#1: dreams are better than reality

After last night's dream, I've come to a conclusion that dreams are better than any reality.

Before you call me delusional to believe that dreams are somehow superior despite being non-real, I want you to take a minute, close your eyes, and think about the last dream you had.

(No, take your time please.)

Once you remember your last dream, categorize it as either a good dream or a bad dream. Now, we'll come to why I made you do this in a minute but first, let me be a little bit vulnerable and share my own.

It's January 11th. A usual day. Same old "wake up, eat, work, sleep" routine. There's nothing unusual. Until there is.

I don't plan to sleep. It's already 3 am. And I would go on, do some chores, and do a bit of reading until I doze off, around 6 am.

I wake up three hours later, teary-eyed, and a bit dizzy, wondering what just happened.

It was a dream, a bad one. I was at gunpoint.

Despite knowing that I'd die any moment, I decided to take my last few minutes talking to someone, for one last time, on my phone. That person had no idea about the situation, and that's the dream. It ended abruptly, as most dreams do.

Now, you might wonder how this bad dream could possibly be good. How could being at gunpoint be better than reality?

Here's the thing - a bad dream is just that, a dream. I'm not actually at gunpoint in real life. The moment I opened my eyes, that terror wasn't real anymore. And that's exactly why even this bad dream is better than reality. Because it isn't my reality.

But wait, doesn't this mean good dreams are actually worse? Because when they're over, we have to face the fact that they weren't real?

Remember that exercise I asked you to do at the beginning? Let's break down both scenarios:

If you had a bad dream.

Like my gunpoint situation, you can find comfort in knowing it wasn't real. The moment you opened your eyes, that nightmare dissolved into nothing. Your heart might have been racing, but you were safe in your bed, probably thinking about what to have for breakfast.

If you had a good dream.

Now this is where it gets interesting. Good dreams are like free tickets to an infinite theme park of possibilities. You could be flying over cities, having dinner with your favorite celebrity, or revisiting loved ones who are no longer with us. The "bad" part comes when you wake up. That moment of disappointment when reality comes crashing back.

But even that disappointment proves my point.

These good dreams are better than reality precisely because they push beyond its boundaries. They show us versions of life unbounded by physics, logic, or even time. They're better because they're impossible because they give us a glimpse of what could be if reality wasn't so... real.

Think about it. In dreams, we don't need to follow any rules. We don't need to explain how we suddenly became a superwoman or a batman or why our childhood home is now on Mars.

Dreams don't owe us explanations, they just are, and that's their beauty.

Here's another beautiful thing about good dreams: they often become catalysts for change in our real lives. That dream where you achieved something remarkable, or became the person you've always wanted to be. It doesn't just dissolve with the morning light. It plants a seed in your mind, showing you what's possible. Even if you can't literally fly, the confidence and courage you felt in that dream can push you to take real-world leaps you might have been afraid to take before.

Whether your last dream was a nightmare or a fantasy, it served its purpose.

It served a purpose greater than reality ever could. Bad dreams make us grateful for our boring, safe reality, while good dreams remind us that our imagination knows no bounds and sometimes, they even inspire us to bring a piece of that extraordinary into our reality.

And isn't that something worth sleeping for?

~sweet dreams~