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You may say that I am a dreamer, but I am not the only one...

I was listening to Lady Gaga's press conference before her concert at New Delhi. She picked John Lenon's Imagine as one of her favourite all time classics. That got me thinking about the song's lyrics, then that in turn reminded me of my dreams - never those where I am eating clouds of candy or chocolate houses.

Anyone who's read "Interpretations of dreams" by Sigmund Freud, you may be able to understand this better.

Dream 1) : I had the weirdest dream a couple of weeks back. Reference to External Stimuli by Freud, I read that you dream of getting wet in a stream or river when a part of your body touches water during sleep. I had a dream that I was having a dream like that and woke up and exclaimed that i had a situation similar to what was mentioned in the book. Except that I was in a dream still and that explains why I was not able to open my eyes. I could only hear my husband's voice. This was a very exciting experience. Very much like the move The Inception.
I then started out on a mission to analyse my dreams and how they are connected to what I have seen/felt or experienced in the last couple of days.. Share your dreams and let's see if we can find out why you experienced that in the first place.

Dream 2) A rather simple one.I had been to chennai and saw my slam book filled up by my closest college friends and then that night I dreamt of having a chance meeting with a friend and her mother. I could easily relate that.

Dream 3) My husband and I were in Japan during the recent earthquake near Fukushima. We were returning to Bangalore by bus when I had a dream of being in an earthquake experience once again. Apparently this was stimulated by an external activity - the motion of the bus. I woke up and realised that this dream earthquake felt weird because of the resemblance to the motion of the bus. Again, I could figure out the reason.

Dream 4) Well, this is a very recent one. By recent, I mean something that I had dreamt of last night. I was at my home, a different visualization in my dream, in Bangalore. As in a typical South Banglorean house, two sides had very close buildings with no space to even open the windows. One day I saw a woman standing on the other side of such a window. I quickly dismissed that incident and put up thicker curtains to block the view. Then one day I somehow opened the window to find that to be a puppet like body hanging from nowhere. I tried to cut the rope and the body disappeared and another appeared beside it. The faces were very ghastly and I am still spooked by the thought of this dream. I am normally scared of even the thought of ghosts and spirits, but in my dream I was unusually calm and coolly walked around after the incident.

I have not yet figured out what to relate this dream to!

It is really exciting to study how our dreams may have a connection. Would like to hear from people who have such experiences or are novices or even experts of the subject :)

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