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Why Wait for the New Year? Start Now.
By: Rui Yi Gan 颜睿易
Tags: Growth, 2021, Dreams, Resolutions, Work

Why Wait for the New Year? Start Now.

Photo by Avi Richards on Unsplash

New year New Goals! I am going to start my side project in 2021. I am going to start exercising daily in 2021. I am going to smoke less in 2021.

But why? Why should we wait for the new year before starting?

This realisation struck me as I was watching Ryan Serhant (one of America’s top real estate broker) latest vlog: You’re WASTING Your Time. In his introduction, he said: “Why wait? It makes no f**king sense.”

He then goes on and talks about the importance of seizing the present and putting in the work consistently for your dreams.

Many of us have our personal projects that we will like to start doing. It can be starting a side hustle like writing or doing youtube, executing a new fitness plan or even starting to save consistently.

However, many times we like to procrastinate and tell ourselves to start our projects later, perhaps start on a new day or even a new year. New year resolutions are common because it is a promise, a personal commitment to do something that will improve your life in the coming year. It invokes the feeling of renewed hope.

Yet, it makes no difference. There is no point waiting for a new year to start a change when you can just start it now. In fact, it is better to start now as you can achieve your goals faster. If the resolution means so much to you, just do it today.

Photo by Bruno Nascimento on Unsplash

So yes, start today. Even if it just a couple of days before 2021, it does not hurt by starting now. By starting a couple of days earlier, you are a few steps closer to your goals. Acting now also creates a positive feedback mechanism that creates further emotional reactions and inspirations and moves on to motivate your future actions.

Just by taking action today and starting before the new year can actually create a strong mindset that is essential in sticking to your commitment in the long run.

This is because you are telling yourself that this project is a non-negotiable one and you can and will commit to it, regardless of the occasion.

Only 23% of people who set a New Year’s resolution actually follow through with them according to a survey by FranklinCovey. Thus, if you treat each day as a gift and seize the present moment instead of waiting for the magical first day of the year, you realized that you have a greater chance of following through with your goals.

Let’s start today for a better tomorrow.

Thank you for reading to the end. I really appreciate it. If you are interested to join me in this self-development journey, consider following me on Medium, Youtube or LinkedIn. Have a great year ahead!
If Dreams Could Walk
By: Matthew Leo
Tags: Dreams, Love, Writing, Poetry On Medium, Poetry

If Dreams Could Walk

Photo by Erik Mclean from Pexels

Quietly I slip

Between the covers of real

Through the folds of life

That part way to what’s not.

Through your kisses and embraces

That I valiantly steal,

Just imagine our lives

If dreams could walk.

If dreams could walk,

I would climb the rainbows,

And kiss you merrily

As we slide its path down.

And from it we’d fashion

a tiara and a crown with golden glows.

We would rule over all dreams

With worldly renown.

© 2020 Matthew Leo

Thank you so much for giving me some of your time. If you enjoyed this poem, please click on the clappy hands at the bottom as many times as you feel it deserves. Please feel free to tweet, share on Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, or to whoever you think might enjoy it as well. Take care and Be well.

Your wordsmith,

Matt

Have you courage enough to travel deeper into my psyche? Here are a few more poems I think you will enjoy:
PREPARE FOR A LONG ROUND THE WORLD TRIP (PART 3: ROUTE)
By: Sergey Lovchev
Tags: Travel, Dreams, World

The core and the most exciting part! This dictates everything else, that is why you must start with a plan. One the best suggestions we found when we were preparing, is to not even try to have a hard plan. For long trips changes are unavoidable. However, you need to have a draft to start with. You will clearly see why in the next chapters.

I will neither comment on our choice of destinations nor provide any recommendations. There are many articles on the Internet like “Places you must visit”. I would rather give you some thoughts to look at what you would desire. Start with mind-storming based on the points below. Do not be critical in the beginning, just dump everything that will come to your mind.

Start with your dreams:

What places you have been thinking about for years, maybe decades?

Are there any activities you would love to try, but haven’t had a chance yet?

Some of them may be unavailable or too expensive in your area, however there are countries where that may be possible.

What do you think about well-known events such as the Carnival of Brazil or Wave Gotik Treffen?

Any people to meet? Favourite writers, musicians?

Maybe visit old friends and family members?

Shopping for specific things that are not available or too expensive in your proximity?

What about so called culinary tourism?

Classic tourism like vising historical places and observing gems of the world culture.

Simply sunbathe and swim, why not?

