Friday, December 01, 2006

The rights of dreams

This has been on my mind for the past couple of days. I don't know why; dreams are just figments of the mind. But what if it wasn't so simple?

What if your dreams could think for themselves?

If your dreams maintained their setting and characters, could they be considered a second world?

If your dream world was mre enjoyable than your "real" life, would you be so wrong for wanting to retreat there?

If, for whatever reason, you had to choose between life and your dreams, would you be insane to put the good of "many" before the good of one?

If dreams thought they were real, would the act of waking become murderous?

Why do these posts keep coming back to dreams?

3 comments:

Andy Cantor said...

Because dreams are really cool! Also, as I have just found out, rather informative. My subconcious knows that I really want to cut my hair off, so it sent me a dream about cutting my hair and being very pleased about it. Now I KNOW that I want to cut my hair, and will probably actually DO it soon. Yay!

Peter said...

Huzzah for helpful dreams!

Lilith said...

They help us sort out stuff we need to have sorted out. Most of the time, we already know the answer, but we don't like it, so we question ourselves. And then dreams come as a big slap in the face wake up call. (no pun intended)

And that's an interesting point about waking up being a murderous act. I've never thought of it that way. And I suppose it is, killing all those new people/figments of our imaginations we created in our dreams, as well as killing the dreams themselves. Oh my god, we're evil!