Dreaming for a cause

Everybody dreams, but very few dream with a purpose. In continuation with the series – Transforming your Dreams into reality, this post further guides you to delve deep into your dreams to get clues from your subconscious mind about the ‘real you’.

Let’s begin with an exercise today to prove what dreams can do to realise your dreams in real life. Take 15 days out from your schedule for ‘dreaming’! While people may call you a fool, all it will take is your commitment towards your dreams.

Day 1: Shortlist your goal for the fortnight and think about it the whole day.

Day 2: Share with a friend that you want to achieve the goal.

Day 3: Read books and material about your topics related to your objective

Day 4: Tell more friends about your goal and discuss at length about it

Day 5: Keep your goal in your subconscious and keep thinking about it.

Day 6: Ask God what you should do to fulfill this goal. Ask yourself what needs to be done to achieve this objective.

Day 7: Concentrate on other things in life, forgetting completely about your goal.

Day 8: See if you still want to achieve the goal with the same passion. Keep thinking about it if the answer is yes. If the answer is No, you probably need a stronger determination.

Day 9: Share with a friend that you want to achieve the goal.

Day 10: Read books and material about your topics related to your objective

Day 11: Tell more friends about your goal and discuss at length about it

Day 12: Keep your goal in your subconscious and keep thinking about it

Day 13: Ask God what you should do to fulfill this goal. Ask yourself what needs to be done to achieve this objective.

Day 14: Concentrate on other things in life, forgetting completely about your goal.

Day 15: You being to get clarity and would find the way to achieve your goal.

You must be wondering, so where the dreaming part is or what role are dreams playing here? While you are training your conscious mind with these strong thoughts, your subconscious mind works with ten times more efficiency.

At the end of each day, record your dreams in your diary and analyse them. You will come to know that as you reach closer to the accomplishment of your goal, you’ll get clearer dreams. You will be a satisfied dream and would find your dreams helping you towards the achievement of your objective.

How to analyse dreams?
The emotion that you feel while dreaming is your general state of mind. As your state of mind reaches clarity, your dreams will start reflecting it. Instead of confusing dreams, you will get inspiring dreams.

If you still watch confusing, unclear or fearful dreams, it means you are not serious about your goal.

Conversely, you can bring clarity in your mind through dreams. While watching a fearful or confusing mind, instruct yourself that you want clarity and try to sort our things in the dream itself. You will discover that things are improving in reality as well.

It's testing time for my dear dreams!

My dear dreams, it's a testing time for you now. I'm relying on you to transform my life. Will you help? I aspire to metamorphose my life into something that I have always dreamt of. Unburden all my fears and apprehensions before I take on this new journey.

I command and request you to give a perspective to my life and guide me accordingly. You've always been my anchor and I'm entrusting you yet again with this great responsibility.

Won't reveal what's on mind right now, but you understand what I'm saying.

And in return, I give you a promise of hardwork and more hardwork.

Trust you!

Transforming your dreams into reality - Part 1

If the world of dreams fascinate you enough. You can start an altogether different journey with me - of aligning your dreams with your life purpose. Your dreams is the reflection of your subconscious which has immense power to make anything possible. A lot of self books have claimed that thoughts have the power to make your dreams turn into reality. I believe that your dreams have the ability to transform your thinking into reality.

I'll try to open an entirely new world for you where you can train your mind while you're asleep and reap the benefits in real life. Would you like to embark on this journey which requires immense dedication towards your desires, faith on the power of your mind/dreams and mental discipline?

With each post, we'll reach a new level of understanding our mind and explore it to the maximum.

Here's starting this journey:

Step one

If you haven't tried to understand the world of dreams yet. Now is the time. As mentioned in many stuff and studies about dreams, maintaining a dream journal helps. For beginners, this will help create a discipline.

Dream journal will help you understand how your mind works. For about a week/fortnight (depending upon how fast you understand the working of your mind), note down in detail about the dreams you see. Some dreams will be like scattered pieces and the others will be like a movie or serial. After a week or so, you'll get to know the basic theme of your dreams. It's up to you to discover the pattern. Your mind might be naughty, imaginative, fearful or all of that.

Breaking the negative patterns
Write down the negative patterns of your dreams at the end of the time period you have set for yourself. Also write down the positive/feel good patterns of your dreams.

Now think for some time about what is the theme of that negative pattern in your dreams. Is it fear, confusion, indecisiveness, helplessness, guilt, stress or burden. You'd be surprised to notice that the emotion governing your dreams is also subconsciously governing your life. It's just that you are too busy to notice. Now it's the time to focus on those negative patterns.

How?
Simple. You figured out this problem in your dreams, right? So it's solution also lies in your dreams. The next time you dream something negative (horror, stressful, uneasy, uncomfortable), be aware that you are dreaming. Ask yourself is this problem big enough to bother you. Why this dream is making you so uncomfortable?

While dreaming you have an advantage of having the support of subconscious mind with you. You can heal yourself faster during this state. Get your mind out of this situation. For example, if you are dreaming that you are not able to find your way to an important desination, don't get hassled. Instead, think strongly that you have to reach that place at any cost. You'd be surprised that by just injecting this thought into your mind at that point of time, situation in your dreams will change. You'll get the solution immediately and that confusion will disappear.

Now you wake up in the morning, and think about the previous night's dream. Now think about the real problem in your life. You might be avoiding the problem or not finding an appropriate solution in real life. You'd be surprised to know that the healing that you gave yourself in the dream will help solve your real life problem as well.

