Dreams are nothing
but dreams.
“I have had a dream, past the
wit of man to say what / dream it was. Man is but an ass if he go about
t’expound this dream,” says Bottom; in
fact, trying to explain dreams can be a really challenging task. Therefore, it is no strange that dreams are considered as the mental
representation of our fantasies or fears, which end up being magical. Therefore,
finding a rational explanation to those dreams is kind of hard.
Possibly, all of you who are reading this have heard of the best
football player of all times, Oliver Atom. He is the main character of a
Japanese cartoon series called “Los Supercampeones”, and is the captain of his
team, Niupi. Despite the fact that what had been shown in television is a
series with a very happy ending, it has been said by many people that the real ending
is a scene in which Oliver Atom wakes up from a coma. Finding himself in a bed
in the hospital, he realizes that he has lost his legs and that all his career
as a football player, all his success, all its magic, all the happiness, was just
a dream. Just as in Midsummer Night’s
Dream, where all the love, all the magic, all the desperation and emotion,
turns out to be untrue because all of it was a dream. Both stories end up in
disillusion, in shock, for knowing the true.
In fact, it is possible that you may have
experienced the same. Have you ever had an extremely nice dream, where life
went just as you have always wanted, but then you woke up wishing it had not
been a dream and that it should have never ended? I bet you have.
However, there is something that we can
consider: the fact that dreams, despite being untrue, make us feel emotions and
live experiences (pleasant or not) that we may not have in real life, but that
can inspire us. Just like books, just
like plays. Maybe you felt represented by the plot of the play: impossible
love, love triangles, and the “magical” feeling that the “potion” of love
provokes on us. And maybe, your dreams is what has inspired you to be who you
are.
Sources:
Shakespeare, William. Midsummer night’s dream. 1590-1596, England.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol1-my6VeZE
It’s sad thinking that Oliver just dreamt about all that, isn’t it? The difference between these two is that in “Los super campeones” things occur with an explanation since it is supposed to be the real life, yet in MND it is not like that: things happen with no explanation whatsoever or time loses its flow, etc. We can blame the fairies for those things though.
ResponderEliminarYou also pointed out that dreams could make us feel emotions and experiences, and we would not like to wake up from nice dreams. Oliver certainly lived highs and lows during the whole series; he lived experiences he could probably not have felt whatsoever after getting his legs removed, and he certainly did not want to wake up after realizing that everything was just a dream.
I do bet that everybody has got that dream that should have never ended.