think, What's going on? Why am I having these dreams? Nobody understands the underlying issues behind nightmares. Nightmares are usually your deepest fears symbolized by frightening images. Nightmares are your wake-up call to problems you need to solve in waking life. Why are they so frightening or graphic? Because that's what most effectively gets our attention. Nightmares are actually helpful, in the same way as physical pain is.
We can always look at dreams and nightmares in this perspective. But is it the real truth? Are nightmares helpful sensations? Or do we have them to terrify us out of our wits? Does the human body work in an evil way like that? Or, most of us reason, dreams are just sequences of scenes and images just passing through our minds while we slumber.