What Dreams May Come: Part 3 (The Phone)

My grandma decided to go somewhere. She entrusted to me her blue Nokia 5110 cellphone (see, hi-tech!). After she had left, I decided to go somewhere else and so I wandered around the streets. I was swept away to a place where there’s a lot of people selling “samalamig” and vegetables, some kind of market or something. There were also a lot of children around, having fun playing and talking with each other. Since there’s nobody left for me to talk with except for myself, I decided to approach a certain group of children sitting on a wooden bench and I had a nice chat with them. Located just in front of us was a white church surrounded by a line of tricycles and tricycle drivers waiting for passengers. I had a nice talk with those children and with the people in the market too. In the midst of the conversations, I suddenly remembered my grandma’s cellphone, which she had entrusted to me. I touched my pocket and I was moved with anxiety when I thought that the cellphone was missing. I became so worried that I immediately searched for the cellphone. I asked every person I saw on the street if ever he had caught a glimpse of the blue Nokia 5110 cellphone. I asked the children but they said they had seen nothing. The tricycle drivers gave the same reaction. I was already suspecting those people when I abruptly felt my pocket. I was astonished there’s something inside so I pulled the object, thinking that it’s my grandma’s cellphone, but I was shocked when I saw it’s blue in color but it’s a different kind. I returned my hand to my pocket and felt another object and so I pulled it out but I was shocked again because it’s a different cellphone too. Lastly, I felt another object inside my pocket. Hoping that it’s the cellphone I was looking for, I swiftly pulled it out and was relieved when I saw my hand holding grandma’s blue Nokia 5110 cellphone. Good thing that it’s not lost. Unexpectedly, my grandma returned and saw me near the marketplace and the church. People were staring at me. I gave the cellphone back to my grandma and we returned home.

This dream may sound silly, but I learned a lesson from it, though. Even in our dreams, we learn lessons such as learning to accept responsibility, knowing the value of alertness, and trying to socialize with other people. We discover things that are invisible in reality, but perceptible in our subconscious thoughts. Dreams teach us things – those we hear in real life, but yet we don’t act on – and enlighten us and give us the visions of the consequences that we might receive if we act wrongly and incorrectly, or the good things that might happen if we act right and in the approved manner.