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What Dreams Mean

The truth we'll never know;

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Everyone's night starts the same regardless of your age, race, religion or gender. Whether you fall asleep on your stomach, side, or back, somehow, someway you will fall asleep. Sometimes you'll fall asleep to escape the day or sometimes you'll just fall asleep because it's routine. Either way, once you close your eyes, you enter a new world.

Some believe that dreams are what your mind wants to happen. But if thats true, then why sometimes do we find ourselves falling of cliffs or jumping off buildings? It doesn't make sense. And other times we'll find ourselves talking to loved ones who have passed or having conversations that will never happen. It doesn't make sense either. We close our eyes every night for a period of hours, and completely escape reality. When you're asleep you can be, or do or say whatever you want. Yet, you don't have any control.

There's been research as to why we dream what we dream, but no one can completely figure it out. Why? Well, maybe we aren't suppose to. No matter what you believe in, at the end of the day we all have to believe that everything happens for a reason. And maybe thats why dreams only stay with us a few moments after we wake up. No one remembers what they dreamt months ago, and maybe there's a reason for that. Perhaps, dreams are supposed to give us those moments were afraid to live and then we snap back into reality.

So take those dares, and truths, and hopes and close your eyes. Because maybe we'll never know what dreams actually mean, but at least we get those few hours a night to be invincible.

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