Klaus Doring

Series of images or thoughts in the mind of a person asleep, the idle fancy, the vision, the aspiration, the yearnings - are dreams that have interested, puzzled and frightened people for thousands of years. All kinds of strange explanations have been written about dreams.

Interpreters of dreams have published innumerable books. I bought plenty of them, and I caught myself reading them and analyzing my dreams, resulting in my becoming unsure and sometimes really undecided about the many different explanations regarding the same dream’s meaning.

At one time, people thought that the figures appearing in dreams were messengers from the Gods. It was generally believed that dreams came from something outside the person’s special skills. Today it is believed that the dreamer himself creates dreams; and, because dreams are something a person creates they may have special meaning for a dreamer. Just why should one have a dream when one may depend on many things. Your health may have an affect on your dreams. A person who is ill or feeling uncomfortable will have different kinds of dreams than that of a person, who is well and happy.

I still dream of a better world, yes, it’s blue-eyed, but I dream so. I dream of a better world without ignorance and arrogance; a world with honest friends who don’t turn back if we need them; a world with people who will stop killing each other because of incomprehensible reasons.

I dream of a country named Philippines, where leaders are guided by national and not personal interests. I dream that the typical Filipino dream to leave the country and work abroad may change into another dream. I dream, that Filipinos will not sit back and laugh about the sad joke, as voiced out by Philippine Star columnist Alex Magno: “Asia’s first republic is nearly Asias’s laughing stock!” This hurts… .

I dream, that Filipinos will not always talk about an unfinished revolution and an inchoate nation still in the process of becoming.

Dreams are foams. Maybe. Maybe not, Confucius said long time ago: “The one who steals our dreams brings us to death!”

So, let’s dream hard and let’s work harder!

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