Dreams
Dreams are seen as a communication technique from an higher place to you by some people. Some people claim they dream about the future and therefore are expecting situations to arise while some people always turn a blind eye to whatever occurs in their dreams and put it to the side.
I do not really stand firmly with these two groups, I am slam bang in the middle. I have never had a dream about the future and I also do not think dreams do not have a meaning. Everything in life has a meaning, even if the meaning is not something that is life changing. Whenever I have the same dream twice, which has happened a few times. It always makes me think someone out there is telling me I should have payed better attention the first time and that there is a vital piece of information that is being transmitted to me but I am not paying close enough attention… Or maybe I am not having the same dream twice, just imagining the first time. As I am someone that finds it difficult to piece together a timeline of events. Most situations I think I have been through, I always contemplate if they ever even happened. Either way I feel like it is a command and I must listen.
I am forever noting down my dreams that I feel are significant and has a deeper meaning till whenever something triggers me to see that meaning. I never expect a meaning to surface because I do not really believe in it so therefore I never search for a meaning. I am a firm believer that if you are meant to understand something then one vital day that information will come to you, it is then a case of if it is too late or not.
What is superstition? Superstition is according to Wikipedia ‘is the belief in supernatural causality. That one event causes another without any natural process linking the two events. Such as astrology, religion, omens, witchcraft, and prophecies, that contradicts natural science.’ My meaning would be exactly the same as that.
I am way too superstitious for someone that does not believe in religion or maybe they do not really link. You can be superstitious due to your upbringing.
I blame the Nollywood movies that I watched growing up and the thought of everything in this world is linked in a spiritual/coincidental way. Thinking everything is linked is a thought more scary than soothing when you really think about it. Well depending if you think you are a good person but then that one harsh reaction to a situation will always linger in your mind and you will forever be dreading the day it comes back to haunt you. I do not necessarily think I am a bad person but I am not an angel, no one is 100% pure. I guess you are okay if you have a nonchalant attitude towards things in life, to an extent. Then you are lucky not to have these thoughts.
I am nonchalant about most things in life but when it comes to karma, superstitious situations or just anything spiritual, I get so scared deep down. The thought eats away at me but only when I am alone, if I let myself think or something triggers it. Your demons do have a better hold on you at your most fragile. My thoughts always run wild, so wild that I will be walking down the street and I will be making up my own superstition scenarios in my head and therefore deciding not to step over a tree branch for example because I am scared of what it could lead to, even though there is no stepping over a tree branch superstition. I do not believe in all superstitions though and I never look at superstition scenarios to bring me good luck. Always felt the need to attach bad thoughts towards the whole idea and just try my absolute best not to be caught out by it. Imagine I would walk over a tree branch, realise it and be like “oh crap” then go back to step over it again just because to me, stepping over it again has cancelled out any sort of chain of reactions that was about to happen.
Our upbringing and the environments we have been in through our growth has a huge importance on the way we think and act, nature over nurture. I can say that growing up with religion, certain types of films & stories (myths) shaped my mindset. I grew into it more and out came this idea of everything I come into contact with (not bounded by physical touch) equates/leads to to an event that science cannot begin to explain and I guess it is just what we as humans an individuals like to think. That our actions lead to something that cannot be explained, it is a thought that a suicidal person can choose to live because of and with that, it is a good thought to have.
It makes us feel that we belong, that we are part of a forever changing chain and we are needed for this reaction to happen. Then again, maybe it is just folk belief, we control what we believe and the idea of what it could possibly lead to. We decide whether certain superstitions lead to good or bad luck. Some things in life could be linked and be controlled by the spiritual world or it could all just be coincidental.
I really do not know where I stand on the subject but the thought will always stick with me. Whatever I do will unlock a chain of events that will not be able to be explained using scientific logic. I might do it to make myself feel like I belong or maybe that is just how life is. I do not know, we do not know, maybe we will find out.
I shall end this with a fitting quote that I think sums up all of this. ‘Sometimes the creation of a false certainty is better than no certainty at all.
Hak Gway
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