The hard dreamer

By Klaus Döring

Amélie: the musical opened on Broadway in the Walter Kerr theatre on March 9, 2017 (first preview) April 3rd, 2017 was the official opening night and closed on May 21, 2017. Yes, times for dreamers are really hard.

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

Dreams interpreters have published innumerable books. I bought some of them a long time ago. I caught myself reading them and trying to analyze my dreams. Resulting in becoming unsure and sometimes really undecided about the many different explanations regarding the same dream content.

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 a person’s special skills.

Today it is believed that the dreamer himself creates dreams and that his or her dreams get a very special meaning. Your health may have an effect on your dreams. A person, who is feeling ill or uncomfortable, will have different kinds of dreams than that of a person, who is doing good and who is happy.

If a person is hungry or feels cold or very tired – his dreams may include those feelings, Also former events may have a lot to do with what we dream about. Often, the person or situations in a dream are those in our life. Or our emotions may make you have the kind of dream you have. Needing or wanting something may be expressed in a dream, and frightened may become a dream’s part.

I dream a lot. I am still dreaming of a better world. Yes, it’s naive and blue-eyed – I know. I am dreaming of surroundings without ignorance and arrogance, and with real good friends who don’t turn aside if we need them. I dream of a world with people who will stop killing each other because of stupid and incomprehensible reasons.

Dreams are foams? Maybe. Maybe not. Long time ago, Confucius said: “The only one who steals our dreams brings us to death!” Pwede! Or how about this Hungarian saying: “In dreams and in love nothing is impossible!” And William Shakespeare’s Hamlet: “Sleeping! Maybe also dreaming! Yes, that’s it!”.

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

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