We have an internal blog setup in our office. It was mainly designed to share technical know-how and also enhance our writing skills. However after a certain period, activity on the blog became quite dormant. So our seniors took the initiative to make it more active by announcing a blog competition. This move suddenly inspired many of us, myself included. Various topics were given, one of those being "My Dream Project". Many wrote on this with blog content ranging right from humorous to very noble notions. One wanted to automate clients so that they dance to our tunes, whereas another wanted to make an information transfer system to save time. These were project oriented. Other type of projects included one wanting to work in enhancing education in our country and other wanting to help orphans. Knowing these persons very well, I am sure they will definitely do their bit in achieving their Dream Projects. I decided to take another route to the idea of Dream Project as follows.
Dream Project - The title signifies something which we like so much, something real close to hear, that we would like to see it being implemented in our day to day life. It is something very close to our heart and we would like to see it happening right in front of our eyes. If we look at a somewhat different perspective of Dream Project, somethings which have always been a part of our lives are Dreams. The concept of Dream Project itself arises from a Dream.
First question arises what are dreams ? A definition found online says: Dreams are a communication of body, mind and spirit in a symbolic communicative environmental state of being. I read that and couldn't help but think WOW What a GEEK. What I understand about dreams is that normally when we sleep or sometimes when we are awake as well, something goes on in our minds which we might or might not remember when we wake up. Dreams are an integral part of life. Dreams can be good or bad, long or short, meaningful or meaning less. Some say what we dream in the early mornings come true. Regrettably I have not done enough research to know whether that's a scientific or a superstitious statement. But one thing which we all can agree upon is that dreams are absolutely volatile. Often we have very less or no memory about our dreams.
My dream project actually tries to look at ways our dreams can be tapped and interpreted. Many times I feel that I've had a dream which was pretty weird, but yet the early morning grogginess displaces it from memory. Not being a medical person, it's hard to imagine how our brain works. With various technologically advanced medical equipments, if we are able to invent a way to record dreams, the difficult part would arise: To Interpret Dreams. Interpretation would mean finding a meaning to the dreams. But that job is made easy by dreams themselves. They are sometimes so random that they can be ignored. So the interpretation part comes down to the person who is dreaming because he or she will be able to identify with his or her dream.
If this project is somehow implemented, it would debunk many myths such as dreams coming true or not, dreams are in black and white, not colour etc. It would also help us remember what we dreamt about and most of the times help us have a good laugh because dreams are pretty humorous with random events happening with no connection whatsoever. Another thought is that when we are in deep and sound sleep, we don't have dreams, which of course might be proved otherwise by my dream project.
To end this ambitious thought process, I would like to say that it is really a difficult thing to interpret dreams and even if it does happen, don't know how useful it would be. It would actually tend to be more confusing. A small example would explain the confusion: I am writing about my Dream Project, so I dream about it, but my Dream Project involves reading my Dreams which is now actually dreaming about my Dream Project. But in spite of this confusion, it would be awesome fun to be able to watch our dreams.
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
7 AM In My Life...
Happy New Year !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is said at the beginning of every year. But time flies by so fast that we don't even realize that the next new year is coming up soon. Over all these years, time has been running real fast and we have had so many changes in our lifestyle, our habits. Just thinking about all the past years, a tiny thought came into my mind which said "Let us catch up on a particular time and think about what we would have been doing at that particular time in different stages of life".
Now with that thought I decided on picking 7 AM as the time for recap. Invariably being an early riser, I feel that's the time which would have the most variations. So here goes:
7 AM when I was between 0-3 Years: Maybe God knows or my mother knows. Too small to realize what time was.
7 AM when I was between 3-5 Years: At this time I guess I had joined school for Kindergarten and had reached 1st Std. Primary school was in the evening, so I had no intentions of waking up as early as 7. A luxury which would not last for many days.
