“When we can no longer dream, we die,” said Emma Goldman, an American anarchist with Russian roots . Indeed, there is not a single person who would not have dreamed. If you describe what dreams are, adjectives can be used in a variety of ways: sublime, base, bright, dirty, unattainable and ordinary.
What is a dream?
Wikipedia defines dreams as a special desire, by fulfilling which a person will be happy. These can be short-term goals, the need for which will quickly pass away or can easily become a reality if efforts are made to achieve it. For example, get married or go on a trip, get the job you want, or buy a dog. Or maybe an unattainable desire of all life, such as flying to the moon or receiving the throne of the emperor of the world.
What distinguishes a dream from an ordinary desire or goal?
Signs of the difference between dreams and goals:
- Clear and detailed image. After all, a person, in order to dream about something, must accurately imagine what he wants.
- Increased emotional coloring. As a rule, dreams are characterized by a burning desire for their fulfillment, without a clear idea of why this is necessary and what then to do with them.
- Lack of a rational approach to execution. We dream about the desired object, but there is no mental strength left to think through the ways of implementing the plan.
Examples of what people have dreams
No matter how individual and unique people may be, there are common themes and objects that most people think of. After all, these are the desires that are inherent in any, even the most special, person. Variations are different, but the essence boils down to several popular topics. Dreams can be divided into two large groups.
Material Dreams
We can distinguish the following:
1. The acquisition or creation of something. It is no coincidence that these dreams come first, because these are the most frequent desires inherent in people, especially in our not-so-richest country.
- Build or buy a house, apartment, cottage, palace, castle.
- Buy a car, motorcycle, helicopter, plane, space rocket.
- Have a service, a nanny, a cook and a personal driver with a psychotherapist. (Unfortunately, what is accessible to European and American citizens is a utopia for most of our compatriots.)
2. Examples of what are dreams about your business or work:
- Open your own business. It can be buying and selling something. And there may be a desire to work on their own land, owning their own farm or forest land. The construction of the plant, starting from a small candle factory, ending with a huge oil refining complex.
- Get rid of debts and taxes. It is difficult to earn and run your own business when the entrepreneur is taxed and excessive interest on the loan. It remains only to fantasize.
3. Create your own social network that will surpass Facebook and Instagram combined. What are the dreams of creative people on the verge of computer technology and art? For example, the creation of a design school or writing cult computer games.
4. Travel. Perhaps trips and wanderings can be distinguished in a separate block, and not leave them in self-development. Indeed, in recent years, all kinds of tours and voyages are so advertised and popular that for many they have turned into the only dream and purpose of life worthy of attention. It is a pity that most people forget the hackneyed truth that wherever they go, they will take themselves everywhere.
- Travel around the world.
- A romantic trip to Paris.
- Reach the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
- Climb to the top of the Himalayas.
- Meet the dawn in the monastery of Tibet.
Intangible fantasies
For example, we can distinguish the following:
1. Family values. Whatever the person, whatever moral qualities he has, everyone longs to be loved.
- In this group, in the first place is the desire to create a family with a loved one and a loving person.
- Desire to have a baby. Many modern people want to have many children, but their financial situation does not allow them to.
- Dreams that spouses have: live in peace and harmony with their soulmate. Understanding and acceptance between parents and children. No matter how trite it may sound, often a misunderstanding on the part of loved ones brings pain and discord to our lives.
2. Health. Although one who has any ailment, dreams of health are in the first place.
- To recover from physical and mental ailments, if any.
- Lead a healthy lifestyle. Active propaganda of healthy lifestyles is underway, but not everyone who wants it finds the strength to follow it.
- Stop smoking and drinking.
- Do yoga or martial arts. For some reason, it is the Eastern teachings that we associate with health.
- Wake up at 5 in the morning and run to the singing of forest birds.
3. Dreams, which are about personal growth and development. Based on the Maslow pyramid of human needs, when a person has enough food and is safe, he cannot help but start thinking about self-development.
- By analogy with the paragraph on health, learn to dance, play tennis or ride a horse. But not for keeping fit, but for the soul. To be able to do something better than most.
- Learn to drive a plane, helicopter, racing car or shuttle. Especially often men dream about it.
- Learn several foreign languages. These can be popular languages, such as English or Chinese, or dead languages: Greek, Latin.
- Learn to create things and objects of art with your own hands: sewing, weaving lace, drawing, sculpting from clay and plaster.
- Compose brilliant music and poems.
- Write a book that will be sold in billions of copies.
- Get recognition in the chosen field. People with a creative streak can write poetry or draw, but if there is no recognition of their talents yet, you can always dream about it.
- Education. Getting an interesting and profitable profession. A hobby that would be profitable.
- Have enough free time for self-realization and all of the above.
4. Unrealistic dreams. What are dreams without fantasies? This includes everything that is impossible to implement or incredibly difficult to put into practice.
- Become a king.
- Colonize Mars.
- Have a harem.
- World peace.
Instead of a conclusion
What kind of dreams do people have? The list can be endless! You can share with others and your dreams.