Dreaming About You.....!

 It was seven o’ clock in the evening. After wading through a lot of paper work at my workplace, I was heading home. On my way home, I was enthralled to see the crimson sun, which was bidding farewell with its golden rays piercing through foliage of the tall trees that survived the onslaught of urbanisation. The leaves and twigs of the trees, which were shaking owing to gusts of wind and the backdrop of the crimson sky created such an abstract painting that was really difficult to fathom. Moreover, the chirping of birds was the icing on the cake. But I was surprised to realise that people had been so much deafened by the rattle of coins that they could not hear the enchanting music of birds.

Anyway, I plodded home. After getting home, I had a cup of tea while I was flicking through a newspaper. Then, I talked to my children and tried to know how they were getting on in their studies. I could smell the aroma of delicious food and I heard my wife calling me for dinner. Then I sat before the television and took dinner chatting with my wife. After taking my dinner, I spent some time rambling around my house until I started feeling sleepy. I looked up at the sky and was startled by the formidably dark sky flecked with twinkling stars.

I entered my bedroom and lay down on the bed. In no time , I succumbed to the power of sleep, which took me to the realm of dreams, a world that mockingly but mysteriously defies the logic of our conscious world and opens new vistas. Now, what follows is an entangling vista unveiled by the dream I had that night.

There were numerous beautiful fragrant flowers in the jungle and a small brook was flowing nearby crooning its own song. I was a butterfly fluttering from one flower to another and penetrating unchartered areas of the jungle. Bright red berries were dangling from the branches. I flew to a bush dotted with a lot of blue flowers. I perched on its stems and noticed a pool below me. For the first time I saw the reflection of my own body. My irresistibly lovely wings, tinged with a variety of colours were delicate but they were able to challenge the gravitational pull  of the earth and keep me hovering in the sky. Then I thought that I should not indulge in narcissism, so I flew off the stem and enjoyed skimming over the brook. Then, as I got hungry I looked around and found some cherries on a tall tree. I flew to the tree, sat on a stem and started savouring the berries. They were really delicious. I was totally engrossed in savouring the berries and did not know what was happening around me. All of a sudden, a bulky branch of the tree came rushing and fell on me. I was almost smashed. My wings were broken and my vision became blurred. I became unconscious.

With a start I woke up from the dream and looked around in my bedroom. It was half past four  in the early morning. Then I opened the door and quietly went out to the garden. I sat in the garden and started pondering over the dream I had just had. In the darkness, I saw the plants around me in my garden. However, this time the things were not the same. I was able to see the life glowing in the plants and hear the peal of eternity in the timeless moments. The dawn broke and a mysterious question dawned within me—“Am I a human being who has just dreamt of being a butterfly or a butterfly, in fact, dreaming to be a human being?”

When we are dreaming, the reality seems to be false and the dream appears to be real, whereas when we are awake, a dream seems to be false and reality the only truth. it is high time we transcend this duality.