Thursday, 19 February 2026

SOME THOUGHTS ON DREAMS

 

                                SOME THOUGHTS ON DREAMS

            Dreams are defined as involuntary successions of images, emotions, and sensations which occur during sleep.

            They are also called nightmares, visions, fantasies, and hallucinations. They are also desires, expectations, wishes, longings, hopes, yearnings, reveries , castles in the air and states of unreality.

             It is not undesirable to dream.

            Dreamers are visionaries, idealists, theorizers, and romancers.

            What are dreams today can be realities tomorrow. They are fore-runners of future events. They please all sorts of thinkers because they fill their mind with hopes and inspire them to work for a better future.

            Day-dreamers are different from all-time dreamers. They indulge in idle, pleasant or absentminded fantasies. However, they are also described as creative.

            According to the American divine Frederick Henry Hedge (1805-90)  Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which, if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante (Italian poet and writer(1265-1321)or a Shakespeare (British poet-playwright 1564-1616).

            Shakespeare said: Let not our babbling dreams affright our souls.

In Act 2, Sc.2 of his play Hamlet he said : Dreams indeed are ambition, for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. In another play, Romeo and Juliet, Act 5, Sc.1. he said: If I may trust the flattering truth of sleep, my dreams presage some joyful news at hand.

            To conclude, here are some famous quotes on dreams:

*Dare to dream big, then do something about it.

*At least once a day, allow yourself the freedom to dream.

*Don’t make your dreams smaller to fit into your current reality.

*Everything starts with a dream.

*Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.

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G.R.Kanwal

19 February 2026

 

 

 

 

 

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