Some of these ideas will require a lot of time; some may be as short as “see-and-go”. Doesn’t matter, put everything on paper.
50 Topics To Bring Up Around The Holidays That Aren’t Politics
By: Garrett Williams
Tags: Christmas, Holidays, Humor, Dreams, Politics

The holiday season is upon us, and with the country more divided than ever, the topic of politics has the potential to ruin your holiday festivities. So, if you find the conversation turning sour, use these topics to save your holiday dinner:

How to baste a turkey properly! The fun new season of “The Bachelorette.” Any good books you’ve been reading. The recurring dreams you’ve been having of the Jolly Green Giant. The new dice game you played over Zoom. The wreaths you saw in line at Trader Joe's. Those dreams you’ve been having, the ones about the Jolly Green Giant? They’re sexual dreams. I forgot to mention that before. The new songs you have been learning on guitar. “Sexual” is the wrong way to describe them… “Erotic” is a better word, because there are definitely feelings involved. Your erotic dreams about the Jolly Green Giant. The coffee shop that just opened up around the corner from your apartment! They’re long dreams, too. Like, whole other realities that you’re living in. There’s a shared history that is deep and wide between you two… Every dream starts the same: You’re in a beautiful Italian villa, The sun just peeking over the horizon: Another gorgeous Tuscan day. You open the sheer white curtains and turn back to bed. Your eyes meet his gaze. The gaze of a man who is giant, and green, and jolly. “Come back to me,” he says. “I should go,” you respond. You know the truth: You’re from two different worlds. But you can’t resist… You tumble back into him. You’re dwarfed by the size of him. His forearms are like sequoias that wrap around your body. You’ve never felt so small. And baby, you love it. You start to kiss… It’s passionate and deep. He picks you up and carries you like a newborn to the open window. You gaze upon the majesty of the Mediterranean sea. “Come home with me,” he says. “Jolly, we’ve talked about this — ” “I don’t care what they say!” he retorts. “Your father would never accept me!” you reply. “We’re from two separate worlds.” He stares out at the sea for another moment: Pensive. “You may be a human and I may be a giant,” he pulls you in close and whispers, “But I believe that our love knows no bounds.” You kiss again, more passionately and deeply than before. And then you wake up, heartbroken that the reality you wish you could live in is nothing more than a dream. Talk about Barack Obama’s new book!
Dream whatever you wish to dream.
By: Keshava Raya
Tags: Motivation, Success, Dreamers, Happy, Dreams

Dream whatever you wish to dream.

You are never too old to dream.

Dream big, it should be limitless.

No one in life has ever achieved without a Dream.

By,

Keshava Raya

#motivation #quotes #possitivevibes #happiness #successquotes #thinkpositive #cheerful
On Dreaming
By: Barry Leybovich
Tags: Dreams, Relationships, Love, Self, Work

My brother then took an interest in psychology but my parents had other things in mind. Learn to manage your finances, get a steady job, and build a nest egg and then you can do whatever you want. My brother had a knack for web design and my parents thought it would be more lucrative. To their part, by then — having struggled for a many years — my parents were living the American dream: two kids, dog, yard, mortgage. They pushed my brother to be more practical — to take a personal finance class, an intro business class, an intro law class. My mother loved to tell me: “Your brother is smart, but he just does not want to work.” Alex had other dreams too — to get out of the house and away from my parents.

My parents were abusive — most psychologically but physically also, and in particular to Alex — so it was no wonder that my brother jumped on the first opportunity to leave the house. Practically from the moment he could drive whenever my parents left, he would ‘borrow’ the remaining of the cars. My parents, ever the sticklers, began to check the odometer before and after they left home to catch him. Some nights he wouldn’t bother to come back and would spend a night or two with a friend just to get away.

It was against this backdrop that it really started settling in what the ‘dream’ was supposed to be for me: financial stability. My parents and relatives and particularly my grandmother hammered it into us every moment they could. They didn’t come from waiting in line for toilet paper in the Soviet Union all the way to the United States so that we — their progeny — could be poor. Never mind that poor for them seemed like anything less than a $75,000 salary one day out of college.

Little did they know that come 2020 we’d wait in line for toilet paper here, too.
Children of my Land.
By: Ummesha Writes
Tags: Childern, Future, Dreams, Land

Let them dream

Let them build the castles,

Castles of Hope, Castle of Courage, Castle of resilience;

Let them bury the fears,

Fear of Failure, Fear of Darkness, Fear of Abandonment;

Let them sail the sea of concealed fantasies

Let them collect the pearls from the shore,

Pearls of Enthusiasm, Pearls of Happiness, Pearls of Glorious Future;

Let them rise against the odds

Let them challenge norms

Let them bring change

Let them redefine success

Let them fall and rise

Let them explore unseen, unheard, untouched galaxies.
CONQUER. GO AHEAD. LIVE.
Tags: Dreams, Self Improvement, Happiness, Goals In Life

Photo: from PicsArt

1. Self-development!

It is really essential point. It doesn’t matter how old you are, how you experienced or anything else, you have to improve yourself during the whole life. You are the owner of many sources of information. Use them. Learning new - is the style of life.

2. The effect of the “mirror”

Humans are such creatures who have a tendency to perceive visual information believing that it reflects the absolute truth. So the main task is to convince. To do this, you need to be very confident in your own abilities.

3. Be ambitious

The main rule is simplier than you may think: “Don’t drop the case in the middle of the road”.

4. Be able to dream

I truly believe that the Universe fullfils our desires. You need to believe in your dreams and move towards the goal.

