Who doesn’t know the three famous words Martin Luther King spoke on August 28, 1963, in Washington during the March for Jobs and Freedom?
He was speaking for 250,000 people and prepared his speech, but he hadn’t prepared to say, “I Have a Dream.” When he was about to start his speech, the gospel singer Mahalia Jackson, who was nearby, called out to him, “Tell ‘em about the dream, Martin!”
King forgot his prepared speech, began to speak from his heart, and started with the words “I Have a Dream.” The rest is history.
The dream he pictured in the minds of the people hasn’t fully materialized, but that is not the point; he painted a picture in the minds of the people that powered the movement and fuelled the changes that came after.
Every change begins with someone who has a dream; every great company, product, or service starts with someone who has a dream. Mostly, it is a dream that sounds impossible to others, but when the dream shows up as a bright picture in the person’s mind, it comes with a burst of energy and positivity.
Dreams are flashes of possible futures; they can come during the nighttime or during the day as inspirations while daydreaming. Their function is to inspire people and act as an important tool for progress and evolution. Without dreams and dreamers, the world would come to an end.
The famous inventor Nikola Tesla saw all his inventions in detail while he was sleeping. His dreams showed him detailed technical drawings for his inventions, and after every dream, he built these machines. There are many groundbreaking ideas and inventions that came into life in dreams or daydreams.
Daydreaming is a great and underrecognized tool we can use in our own lives. When we relax our body and our mind and let ourselves go, we are able to tap into positive possible futures, see new inventions on the horizon, and see ourselves in these possible futures.
When we see ourselves in positive futures in our daydreams, it gives us hope, purpose, and energy. It is not important if the dream is realistic, feasible, or possible; the most important thing is that it gives us energy, amplifies our frequency, puts us in an enthusiastic state, and that flows over to others. We forget to walk and we start to float on air.
If you are lucky and there aren’t a lot of party poopers around you—or if you are a little bit introverted like me and simply refuse to be advised by the mature people with the realistic viewpoints—you might find the joy and excitement that comes with following your “unrealistic” and “impossible” dreams.
We need people with impossible dreams, now more than ever. The so-called American Dream or the Disney Dreams that are sold to generations of young people are not realistic. The new dreams that are sold are dystopian, grey, without any color, and not worth living or at least not worth following.
My dear reader, sitting comfortably behind your computer screen or reading this on your mobile, I ask you: Why are you here on Earth? Are you watching one-liners or AI pictures and silly shorts of silly people on social media? Are you commenting on others about their silly life so you forget yours? Does that give you color in your life?
I am challenging you: I want to hear your impossible dreams, and if you don’t have one, you better start to get at least one before AI will tell you what you need to dream. I don’t want to hear dream that others told you, I want to hear that dream that comes from your heart, just as what Martin Luther King did. That dream that ignites the fire inside you. Or are you afraid to even think about it, like so many others?
I started the DayDreamers Network for people who want to embody the change that they feel inside and refuse to let others tell them what they have to think, how to behave, and especially what they have to believe.
Tell me your impossible dream at the DayDreamers Network. It doesn’t matter if you think your dream is unrealistic, stupid, outrageous, or even infeasible; you’ve got to start somewhere, and it is better to shoot for the stars than to aim for the gutter.
Surprise us, don’t be a …….
Hubert