An interesting question

[SeaCat]

Today while on work I got into a rather long conversation with one of my patients and his wife. It was touching as well as interesting. Touching because they have been married for over 25 years. It was interesting how they reacted to the idea that he was dieing. One thing which came up was a question, what do you dream? It was an interesting question because they weren't talking about what do you dream of every night, but what do you dream about deep in your heart?

Their dream wasn't that he wouldn't die soon, rather they dreamed that his death would lead to the saving of other lives. (Maybe this was why they chose to go with an experimental treatment?)

This got me to thinking and believe it or not I can't answer my own question. What do I dream about? (Yes there are many things I would love to see happen but all of them are for one reason or another selfish at their core. Things like a retraction of all public nudity laws The stopping of all sex based violence as well as all religeon based violence.)

So my question to you is what do you dream about?

Cat

 

[Songcatcher]

I dreamed of holding a wman in bed. She was faceless though, interestingly.

 

[angelicminx]

Utopia.

Tolerance for other people and their chosen way of life.

To have enough money to pay the bills, take my daughter to see the places she learns about in school, and still have enough left over to help out those in need.

The freedom to be who I am without fear of reprisal. Being loved for all of me, unconditionally.

Making a difference in the lives of those around me. Making the world a better place because I am in it. Spreading joy and happiness wherever I go.

 

[cloudy]

I dream of religious tolerance and an end to racism.

Won't happen in my lifetime, sadly, or even my children's.

 

[cantdog]

I dreamed of holding a wman in bed. She was faceless though, interestingly.

That is evocative.

 

[minsue]

I can empathise with their dream that his death may help save lives, though on a much smaller scale for me. I was heartbroken and inconsolable after being turned away from a program testing an antidepressant (turned away because, of course, they couldn't guarantee I wouldn't get a placebo and they wouldn't take the risk that I might). It wasn't being told I was too depressed to take part that really cut me to the quick. It was that I had been feeling good about the thought that at least there could be some good to be had from my depression and that if I had to be that way, at least maybe it could help someone else. Having that taken away and my illness back to being pointless was crushing.

I dream of somehow, in some small way, leaving this world better for my having been in it. Really, there's nothing want more out of this life and nothing I would rather have.

 

[cantdog]

I find myself saddened that with such an open-ended question, it is mere tolerance that was chosen. Simply a wish that people would let each other live their lives without interfering with their happiness.

There must be more dramatic things to imagine. Like an end to all ignorance. (Imagine that! If, yesterday, everyone's ignorance were supplied with understanding, who could anyone ever hate again?) But such is the pit into which our world is sunk, the simple desire for folks to let one another alone seems like an unattainable pipedream.

 

[minsue]

I find myself saddened that with such an open-ended question, it is mere tolerance that was chosen. Simply a wish that people would let each other live their lives without interfering with their happiness.

There must be more dramatic things to imagine. Like an end to all ignorance. (Imagine that! If, yesterday, everyone's ignorance were supplied with understanding, who could anyone ever hate again?) But such is the pit into which our world is sunk, the simple desire for folks to let one another alone seems like an unattainable pipedream.

First, work on the simple things. Then we can work on the larger ones. It'd probably take all we have simply to live and let live and, sadly, I certainly can't imagine seeing it in my lifetime.

 

[cantdog]

I know, Min. And yet if religion were to serve a purpose, surely it would be to lend authority to wisdom? And does not every religion enjoin tolerance?

In the Gita: (5:17-18) because their wisdom has made them pure of sin. With the same evenness of love they behold a Brahmin who is learned and holy, or a cow, or an elephant, or a dog, and even the man who eats a dog.

and 13:28: And when a man sees that the God in himself is the same God in all that is, he hurts not himself by hurting others: then he goes indeed to the highest path.

In the Dao de Jing: (67) They do not believe in humility, but always try to be first. This is certain death.

Matthew 25: 38-50-- And the king will answer them, “Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these who are members of my family, you did it to me.”

Luke 6.37-40-- ‘Do not judge, and you will not be judged; do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven; give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap; for the measure you give will be the measure you get back.’

O ye who believe, let no people deride another people, haply they may be better than themselves; nor let any one group of women deride another, haply the last may be better than the first. ... O ye who believe, eschew too much suspicion; for some suspicion may do much harm. (Quran, 49: 12-13)

 

[minsue]

You forgot the one tenet that seems to be a part of every religion out there: "My god is better than your god."

 

[cantdog]

Yep, I do. But that's me; I don't get involved in quarrels between gods.

 

[~hellbaby~]

I dream of being that little girl who looked up at the stalks of corn in the garden; who danced in the rain in her underwear,as long as there was no thunder and lightining. A sailor of twigs on downhill gully when the world appeared vast and Sprawling in my little girl eyes.

 

[Songcatcher]

That is evocative.

That's my unpaid job.

 

[marriedmanseeks]

I dream of working together rather than always chasing self-interest

 

[English Lady]

Well my dream is not a popular dream I imagine, but it's my dream all the same.

I want to see revival.

Revival of the Christian Faith on a worldwide scale.


Actually, I guess thats kind of a given really, knowing who and what I am *L*

 

[Dar~]

I dream of bein gdebt free. of knowing I can go a week without someone wanting my money. I dream of a world where my husband doesn't have to fear going to his death over an old grudge.
I dream of a mind not beaten with depression and anger.
I dream of being thinner and healthier. I dream of dying and seeing heaven and knowing it was worth ridicule.
I dream of peace of mind and the safety of my children.
I dream that hate based ignornace was nonexsistant
I dream that the nameless and faceless victims would be known.
I dream that I am free from burdens un earned and undeserved.
I dream of love and respect beyond all bounds.

 

[Lucifer_Carroll]

Hmm, my biggest dream probably is to be worthy some day of being reunited with my mentor on the other side.

Second dream would be to unlock the secret of life and longevity and to somehow keep it away from the drug robber barons.

Third, that everyone finds at least one thing, one bit of eventually paid-off hope to keep them going and striving.

It probably says something that the altruistic dream is third.

 

[impressive]

I dream of somehow, in some small way, leaving this world better for my having been in it. Really, there's nothing want more out of this life and nothing I would rather have.

for the gosling. Well said!

 

[cantdog]

That's my unpaid job.

It'll always be like that; hardly anyone wants the deep waters stirred enough to shell out money to have it done. I wonder that good poetry ever sells enough to recover costs.

 

[Songcatcher]

That's romantic

 

[rgraham666]

Martin Luther King said it best.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

…

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

…

I have a dream today!

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; "and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together."

 

[Guest]

 

[Penelope Street]

I dream that one day we will find a cure for Y-chromosome poisoning.

Ok, seriously, I dream of a world where people can willingly enter into relationships defined by their moral values and not someone else's.

 

[McKenna]

I dream of becoming satisfied with the life I have, of being content to have enough and nothing more, of waking up each day fulfilled not only intellectually, but spiritually, of never having to need a "patch" or "pacifier" like Literotica again.

 

[AppleBiter]

I guess I'm pretty selfish. My dreams consist of my husband and I -- of buying our own house, of having his babies, of careers we will both love instead of loathe, of falling asleep every night to the sound of his snoring, and of waking up every morning to his soft, gentle kiss.

I guess I should've said I dream that someday the world will be perfect . . . but I wouldn't be being honest. My dreams have always been about J., even before I met him.

AppleBiter