aSpinning: Marie - Solveig
You know how some people proclaim that one of their favourite activities is sleeping? Well, I understand why. For me sleeping's not just about recuperating and recovering energy. Let me explain.
When I was young I'd read a little tale about how dreams come about. Of course this theory doesn't have any scientific basis, but that will come in later. Anyway, the story goes that a little man (ok, a dwarf/gnome/halfling) is sent by the heavens above to visit children and sprinkle some sleep-sand on the children, and to determine if the child would dream or not, the Sandman would open an umbrella of his choice:- if it was black, the child would have a dreamless night. If however it was the other umbrella that he had (i.e. full of moons and stars, you get the picture), the child would have plenty of dreams that night. Well I guess I've got Mr Sandman to thank because I've PLENTY of weird dreams (although I fail to remember them sometimes).
And if you ask me why I love dreaming (in sleep, not day-dreaming), it's because more than half the time in my dreams, I'm doing something impactful - something that affects. Strangely, some of my dreams are like movies, playing out right in front of me - comprising only other characters who may be people I know, or who may just be strangers. I sometimes wonder if these people (whom I've never seen before except in my dream) actually exist. I can tell you that it's pretty fun being an observer at the sidelines, watching the drama unfold before you. And ridiculous things happen - things you'd never encounter in real life - such that when I see the person involved for real, I can't help but laugh secretly.
These days though I've been trying to get myself to dream about certain things, but I couldn't for the life of me do it. Apparently though, there's a solution - here's where all the scientific stuff come in. A company in Japan has invented a sort of 'dream machine' (
read more here). If you check the article, they say that "Prospective dreamers are asked to look at a photo of what they would like to dream about", so about what they say about pinning up your idol's poster on your ceiling so you can dream of him/her - it has some basis after all.
Meanwhile, I can stop dreaming and go back to the books. The only thing keeping me going now is the fact that it's the last paper (FINALLY!) of the prelims. After this though, we'll all go into a cycle of studying yet again. Gah.
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