Dear friends,
Since my father passed away, it is impossible to skip one night I can't dream of him. It also happened after my grandma passed away many years ago.
This morning, I dreamed my father at 7 Am who sang a love song for my mother, "Bakit Ikaw Pa" in Guingona Rizal Park. The vignette pictures compelled nostalgia as well as the clear voice of my father that loud and clear. There was also a resonance where I heard a solemn song from heaven, whirling vision of a sepia coffin, perplexed joy combined with the grievance. I did not get it but woke up suddenly, cried, and imagined he was still alive. Did it happen to you? Would you like to see someone you lose again in a dream?
Why Does a Person Dream?
The dream is mysterious but natural human nature. Even the scientists cannot tell why person dreams. Their unclear report says that we dream because we are stressed, depressed, and due to our excitement.
Personal experience: There are times of my slumber when I hallucinate and my eyes are difficult to awake. There also times of my nap that I'd wake up immediately after falling from the mountain, stair, and even chair. In fact, bed shaking and heart breaths harder. How about you? Did you experience the same?
The scientists have spoken that there are two types of dreams:
Nightmare: Scientific Explanation and our Elders
It is the scariest and life-threatening REM sleep to take someone's life that targets all ages.
Personal experience: My relative died for a couple of years ago. The experts reported it a nightmare that caused his death.
Scientifically, the experts say that depression, ailment, trauma are the underlying causes why do we nightmare. For the elders, avoiding a supine position to sleep is to prevent this dangerous REM sleep.
A Lucid Dream
There are many dreams we have where we were the director of our own REM sleep. Some of our dreams are uncontrollable, but a lucid dream is different. It is like, we're writing a novel where we write the next episode that we want to feel and see. It is like, if I wanna be a wonder woman then I'll be!
Scientifically, while we sleep, our brain is active to reproduce more ideas happening in our hallucination. It divides our awakening and REM sleep that we hear the noise of our surroundings and can manage the climax of the story we make on dreaming.
Our Dreams and their Meanings
When We Dream a Snake
During my college years, my mother's close friend was my father's secretary in his business. Mother and the secretary always laugh and chitchat when they were together. One night, I saw the panorama view of a tree that suddenly produced snakes fruits in my deep slumber. My grandmother warned my family to be aware of the traitor manipulating my father's business and family. In the following month, my father's business went downhill because of the homewrecker secretary.
When You Dream that your Love One becomes Fat
In 2016, I hallucinated of my brother confined to the hospital with many hoses, but he was fat. He wore my father's white t-shirt in bed. My lips were sealed in the morning, for I did not remember all the episodes in those unclear visions but when my fat brother laid down is very clear to my imagination.
In the morning when my mother washed the clothes, her phone rang. It was my father who called. Because she was busy, I answered my father and joking many things.
In the afternoon, I heard a melancholic instrumental song that brought me to heaven. Two days later, my aunt texted my mother a terrible news that my father was confined to the hospital at the ICU with many hoses. She sent my father's picture on Facebook. I cried because he looks frail and anorexic. In the next morning, the doctor confirmed his death. It was a very sudden disaster that shocked our world until now.
When we Dream a White Bride in Veil
Eight years ago, my mother envisioned a bride in the veil in her REM sleep. On June 22 as we celebrated her birthday, she was drawn to the water even she can swim. The following week, she was unable to talk and seizure. It was the scariest happening in our family because everytime she seizures, I wasn't sure if it was treatable. It was a life-threatening story I don't wanna reminisce when she was assigned to the ICU for 3 weeks and all of the patients next to her bed died. Whenever she pointed her fingers to me, it's the beginning of the seizure. But now she's fine after the doctor prescribed Dilantin and those other medications I cannot remember. My mother ate a double dead meat and the doctor found a small bacteria in her head, but it was wiped out after the serious medication. Now you know that there is a bad interpretation if one dreams a white bride in a veil.
Flying Without Wings
I always dream to fly higher but I cannot do it because there are many obstacles to move forward. Whenever I fly harder, someone tries to chase my feet. Sometimes I REM sleep that someone brings a knife and chased me flying and I lose breath due to tiredness. Sometimes I reached the peak, sometimes I failed. There are the ceilings and walls that hinder me with a small hole which is my only option to go out but when you go out, there are the other walls and ceilings with small holes that hinder again. Did you ever experience the same? I always fly by my arms and shoulders without wings, bend my feet, and gather oxygen to fly higher and higher. Then I sat down at the higher roof, sometimes highest Gemelina tree, and sometimes coconut tree.
The dream experts believe that flying without wings means to pursue our goals in life with many obstacles.
Swimming Underwater
When I was 19, I kept on dreaming every night to swim underneath the filthy river. Sometimes I walk into the crystal water in the river. Sometimes I sleep beneath the clean and blue river. There are times I also crossed the flooded stream and swam. It was tough to cross because the water was powerful and I tried harder to move but I lose my breath until the water drains me.
The dream experts interpret that when a person dreams he swims underneath the clean and clear water, cross the muddy and flooded river, swim in the filthy river, it means disease. Now I am battling a muscle atrophy caused by injury and I've been bringing this burden for 4 years.
A Cute Suitor
There was a time I dreamed of a cute guy staring at me as I did the home chores and I was shivering. Then I never liked to wake up because there was a love story that happens. According to the elders, someday you can find someone in a relationship seriously when you dream of a cute bachelor.
When a Tooth Falls
Our neighbor dreamed her tooth was falling out. The older people believed that if one spitting his home's pillar in the morning is the curse and if the dreamer tells it to someone. Our ancestors translated it as a disaster in the future. Two weeks later, my neighbor's husband was confirmed dead after the motorcycle accident.
Candle
The dream experts believe that there are a hope and success in the future. It's a message to continue the journey because your turn will come soon.
Buying
I paid a bread for 5 pesos from the small store in the forest in my REM sleep. The dream experts translation is a good news soon. To my experience, I never receive a good news either bad.
Money
I don't like to dream this stuff because it has an opposite meaning as a sign of bad luck.
Corpse
It may be horrifying but our elders believe that it symbolizes for good luck and plenty of money.
My last words:
On our REM sleep, the demons are manipulating our brain. Despite that, forgetting all the happenings that occur to our dream even the scenes are vague is sometimes wrong. Often, we believe that the meaning of it has no importance but it inspires, warns and guides us. Dreaming is a unique bonus for us humans because no other creations on earth that can dream but us!
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