But, is it nothing to know when you are dying, when you are about to take leave of this world, of its joys and sorrows, when the past of your life is unfurled before you, when eternity opens wide its portals, is it nothing to know at that last awful,supreme moment of your lives, that you have not lived in vain, that you have lived for the benefit of others, that you have lived to help in the cause of your country's regeneration?

-Surendranath Banerjea

Sunday, May 17, 2009

Träume

"Appa,i saw a dream yday!"

"HUH!not the least for a surprise!!Now whats it this time?"

For all those who don't know me,i'm one heck of a dreamer..not the usual kind of a day-dreamer,but there wouldn't be a single night spent without a trail of dreams..sometimes sequels,sometimes random..sometimes intuitive..sometimes even close to clairvoyance..sometimes just another of those weird ones..but most of the times, i end up with stuffs good enough for a laugh or a guffaw..

There was this night,when i woke up sweating and panting,blanched by a dream,me idling around on a holiday,which i later found out to be my pro-evaluation eve when a friend rings up enquiringly,and that was when i realised that all the tools were yet to be manufactured,my ppt,my reports..huh!!I started fainting,blood oozing out of my face,and mouth longing for a drop of water..and that was when I suddenly jolted out of my bed..I started rubbing my eyes so hard to get back to normalcy just to remember that all those evaluations shits were long done!..I slept off blissfully the rest of the night..Getting back to college,much to my surprise,our pro-results were published the same day!

There was this incident when i dreamt of a friend shaving his head completely,when in a couple of days he pops with his head mowed perfectly to be compared to a cricket ground..

Date with madhavan(sure,he's not an enticement any more! :P),letter from Hrithik,were all those queer impossible ones which blazed in my school days..

"I dreamt of a day when i was forcibly put into a burkha,with all those guns laid against my head..there were bomb blasts and cries of pain everywhere..there was none around who i could recognize!I was thirsty and hungry,but there was absolutely nothing..sheer squalor..I was totally alone,dismayed thoroughly!! :O "

"OMG!! It's the Talibans this time????? You got nothing better to dream??Anyhow,I'm saved of those expenses for opera tickets!"

Khuda Hafiz
~Gayathri~


29 comments:

NG said...

its painful...even to dream to be pushed into the taliban jungle...
weird dream huh !!!

Gayathri said...

lol..yeah,even dreaming was traumatic..

rameez said...

A Thousand Splendid Suns. :)

Gayathri said...

exactly!but the scenes were all so strongly impressed on my mind that i dreamt of it after many months of reading..

Amal Bose said...

Ive had and im still having really exciting dreams.. and my last post was on that too..
feel free to check it out.
:-)

ZB said...

hehe, you dream current affairs, me i dont remember what i dream, just know that i dream.nice writeup.enjoyed reading ya!cheers

ZB said...

BTW, how do i follow you?(sounds absurd, isnt it?)there seems no such options in your blog, enlighten me since me just born into blogging.TC

Gayathri said...

@Amal,thanks dude..and yeah,i'll be at ur space soon :)

@Zillionbig,lol,yeah i dream current affairs mostly..sequels!!
whats this zillionbig btw??
and abt following,you'll have an option to add blogs to follow on ur home page..just click on that and paste my blog url..got it??
see ya around :)

Veda said...

haha...i tot i was a crazy dreamer...but u beat me fair and square!!

should be all the violence u've been seeing on tv..here's hoping fr better, calmer dreams! :)

Cheers! ;)...

AnjuGandhi said...

How scary.
To think of such dreams makes me shiver.

Gayathri said...

@veda,yeah man..i dream a lot..and i kinda get entertained by many of them :)

@anju,lol..scary and adventurous dreams :D..sometimes i had even dreamt of reptiles crawling and biting all over my body!! :D

Suree said...

hey ...
even i too get painful ,unbeliable dreams often , some r not clear enough to remember ...

nice blog...

urs
suree

Thousif Raza said...

Sequals of dreams, that sure was funny ;)

but 'the' dream was really traumatic, dont worry everything will be allrgt, read my poem once again , you will feel better :D


and thx for the comment it was real cool

take care and keep writing

Gayathri said...

@suree,thanks :),..for dropping by too :)

@Thousif,my pleasure :)

Vyazz said...