7 AM when I was between 6-10 Years: This was the time when my father was transferred and we had moved to Chandigarh. There was no concept of Secondary school in the morning and primary school in the evening there. All were at the same time and guess what, they were all around 8 AM. So started the habit of waking up by 7. A routine which I followed for 4 complete years whilst my father was posted there.
7 AM when I was between 11-15 Years: By this time we were back in Mumbai and I was in secondary school. Here the schools were even earlier and by 7 I used to be in school and most probably singing some prayers, saying out the national pledge (which used to be printed in our yearly calendars which also used to have the facility of parent's signature for teacher remarks - a thing we hated) or standing in attention for the National Anthem in the school assembly. By this time I had completely become accustomed to waking up early.
7 AM between all these years during vacation time: Now this was a fantastic time which I am sure we all enjoyed. During exams it was a struggle for everyone to wake up early and study. Come the first day of vacation, 7 AM sharp my friends and me used to come down to play cricket. That time sacrificing sleep was not a major loss.
7 AM when I was between 16-21 Years: This was the time when we started to grow up a bit i.e. entered college. Suddenly some shackles of being on time to classes, punishments during lectures etc. were non existent. At this point of time 7 AM was the time when I used to either complete journals or decide whether I should go to college today or sometimes for a change study.
7 AM when I was between 22-23 Years: This was a period where I was attending classes trying to learn things which would help me get a job. At 7 AM I either used to go to a gym (Unbelievable but true) or used to find an excuse not to go to the gym.
7 AM when I was between 24-Present Date: At present I like most of my age is up at 7 AM and getting ready for office.
This has been a small and perhaps weak representation of how at a particular time throughout life something or the other has changed, but somehow manages to give truth to the paradox "The only permanent thing is change".
Now with that thought I decided on picking 7 AM as the time for recap. Invariably being an early riser, I feel that's the time which would have the most variations. So here goes:
7 AM when I was between 0-3 Years: Maybe God knows or my mother knows. Too small to realize what time was.
7 AM when I was between 3-5 Years: At this time I guess I had joined school for Kindergarten and had reached 1st Std. Primary school was in the evening, so I had no intentions of waking up as early as 7. A luxury which would not last for many days.
7 AM when I was between 6-10 Years: This was the time when my father was transferred and we had moved to Chandigarh. There was no concept of Secondary school in the morning and primary school in the evening there. All were at the same time and guess what, they were all around 8 AM. So started the habit of waking up by 7. A routine which I followed for 4 complete years whilst my father was posted there.
7 AM when I was between 11-15 Years: By this time we were back in Mumbai and I was in secondary school. Here the schools were even earlier and by 7 I used to be in school and most probably singing some prayers, saying out the national pledge (which used to be printed in our yearly calendars which also used to have the facility of parent's signature for teacher remarks - a thing we hated) or standing in attention for the National Anthem in the school assembly. By this time I had completely become accustomed to waking up early.
7 AM between all these years during vacation time: Now this was a fantastic time which I am sure we all enjoyed. During exams it was a struggle for everyone to wake up early and study. Come the first day of vacation, 7 AM sharp my friends and me used to come down to play cricket. That time sacrificing sleep was not a major loss.
7 AM when I was between 16-21 Years: This was the time when we started to grow up a bit i.e. entered college. Suddenly some shackles of being on time to classes, punishments during lectures etc. were non existent. At this point of time 7 AM was the time when I used to either complete journals or decide whether I should go to college today or sometimes for a change study.
7 AM when I was between 22-23 Years: This was a period where I was attending classes trying to learn things which would help me get a job. At 7 AM I either used to go to a gym (Unbelievable but true) or used to find an excuse not to go to the gym.
7 AM when I was between 24-Present Date: At present I like most of my age is up at 7 AM and getting ready for office.
This has been a small and perhaps weak representation of how at a particular time throughout life something or the other has changed, but somehow manages to give truth to the paradox "The only permanent thing is change".
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