Something you lost will soon turn up.

Waking up from a violent dream is never easy. I have plenty of those.

This time I was fighting and winning a duel against someone from my work.

Someone I appreciate (professionally) very much. Perhaps the most efficient and diligent person I know at work. Why was I fighting him? How come he was insisting that we continue to fight when I was definitely winning and he was bleeding from wounds?

Dreams are similar to fortune cookies. Many believe that dreams can predict. Personally, I don't see how, considering dreams happen in one's brain. My brain creates dreams (output) strictly based on my daily physical and cognitive activities (input). It's a sophisticated computer, but a computer, nonetheless. It does not just invent. But just as numerical simulations do, perhaps it can combine all sorts of parameters and somehow predict the course of nature, unconsciously??? And just like those financial market simulating algorithms, a brain running on incomplete parameters (and no doubt include irrelevant ones, too) spits out wrong forecast. Then there's no or little point searching for any road sign (for the future) in one's dream. If there's signs, they are most likely to be plain wrong. But these signs are fun to read. Since I am clueless which direction to take in my life and even less at what speed, might as well read these signs, casually, of course.

Let's see, so what happened in my head this morning??? Right before I woke up, I remember sobbing with a still spear in my hand, saying how sorry I was and that we had to stop. I tried to take him to the secretary's office (dunno why). And others were coming back from lunch and they were just walking passed us. What got us into a duel? There, it's all a blur. I conclude, with no logical basis but strictly based on my hunch, that I am not going to kill my colleague. The dream was a product of pure coincidence with random ingredients that my brain chose per chance. If my brain had acted without my consent to simulate my future, well miss, you got it wrong.... this time. But maybe one day, accidentally, you (I am talking to my brain) will pick out the right and close to a full set of relevant parameters to come up with a correct prediction. It's just this little possibility that makes me want to recount my dreams in the morning while 'waking up' because otherwise they are lost forever (I have another blog on weird and fun dreams). And if my future is in it, that'll be a shame.

Today's fortune cookie says: Something you lost will soon turn up.

Oh goooooddd, I may recover some gruesome details of my dream in the middle of the day?

a side note: Of course, dreams may reflect how you were feeling the night before and if you are experiencing stress, etc., but that's just boring and leave that for psychologists to discuss.