What you surround yourself with, that’s what you get.

5. Be yourself

According to the above, you are you and your inner world is unusual. Create your own world and don’t try to meet other people’s standards. You are who brings happiness in the life.

To sum up, be happy and believe in yourself. You can do everything if you want. You can make your and other people’s heart kind and full of love.
SHADES OF BEING SOULFUL✨
By: Rumana Ganiyani
Tags: Insecurity, Soul, Dreams, Love Yourself, Beauty

Soul is the nature, Soul is the beauty..

Loving yourself is the utmost duty.
Hello People, I am Aditya Sinha, and I am 11 years old guy from India who studies in 7th grade…
By: Aditya Sinha
Tags: Dreams, Hard Work, University

The Stanford Guy

Hello People,

I am Aditya Sinha, and I am 11 years old guy from India who studies in 7th grade right now. So Our blog post name is the Stanford guy. And first of all I am in 7th so how can I say that I am a Stanford guy. So first of all let me introduce myself — Hello! I am a 11 years old Secondary student, and I study in Vibgyor High school. As of now I am a Frontend Developer with basic knowledge of Arduino. I am looking forward to take Computer Science as my major ahead. Right now I am studying in 7th grade and looking for computer science or computer engineering Internships. I am highly skilled at Frontend development. Seeking knowledge, Drawing, volunteering, coding etc are my hobbies. I have a dream to get into Stanford or Harvard university for my future universities or colleges. I am also passionate about solving real-world challenges. I hope to get into professional researching and getting into the CS field.

I think now you must have some idea that which type of person am I, now looking forward that I want to take Computer science as my major ahead. My dream is to get into Stanford or Harvard University which is not that common as people of my age never think of colleges and are playing and just serious about studies. I don’t want to be like other people I want to be a little different because if you want to be a successful person in your life you have to be different. And being different is what makes a change in you, in your life and in your behavior. It changes the way of thinking of someone. So after reading my bog you will think that what is my blog all about. Its all about that if you want to success in life you have to make changes in yourself as soon as possible. You have to start thinking that if I don’t start it right now then I will loose many opportunities in life. so I have started working hard from now. And I want you to, to do that. So what are you waiting for start chasing your dreams like a dog.

Thank you so much for reading my blog and I hope you like it and get something out of it.

Thanks

Bye
What “dream big” means?
By: Sandhia Parihar
Tags: Failure, Success, Goals, Dreams, Work

“Just dreaming big isn’t enough at all.”

We all have got dreams or goals.

An advice: If you want to dream or set a goal please dream or set the biggest one.

But hold on a second, before dreaming big or setting a big goal let yourself know few things.

The bigger you dream ofcourse bigger will be the success but bigger success is directly proportional to the hard work. Biggest dream=Hardest work Ask yourself, are you ready for putting your all in your goal as setting a big goal is always an easy thing but working hard as the goal needs becomes difficult at some point.

If you are really ready for putting your all in your goal no matter what then congratulations you have already pursued it half.

Things don’t always go the way we want but how do we react to it is always in our control. Alright you set a goal, ready to do anything to pursue it but then things go the way you never predicted.

What we are supposed to do then? Ofcourse we feel shattered as we put our all in that but still we don’t get what we want. What we need to do then is “Pause”. Think again where we went wrong, check, go back and make things correct. It is a reality, we do think we have put our all in something we want but still we don’t get that, it is because there must have been something where we went wrong which only need to be checked and to make it correct again.

But oftenly we don’t think this way, we are always like after such hard work, I don’t want to do it anymore or this is something I can never do or maybe this isn’t meant for me. At that time we need to remember that no matter what , how many times I fail I want to do it as this is the thought which actually driven me to do this or to start working for this dream. Now as I have started working for this dream/goal how am I supposed to stop. I WON’T STOP UNTIL I ACCOMPLISH MY GOAL.

“Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.”

As now again we have risen up with double the power, more determination and ofcourse with more experience ( an advantage of the failure which is always negelcted I don’t know why but failure is always an opportunity to do better next time)….

When we start again we are supposed to deliver more than expected. We are supposed to achive more than we think. We are supposed to work harder. And once we get what we want then its time to triple the hustle.

As success has no full stop and your second success should be greater than the first one.

Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most important of all is love what you are doing.
The Christmas Box
Tags: Commitment, Goals, Inspiration, Dreams, Mindset

Either real or metaphorical, each of us, whether we realize it or not, have a Christmas box. This is the place we put our dreams for safe keeping.

This is the place we park our dreams in hope of “someday.” Someday is a placeholder, somewhere in the future, when circumstances will be better, when we will have more time, when we will be better prepared, when we will be less stressed, have more money, be smarter, be ready…

The problem for most of us, someday is a myth, an illusion, a mere ghostly specter not unlike the ones that visit Mr. Scrooge in Dicken’s “A Christmas Carol.”

