>> Dreams and Imagination

Do our dreams mean anything? Do we dream at all? I dream loads. I enjoy dreaming and it’s something that I’ve loved doing for the past couple of years. It’s not something to do only while we’re fast asleep. I think dreams and imagination go together. Imagination is amazing, it opens up a whole new dimension, a whole new area, a whole new world where YOU govern everything. You are the master of your own world. We create and steer the ship of our universe. Now I know these thoughts may seem a bit abstract to some (if not many) but I know some will be able to appreciate them. There’s a difference between merely fantasizing and actually dreaming, visualizing and emotionalizing anything. Anything can be anyone’s fantasy. That doesn’t necessarily mean they really want it. If we really want something, we can definitely get it. I got proof and it’s happened to me before. I’ll give you a little example. (All this has nothing to do with religion even though I am going to be using the word ‘faith’)

What is faith? To me it’s the belief in something. It can be a person, thing, an incident, or even something we believe in. There is no need of any kind of logical proof. Everyone has different kinds of faith. Religion is one of them but I am not going to talk about that. When we board an airplane, we have faith that it is going to land again safely. If we didn’t have such a belief, we wouldn’t have even boarded it in the first place. It’s this weird ‘faith’ that drives us. It’s this ‘faith’ which can actually make things happen. It’s with faith, imagination, dreams, emotions, visualization that I believe anything is possible. It’s a pretty big thing what I just said, but look at it carefully and perhaps there may actually be a bit of truth in it? Has anything impossible ever happened to you? Why do you think it happened? I’m not a very strong believer in ‘fate’ because like I said before – I think we’re responsible for anything and everything that happens to us. Be it good, be it bad.

A small deviation into my other dimension of magic and mystery. A trick went amazingly well, we got the reactions we dreamed about, everything went according to plan, we can take full credit for it, right? Absolutely. Next, a different scenario; nothing went like we planned, our spectators got too suspicious, they started seeing things that shouldn’t have been seen, they started asking things that shouldn’t have been asked and which you couldn’t answer. I’d say we just got a real tough cookie or a heckler and any poor chap who’d been in our place would have had an equally horrid time, right? Wrong. WE were responsible for everything that happened. If nothing went like we planned, we didn’t plan enough; if the spectators got too suspicious, we didn’t resolve enough doubt; if they started seeing or asking things that shouldn’t have been asked, then we didn’t convince them enough and failed in our goal to entertain them. Finally we failed right at the initial judgment. Failed in establishing a proper rapport and trust. We didn’t get heckled – we created the heckler. And that’s why we should must take complete responsibility for it.

How we can extend this into any other facet of life is upto us. It’s very simple to do and I’ll leave that to you. Did you notice that right in the beginning of the description of the positive scenario I said, “we got the reactions we dreamed about…”? It’s not just a dream that got us there. Remember it’s not just a fantasy. If you think that I can dream about something and just go out there and do it, it’s not going to happen. That’s a fantasy. I can fantasize about winning a Formula 1 Grand Prix. It doesn’t mean that if given a chance to drive tomorrow I will win. That’s because it’s just a fantasy, nothing more. A proper visualization or dream has clarity and is filled with emotions. It will drive you to work towards it. It will show you the path to follow and you can start your journey. Couple it with some imagination and your dream improves, you set the bar higher, you raise standards and in the end the results will be amazing. I assure you and have faith in that. Turn your fantasies into reality. You know the way to do it.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.

Peace.