For years, psychologists and students of human behaviour have tried to understand dreams. Sigmund Freud has written an entire book on Interpretation of dreams and today, I had a 6 year old challenge that!!
We were sitting in a circle and creating imagery through words. 36 little eyes were shut and some kept opening and eyeing at me from time to time. Finally, I asked all of them to keep their, eyes closed, mouth zipped up and ears open to enjoy the exercise. A little boy said, “what about our mind? Even that should be open”. Being the facilitator of the group, I immediately responded, “The mind is always open, so I don’t need to ask you to do that.”
“Oh Miss, the mind is closed when sleeping!!” I thought I was being intelligent and passed a theoretically correct remark, “My dear, the mind is always open, even when you are asleep, else, how is it that one can dream?”
What came after that, was a big chuckle accompanied by a profound statement – “Hmph!! Heheheh!! I never dream!! No, No!!People don’t dream either, they just make up stories so that someone can listen to them!!” Mr Freud, think about it.
