What is a Dream?  Is it something that occupies your mind while you are sleeping?  Or something that you fear or loath?  Maybe it’s something that you secretly hope for, maybe something that you openly hope for…???  What is it in our being that makes us dream?  Is it the mind, experiences mixed up and coming together, maybe to a blurrier vision, maybe to a more acute vision….Or is it the heart and soul, ideas that your mind has yet to recognize that brings them out of you? 

Some people think of a dream as a life goal, like the American Dream, which is a lie, but I’ll save that for another time.  Some people are so set on what they want to do in this world that they focus all their energy on achieving it.  For some people it’s simply finding someone to share their life with and love and be loved…for others it’s a career choice, some business adventure that they have always “dreamed” of having.

I think that there is a difference between dreams at night and day dreams.  Day dreams (fantasies), I think are sparked by conscious thought…something that has happened, something that you know you want and your mind is driven, focused on it, even when it’s focusing in the background of everything else.  Dreams that happen at night acknowledge thoughts that don’t always get recognition during the day.  Sometimes they are obviously connected to something that has happened that day or that week that has been on your mind, sometimes you don’t know where the dream came from.  Sometimes even thoughts you have only had in dreams seem to make sense when you wake up, but sometimes they seem scattered and disorganized.  It really makes me wonder what makes us dream.  Are the scattered thoughts, bits and pieces of desires or fears we haven’t recognized yet?  Or are they simply a mixture of everything that is going on in your world?