Dreams

I think I “dream” a lot – many times that my wife would shout at me asking if  I heard what she just said,  the regular answer would be Err ehh what was that again?  … as I explained to her that it was a genetic thing. I got it from my father and my son Imran now inherit it from me too (at least that’s what most of his teacher said at every Parent’s Day session I attended to ).

Enough said  about my day dreaming– do you know that dream is a serious thing ?  Sigmund Freud wrote a famous book about it more than a century ago and those “neuro” scientist had their idea on where it came from  too though I merely understand what those neuroscientist talked about here is a quote.

Allan Hobson is a retired Harvard psychiatry professor who did a great deal of neurophysiological work on dreaming and is vehemently anti-Freud, suggesting that dreams are just the higher cognitive centres creating a narrative out of essentially random brain stem activation.
[http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2007/10/the_big_fight_over_t.html]

Being a muslim, we have to refer back to the source — Quran and hadith . Here is an interesting lecture from my favourite  online “teacher”  — Anwar al-Awlaki  about some rules of dream interpretation. Hope we can benefit from it, inshaallah!