Analysis of the efficiency of a Dream

The Problem: Marvel and analyse how efficient things as virtual as dreams can get.

Assumptions:

1. You dream when you are in a deep slumber

2. Sometimes dreams reflect your state of inertia ( with that i mean you want to stay in some previous condition of your life.You miss some part of your life so much that your inner self still wants to hang on to it. For instance, you are in a new place but you dream of your old home or you dumped your boyfriend but still dream of being together).

Analysis and Discussion:

With those assumptions, the efficiency of a dream can be thought of like this:

Just imagine, you get up from a good night's sleep and feel like you visited your home town during the night (Brain argues - your home town is atleast 17hrs away by air!).

You sip your coffee and feel like you smelt home food and mom-made dosa chutney a few minutes back (Brain argues- haven't met mom for months!).

You feel like you just had a long conversation with an old friend in the college corridor (Brain argues - This friend does not attend college anymore!).
You just felt so happy that He stole away a quick glance at you (Brain argues - He stopped doing it atleast 3 years ago).

Well but you still feel like it all just happened! Your mind argues that it could feel the smell of your home, the touch of your friend, the taste of hot dosas, his eyes resting at yours .. you can still feel all this ! But ofcourse, you aren't still with all this around you. So did life change overnight?

Ofcourse it didn't.

You have just had a highly efficient dream! A Dream that took you extremely close to another state of existence. One which is deeply ingrained in you, one which you probably miss and hence through the dream you went back to it's inertial existence. The extent of reality of the sight, touch, feel, taste which you experienced can be considered a measure of the dream's efficiency.

Factors influencing efficiency:

Considering it is a ratio of magnitude of the force of inertia to magnitude of major happenings in the present, the strongest factor affecting the efficiency of a dream could be magnitude of the force of inertia! In other words, the extent to which you are inclined to some memories, events,places or people in your life, in the past. Though efficiency would be directly proportional to the magnitude of this force , it would be inversely proportional to time (in most cases).Other factors could sometimes be the mind's build up for the future and so on.

Conclusion:

Such dreams are truly enjoyable (unless they turn out to be scary). They make you amazingly happy for those few early morning moments, when you think you are indeed living the dream. Ofcourse, when reality dawns upon, your dreams literally get shattered.

Let us consider this Example:

I dreamt of being surrounded by my school time and college time friends when i was in engineering school. The dream made me see one of my good school friends and me walking hand in hand, sharing a joke and laughing about when in reality she had not joined my college at all. In reality i had no girl friends for the first few months of engineering. I was so happy as the dream progressed but deathly depressed in the morning. I almost broke down the next morning coz i desperately wanted a girl in my class to hang out with in college and didn't even want to go to college without her! ( i was in a class of 2 girls and 70 guys)

Go ahead, analyse the efficiency of your dream!!