Don't be so sad!

Why do you feel regret? When sadness has a death hold on you, a smile is as precious as the gold in your drawer, when a child's playfulness reminds you of every sad  moment you had and every piece of cotton candy you ate, comes back to haunt you like a ghost on a Christmas day longing for presents.  These are the moments that turn us from Jim Carrey to Robert Deniro in an instant. You feel sadness is a deep sea and you are sinking and sinking, never to come out. Well, there is an escape to that. That answer or that escape is Dreams.

Now, I am not talking about your dreams as ambitions or hopes or aim. I am talking about the dreams that you have when you sleep. These dreams are the key to escape from sadness. Lucid dreams are the best way to get even with sadness. But let me first explain to you what a lucid dream is. A lucid dream is a dream where the individual is aware that he or she is dreaming. Now, you might feel that I am nudging towards inception right here but I am not. Even though the movie is great, this does not relate to that. (It might relate to that slightly. Ok, most of it is Inception related!) The only thing important that I express here is that lucid dreams are the best cures to sadness.

How? How are they the cure to sadness? Well, the process goes like this. When you are aware that you're dreaming, you can project your ideas and thoughts into a dream. How does that help? Well, if you are sad that you lost the chess match, a lucid dream can be the place where you can project that you won the match or even dream about beating the boogers out of your opponent. Now, the only question remains, how do we get lucid dreams? Well, there are several ways to get into a lucid dream, as suggested by the internet, but there is one way which I found most effective.  It was suggested by my English friend John who told me of this method couple of months back.

What you do is, whenever you are awake, you check you palm. Do this multiple times in a day. You spread you palms like you are trying to show number five with both of your hands and face them with your eyes. If you do this and make a habit of doing this, chance is that your will check it in your dreams too. It takes at least 21 days to make the habit of checking your palms and whenever you do the same in a dream, you will be able to see the difference from real life and a dream from your palm. That way, you can have a lucid dream.

This is just my way to get over sadness; I do not know what is yours. But I do hope that you can get over sadness much easily than others. Sadness leads to many tragedies and mortal harm and I do not wish it upon anyone that they are at a risk of being at danger.