Sometimes I feel the term “dream” is thrown around a little too
freely these days. To go into more depth, I mean to say that a dream these days
is usually more of an aspiration of aim (which I can’t help but think that it
holds a correlation with the forgetting of dreams people have during sleep,
even though it’s obviously entirely unrelated altogether). Remembered dreams
are sometimes entirely unbelievable, even while asleep, but they also can lend
a very real feeling. An example of this that I can recall is the dream I once
had of my mom getting terminal cancer. Within this dream state, I felt a very
intense sense of grief and sadness and cried throughout the duration of the
dream. I somehow realized this was nothing more than a dream and after
eventually waking up; I had dried tears on my face. There must be something to
be said about the effect dreams have on reality or the contrary. To this
effect, my initial comment and reflection on the play in general is that of the
resonance that the character “Puck” leaves in his closing monologue of the
conclusion to the play performed. As the lowly characters finish their
performance of “Pyramus and Thisby”, there is commentary made on the death of
the characters Pyramus and Thisby which Puck attempts to reconcile with the
notion that the audience may just imagine the actors as characters from a dream
and that it was a fleeting moment that may vanish forever. Maybe dreams are
merely glimpses into our imagination that we cannot otherwise access. Maybe
they’re to be paid more attention as a learning opportunity to be applied to
real life circumstances. From a physiological standpoint, dreams are deposited
knowledge or memories that are unnecessary to withhold and the ones remembered
coincide with the moment one wakes from sleep. But as a romanticist, I can’t
help but hold on to the idea that dreams signify an important concept or moment
in life that leads to an enlightened understanding.
In a clarifying moment, Titania wakes and suddenly realizes her
fabricated love for an ass (Bottom) which was the first thing that she saw
after waking. Before her slumber she held primary interest in her fairies and
their duties (mostly maintaining the wood as their queen sleeps as to not
disturb her) and her fairy king, Oberon. So in this instance the queen of the
fairies wakes with a different mindset and in a dream-like state of imagined
love/admiration. If my entirely fictional idea of dreams being a reflection of
or future prophesy of memories or life circumstances then Titania’s momentary
lapse of rational and logical judgment and thought process would be a good
reflection of this.
And this ends my incredibly irrational expression of unrealistic
ideas…
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