Dreamin'

True intentions lie within your dreams.

There are different types of dreaming; people speak of your future plans as what you dream of doing. You sometimes speak of what you can remember in your sleep. I, in particular, find comfort in them.

I'm at this constant state of mind to prefer positivity in my life. Due to past occurrences, all of the tragedies that people face and endure, all I want is a tinge of hope. Especially when I feel defeated, like all of the pressures of the world are placed on my chest, and my lungs are rather in my throat than doing what they're supposed to be doing which is being the key to my breathing. Where it seems easier to go to my room and hibernate instead of taking everything head on and paving my way to my future.

Futures are what people often dream about. Desiring this and that, and what I find myself deciding internally is that people deserve what they want. The hard workers deserve it more, of course, but to dream is the process of wanting to absorb life and use it to your advantage and I'm all about that.

A girl that I associate with a lot, who's a part of something that I hold dearly to my heart, described a reoccurring dream she was having, saying it was a nightmare. I don't think that hers was particularly a nightmare, but more of a nightmarish dream. I asked her to repeat it; saying maybe that I could help her out. Now I've never done this before. Never tried to verbalize the analysis of people that I make in my head. But as I give her my full attention, my brain starts compartmentalizing immediately. Almost like a second nature.

It says, "Okay, so this happened, it must mean this", and "She feels this way because of this tendency or habit". And believe me, this girl has a tendency to make others feel better about themselves. But as I told her what these parts of her dream meant, she looked at me like I read her mind. Like I told a child that Santa Clause was real and I had the evidence to prove it. It made me feel so accomplished for her to tell me that I was accurate. It meant the world for me to help her with this dream.

Dreams mean humanity. They mean that people love something. Dreaming gives me a sense of a person being mentally healthy.

One of my favorite songs is called "Dream". It's by Imagine Dragons. But now that I've established that one of my favorite artists wrote a whole song on a process that keeps me going, it makes me love dreaming even more. Now that I can take two things I love to analyze, I merge the ideas together and they make me feel fulfilled. Like underlying meanings and the fact that several things have more than one meaning fascinates me.

We often find ourselves not being able to interpret them. But it's okay. To pay attention to the dream is showing effort regardless. To want to follow through with this dream in reality, to fix or make or break your future, is important.

And for that, I encourage dreaming. On good and bad days. Evaluate them, decide what you want, gather philosophies and study your brain and your morals.

Chase them. And don't stop when your brain gives you that dream's destination. Because that finish line is another starting line. Run this freaking marathon that is life.

Yours Truly,

the empathetic dreamer