Dreams

Dreams they say are a succession of images, ideas, and thoughts that occur involuntarily in our mind when we fall asleep.

I wonder if they are really involuntary, I wonder if they are just images and ideas.

Once I took a nap and woke up feeling incredibly sad after having a dream about losing someone

And once opened my eyes in the morning hastily with a terrified feeling after dreaming about an angry storm.

Then one fine day I dreamt about a text from a person who I no longer talk to and ruminated over the memories feeling stuck up all day long.

I guess all our dreams are just a passage into our innermost thoughts and fears.

Why else do we wake up with intense emotions that feel like painfully stricken spears?

My spiritual guru said, “dwell deeper into your mind”

And I wondered why I couldn’t do that for the longest time.

I realized that I was afraid,

Afraid that in the depths of my mind lies nothing but nightmares.

I was afraid that my innermost self is filled with nothing but emotions and thoughts that I do not want to confront

And I was definitely afraid to excavate the feelings that were left undone.

But I had to dwell deeper, for that was the path I had embarked on

So, I went to my guru and narrated my ordeal

I told him about everything I feared about diving into the depths of my mind.

He asked me a question that I thought was redundant, to give me an answer that was precious than a diamond,

“What happens after those nightmares and when you are left with sour and bitter feelings in your heart after all those dreams?”

“I wake up”, I answered.

“And why do you think I have asked you to dwell deeper?”

“To wake up”,

“To wake up from my slumber, my fears and everything that is buried within me”