Let's talk about dreams. They make you wonder, and sometimes they make you quiver. That's not to say that nightmares are the only kind of dreams that haunt our sleep and derail us from a peaceful night. In fact, good dreams are dreams that contain articles or elements which give us pleasure in one way or another. But its pleasure-inducing nature notwithstanding, good dreams tend to challenge who we are and who we ought to be. It is an outright confrontation against our personality and our potential; the very fact that whatever 'good' we had dreamed of remains only a dream serves only to drive a wedge between reality and wishful thinking. Does it not come down to the pitiful fact that good dreams reinforce and highlight the miserable state of our reality?

And by logical extension, the biggest dream for everybody is to live the dream. There are many kinds of dreams that are possible to unfold themselves as reality. There are ambitions and passions which are dreams that manifest themselves as professions or something we could actually become within our own down-to-earth means. Their are outcomes of dreams that are attained by pure luck and hard work, such as acing a test or clearing an interview. But there are dreams which contain supernatural elements or heights which are simply beyond our capacity to attain. Not to be confused with pessimism, these are dreams that we instantly know carry the full nuances and notions of being a 'dream'--one that is distant and will forever be a wholesome desire on our part. For that matter, it is best that it remains merely a longing from the heart but not something that is within our reach or means of fulfilling. Those are the true dreams and those are the dreams we want to steer clear away from, or at least draw a clear line between them and reality.

We often think that living the dream is the ideal way to go but these dreams that fully stand out on their own as pure, untainted 'dreams' should forever remain as intangible as they were born. Dreams of being born in another family or dreams pertaining a warp or metamorphosis in personality should be stashed away in our realm of wonder and kept to moments when we ponder in solitude. These dreams keep us in check and clamp us down to earth. They remind us of who we are not so that we can continue to be who we are to the best of our ability. These dreams tell us that deep inside, there is an ugly desire to be something or someone else but if that dream really did take flight, who knows what else would. The butterfly effect is not simply a wild conjecture and it would be too late to retract such a bold accusation if one were to bring into effect a pure dream. Pure dreams occur because dreaming is the only avenue or means through which we are able to live that alternative life without creating new conflict in our reality. That special someone we always wanted to be with that has rejected you or that superpower you always wish you had--these are just a couple of the impossible things that inevitably yearn for. Yet the things that we already know cannot be possible in reality (at least without distorting our present life as it is to a great extent) can only materialize as a castle in the cloud. In other words, we reshape these desires into golden memories, framed into perfection and crafted with the most intricate precision. And the best part: everything occurs subconsciously. And for that few minutes or so in our deep slumber, we are given the entitlement to live the life we always wanted to but were never born for.

Perhaps the raison d'etre of dreams lies not in the fantasy but in our ability to confine such out-of-this-world thoughts into an intangible form. Dreams are a manifestation of our (unconscious) ability to separate what is real and what is false, and to distinguish what can be and what cannot and consequently should not be. It keeps us sane and alive and altogether just wholly human. And for that, we should never fervently pursue all forms of dreams. Sometimes, dreams are just moments for us to bask in and therefore our interaction with dreams should cease the moment we arise (which might reason the phenomenon that we forget 90% of our dreams 5 minutes upon waking up).

But if there's one thing that is consistent with both reality and dreaming, it is that you are the star of both shows and obviously, the connection lies therein.