Nice to get to meet a fellow dreamer. I have pretty vivid dreams myself!!!....
Well its always nice to have a parallel world to go into while u slumber away!! Irrespective of how crazy the dream might be....there is nothing like a nocturnal adventure!!

Gayathri said...

@vyas,i sleep very late man..and during the short span when i have so many adventurous stuffs,i have a very distorted slumber!! :D
anyway,welcome.. :)

Anonymous said...

god! i dream a lot too!
before my geography exam, i dreamt that i didnt write any of my answers in my exam and slept off. I didnt reasile that i didnt write anything till i reached my home, in my dream.
Also, I sometimes recite my portions when i am extra tensed before exams. Huh! I am so silly!
Thanks for the youngest and the PRETTIEST thing you wrote about me with those awards! GOD! I am so overwhelmed! *blushes*

Onward said...

hehe...u r one crazy dreamer...u should take up my old nick.:)...but letters from hrithik? really? was the burkha scene after u saw dil se by any chance?...

Atleast u remember ur dreams..mine r so random and most of the time its about some snake bite victim or me winning some lottery or something :)...there was this one i really loved of me opting to play for australia instead of india and then the indian team drops tendulkar to accomodate me :)

hehe...aah i luv that dream

luv
amith ;-)

jaggu said...

hey.. u r one lucky gal... u don need to go to a movie house to watch all those fun,humour,terror n action.. u jus have 2 close ur eyes n fall asleep.. lolzz

As they say, 'ur future depends on wat u dream, so go 2 sleep'..

I read all ur posts.. really cool

Manish said...

i din knw u blogged... :-)
hmmmmm

Gayathri said...

@ramya,lol,even i used to have such dreams when at school on exam eves,that i studied for a diff paper than the one which was supposed to be!! and for the comment,you are welcome :)

@amith,i loved your old nick..why ya changed that??anyway,that wouldnt suit me ;)..
and abt the burkha scenes,it was months after i read Thousand Splendid Suns..abt taliban and stuffs..lol..crazy..

@jaggu..exactly how my dad responds..that they dont have the burden of taking me to the theatres.every single slumber would suffice.. :D..
thanks for stopping by yaar..hope to see u around..

@manish,..ignorant brat :P..at last out of hibernation??

Salil Dhawan said...

Dreaming can be traumatic but says lot about whats going on around you and your mindset.
Nice post.Do visit my blog

Salil
http://views-point.blogspot.com

Thousif Raza said...

oji its been a week where r u, blog soon k, and you havent been to my blog too :(, do visit k

take care and keep writing....

a j said...

xclnt quote from bapu. your colour scheme is too bright.. i think something which is more soothing will be better

Gayathri said...

@Salil.. :)
it does,tell a lot about your obsessions and the deepest fears too..
anyway,thanks for dropping by :)

@Thousif,man,it's so damn overwhelming to see that people do notice my absence.. thanks :)..
I'm running a way ahead of my broadband usage limit..so last time when i peeped into ur blog,i was shocked to see the ipod in it which would eat up a lot of my bandwidth,and i suddenly retraced my path..on june 1st,pakka,i'll be there..

@aj,i loved the peace in this template..and it's just been a few weeks since i resorted to this..so i'll have to hold on a few more days before i go for another change..
anyway,thanks for visiting..

Anonymous said...

lol...deja vu's of a kind!
well put.
and, I have been reading ur other posts as well, what's with the 'khuda hafiz'? why not a usual 'adios' or 'ciao' or something on those lines. well, if you didn't wish to do it the conventional way, there are always words in Tamizh or Hindi. I was wondering y this? just out of curiosity, sorry if I shouldn't have asked.
Cheers

Gayathri said...

@varun,khuda hafiz brought a me feeling of warmth inside everytime i heard that.i kinda developed the craze for it from a novel..
and,i hadnt seen anyone else having this tag as well..so thought it would be quite different in the lot.. :)

Dutta said...

haha .. talking about dreams .. I am the master ... I dream so much that I can now wake up and go back to the dream after sometime ... :P

and don't ask the stuff I see ... even Freud would have been pulling his hair ...

Gayathri said...

@som,it's k man..crazy stuffs are always good to hear.. :)..you could share it with us one day..sooner the better :D..