Gilgamesh Tablets 4 And 5: The Power Of Dreams And Of Decisions

Dreams play a good role in Gilgamesh. “I dreamed we were going through a mountain gorge and the huge mountain fell down on the two of us” pg 22. Sometimes dreams can predict the future. Sometimes you have a dream that seems vey real and when you wake up and time passes the dream can sometimes happen. There is also another concept that I make a relation with dreams that is Déjà vu. Déjà vu is when you have like a short image that passes through your mind in you dreams, mostly in your subconcience, that when that happens in real life you know that that already had happened but you didn’t remember. “Two people, companions, they can prevail together against terror.” Pg 26. Sometimes when you are really scared of something the only thing you need is someone to be there with you to help you overcome this fear. “Do not listen to the demon, he must be killed.” Pg 28. This that happened to Gilgamesh and Enkindu can sometimes happen in real life, for example you are tempted to consume drugs because everyone tells you that it is cool and you want to belong to an inner circle that spins around drugs. There will always be the good friend like Enkindu in this case that will tell you that this won’t help you that this is bad and will ruin your life, but there can also be the demon, Huwawa, that tells you it is good and tries to misguide you into doing wrong stuff. So really one simple small decision can really decide your future or in the case of Gilgamesh it decides if he is a hero and kills the demon or if he is a villain and helps Huwawa. The question I ask myself right now is: Are my decisions in life the ones that I really want to reflect my future?