My own box lacks all the adornments of a fancy presentation like the prized gift under the tree, and is instead, a plastic container with an ill-fitting lid that no longer closes properly due to its bulging contents of notebooks, envelopes, scraps of paper, well laid plans and intentions, goals, and a multitude of other odds and ends all patiently waiting for, someday…

Sound familiar? If no, then good, you can stop reading right now. If yes, then continue reading and see if your box is at all like mine.

And, as if having a physical place, a box to park my dreams in wasn’t enough, I have another box with sliding drawers, you know, a filing cabinet, full of folders with titles like: Bright Ideas, Stories, Book Material, Brainstorming, Destinations, Dreams, Travel, Inspiration, Vision Board, Projects, Personal Development, Planning, Goals, Miscellaneous (this is really messed up because with all my files, it’s not like I needed one more…) and finally, the one folder that truly is important, my ACTION folder.

It’s important because it’s the one folder that receives the proper attention it deserves, that is, when I can actually remember to look in it…

All kidding aside, I am grateful I have some form of repository to capture the many ideas that have come my way over the years. I must admit, I am much happier with my ACTION folder, not only because it sits in the very front of my filing system but because it holds the key elements of inspiration and inquiry required to help me move forward on the projects I have deemed important enough to garner my full attention.

As the New Year approaches, this is a good time to get out your Christmas box to see what treasures it might hold. I was astonished the first time I conducted this activity. If you give it the proper attention it deserves, I am sure you will be astonished too.

In the Christmas box, whether real or metaphorical, you will find all your would haves, could haves, and should haves… Fair warning, this can be a painful exercise. However, it can also be an exercise of Joy.

I recommend Joy!

If you’re reading this now, it’s not too late. Let my words be the gentle reminder your soul needed to remember that it’s never too late…
An Introduction
By: Rosa Faith
Tags: Dreamers, Welcome, Dreams, Dreaming, Psychology

Hello random reader, I’m not quite sure how you found your way here but I welcome you and only hope that you can welcome me. My name is Rosa and my life is kinda crazy, well more like my dreams are kinda crazy and by kinda I mean VERY crazy.

It all leads back to my father who also had these strange realistic dreams. There was a point in my father’s life where he was not able to decide what was real and what was created by his mind, he had two lives, one when he slept and one when he would wake in the morning. He had a different name, a different family, a different love life, a different home, and so much more, nothing about his dream world really matched up with the one he would wake up to, well except for the fact that they were still human and in a normal Earthly society, sorta. His amazing imagination had created a world where he was a hero, quite generic but to him it felt real. He even has memories of asking people on each side if they are real, but of course they would always reply yes, duh. The events that took place in this dream world affected his reality, he would wake up in the morning and still feel the deep sorrow he had felt in his dreams as if he had lost the real love of his life, or better yet the girl of his dreams, but… one day it all just stopped, the story was over and he would only have these kind of dreams once every blue moon. I however, have slowly fallen into this dreamland myself, only my mind has a different view of things. My dreams range from humorous and terrifying, some mornings I wake up more exhausted than I was the night before because of these dreams, but at least now I can offer you, the reader, an interesting story to read in your spare time, and by spare time I mean at 2 am when you should be sleeping for work but are instead surfing the web. So once again, welcome reader, enjoy.
Let’s Talk About Quick Dreams…
By: Rosa Faith
Tags: Dreamers, Dreams, Psychology, Dreaming, Scary

Everything seems normal, real, and not necessarily calm but like any other night or day. BAM all of the sudden your nightly stroll was interrupted by an asteroid crashing into the concrete you stand on, but this isn’t some cartoon on the TV, this is much more real, you can feel the cold air in your lungs, the chills down your arms, hear the scream that comes from your unexpecting mouth, and the sound of this large object falling from the sky at full speed towards your face. This is real. This is happening. You are going to die… and then you wake up. Sweating, panicked, and for just a split second you still feel this need to escape and run out of your bed in your undies. This unfortunately, is something that happens to me often, not the running out of my bed in my undies part, but rather the terrifying face to face with the Grim Reaper before I wake up in the middle of the night.

Here’s a glimpse of what I woke up from just a week ago. It is currently December, the beautiful time of the year where everyone gets together as a community to cover their homes in the brightest of stars for everyone to admire. I’m sure many of us have done that drive around the neighborhood to get into the festive spirit and that is exactly what I was doing. My family member and I were driving down a dark elevated road trying to peak through the line of oak trees in order to see the hidden lights that were thrown upon the wall and roof of each home we passed. Unable to see the lights we realize that the car was starting to swerve into the other lane and we needed to pay more attention to the road ahead instead of focusing on the beauty behind us. She for some odd reason found this amusing and through her legs off the pedals swerving the wheel in every direction laughing like a maniac. My heart began to race faster than the car I was a passenger in, looking ahead I realized that a bridge was waiting for us and within the course of the next 5 seconds we had flown off the road and toward the large dark body of water that resided under the bridge, for a second I was trying to figure out what I could do to save myself but as she started to scream in terror I found myself uttering the words, “not again…” and as our small car reached just above our watery grave I woke up, shaken up and frustrated. I could not have been asleep for more than 5 to 10 minutes and I had already had a near death experience.

