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TO dream while sleeping is a common experience. But many of us don’t know that dreams can be inspiring and prophetic! Mythologies, legends and traditions, even the Bible, speak of the value and worth of dreams. Sleep not only refreshes us but also provides us spiritual guidance. God guides us through dreams. That’s why wise ones tell us to sleep over matters before taking any important decision. History reveals how Joan of Arc was encouraged in a dream to fight for the French against the English. Abraham Lincoln had a prophetic dream about a coffin surrounded by weeping mourners who said that President Lincoln had been assassinated. President Kennedy’s assassination had been dreamt by a woman who warned the White House on phone well before the eventuality. |
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Alexander the Great had dreamt in 332 AD of his victory over the city of Tyre, and he had really won. S.T. Coleridge’s poem Kubla Khan is a product of a dream. Kubla Khan too had built his fort as a result of a dream. R.L. Stevenson would often get the inspiration to write imaginatively from his dreams. F.A. Kekule, the organic chemist, wondering about the likely arrangement of atoms within a molecule of benzene, dreamt of a snake biting its own tail and hit upon the solution to the riddle of benzene ring. Once a girl was denied an air ticket from Canada, but learnt in her dream how fate had actually saved her. The very next day she read the news that the same plane had met with an air crash, and all the 350 passengers it carried had died. Once an old man had dreamt of having lost his only son in a crowded fair, and had found how that only son had committed suicide for no known reasons. Mc Dougall would keep a pen and a notebook under his pillow at night to note down and interpret his own dreams. Sigmund Freud, Jung and Adler would interpret their dreams, and help in interpeting the dreams of their patients too. Dreams are really fantastic wishes fulfilled, says Wulf Sachs. For Denial Defoe dreams are nothing but to think in sleep. Shakespeare mentioned the word "dream" more than 150 times in his plays. For Jewish Talmund, a dream which is not understood is like an unopened letter. Dreams really help and guide us. They warn us of our future events but we have to recollect such dreams. Normally we forget our dreams. My father had no faith in dreams, and neither did I. But then a miraculous change came about in my attitude. It was the month of February in 1965. I was then a student of Class 10. The final exam was to be held in March. My mother would wake me up at 4 a.m. everyday. Once my mother had gone to see her ailing brother. That morning nobody woke me up. I was, hence, lost in dreams. I got up at 5.30 a.m. when the newspaper boy came. Actually the previous night I had fallen asleep while reading an essay on Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. In my dream I saw my ailing maternal uncle smiling and telling me: "Dharam, cram this essay on Jawaharlal Nehru and you will get 138/150 marks in English." And then my uncle fell into a sound sleep. The next day we received a telegram giving news of the death of my uncle. It later transpired that we were required to write an essay on Pandit Nehru for my English exam. I was later declared successful, securing 138/150 marks in English. From then on I have always had faith in the prophetic nature of my dreams. I often find that they come true. Actually our future exists in one form or another even at present. Nothing ever happens by chance. There is always a cause behind everything that happens. Through dreams we get flashes of future happenings. Their existing cause can be changed to avoid the impending future loss or danger. One must have full faith in one’s dreams. Dreams always instruct us before hand. When there is a recurrent dream about some danger, it is certain that this seed of danger would sprout in future. In that case something should be done to remove or modify the cause of that danger. Once this seed is crushed, the impending danger can be avoided. The subconscious guides us through dreams. We have only to be receptive. The rewards will be astounding! |
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