Broken Dreams: The Infancy

Being a kid, a dream was a mere dream—a shallow pool of breathtakingly imaginative, absurd yet wondrous, and dormant moments in bed. The dreams then had no constrained boundaries. That was an unconscious idle mind with tremendous potential, hailing beyond reality. The fictional dream world, built to be broken, was so catchy that coming back to reality was a sober game.

Broken Dreams: The Juvenile Age

Growing up, the action of dreaming gained a directive path. As a sign of growth, there was a transition from an unconscious mind to a subconscious one. The dream time was no longer a fantasy journey. The process had finite realistic happenings—sometimes a memory, sometimes un-accomplishable incidents, and many as such—which again were not to be broken.

But was yet a pale one, possessing no strength within?

Broken Dreams: Adulthood

As a sign of maturity over a dormant life period,
time and again, dreams laid out a definitive way to accomplish the desired task, which had to happen deliberately. Conscious dreaming had begun, leaving no clue as such.

Achievable career paths drove the mind to sleepless dreams. The "sleep to dream" kind of life was no longer in existence. Contextual dreams, driving away from sleep;
proclaimed the past failures and exaggeratedly stamped the very happening way of situationally biassed life each time it occurred.

"Sweet dreams" wishes before bedtime, leaving a sarcastic smile with the same response as a kind of ritual.

Even now there happens unconscious dreaming often,
which gets synchronized with the hard real-time happenings of life in the deep conscious mind.

Beyond leaving a mere smile, it strikes the soul, within which a tremendous mind;
playing in and out around our lives, gasping a spell--------

"It's all in the mind."