Dream Making
In some languages you don't say I had a dream, you say I made a dream. I think that's a totally different point of view. To have a dream implies that the dream somehow exist in an independent way while making a dream is very active. It is you who made the dream, you create it, you have the power to change it.
Do we actually have the power to change our dreams? Do we actively create them? I mean, some people are able to have lucid dreams to an extent where they know they are dreaming and change the dreams while dreaming. But do we decide what we dream? As someone who had nightmares for a long time, I hope I didn't but I do hope I did.
Could it be possible that we try to confront ourselves with things we usually don't confront ourselves? Maybe we would push these thoughts away in our daily lives but our dreams present us with these topics and we can't but engage with them.
In some religions, people believe that dreams are connected with the afterworld. Some psychologists believe that it's just our subconscious parts of our minds that need to reflect on something. Either way it makes sense that we needed to be confronted with these subjects - by fate or by subconscious choice wouldn't make a big difference in the quality of the outcome. But if I made the dream, isn't that contradictory to my subcoinscious or a transcendent force creating them for me to be confronted with it?
Maybe the making is more about the dreaming itself than the topic. Maybe it's about how I decided to react to the situation in my dreams. As much as I am actively living my life deciding how I react to the situations I'm confronted with. So, somehow I would also be making my life instead of having a life.
So, do we believe that we are subjects or objects of our dreams? Maybe different people found different solutions to this and it manifested in their way of speaking and ultimately found its way into some languages different than in other languages.
But how much does that effect the way we think? Was it the first language that makes dreams that shaped my way of thinking about dreams in a certain way? Was it my religion? Maybe common believes extracted from psychological findings? Probably, it's possible to combine both to having a dream you're presented with but making it by actively engaging with it and acting.
So, we could also be having lives and making them. But we really want to have the discussion about free will and choices against destiny, fate or things happening by chance?
