Dream about cannibal boss

This one was years ago when I was working. Its not pleasant but was funny nonetheless, after I woke up. My boss's boss appeared in my dream and I will refer him as Mr. J. Just for the records, he is a very sweet old man and far from what I saw in the dream!!

 I go to work as usual but there is some kind of ceremony going on in the courtyard and its crowded with employees. As I go in I see that Mr. J is eating his employees one by one. There is some sort of a killer machine... a person goes in alive at one end and from the other end comes out a plate with Mr. J's meal. Everyone is being pushed into a line and no one wants to be in the front. I end up being in the front of the line and suddenly realise I am going to die... I dont want to die. I am so scared that...

I woke up with a start and was amused when I recalled the dream :-D

Dream about Tsunami

This one is months old but I remember because I shared with friends and they couldnt stop laughing.

I just finshed with my classes for the day and am coming out of my college with my classmate and dear friend Prasanna when I see a sky high wave of water coming!! I remember he had told me he doesnt know how to swim. So I assure him I will save him. I ask him to quickly take a deep breath and then hold on to the railing tightly. And then it comes... we are under water holding our breath. I somehow swim and bring him to the surface of water but by then water recedes and we find ourselves on a beach. Prasanna's wife has appeared too. I have this brilliant idea that we should rush to my house because it is on the ninth floor and we'd be safe should another wave come. His wife agrees but he has gone mad or something.... he starts acting like a victim of that deadly virus of the movie "The Happening" and is going into the water instead of going away. His wife is simply laughing at his behavior and is assuring me that he will be fine. I ask her to get him to place ASAP. But as I m running towards my home I find myself in a maze from which I cant find my out...

When I woke up, I tried to go back to sleep to try n figure out that maze, but no luck!!

My dreams

How many people remember their dreams in the morning, I wonder. My dreams are usually very funny, pleasant and interesting. Many times I wake up in the morning and want to go back to sleep to continue with a dream.
I like to share them with friends and many people have advised me to keep a record of the funny ones. Well I have decided to act on it finally. I dont remember the old ones now, except a few but from now on I shall keep a record and I m sure they will continue :-D

learning and believing

Today, I just sat and looked back at the whole of my life (well, not very long yet ;o) and I thought of my childhood... how less I knew, yet how much I believed.

I believed with all my heart that I have a fairy godmother or a guardian angel. That if I just cry hard enough, they will appear and grant me my mish. I even had a list of wishes ready just in case... Even had that clever trick in mind about asking for 3 more wishes as my last wish.

I believed in magic. I believed that it is possible to have a house made of candy. I believed anything is possible. While watching a movie,  I believed it to be true! I was too naive to realize it was enacted.

I believed in my dreams. And I had a lot of dreams.

I still have dreams that I believe in. But sometimes I feel I am too educated and grown up now to enjoy the imagination. I have learnt too much about real world!! And somehow the more I learn, the less I believe.

Now I know how a movie is made. I can appreciate objectively, the story, the acting or the direction. But I can never enjoy it the way I could when I was a kid and believed it to be really happening :-)

Looking for myself

Hmm... can't sleep tonight. I thought it might be a good idea to start writing a blog.

I am going through this very strange phase of life. Everything that I have used to identify myself till now - name, family, occupation, career.... it is all variable, I realised. It ocurred to me that that all these may change over time, but I will still be me inside.

I have been struggling to keep my motivation and self confidence lately, what with not having a job for last 3 months. I have been thinking and I realise that there is much more to me than a job. Not having a job does not really change who I am.

For other people in the world, I am defined a great deal by what I do, what I am called and where I come from. But that is for others. Somewhere along the line, in my effort to be something to others, I got confused between the real me and the image of me that is created using these variables like name and occupation.

The image is important I think, to be a part of the society and to contribute to it. But I should tell myself all the time that I got to revisit the real me every once in a while. So that I dont lose belief in myself.

That is a positive note that is worth fixing my mind on as I try to sleep..zzz