Contradictions (Part 1) *'*dreams*'*

Life is full of contradictions. I think it is worth writing about it.. And this post will be about dreams...

When we talk about dreams we distinguish between the envisioned images, sounds, or other sensations during sleep and our wishes for the future.

Dreams are usually uncontrollable by the dreamer himself but there is one exception and it's called lucid dreaming in which a dreamer realizes that he is dreaming and is even able to control various aspects of the dream (only to a certain extent). Anyway, the funny and even positive thing about dreams is that you can do everything you want (without being rewarded or punished): fly, say things to people you never thought you'd meet, etc. So theoretically you can balance all the avoided things in real life by doing them in your dreams. But it gets quite annoying when your moral principles stay ''activated'' even when you are asleep and you cannot just free yourself from them for a while. That means you are able to control your dreams to a certain extent because even while you are sleeping your conscience is still awake and does not let you do anything which is in opposition to your ideals. As a lucid dreamer, you are sometimes able to realize while dreaming that you are dreaming which makes you even more capable of controlling your actions in the dream. So, you can control your dreams while you are asleep. What about the wishes that are supposed to come true? They are dependent on something called destiny. It follows from this that although you can influence your future by making decisions and taking certain actions you are still dependent on your destiny.

And here we come to the annoying part: You can control the dreams while you are asleep though they don't have any effect on your future but not the ones which decide on the rest of your life. Paradox...