Has this happened to you? Do you ever find yourself in one of these situations? Well I can only hope you don’t because it is quite exhausting dying on the regular, speaking of dying it is nearly 3 am and I still have to sleep, wish me luck. Maybe I will dream of more content to post on here.
Little Girl, Be PERFECT!
By: Clarice Dass
Tags: Society, Dreams, Little Girl, Perfect, Breaking Free

Photo by Caroline Hernandez on Unsplash

What do we say to Little Girls with a million dreams in their eyes?

We say, that’s lovely my darling but let’s be realistic.

You’re a girl, you need to be steady, you need to be good, you need to be proper.

As the little girl starts school, we ask her to be the best at everything.

How is being good at one thing enough?

Be good at everything, apply yourself.

If everyone can do it, you can too.

Be PERFECT.

And when the little girl leaves home and makes her own, we ask her to grow up.

Make compromises, sacrifice, be proper, be good, be steady. You’re the woman of the house after all.

And then the little girl suffocates and throws a tantrum. She pushes a little and watches. The world tries to push her back in but she’s had enough. She screams, this tortured and painful scream that frightens her.

She then asks everyone to shut up and flies away to become the little girl with a million dreams once more.
2020- From where I stand 2020 has surely been the most challenging year the world has faced due to…
By: Samruddhi Vanarse
Tags: Lessons Learned, 2020, 2021, Dreams, Gratitude

2020- From where I stand



2020 has surely been the most challenging year the world has faced due to COVID-19. I know many of you will not agree with me when I say that 2020 was one of the best years of my life. I remember posting statuses on social media in the beginning of the year saying "2020 please be kind to me" "practicing gratitude for 2020" etc. and to my surprise it did.

I have been doing nothing but saying thank you to the universe for this year. To be honest nothing really changed, things did not work out for me but you know what they didn’t go terribly wrong either. The world stopped and suddenly everyone around me could relate to what I was going through past few years. With the uncertainties in career, with rejections despite being capable, with being misunderstood, with being gossiped about, with the mental stress that comes from being away from your job- the very source of confidence & stability and with everything else that I couldn’t reciprocate, even to my loved ones

COVID-19 made us all stand , it didn’t matter who you once over took or how far behind you were. Beliefs shattered, rat race was no more a priority, instead we all were and somewhat still are in the pursuit of being safe and happy. I remember how my dreams collapsed and broke down into peices when lockdown was declared but eventually I fell in love with some pieces and outgrew some. Took what was left of me and marched ahead, and to my surprise it worked out very well for me.

I remember reading quotes about 'change' but it was not until this time that I could genuinely relate to it. Change truly is inevitable and only if we stop resisting it & stop obsessing over that 'perfect picture' we have in our head and instead embrace the flow of destiny, we can see that there are millions of reasons to smile, to be happy and to be truly grateful.

I couldn’t be more affirmative and confident of what i say when I say that 'sometimes blessings come in disguise and 2020 proved it' This was not what I intended to write as my first blog but I guess I owed it to 2020, the most productive, eye opening and peaceful year of my life.
In Other Words
By: Shahnaz Siddiq
Tags: Random Thoughts, Motherhood, Dreams, Life, Love

Liam has been falling asleep to ‘fly me to the moon’ for the past couple of weeks. He loves when I sing it to him, even if it’s bizarre, he listens to it, lying on my chest, with the backdrop of the so offbeat rhythm of my heartbeat ruining the song, wrapping his arms around me. He slips into sleep just like that, I sometimes sprain my neck trying to make him comfortable. I’m not allowed to touch any electronic devices in the meantime, so every time I get lost in the beautiful lyrics.

If you are thinking how fancy our bedtime routine is, actually no, it’s not our everyday. Some days I beg him to sleep so that I can finally have some me-time, some days I will just pull out my guilt card for not being able to spend enough time with him, some days he will be too tired for any of my dramas.

But I never miss his bedtime, no matter what. I would ignore the pile of dishes and laundry that needs my immediate attention, and I would shut my eyes at all the toys he spread on the floor which is capable of taking someone’s life, and forget about the coffee I badly wanted after all the running.

I love that moment with him, just us. Hugging each other tight, forgetting whatever happened that day, be it deadlines, tantrums, guilt, chores, everything. That moment I simply stare at him and wonder how is he even real and caress his hair knowing I will miss all these moments someday when my little Leo won’t fit in my hands anymore.
Weird Ski Dream
By: Sophia Robbins
Tags: Crazy, Dreams, The Thinning, Skiing

I am supposed to go skiing with my friend and her family after Christmas. Last night I had a nightmare about it.

A little background info. She has never gone skiing before and therefore has to take lessons for two hours. In my dream, she was skiing like a pro. This wasn’t what was scary about the dream though.

I grew up skiing every weekend because I lived in Utah. So I of course was the 8-year-old-fuck on the mountain that was ripping moguls and leading tourists through the passages in the trees.

