Dream Journal - March 2025

As I woke up today and realised that I was dreaming, I was shocked that I could remember the dream in such level of details. I was in fact wondering about the length of dreams. What is an average length of a dream? Today it felt like I dreamt a full feature length movie. I could see multiple characters, different costumes for each, the location, the plot, the sub-plot, and the conflict, and the resolution.

I have also wondered - why do we dream about someone? Is it because we love them or is it because we miss them?

Sometimes I tell my wife that I dreamt of something. She would ask if I dreamt of her. How do I tell her that I hardly dream of her. She is there. She is with me. I would probably never dream of her. I dream of things I don't have in my life. I dream of things I miss. I dream of things I am scared of. And my wife doesn't check any of these criteria. A, does. And so I dream of her more often.

Today I dream of A in a whitish saree, as she was in a film, acting out a certain role. May be she was recently married to someone. And there was another guy and a girl with her as they went somewhere. Now that her husband came, the other guy hugs the other girl and kissed her, so that A's husband doesn't doubt her anyway.

Interesting story. God knows what. But I could assure that whatever I was seeing was a very very vivid dream with a high amount of details in terms of the storyline and visuals. I am sure I was watching this movie unfold in front of my eyes in my dream.

why do we dream of someone

Dream Journal - March 2025

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