Dreams unravel a mystery

The ultimate dreamer was Spanish surreal artist Salvador Dalí. He created melting clocks, floating objects with crystal decanters and spilled water that flows upwards, phallic symbols in his still life works, paintings with sexual undertones. His jewel-encrusted gold pieces with flawless cabochon rubies were sculptural and stunning. The magnificent emeralds and diamonds his manifestations of dazzling dreams.

- MARIA VICTORIA RUFINO

The Dalí Museum in Figueres, Catalonia, Spain is the home of a precious abundance of paintings and objets d’art. In the open garden, there is an unusual and cool installation — a working shower inside a 1950s vintage car. It grabs attention. There are painted dinosaur sized eggs displayed atop the rampart walls. His gigantic powerful portrait with piercing eyes and the signature pointed curled moustache would transform itself and move — depending on how and where you looked at it from.

If one were to think of time in linear or chronological terms, it would be difficult to dream forward. But there is a phenomenon of clairvoyance, seeing the future in dreams.

Time is not necessarily a straight line of past, present, and future. It seems to be cyclical.

All of us dream - in vivid color or dramatic black and white. In deep slumber, and when there is Rapid Eye Movement (REM), the mind is free to explore another terrain — the imaginary world and the subconscious. Dreams are the collective memories of the past and, in some cases, the future. During the Alpha state, when one is between slumber and wakefulness, an automatic switch unlocks the brain’s data bank. Long stored images of forgotten events begin to flash onto the mind’s eye. It is like watching a disjointed, flickering old movie.

In the dream state, an individual with extra sensory perception (ESP) can "remember the future." If it happens, that dream could be considered clairvoyant or prophetic.

A highly intuitive individual could solve complex problems or discover solutions while asleep. The answer comes in different forms — as seeing a situation with a different perspective, or a Eureka “aha!” moment.