Best Kind of Good Dream

 Good dreams are certertainly better than bad dreams, and to look on the suface, they like a happy thing everyone would love to have. Nevertheless, I think some types of good dream are better than others. 

A dream where you have the pleasure f worldly happiness is a type of good dream. These can come in the form of something that is almost imposible to happen in real life, such as  winning a lottery, going to a dream place, marrying a prince or princess, etc. However, once you wake up from such dreams, it is inevitable to feel a bit of sadness, realizing that it is all a dream and now you're back to reality, the same old dull life. 

Another kind of dream, a better one, is the symbolic and spiritual dream that talks deep to your heart. A symbolic dream means that the theme and elements of the dream communicate a meaning that you can understand intuitively. A spiritual dream is a very very vivid and you can feel your soul in it and whoever in that dream is a real presence, not just a character. All the feelings, all the senses are so real that it wlll leave an impression on you even after wake up. It is a feeling that you are in another world, you are in your spiritual self, someone out there, someone higher and benevolent meant to communicate to you. All of these, you will know by heart, if it's a spiritual dream. And the message will immensely and deeply affect the very core of your being. That means if it's a good spiritual dream, the happiness and hope that you feel comes from the fact that this dream is meant for your life and you are blessed. It meant that the happiness you feel are meant for you and that hope you felt is for your real life, too. 

Here is one of those dreams. It's been so very long that I haven't had them but this one is so powerful that it lifted me out of my depression right away.

I was standing in front of a gap that has some sort of water below and in front of me is a make-do bridge from pieces of sticks, not looking strong at all. But there are people on the other side and they encouraged me to cross because they know it's safe enough to cross. I've been afraid of something like this since I was young. I tried to gather my courage but I still hesitated. A boy walked over from the other side, trying to encourage me. I almost stepped on the bridge but then it looked unstable and I took my feet off. I was too afraid. The boy smiled and walked over to me, saying that it wasn't anything dangerous. But his bridge was just a think piece of stick and he looked like he was losing balance a bit so I offered my hand and something else for him to come over to my side. The boy didn't look fearful or stressed at all. He seemed very relaxed, even chuckled about it. After he grabbed my hand, suddenly he decided to take me down to the water below. Now, the dream became very vivid, He took me along the canal in such a fast speed. We were not in a boat, just hand in hand, but we moved so fast, almost like we flied through the water. I could feel everything so clearly, the water, the air, and how fast we were moving. I felt so happy, so relaxed, and safe. He was saying to me "See? the water is not dangerous at all" I smiled and thought...oh well, the water is murky and it is dangerous because anything can be understand, but I feel safe because I keep looking at your face all the way and because you are here with me, you are by my side like this, I believe nothing bad would come to hurt us in this water anyway. And that was the truth, his presence was the reason I wasn't afraid of that canal water. And I kept looking at his face all along the way. In the end though, I lost concentration and started thinking about how fast I was moving and I felt tingling station in my stomach, and felt a bit startled...then I wake up.

The meaning of the dream was clear and positive. I am being very afraid of something in life that I shouldn't be afraid of and it is a persistent problem. But someone is going to come along to make me feel safe enough no matter what comes my way. The dream also reminds me of a passage in the Bible when Jesus stretched out his hand to Peter to help him because he's going to sink. Peter was trying to walk on the water, following Jesus but he looked at the waves and was afraid. Jesus was saying that Peter shouldn't have doubted. But even if Peter did, Jesus grabbed his hand and he is saved anyway. There was also a picture I saved in the phone of Jesus stretching out his hand and saying "Don't look at the storm, look at me" 

From now on, I will be praying for this help to come along as quickly as possible. I've been standing and looking at the bridge for too long with fear and doubt and could not overcome it on my own. The dream gives me such deep hope that I haven't felt for years. 

The Guiding Star

 There is a reason why we lift our eyes to the moon and the stars and feel a sense of hope. Since ancient times, humanity has gazed at the heavens, seeing in the sun and stars symbols of something greater than ourselves. On a spiritual level, the universe holds an eternal and unchanging reality—a higher truth that dwells within each person’s conscience.

When we look at Pinocchio, the story carries a much deeper lesson than it may seem. The shining star and the beautiful fairy are more than fantasy; they are symbols of hope and guidance. The fairy gives Pinocchio the cricket as his conscience, teaching that to be truly human is not simply to walk and talk, but to listen to the inner voice that calls us toward what is true, good, and right. Our conscience is the part of us that connects directly to the eternal. If Pinocchio continues to lie and get obsessed about shallow pleasures of the world, he will have to stay a puppet. But in the end, he was able to become a real boy because he gave up his life bravely to save his father.

The book We Who Wrestle With God reminds us that human beings are always in conflict with their own conscience. With every breath and in every moment, we face the choice: will we listen to that voice within, or will we resist it?

Perhaps most striking is the image from Pinocchio where a star shines ever brighter, until it appears as the fairy. This vision echoes the accounts of those who have had near-death experiences, describing radiant beings of light. That gives me a feeling that maybe the creator of the animation was divinely inspired.

My faith is not strong lately and I'm not so confident if God really loves me, BUT I can't deny the truth of who God is and how our world was created and how it was meant to be. 

An "Almost" a Bad Dream

I got into a taxi. The driver was a Westerner who could speak Thai. After a while, the number on the meter seems to increase faster than usual, a sign that it is a scammer's tool. I tried to protest but the driver rudely spoke to me, saying that I falsely blamed him. 

The taxi ran into a gas station and stopped. I tried to get out through the right door, but it was locked and the lock control was in the driver's hand. The number on the meter seemed to disappear and then came back much higher than before. There were people in the gas station, I was reluctant whether I should call for help. The driver said, "hey, you can call the police if you want, I've dialed the number for you" and he gave me the mobile phone. Someone was on the line, but I knew that it was his scammer team in the call center and that there was no use talking to the person. I tried to dial the police number but I ended up dialing a peculiar number, instead of 191, and I wondered why I did that. 

Suddenly, I saw that the left door was open a little. A man in bright pink or red outfit was outside, asking me "do you want to come out?" I was so glad and got off the taxi quickly.

After a while I turned around, and saw that the man who rescued me jumped into the trunk of that taxi and his friend closed it for him. Someone who stood in that gas station said to me, "That taxi driver used to owe him money. He helped him and set him free before, but that guy still behave like a jerk today. So he thought it's time to give him a lesson." As the taxi moved away from the gas station, I knew that the driver was in trouble. The man in the trunk was there with his objective in mind. 

It was such a relief to wake up in my bed and found out that it was all a dream. Nevertheless, it was quite tiring because it felt real. It was just "almost" a bad dream, though. And I'm glad for that. I felt strongly that someone was there to help me in my dream before things turned worse. According to Buddhism belief, I met a past-life adversary who happened to meet his own adversary before he could harm me. According to Christian belief, an angel saved me. 

The slept for only 3 hours when this dream happened. After I woke up, then went back to bed again. I had some other kinds of dream and this time was a bad one, not just almost. Well, I can't seem to escape my doomed fate at night anyway.