Learning to fly

A nine day-old chukar chick is righting itself using asymmetric wing flapping and rolling after being dropped upside down (Photo: Dennis Evangelista)

Our dreams often carry an odd quality of unrecognisable beauty. Dreams are one of the mysteries of the human mind, and are the subject of many scientific theories and examinations. However, they continue to evade our understanding. Perhaps, the reason behind this, is the fact that dreams are much too personal and unique to an individual’s mind for any form of external inspection to yield conclusive information.

This mysteriousness surrounding dreams are not limited to the ones we have when we sleep, but extend also to the dreams that we build and work towards achieving while we are awake. Every time we move from one stage of our life to the next, we create a few new dreams, keep some of our old ones, and discard the rest. For individuals who are nearing adulthood, this process becomes just a little more tedious, as our dreams and the reasons behind our dreams are evaluated and edited for us.