Tell Me Your Dreams...

No, this is not a book review of the Sidney Sheldon bestseller. Actually far from it. This is more of a continuation from where I left off from the Mind Reading post.

It is so very very interesting to understand the working of the human mind. It plays awesome tricks and creates some illusions which it knows will have an effect which will last much after the desire is experienced. Not only that, the mind is so devious that - in creating the illusion, it somehow uses your deepest, ardent unfulfilled desire and manipulates it in the illusion.

Okay so you think whats my point here? Let me cite you some examples which I've experienced.

A couple of years back there used to be an FM channel which was being aired in Bombay by the name Go-92.5 FM. I used to love the channel. I was addicted to it and completely into it - of course one reason was that they were the only channel which played a good mix of English and Hindi music. Even the RJ-ing of the prime-time programmes was in English which suits me just fine because I normally prefer English to Hindi.

I used to listen to the station from Mon to Sat. I loved the morning show. It was called Good Morning Mumbai and used to be aired from 07:00 am to 11:00 am by two RJs, Jaggu and Tarana. They were hilarious and made an awesome pair. I also participated in some of the contests they ran and also won a couple of prizes.

So everything was hunky-dory until one fine morning in 2006 they decided to go ALL HINDI. There was a huge public out-cry. There's also an online petition and if you're interested please click here. I was pretty upset to know about it and of course I signed the online petition. In the deepest corner of my mind I knew that I adored the channel and felt really really sad that it had become a Hindi-Only channel.

Now, a couple of months later I woke up from a very startling dream and as soon as I came-to, I just laughed my heart out. Why?? The dream that I had was related to this above incident. I had a dream that one morning I come to know that the FM channel has decided to become Hindi-only channel and my favorite RJ's Jaggu and Tarana were no longer hosting the morning show together.

So I become so enraged, that I barge into the office of the Radio Station and storm into the room from where the broadcast was happening. I can see both Jaggu and Tarana sitting and chatting about they being separated and I just slap them hard not once, not twice atleast 4-5 times. They are shocked to see my behavior and call the studio guards who then try to subdue me.

I kick and wriggle like crazy to get away from their grasp and thats when I feel something hit my head and I scream and my dream is broken. I find that in all the wriggling and the excitement I had banged my head against the wall and thats why my head hurt.

This is just one such example of how the mind manipulates our desires to create an illusion. I've had many such dreams.

Before coming to the US, I used to work for another boss and because of this new assignment, I reported to a new boss. I used to admire my old boss and always nurtured this feeling of going back to working under her. She is a lady of very strong character and dedication and she's always given me good support. Of course my new boss is also good but since I had started of my career under my old boss I always wanted to work under her.

So one night I had this dream about my old boss calling me here in the US and asking me about my present work. She tells me about an opportunity of working under her and I promptly answer that I am ready to join her project immediately.

Now I don't exactly remember how the dream got broken but then when I woke up I realized that I had this dream and again just smiled.

It is unbelievable how the mind "knows" about our desires and manifests our dreams based on our desires. Its fascinating. Mind-Blowing!!

Mind Reading

I've been meaning to post about this for quite a while now and its just that it keeps getting postponed and postponed. But I'll finally relent and go ahead and post it.

Many-a-times I do get overwhelmed by the Vastness, by the Capabilities, by the Unknown. It seems so inexplicable, so unreal, so unbelivable. I'm talking about the power of the human mind. Its ability to think, to act, to react, to make-believe, to imagine. The power is unsurpassed, unparalleled, unknown.

Even as I type this post, there are a zillion thoughts going through my mind. And I'm just trying to list them out here as they come. I'm thinking the following in the specific order.

1. How do I compose this statement properly so that it just feels right, feels correct to be read.
2. Should I give numbers to each thought/statement I write.
3. Will it be read by anyone.
4. What will they think, when they read it.
5. Will anyone close to me or anyone from home read it.
6. I wanted to speak to my mom and tell her that I purchased a new laptop, but I wasnt bcoz she was asleep.
7. The laptop keyboard layout is a bit wierd, I'm being forced to search for the keys.
8. Especially not used to the Home and End keys being down and not up.
9. In that sense my office laptop was better and I had adjusted to the keyboard well.
10. I gotto go to the office tomorrow to finish off some pending work.

Okay, why am I posting this, is that its absolutely amazing how the mind links one thought to the next and the one after that and on and on and on....Its like a chain reaction. If you see the thoughts from 1 to 10, you can discern the link.

The thought process started off with my current activity i.e. writing a blog. Then it moved on to the framing of the sentences and the structure and then to who would be reading it and then to whether anyone from home will read it.

The mind then latches on to the keyword home and subconsciously thinks about the fact that I had called up home before writing this post and I was not able to tell my mom about the laptop. Then the thought moves on to the laptop itself because my hands were fumbling with the keys (they still are). The mind then latches on to the fact that the hands are not comfortable on the keyboard of the new laptop. And why it is not comfortable, because of the improper positioning of certain keys.

Which keyboard layout was ideal? And the mind answers that question by thinking about the laptop given by the office which my hands were used to. The mind now picks up the key-word office and then "thinks" about work to be done...blah...blah...blah...

Wow...that took such a long time to type, but the thought process was just 10 seconds, maybe less. And whilst typing as well the mind wandered quite a bit, to my last orkut post about Handel and Hallelujah, about this lady from Orkut who wrote in her reply to my comment that she was unable to post any comments on my post, about this other lady in orkut who had said that she identified herself with one of the posts I'd posted on this blog.

Even now as I type this, my mind is working very very hard to actually pause the thought which the mind was "thinking" so that my hands could type that. And that my mind is saying to me that the temples on the side of my forehead are starting to ache and that I should stop doing this activity of recording my thoughts....STOP! STOP!

But what is this mind and what is me?? I dont know....I absolutely have no clue....

I think I should just fall off to sleep right now....its tooo much of mind-reading for one-time. Atleast try to sleep because...its 05:40 am in the morning and there's still no sign of any sleep.

This is an interesting exercise, will do it again some other time....Adios!!