What does the phrase "What dreams may come" mean to you?

Answer 1

It refers for me at least the endless possibilities that are open to the human mind, the possibility that we can achieve our dreams whatever comes our way.

Answer 2

Let's see... that would be Hamlet's monologue:

"To sleep? perchance, to dream. Ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of Death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause..."

Of course, Hamlet had a rather poor waking life. I can see why he had little hope for better from the 'sleep of Death'.

While I understand that Shakespeare is making an analogy here, not writing a metaphysical treatise on the possibilities of the afterlife, I suspect that his analogy may be a bit askew.

Sleep, after all, isn't a cessation of life, but a different activity within life. I suppose death could be like that as well - just a different way of living that is hard for us to understand directly. But if so, it would certainly seem to be much more final than the sleep we all visit and return from daily.

And though Hamlet longs for annihilation, I think most of us would prefer otherwise. We WANT death to be like sleep in some ways. Mentally active even if physically... not so much. I'll try and let you know if it ever happens to me.

Peace.

Answer 3

What thoughts might come in the future, or what might happen.

Answer 4

~Sounds like I'm gonna wake up with sticky sheets again.

Answer 5

That our reality, heaven or hell is created by our thoughts.