Spaces In The Mind

Gilgamesh Tablets IV and V

While reading this part of the book Gilgamesh, I made a connection with my own life. Gilgamesh has a couple of dreams which wake him up in the middle of the night feeling agitated. He gets curious and wants to interpret what each of the dreams mean. Enkidu listens and interprets Gilgamesh’s dreams; he always concludes that the dreams are fortunate and that they will lead to a good path. It seems like they both take dreams very seriously and really believe that their future is all planned out, and that a dream is just a way to take a glimpse at it.

Most of the nights I dream about events that happened or will happen to me, but opposite of Gilgamesh I really don’t want to know what they mean. I prefer living life day by day instead of knowing things that you shouldn’t know, maybe because I am scared to know if something bad is coming my way. For me dreams really don’t mean anything, they are just a way for the worries and memories in your mind to manifest in a certain way.