Super Short Story (198): Kid Part 1: It was terrible… the passing of his kid… Suddenly, he woke up. It was just a dream. He doesn’t have a kid in real life. Part 2: It was terrible… the passing of her kid… Suddenly, she woke up. It was just a dream. Her kid in...

Sam & Sara #381 Sara: Hey! You behaved badly in my dream! Sara: Hey! You’re the one who behaved badly – by dreaming up my bad behaviour! Do our bad dreams about others reveal realities about them or us? [This'll be expanded & illustrated as a comic in a 'Sam & Sara'...

Sam & Sara #366 Sara: You were in my dream last night! Sam: What happened? Sara: I asked you, ‘What are you doing in my dream?’ Sam: What did ‘I’ say? Sara: You said, ‘How would I know? It’s your dream!’ Sam: Haha! Sara: So… what were you...

A Tit for a Tat (297) Tit: Sometimes I wish I’m pronounced to have a terminal illness. Tat: Gosh! Why? Tit: So that I’ll be more motivated to immedately fulfil my dreams! Tat: But you already have a terminal illness! Tit: What’s that? Tat: Life! Tit: Yeah… but the...

What is the difference between an actual flower and a dream flower? That’s the only difference… The first is an actual flower and the latter a dream flower. That’s all. All conditioned dharmas are like dreams. The actual flower is dream-like, though not a dream. Both flowers...

The ingenious film that is ‘Inception’ begins with the assumption that it is possible for multiple persons to enter someone’s dream, that can even be designed without that person knowing, thus digging out deep secrets from his sub-consciousness, or even implanting ideas...

This is one of the most soothing songs I’d ever heard, that is gentle while singing of strength. I read that it was ‘written to sooth a young child who had had a bad dream about being all alone and lost’. Many sought solace in it as it seems to sing about loss of a loved one...

Haunted by ‘Ghosts of Girlfriends Past’ ‘Ghosts of Girlfriends Past’ is about a fickle guy, who is so scrooge-ly with his love, that he doesn’t really develop genuine affection for anyone, while he plays ‘love’ as a game. That’s right, Conner’s a playboy, and...

In the plot of the movie ‘Ploy’, the characters seem to live their interconnected dreams as alternate but believable realities, before they wake up to actual reality – albeit not that realised in enlightenment, but the usual samsaric reality. The dreams experienced are not...

The Myth of Pointing at the Moon? A strange urban legend(?) of no specific origin has it that if one points at the full moon, one will wake up the next day with a fine cut behind a ear. Though a small cut, one feels the stinging pain from it for a while. This article explores this belief...