It All Starts With A Dream

 

We all know what dreaming or dreams are all about. Some dreams are shady images of what seems to be part of what’s happening in our life. These are dreams that occur while we are asleep. However, the dreams we are referring to, are dreams about what we perceive, or what we want to happen to us, or what we want or intend to be in the future.

Most boys, say aged three to six, would respond to the question of what they want or would like to be when they grow up with answers like: “I want to be a pilot or I want to be an astronaut or I want to be like ‘Superman’”. Girls of about the same age would probably respond to the same question with: “I want to be a doctor or I want to be a teacher”.

Surely, these answers are part of young boys’ and girls’ dreams or ambitions of what they want to be when they grow up. Some answers may be too exaggerated. However, there are answers that are as realistic today as they will be when these children grow up to be adults that they stick to their wants or desires.

Did you notice though that every time these questions are raised to young boys and girls, the answer starts with an “I want to be….”? Wanting to be somebody or to do something is the start of creative or desired dreaming. Wanting is associated with dreaming that it somewhat starts to evolve on the goals we intend to set and attain. Wanting something can be so powerful that we start making plans to make things happen the way we want it to be. It even gets more powerful when that want will produce good deeds for the benefit of many. Somehow, a spark is ignited that it will start to kindle and glow in the dark, take its shape, and mold into something beneficial and worthwhile.

Though dreams that occur while we are asleep are different from dreams of what we perceive to be in the future, there is some degree of inter-relation between the two. When we persistently concentrate on our wants and desires, these wants and desires sometimes manifest themselves in our dreams while we are asleep and gives us a vivid vision of how we can make our ambition turn into reality. So much so that when we wake up, we have developed a direction or a plan on how to execute our ambition even when it previously seems to be vague or far-fetched from reality.

But even if our dreams are vague or seems impossible, we must keep them alive in our minds. By keeping them on our minds, we are somewhat injecting fuel that keeps the fire in our dreams aflame. What used to be a vague vision of our dreams will slowly but gradually turn vivid as we commit it to memory. What seems to be impossible is starting to look possible. And when we have reached this stage of possibility, we cannot resist the urge that will come to us to mold it into reality. We can’t wait to start the wheels of development turning. Somehow this urge will propel these wheels to move, no matter how small the movements are, so long as it moves because we want to see how it develops. We want to see progress. We want to see improvements. Without even noticing it, the moves may start to pick up speed. And to think of it, it just started as dreams in our minds.

Creative dreaming is a burning desire that keeps our ambitions going and holding on to it, will turn it into reality. There is no stopping to goal realization for as long as there is creative dreaming.

It All Starts With A Dream