Dreams...

Breathe deep the gathering gloom
Watch lights fade from every room
Bedsitter people look back and lament
Another day's useless energy spent

Impassioned lovers wrestle as one
Lonely man cries for love and has none
New mother picks up and suckles her son
Senior citizens wish they were young

Cold hearted orb that rules the night
Removes the colors from our sight
Red is grey and yellow white
But we decide which is right
And which is an illusion?


Just as the Night's in White Satin/Late Lament of the Moody Blues state, is quite difficult to know what's the true colour of what we see, plus what is an illusion?

We are the ones that decide which is right, is what I've been thinking of lately. Perhaps, just perhaps the world in which we live in is the real dream, while the time which we spend sleeping is actually the true reality. There's also the possibility, that just as Buddhism states, everything is in fact a dream, both this reality and the one we project when we go sleeping.
That's one of the fascinating things about the film Inception, anyone remembers the "Dream inside a dream concept"? Well it's pratically this of what I'm talking about. We spend most of our lives worrying about this material reality in which we appareantly live in, when there's trully no reason for worrying about it.

The whole subject about dreaming is quite complex to be spoken of in just a single article, so this is among such ideas that I want to keep recurrent in this blog, talking about the dreaming world once in a while.

For me there are two kind of dreams: There's the Alpha Dream (no relation whatsoever to Alpha waves, just a term I have just invented for this) and the Zeta Dream (again no relation with the waves)

Alpha Dream: This is the kind of dream for me that has shaped humanity as it is. The Alpha Dream is the element used for getting people into working as slaves, and living a life they don't want simply because there's the promise that if they keep insisting, they will eventually achieve that dream. This was used by Edward Berneys to create the career of Public Relations, and eventually to impulsate the Society of Consume. In which the human is a slave, as he is sold a dream or pursuit, dream in which in most of the occassions he cannot manage to achieve. This has survived to our day still, all the people wanting "to make it big in Hollywood" or to not go so far away, just of the person that decides to study Business management thinking he'll be the boss in a multinational, when in reality it will at least pass a decent amount of decades before that can get to happen.
Well, even though the Alpha Dream is the favorite concept to manipulate the masses by the Media, that's not entirely its origin. Also, the Alpha Dream isn't necessarilly evil, in the long run through obsession it can cause the biggest misery, but in moderation its the main source of motivation. This lead us to the old myth about Pandora's Box, and the hypothesis that foreseen is a curse, because if we were able to see the future in a completely rational and crude way, then probably we would lose all motivation to exist, and therefore we would perish. Human needs hope even if its fake, as a pretext to live!
Our Alpha Dreams invite us to want to be more than what we currently are now, to escape from the uncomfortable situation in which many times we feel ourselves trapped, its the idea that for us there's a redemption and a victory at the end of the road. Most times it won't materialize, but even in the darkest hour, there's the Alpha Dream full of hedonism that since in this place we couldn't get to be triumphant, we surely will on the other side, be it heaven or eventually a reeincarnation.

The Zeta Dream is that which is not ordinary, but common. The one we usually experience on hundreds of numbers every single night when we go to sleep. Many times it can be connnected to the Alpha Dream, in fact it can be our door for realizing the Alpha Dream in a minimized level when we go to sleep. When this happens and we wake our from that sweet atmosphere, we feel frustrated and it spoils at least a part of the morning. Sometimes Zeta dreams are completely random to our conscient and are things we think to believe that we havent seen, felt, aspire, etc;
They're not random at all actually, everything has a reason to be. Whether the reason is that dreams are a tool to forseen the future, windows of escape to the frustrated unconscious, I don't honestly know.


What can you do when both your Alpha and Zeta dreams are in your every single day of life? well, this is what has been happening of me lately. I'm using tools such as meditation and relaxation in order to keep them in the "motivating" level, preventing them to go higher. I believe that when dreams grow inside you, when they incept, they give you a bigger and majestous sight of all things. You suddenly realize things werent what you thought they were, however it comes for a price as well. Price being the crystal of rationality that starts to break, and therefore organization of ideas such as time and space that start to vanish. I question myself, where am I? am I trully in Bogotá? perhaps I'm in Prague and I haven't realized? or maybe I have never existed, and as some waves say this is the All, experiencing the recreation of human life?

Even though its risky, and sanity at a point can be on risk, I think that is fun to see things this way. For I believe that if I had decided since many months ago to experience everything from the solely rational point of view, out of any dream dislogic, then perhaps, just perhaps.. I would be feeling quite terrible right now.

I'm thinking of it on the same scheme as the Thyroid gland. Let's say that if a person has low levels of calcium, or a slow metabolism, the mind will give the order to that gland to accelerate the production of calcium. The mind is so strong, that at a point the gland can become crazy and start creating calcium all the time, that's when the hyperthiroidism appears. The contrary happens on the case of Hypothyroidism.
With the mind itself, happens the same. When our reality is filled with crude rationalism, we will eventually escape to our own garden of surrealism. ALL OF THIS IS DONE, WITHOUT THE "HELP" OF ANY DRUG, NONE OTHER THAN THE FEELING!

This concept exists both in Homeotheraphy as in Chinese Medicine. It parts from the principle that a disorder of fire (too much fire) will unleash as an excess of water. Obviously, it goes on the other way around as well.

Talking about dreams, the moment for me to go to sleep and to experience some nice Zeta dreams has come. I wonder, where will I be tonight? Perhaps at a Ball in a Palace? maybe in a forest surrounded by lakes? or maybe, I will wake up and realize that all of this, even writing in this blog was actually the dream, not the reality.

"Once upon a time, I, Chuang Chou, dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was Chou. Soon I awaked, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man"

Zhuangzi