On Dreams

Another delicious thought attempted by me - Dreams. An apt post for a blog named sleepy, that too.

How long does a dream last? I know, researchers hook up people into machines and make sure that they writhe around for long enough while they sleep, and claim that their REM( yay for Losing My Religion) lasts for x number of minutes. Bullshit. I think that dreams exist all the time inside your head. Its like planting a memory there. How long do you take to recall an event? No time at all. And you can even fast forward, rewind and skip parts of it. What are you looking at or thinking consciously while dreaming? Nothing. Whatever is in there has already happened and is twisted and mashed up like a misconstrued story. Why do you forget dreams most of the time? Because they crawl back into that insignificant part of your head where they came out of, filed between the holes in your underwear that you remembered in the third standard and that ugly thing you saw of your room mates when you barged into your dorm room.

What is a dream? Itsa feeble attempt by your brain, trying to rationalise that you were not dead for eight hours. A memory put together just before you wake up. Maybe not all dreams, but certainly some of them.