Awake

Saw a trailer for a new TV series called ‘Awake’ and it really peaked my interest. The story is a man gets into a car accident with his wife and son and from that accident his understanding of reality gets split in two. In one reality his wife survives and his son dies. In the other his son survives and his wife dies. The twist is that he doesn’t know which reality is real and which reality is a dream. It’s an interesting parallel because in each reality he sees a psychiatrist and they both try and convince him that he’s dreaming up this other world and that in their ongoing sessions he is in fact awake. Anyways here is the trailer if I’m not making any sense.



This is interesting on a couple of levels. One is, how do we know for sure that we are awake or dreaming? And two, to what extent are we willing to go so that we don’t have to deal with the reality of our sometimes grief-stricken lives?

I’ve always found dreams to be very fascinating because I dream so often. And the idea that we can be “awake” mentally and not know that we are in fact dreaming. Under normal circumstances our dreams should be easily perceivable as lacking rationality. For instance, I always have reoccurring dreams where I’m back to living in previous homes I used to live in. If I just thought for a moment I should be able to figure out that I’m obviously no longer living there and conclude that it is a dream. Yet this, a lot of times, escapes me and I go on believing that it is reality.

I also wonder if there's more to our dreams. Does God speak to us through them now as he sometimes did in Biblical times?