By Fabian Lyngdoh
Dreams are common experiences and common copyrights of us all, in which there is perfect justice. Rich or poor, master or slave, great or small, beautiful or ugly, healthy or sick, strong or weak, wholesome or disabled, all receive the same doses of joy and sorrow, pleasure and pain, hope and despair, honour and condemnation in dreams. According to my personal experience, a dream is the dreamer’s unconscious attempt to achieve a mental adjustment between the various pressures of life: love, hatred, hope, despair, desire, disgust, aspirations, fear, etc. When hatred, fear and despair overweigh the mental activity, the dream is horrible. When love, feeling of security and hope overweigh, the dream is happy and pleasant. When hope and despair, love and hatred, security and fear are evenly balanced, the dream becomes a fight and struggle mixed up with a sense of victory and defeat; it is indescribable, undirected and purpose-less without proper end and without meaning. Empirical experiences during waking periods can influence the content of dreams; but dreams too can act as mental experiences influencing human behaviour in waking periods. A certain woman cannot stand the sight of caterpillars and she would experience uncontrollable fright whenever she encounters them even among beautiful flowers because fifteen years ago she dreamed that her neck was mysteriously surrounded by caterpillars. She screamed and woke up in the middle of the night and still carries that fright even today. In dreams, we have temporal experience of material things and phenomena, but in a semi-eternal and time-less setting without any thought of yesterday or tomorrow, but always of the present moment.
I would like to share with others about my dreaming experience. Whenever I dream that I am being chased by animals, men or any being, I use to flip my hands and fly beyond their reach. But as years go by, this ability became ineffective as the pursuers also acquired the same ability of flying right behind me though they still cannot catch me, but the experience was exhaustive. To solve the problem I next acquired the ability to control my dreams whenever they become extraordinarily abnormal. Whenever I dream of some horrifying and sorrowful situation, I used to reason out right in the middle of the dream, whether this is a reality or a dream. Then I convince myself that it is a dream and force myself to wake up, and lo! It is really a dream. Likewise, whenever I dream of some extraordinary achievements or good fortune, I reason out and convince myself that it is only a dream and force myself to wake up and accept reality with open arms. In addition, I use to pray right in the middle of a horrifying or sorrowful dream, and the dream just changes scenes even without forcing myself to wake up to reality. Leave aside what the psychologists have to interpret on this, but my advice to other dreamers is, let us laugh away with the honour or good fortune, as well as with the fear, sorrow or despair in our dreams right in the middle of our sleep.
One fateful night I had a dream that I was reading a piece of writing which keeps on correcting and editing on its own automatically as I read. But on the whole, the content of the writing is as follows: That social conflicts and wars are brought about by the existence of racial and religious differentiations. War is a process of neutralizing the differences between various human groups. Between neighbouring communities where there is the possibility of intermarriages, there would be fewer conflicts because spontaneous and continual process of neutralization is taking place. Rape of women of one community by the conquering troop of another community is a forced attempt at neutralization. Racial neutralization takes place inside the bodies of women in pregnancy. A hybrid child of Aryan and Mongolian stocks for example, can come out only from the body of a woman. No racial neutralization can take place in the body of a man. Hence women play the most vital role in the process of racial neutralization, and this fact also victimizes them most of the time. In the process of neutralization by one dominant community over another, the males of the militarily inferior community are most of the time exterminated while the women are preserved for marriage or even rape, whatever the case may be, but the seed of the superior group is to be implanted into the bodies of the women of the inferior group.
There are two main distinctions between different communities: Race and Religion. A community based on religion would seek to neutralize other communities in term of religion. Hence rape or forced marriage in this case aims at religious conversion. A community based on race would seek to neutralize other communities through massacre of the men folk and rape or marriage of the women folk to achieve racial conversion. Men of one race are not usually inclined to exterminate the women of other races; but they are inclined to check the union of the men and women of other races by exterminating their men, and marrying their women. A single community would break up into various groups according to the emerging differences. These various groups will attract each other’s attention by a system of gravitation, the ultimate aim of which is to refuse and neutralize all the differences into a single homogeneous race again. The physical law of, “likes repel, and unlikes attract”, would also apply between different human groups. Different communities would attract each other into a clash of war for racial fusion. There was a spontaneous process of racial neutralization among various neighbouring human groups, with a tendency towards the superior group. If there is no spontaneous neutralization between neighbouring groups then war is the outcome through which most of the conquering troops opt to marry women of the conquered races. Two perfectly similar communities would not attract each other into a war for religious or racial neutralization, but they would repel each other to a certain distance of independent sovereignty. But generations after generations as their differences grow to certain levels beyond mutual identification, they would violently attract each other for re-neutralization.
Waking up in the morning I went through some recorded history and found out that only men were usually considered as full fledged members of particular races or tribes, while women were taken as common procreative partners for any race or tribe, determined by the factor of military strength and control. It was through force and fraud that Romulus and his henchmen kidnapped the Sabine women for marriage and thus originated the Roman race. The Israelites sent twelve thousand soldiers to Jabesh and killed the men and women but spared only the virgins and carried them off as wives for their brethren the Benjaminites, to spare their lineage from extinction. Boaz, the Israelite married Ruth the Moabite widow and Obed the grandfather of King David was born. Philip, the king of Macedonia married Olympias the Epirot, and Alexander the Great was their son. Caesar Constantius married Helena, a British princess, and Constantine the Great was born. These are few examples of history which show that women were considered as secondary social beings required for the propagation of the races of men. It is on this account that forced marriage or even rape was taken lightly if the intention of the male was to beget children and establish his family.
The greatest requirement of the present generation for the peaceful existence of the human race on this planet is to achieve universal realization that women are not inferior or secondary social beings, but they are equal and have the same rights as men to exist in society with honour and dignity and that the equality of all races and tribes, though heterogeneous in physiological and cultural characteristics, yet are already homogeneous as human beings mentally and spiritually without the need for racial neutralization towards any particular or supposed superior race. Even if the physical universe which started differentiations from the Big Bang would tend towards re-neutralization of differentiations into a single super particle of mass again, the spiritual universe may still exist as a perfect unity in diversity.