Anyway, she was skiing even better than I was. And we were going really freaking fast down this short slope. It was up high but it wasn’t very long so you would gain a lot of speed but you would have to stop yourself before plowing into the tourists at the bottom of the slope.

So her and I are skiing and then there is a wood platform at the bottom that you walk across to get back up to the lift. We are walking on the platform and this guy from our school comes up to us.

He starts talking about how I finished some game and I had no idea what he was talking about until he led us to a photo booth that had a game inside. it was some kind of strategy game and however, you placed in it would determine if you got to live in society or be killed off.

He said that I finished the game so when I asked what that meant he told me I needed to talk to the game masters.

I don’t remember if I ever went and met the game masters but it was a very freaky dream.
Weird Dream! What if there would be no books in the world??
By: Neelam Biradar
Tags: Weird Dreams, Reading Books, Books, Dreams

Image Source: Smithsonian Magazine

“A library without books is like a body without a soul.”

It is sometimes is beyond our wonder how our life would be if an essential item be missing out completely. It scared me even though it is just a dream.

Since I was a kid reading was always a part of me and books became an extension of me. As I grew up my stack of books also grew, my spectrum of reading also became wider and brighter. Everyone for once thinks that there is something they want to passover to the upcoming generation. And now looking around me I see kids addicted to their screens I always think books would be a great treasure to pass on the next generation. I hope this thought is echoed and the the number of books and stories that are passed over and that will be passed over grow. Because the stories will always stay with us.

The joy of buying new books, the happiness of finding something worthwhile in an old used books, the stories that get passed on, the stories that stay with us, all this is so much beautiful with us surrounded by books. And its just not the object that brings joy, it gives you knowledge, it helps you travel when you can’t in reality, it becomes a buddy when you are lonely and books just make us better people. I as a reader have grown leaps and bounds as a human. As we grow up our imaginations grow so little but reading just helps you with your imagination- Bonus points.

Stories have always been a part of us whether it was our bedtime stories or the stories we build or the stories we hear.

What a world it would be without books?

This question was always there at the back of my mind but I never bothered to acknowledge it. Now that I think of it, it just sends shivers down my back. What a world we would build ? So much beauty would be lost, so many stories lost, and so many people would be lost. Imagine racks without books, bookshops empty. Our life also would be the same empty. I know its a small habit but sometimes small things bring big changes. Our generations to come would be void of imagination, friendships, stories, love, travel. Their minds would be dry and arid like desert.

Especially this pandemic taught us that in times like these when we become stagnant sometimes our mind and body takes a toll. And by my personal experience it has- movies and entertainment are there but there will always be a limit and in most cases you end up just watching and nothing ends up being a part of you. But with reading it has kept me sane in this insane time. I travelled sitting on my couch, i met new people heard their stories. Just give it a moment’s thought and imagine this all would never be possible if we did not have books.

Time to get up end this bad dream and thank for the existence of books in our lives.

We need more of these images rather than the one show above.
DREAM CODE: OCTOBER OF 2020
By: Aljo Basalong
Tags: Time, Another World, Self Improvement, Dreams, Rape

DREAM CODE: OCTOBER OF 2020

October 7

I had a dream where in I woke up because I was cussing at my school requirements due to their deadline and very loudly at that so I thought I was really doing it in real life and woke up which made me do my requirements

October 21

This time my head thought of having the idea of dreaming that my family had powers but I didn’t even remember what they were

October 25

The perspective was that I was a character at a manhua/manga that had raped a "nether" ( this was her power ) cat girl and it was forced to her along with a tofu making person and a black and white tiger ( this was their power as well ) but she got raped by us individually after that our "master" found out and gathered us in to one room I met my cousins Auntie Diane, Tolsheg and Maya when I was supposed to say sorry to her for I felt etremely repulsed at myself but I could not due to my pride so I decided to go to our car but she was looking outside that is why I snuck out and met my cousins. I remembered thinking that after this dream I thought I wanted to die just in case I go crazy and perform this heinuous crime that I’d rather die than destroy someone else’s life. I gladly woke up after the second dream and was thankful it was a dream. Even though it seemed obvious I still hated my self for some time after the event.

Separate Dream for October 25

I thought it was 7 am already and I told myself no I’m just dreaming then woke up and it actually was 6 in the morning.
Glimmers
By: Wira Pratama
Tags: Victory, Light, Dreams, Satisfaction

The nights are cold,

as it roses, my insides are getting warmer.

Was it the drink that I drank earlier, or

was it the smokes that slowly piling in my lungs?

The beasts were nearby

so much for the border I stepped upon.

The warnings kept saying,

“Halt! Thy hast no prudence in here!”.

So does I kept my steps in wary manners, one at a time,

I kept moving forward, forward, and forward.

But then I thought again,

“This was the hellbent that kept me in misery”.

But no, I have so much important matters to attend rather than,

to satisfy my own curiosity.

So much to say that some secrets were one for a reason.

I failed for many, the witches laughed to their knees.

