Dreams

In going through my iTunes library, looking for a specific song, I caught my mind remembering faces and names of past friends as I looked over the almost 10,000 songs in my library.  After about the third time this happened, I stopped and opened up a new playlist and started shuffling these provocative songs into the folder.  Now that I was aware of what my brain was doing, it became the most interesting and at times emotional, form of mind game that I had ever experienced.  And these amazing things that were going through my mind, were real.  Real people and real experiences in my life.  As always, I began to evaluate what it was, about these specific memories in life, that made them so incredibly ingrained in my memory and why, for some reason, each of these memories had its own "theme song" associated with it in my mind. 

The simple answer was that each and every one of these memories were events and experiences that had happened for the first time.  They had happened with a close friend or someone who had gained close ties to my soul, even if those ties were only for a short period of time.  It was a memory of something as simple as having the best night ever while out on the town or it could be something a lot less simple such as a sexual relationship with a discretionless nymphomaniac. 

The more complicated and theoretical answer could be that perhaps it is during these "first time mind expanding experiences", new neurons are formed and become principle building blocks for future information and decision making.  Being the first building block would mean that the memory would be more prevalent than other memories and would always be with us as long as that neuron or neural pathway was alive.

What ever the true answer may be, one conclusion is for sure.  Dreams keep us alive.  They keep a lust for life and living in our souls.  The thrill of the chase as we do the things that we only "dreamed" of doing before.  With the results of those dreams being so solidly forged in our minds, they give us the ability to look back at the experience and draw wisdom for ourselves and others (especially after achieving some of those "best nights ever" out on the town).  Being able to hear the "theme song" that reminds us of that specific exciting event, is the factor that ties it all together.  It sings out to us letting us know that for an achievement in life to occur, all we have to do is dream.