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Dreams come to you at night for a reason

By Alan Firmin

By Alan FirminPublished 2 years ago 3 min read
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Dreams come to you at night for a reason
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They sometimes do not come for days or weeks. They sometimes come in waves. Sometimes, just sometimes, they come so clear and vibrant it feels like they touch your very soul. But there is a reason dreams come to you in your sleep. Dreams need your undivided attention. Dreams need the canvas of your mind to express the subconscious and plant important information that one day will trigger a response. What that response will be is not always be clear. But it does have your undivided attention.

What is clear is how a dream can repeat many times before we feel that it moves on. But why? Has its purpose been achieved? Was I supposed to do something? Is there a level in our brains that we have yet to unlock that would explain such strange and obscure visions? Maybe you are not meant to understand everything? Perhaps you are only supposed to have a glimpse into a world we cannot comprehend just yet. And maybe, just maybe, they come to us in our sleep, so we cannot avoid them.

Our lives are filled with millions of different messages that we have to digest in a fraction of a second. Reports, discussions, images, smells, sounds, and so much more than even thinking about the volume of information can make you feel quite dizzy. Whatever dreams are or mean is a mystery. Still, one thing is evident when we dream with our eyes open, we can achieve such incredible heights, but it takes discipline and focuses on staying true to these dreams without wandering off onto different paths.

I constantly find myself thinking of a new business idea, a blog I would like to write about Social Media, Emerging technology, Football and more. But, I keep Snapping myself back on track to keep writing this blog so that maybe it inspires at least one other person to do something with their lives, stay focused on my business and my work, and keep focused on being a good father, partner and friend.

There are many views on what dreams mean. Books that list particular objects like a snake, door or animal where each has a specific meaning of death, loss or a surprise will happen in your life and so on. It is the same as listening to people talk about what happens after you die. So many differing opinions, but until each of us pass on, there is no way of irrefutable proof that we will know for sure what happens. It is the old adage of Schroedinger's cat. In the 1930s, Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger came up with his famous thought experiment about a cat in a box that, according to quantum mechanics, could be alive and dead at the same time. In Schrodinger's imaginary experiment, you place a cat in a box with a tiny bit of radioactive substance. When the radioactive substance decays, it triggers a Geiger counter which causes a poison or explosion to be released that kills the cat. Until the box is opened and the cat is observed, the cat is both dead and alive simultaneously. It is the same thing with death and dreams; we really just can't prove anything.

Whatever dreams come to you tonight, may they bring you comfort, joy or inspire you to do something great the next day. Whatever your dreams are tonight, know they are yours to do when you awake the following day. They are yours to fuel your ambitions and to quell your fears about all the things you cannot do. For a dream comes to you at night, when you are asleep, because you cannot turn off the channel, get up and move on or any other thing we do in life to avoid what we need to see. Dreams come to you in your sleep, so you listen to them and act on them when you awake. Dream big and live happily.

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About the Creator

Alan Firmin

Award winning Creative Director: GREY, FCB, Y&R, & VML 20 years. CMO for 10 years. Founder of Tribalheart. Lectured at University of London. Speak at conferences all over the world on emerging media. Love poetry & photography

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