I'm not trying to slam religion into all of this, but I can't help it. I have plenty of dreams that suggest a higher purpose, a higher ability than the world around leads us to believe. We're told were powerless, just another statistic... well I couldn't disagree more.
What you say and do changes too many things for you to be powerless, for you to be weak. The word "reality" is a joke, a barrier, a guideline that tells you this is impossible or this is not "normal."
That's where my next question against the old ways comes in... What is normal?
Normal is another joke, another barrier, another guideline that makes us feel unecessarily guilty if you don't follow it. Normal is a stereotype like any other stereotype is a stereotype. I can't stand the word normal.
The above explains how I truly feel and the following...
The mind is a creator, destroyer, and a traveler.
The Mind is a Creator:
It can be considered a creator because it "creates" thoughts, these thoughts being considered "reason" and the basis for "understanding", reality and normal being barriers for this creation. If your mind has the ability to deem something possible in the first place, if the elements aren't effected by solid and widely viewed facts, what prevents it from happening. The acknowledgement of reality and something being normal.
Take placebos for instance.
They're pills designed to trick the mind into healing a certain physical or mental disease. Could this be only one method in making the mind more powerful than it commonly led to be? I honestly believe it is one of many. Society has led us to compensate what we "see" instead of what we think we "can see."
I am a person who believes highly in the enhancements of Martial Arts, Tai Chi especially. Tai Chi suggests that the world is a concentration of energy, energy that can be used to many amazing extents. Since science books claim that everything requires energy, what is to say that Tai Chi isn't correct?
What is to say that anything, if you believe the energy is there, is impossible?
The Mind is a Destroyer:
You tell yourself, you "can't" do this, or you "can't" do that. Your mind is making this decision, but does it have to? Does your mind have to believe in limitations?
That's why I believe a mind can be a destroyer, a weapon as well. Any human being, regardless of race or sex has the ability to destroy themself mentally. To convince themself that something isn't going to happen, that something is a certain way. The basics and standards of reality and normal play into this as well, a person convinced that if wasn't possible before, then how is it possible now?
Stop telling yourself that anything is impossible and scowl at the words "reality" and "normal."
The Mind is a Traveler:
Dreams... random, subconsciously metaphorical, and mentally invigorating dreams. What are they? No one truly knows, with reality and normal guiding their thought process, they'll just be as confused and have that "lovely" guilt trip as always.
But, I say screw that... dreams are taking a trip into the unknown, a trip into another demension, another realm of possibility. People have deja vus, which is basically dreaming something, then later on noticing that it actually happened.
Does this suggest destiny?
It could, why not?
What does is hurt to think it does?
Does destiny scare you?
Can your destiny change?
Why not?
Your laying in your bed, thinking about recent events of the past and of the day. Then you fall asleep, having a dream about you being around certain friends a certain even happening, a few weeks later, the event actually happening later, during a time that you consider being "awake."
Does this make you a prophet?
Sure, why not?
People travel to see new things, witness things they've always wanted to. What keeps you from believing that in a sleep-like state, your mind obviously having to work a lot less, that the urge to travel doesn't die? The urge to see things that acknowledge your future, to see things that you subconsciously wish to witness?
There are dreams though, that can't fall under this explanation. Dreams that question "reality" and "normal" so much, you wake up in a such a concentrated contemplation, that if the slightest urges the rationality of "reality" and "normal" create appear... the dream will slowly fade out of your flow of thought.
What can we consider these dreams, metaphorical manifestations?
Maybe. But, I consider them windows, our spirits traveling into other demensions, other worlds.
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Knowing full well that you'll probably call me stupid and ignorant, I'll always wonder why do the guidelines and guilt trips of "reality" and "normal" make you feed this much hatred. So, I shall close this post, quoting Bernard Shaw...
"You see things and you say 'Why?'. But I dream things that never were, and I say 'Why Not?'"