So much for their frown this time,

so much for those bastard who could not kept their disappointments as one.

There he stood, knowing that he had disappointed the witches.

The rejected handshakes were inevitable as they crumble,

so much for the bastards now has turned ashes.

-Wira’s — 23rd of December 2020
2020 Hindsight: An Unexpected Adventure
By: Tzivia Gover
Tags: 2020, Adventure, Dreams, Pandemic, Unexpected

Before the pandemic, I boarded planes, trains, and busses regularly to teach classes and workshops around the country and abroad. But since March, I’ve only crossed state lines twice-by car. Like countless others, in 2020 I canceled a year’s worth of business engagements, folding up plans one by one and storing them away like out-of-season clothes. But, that’s only half of the story.

The truth is, the empty squares on my calendar quickly filled up with more work. Because closing down what is outside of us opens up what is inside. And as a professional dreamworker, what goes on when we close our eyes is my stock in trade.

Since the pandemic, people are dreaming more and paying more attention to their dreams. This fact has been well documented by newspapers, magazines, and blogs with headlines like “Strange Dreams? It Might Be the Pandemic.” Someone even coined the portmanteau: Quarandreams.

But I don’t need journalists to tell me what the multiplying faces in the squares of my Zoom screen clearly demonstrate: While I don’t travel anymore, the world comes to me. Most days I meet with dreamwork clients, participants in writing and dream groups, and students in the dream studies classes I teach. These include young single mothers, empty-nesters, retirees, and people of various gender identities, as well as Buddhists, Christians, Jews, Muslims, and more. In the past five months alone, I’ve met with people from over a dozen countries including Afghanistan, Australia, Canada, England, Guatemala, India, Mexico, Panama, and Romania.

Like the pandemic, dreams cross borders and boundaries-no airplane, no passport, no certification of a negative Covid test is needed. Nor is language a barrier. Dreams speak in every language on earth. There are differences, sure: My clients in Turkey say they “see a dream” instead of having one, and a dreamer from Puerto Rico insists that a dream of a fish means someone she knows well is pregnant, while I try to convince her there is no single interpretation for any dream. But I’m most struck by what’s the same. Everybody dreams, and as I write these words with the sun climbing high and filling the same window I’ve looked out of every day for the better part of a year, my clients on the other side of the globe are fast asleep and dreaming.

So, when the rhythm of my days is as regular as the rectangles on my laptop screen that I stare into hour after hour, I remember this: I may not travel, but my work brings me close to people around the world. Sure, I’m contained within the same walls, still in my same skin. But, even in this year of being grounded, I’ve had my share of adventures, nonetheless.

Join me for a dreamy adventure
Keep buggering on
By: Maruti Naik
Tags: Hope, Dreams, Life, Poetry On Medium, Poetry

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Houku in Japanese
By: Amy Pierovich
Tags: Heaven, Searching, Dream, Poetry, Father

Houku in Japanese

Photo by Mika Korhonen on Unsplash

In pressure point therapy

a move was done

twice

named houku in Japanese.

I relaxed

then somnambulance took me into

a deep sleep

dreaming deep dreams

of searching

for my father on a dark and misty night

on an aging

iron bridge.

I found the off ramp

followed it

winding down

to a small cottage bathed in white light

I opened a wooden door

went in

to find an inviting bed

with a hand-sewn patchwork quilt.

I got in and slept once more

this dream

inside a dream

gave me great serenity

for

in that moment

I knew

his soul had gone in peace

to Heaven.
The Butterfly Effect
By: Flamin Dragon
Tags: Manifestation, Belief, Universe, Trends, Dreams

The Butterfly Effect is where a small tug in the rhythm of life can affect everything as it ripples through time. This effect can come down to the very flap of a butterfly’s wings by changing the atmosphere ever so slightly. Think of it Jenga; you take away a specific block and things can be just fine, but another block, one particular block if removed causes everything else to fall apart. The reality is you have no idea what thing, or what block will change your future, so everything has a say in it. Everything has led you to this very moment, every choice, decision, and thought.

Edward Lorenz accidentally discovered the butterfly effect in the 1960s with a computer. He simulated the weather and decided to change one decimal in the coding. He, as well as everyone, believed that nothing would change. However, the computer showed differently with a whole new weather pattern appearing. This shows that there is no way to predict in advance what the outcome of the weather may be, not to mention the outcome of your life.

An example of the Butterfly effect was during the Russian missile crisis a Russian nuclear submarine was stationed off the coast of Cuba, American ships detected the submarine. They became using depth charges to signal the submarine to surface. The crew on board though took these death charges to be bombed. The captain of the ship believed that war broke out between the USA and the Soviet Union. He believed it was ordered to have a nuclear bomb sent immediately. Everyone the submarine agreed except for one officer Vasili Arkhipov. Without a unanimous vote, no action could be taken; thus, world war three was prevented.

