By: Jorge Luis Benavides

I don’t know if it is fortunate or unfortunate to be a man who sleeps without dreaming. I know quite well science has proven the existence of night dreaming in human beings; hence, as a human being, I own dreams. However, every time I wake up I can’t remember them. So, according to science, I should start once more saying: “I don’t know if it is fortunate or unfortunate to be a man who doesn’t remember his dreams while he’s sleeping” In return, life has given me the chance to daydream.

I don’t know if it is fortunate or unfortunate to be a man who daydreams. If the dreams we have while we are sleeping lodge in our subconscious, the dreams we have while we daydream lodge in some part of our conscious mind, which means that they somehow determine our actions. They are thoughts with the capacity to transform our reality, ideas with the capacity to make possible a dreamed life. What if life is just a dream, and dreams just reality?

Daydreaming is the result of either one of two possibilities:

Possibility #1: When we are conscious of reality, we are conscious of the possibility of changing it as well, which means dreams are just the reflection of an open mind and a brave heart willing to transform it. Dreaming is just a way to tell reality: “I don’t like the way it is”. Dreaming is a revelation by itself.

Possibility #2: Dreams are part of our most profound instincts, an impulse that reminds us and moves us towards the limit of our possibilities. Dreams are just a warning that orders us not to forget our destiny. A dream is an “ideal” thought that jumps the boundaries of the subconscious and gets into our conscious world to makes us closer to our dreamed life. Someone might say: “The one who lives dreaming is the one who moves away from the life he dreamed.”

I don´t know if it is fortunate or unfortunate to live dreaming, but as long as I have a dream in my heart, I won´t give into the temptation to close my eyes in the darkest hour of the night.