Your subconsious mind will force you to tackle the problem and you'll get rid of it in no time. Amazed? Such is the power of our mind and such is the power of our dreams.

Try this out once and I'll be back in no time to serve another post for you. Till then, happy dreaming!

Dream healing

Dreams have a great significance in my life. People around me might lie, but my dreams always dare to speak the truth to me. There is no escape in the world of dreams. I might not consciously know that I am avoiding a situation, but my dreams do. Good thing is since I am a good student of dream psychology, I get the signals well in time and make amends.

If I am suffering from a personal trauma, my dreams help me to understand my own emotions well and then guide me to take the right decision.

The other day, I found myself trapped in a castle. I couldn't find my way and was helpless. I could relate it immediately to my current situation and that helped bring clarity in my life.

You can also experiment with your dreams. All you have to do is to trust them - trust your conscience - trust the way your mind works. Our mind is capable of

finding solutions to its own problems. You just need a key. And who knows it might be your dreams.

Tonight just close your eyes and think about a nagging problem to which you need a solution. You just have to mention the problem to your subconscious and then go dream. Dream, dream and dream some more.

Comment on this post if are able to find a solution to your problem through dream therapy. I would be happy to know.

Musings of heart

I'm writing this blog after 1.5 years. What do you think might have happened? Had I stopped dreaming or was I too busy to write by dream experiences. I think it was neither of the two cases. I was just not interacting with my creativity any longer. Looking back, a lot of things have changed in the past 1.5 years. I would like to congratulate myself as I got married two months back:-)

Incidentally, my three other colleagues also got married around the same time. I got the first hand experience of how a girl feels before and after marriage when she has to cope up with too many changes. Right from getting her make-up right to adjusting to an entirely new family, one has to forget oneself if not for long, for a while. Often, big changes come with a huge fear factor. Would I be able to portray myself as a perfect bahu? Will people give me time to reconcile to the new situations? Would I be able to accept my new surroundings? What if things don't turn out the way I wanted them to? Should I run and turn an escapist? Or should I take a more philosophical view of life and hope that things would improve with time?

Well, the soultion is to go with the flow. Don't think too much. When you enter a new workplace, you take your own good time to acclimatise yourself to the new surroundings. Don't you? Marriage is no different. But here's a word of caution. Don't take things for granted. Make your contribution of love, care and dedication and you would sure win the hearts in no time.

As I look forward to a new set of beginnings, instead of resisting change, I'm embracing it warmly. And wanna know what's happening? The new place is now cosily comfortable and pampering me with endless love, care and understanding. I'm blessed!

My dream interviews with Aamir Khan

A strange feeling overpowered my senses when one of my journalist friends told me she met Aamir Khan the other day. I could not help thinking about all my dream experiences with the actor I had since 15 years and even shared them with some of my colleagues.

My association (dream) with this Piscean actor goes back to my childhood days, when I had just started watching and understanding movies. I couldn't judge his acting skills at that time, but the intensity in his eyes influenced me deeply. I knew straight away that I wanted to become a journalist and interview my favourite actor one day.

This might have sounded silly to people who thought I was a child and would change my career choice once I get a little older. But I continued to nurture this dream all through and always knew what I had to become - an entertainment journalist.

Though I stopped sharing my ambition with people around me when I got a little older because of the fear that it might not come true at all.

I can't really remember when I first saw Aamir Khan in my dreams. He appeared in my dreams quite frequently and I interviewed him each time. In my subconscious mind, I knew what I had to ask him when I come face-to-face with him.

Strangely, my dream construction theory doesn't work here as my subconscious mind certainly overpowers by active mind when it comes to Aamir Khan. I interviewed him in various settings including my school, college and even Page 3 parties.

I haven't got an opportunity to meet him in real, but I am sure that day will come and then I will ask him all those questions that I asked him in my dreams. I don't know how I'll react on meeting him but I'm sure it will be a memorable meeting. But do dreams actually come true? Yes they do. Atleast, I believe in them.

Ghosts and more

Do you believe in ghosts? If not, you cannot enter the beautiful world of Calvin (cartoon character) or for that matter Ishan Awasthi (Taare Zameen Par).

Calvin who searches for 'devils' before he steps into his bed is yet to enter the 'horrible' world of adults. Till then, he can indulge in searching ghosts and aliens.

Have you noticed the beautiful world a child weaves around himself...observing a tad different things from others and being happy even if he/she is alone. What does an infant do, when he's left alone? You would say, he'll cry. No, he won't until he is imagining beautiful things. But the moment he imagines something dreadful, he will howl like anything.

We have heard many children say - "look there is a ghost out there....you can't see him but he knows what we do." Of course, one has to console them and make them believe that ghosts don't exist, so that they stop fearing from them.

But why stop them from imagining? One should in fact join in their discussion by making ghosts an object of fun instead of fear....

I remember my mom saying this to me - "Even if ghosts exist, they can't harm us, as human beings are the most powerful creature."

I simply loved to imagine that I am having an encounter with ghosts and they are discussing a variety of things with me.

Children love to explore, on the contrary adults despise change..... If we tell them to believe in ghosts and aliens..they would say - "where is the scientific proof?" They will try to sort out things with their so called logic and will fail to explore various possibilities...

Let's discover the child in us once again....and then may be who knows we may surprise people around us with our out-of-the-box thoughts....