Other events, such as when the vaccine of Polio was found by Jonas Salk, there was an effect. If Salk had not discovered the vaccine at the time he did, the entire population of the planet today would be vastly different. Some people would not have been born. Entire family lines may have been cut off due to the lack of the vaccine. Perhaps some of the largest companies today would not have been created if it were not for this specific event happening at this specific time.

What was the butterfly effect on you? What was the chance of you living, breathing, and thinking? You are the 1 out of 400 trillion chances of being on this earth as a human being. To be able to imagine, create, and explore this gift; a gift of a miracle that was given to you by chance — the Butterfly Effect.
My Nigerian Dream
Tags: Dream, Peace, Nigeriadream, Nigeria

MY NIGERIAN DREAM

Nigeria is a home for a lot of amazing people, enriched with beautiful cultures, language, tribes. Despite our diversities, we have grown fond of each other, in unity and love; we have spent the past 60 years together. Like every home should be, safe, peaceful, comfortable. Nigeria hasn’t really been like a home for many, our safety isn’t assured nor do we have our peaceful days as it should be. We have accustomed adjusting to every uncomfortable situation thrown at us due to the inefficient management of the governmental power and resources.

My Nigeria dream is a home filled with love, peace; a home where the people saddled with the responsibility of securing lives doesn’t kill us, a home where you can be comfortable, a home you can always return to willingly whenever you visit the world. A home which will be corruption free, an opportunity when every single citizen gets the chance to have a taste of the national cake. A home where education won’t be worthless, a home to fight for, a home free of terrorism and decreased crime rate,, a home where the voice of the people is vital, a home where the people fundamental right is respected, a home to be proud of.

I dream of a Nigeria where the work of the civil servants will be appreciated more, I dream of a Nigeria where you can get things done without having to know someone in the higher offices, I dream of a Nigeria where the entire populace will be comfortable, I dream of a Nigeria where there will be accountability and transparency of government works, I dream of a Nigerian where free and fair elections will be conducted, I dream of a Nigeria where our creative minds doesn’t have to leave the country to explore their potentials, I dream of a Nigerias where our health sector would be adequately equipped , I dream of a Nigeria where public servants don’t live by bribes, a Nigerian where lecturers don’t request for sex from a student before they are given their appropriate results, a Nigeria where the academic and non academic staff don’t have to resume to strike before their demands are met, a Nigerian where schools are equipped with professional and appropriate learning materials, a Nigeria where the leaders wants to lead because of patriotism, a Nigeria where our democracy is legitimate, a Nigeria where the law is respected by everyone.

The Nigeria dream is a list of infinitum. The citizens of the green land deserve a Nigeria where the system works in their favor, just like a home, peaceful, safe, and comfortable. Conclusively, I dream of a Nigeria where her citizens join hands and work together to achieve the dream of Nigeria.
December 21?
Tags: Spiritual, Dreams, Earth

So I had this dream a couple months ago. At the time my boyfriend was on vacation in real life and in this dream. In the dream, I was hanging out with my friend when a meteor hit the earth and split in into two. I was texting my boyfriend seeing if we were still on the same half of the earth. I realized that we were still on the same half and was trying to figure out a way to get to him or for him to come to me. While this was happening my friend and I jumped to a new earth. This earth was so beautiful and the land was so bright. After we got to the new earth I was still messaging my boyfriend and I found that he was still on the old earth. So I end up jumping back to the old one, and there it was grey and dying and on fire. This is only a dream but it’s crazy to think that this is kind of what can happen with the great conjunction and ascending into 5D. In The Simpsons they showed that the earth was on fire and grey and in chaos. That could be the old earth.
Rain Spirits
Tags: Mental Health, Rain, Dreams, Poetry On Medium, Poetry

Sometimes, I feel days drip by like a ghostly white rain spirit in the aftermath of a storm.

Often, I hear them collapsing against leaves in the forest or colluding with my old cast iron gutter in their endless search for silence.

Days, implore us to make the most of our dreams.

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Scratch
By: Michael Stang
Tags: Death, Hope, Dreams, Birth, Poetry

Perfect provides every wisdom

Thinks in unity of its own, all — along, it will

Not take you

Weens advent abbey spirit just to breathe the life given

They rest and watch as strong, we die for the space we provide

Cherry grains I thought so cool show hard against my face

Wooden, petrified. These bones ache to return to mineral

Tightrope beauty kept for thought and memory

No one slips. All dance at the edge with arms

And fingers held to catch the wind

Sky walk I a forest of acreage, ping the canopies and fall in hope

To see the height of this world there are no thresholds

I bow to my knees at the thrill of it

Eden lets her children go

Inspired sorrow, a preference

Unaware of coccyx memoirs

What’s left after the best

I bow to you

Michael Stang 2020
Dreams of a doubter
By: Sharon Writes
Tags: Freedom, Believe, Flying, Dream, Peace

If you would your lens, you would realise you already have what you thought you was missing

~gentle whispers of love to me

Everyday she stared out of the window

Admiring the birds of the sky

Marvelling what it would be like

To fly up between the clouds

All the time she spent wondering

She was never once aware

That she too was given wings

If only she would believe