The Dream Catcher

There was a young boy named Arjun who lived in India. He was a very good boy, but he had one unusual problem—he used to get a lot of dreams. In his dreams, he would see things that were happening in other people's lives. He would see what his friend was doing, what his neighbor was doing, what his teacher was doing. He would see all these things in his dreams.

When he woke up, he would tell his mother, "Mom, I saw this dream. I saw that my friend is going to fall from his bicycle." His mother would say, "No, no, that's just a dream. Don't worry about it." But then the next day, his friend would fall from the bicycle. Arjun would say, "See, I told you. I saw it in my dream."

His mother got very worried. She said, "What is happening to my son? Why is he seeing all these things in his dreams?" So she took him to a doctor. The doctor said, "There's nothing wrong with him. He's a healthy boy. But maybe he has some special power."

So she took him to a yogi, a very wise man who lived in the Himalayas. The yogi said, "Your son has a very special power. He can see other people's dreams. He can go into other people's heads and see what they are thinking. This is a very rare power called dream catching. I will teach him how to use this power."

Arjun went to the yogi, and the yogi taught him how to meditate, how to control his mind, how to go into other people's dreams, and how to change their dreams. Arjun learned all these things and became very good at it. He could go into anybody's dream and change their mind.

One day, there was a big war happening in the world—a war between Russia and Ukraine. A lot of people were dying. A lot of children were dying. A lot of mothers were crying. Arjun saw all this on TV and felt very sad. He said, "I have to do something. I have to stop this war."

So he went to his guru, the yogi, and said, "Guru, I want to stop this war. Can I go into Putin's dream and change his mind?"

The guru said, "This is very dangerous. Putin is a very powerful man, a very strong man. If you go into his dream, you may not be able to come back. You may die."

But Arjun said, "I don't care. I have to try. I have to stop this war."

The guru said, "Okay, I will help you. But you have to be very careful."

Arjun started meditating and tried to find out where Putin was. He discovered that Putin was going to travel on a train from Moscow to St. Petersburg during Christmas. He said, "This is the best time because Putin will be sleeping on the train."

So Arjun went to Russia. He went to Moscow and tried to get on the same train as Putin. But it was very difficult because Putin had a lot of security. Fortunately, Arjun had a friend who was working in the Russian Railways, and he helped him.

His friend said, "I will try to get you a ticket on the same train. Putin will be in the VIP compartment, but you can get into the compartment behind him. But there's a lot of security—they will check everything."

Arjun said, "There's no problem because I don't have to carry anything. The only thing I have to carry is my mind."

With great difficulty, he got a ticket on that same train. Then he was praying that Putin wouldn't cancel his plan. Putin came, and Arjun was worried that Putin might not even sleep. But he said he would try.

He found somebody who was in Putin's compartment who would send him a text when Putin went to sleep. Arjun found a compartment, a bogie, which was three bogies away from Putin's bogie. And then he sat there and waited. He waited at 10 o'clock, 11 o'clock, 12 o'clock. Putin was not sleeping. He kept reading and reading.

Arjun said, "What to do? What to do?"

Everybody knew Putin liked to drink. So the waiter who was trying to help Arjun said, "Ask Putin if he wants whiskey."

Putin said, "No, no, I don't want whiskey."

The waiter said, "No, no, sir, it's very good whiskey. We've got a special whiskey."

Putin got tempted. The waiter gave him two whiskeys, and finally Putin went to sleep.

At that time, Arjun also started meditating and got into Putin's head. He tried to understand why Putin was doing this. The reason Putin was doing this was that he wanted to be the most powerful person in the world. He did not like America. He wanted to tell America, "I can do anything without your interference."

It was very difficult for Arjun to change his mind overnight. But Arjun tried. He tried to appeal to the good side of Putin's brain: "Don't kill people. Try to make a peace deal. Stop the war."

But it was very hard. Arjun was trembling because Putin was such a hard man. While doing this, Arjun was trembling. He almost had a heart attack. He thought he was going to die.

His friend who was with him said, "Come on, get out, get out!"

Arjun said, "No, no, I cannot get out of Putin's dream now. I have to change his mind because thousands and thousands of people are dying."

At this time, Putin was also getting disturbed while sleeping because somebody was in his head. He could not understand what was going on. He was trying to wake up, but he was not able to wake up because Arjun was controlling his mind.

This went on and on. And then finally, Arjun was able to change his mindset.

Suddenly, Putin woke up in the morning and realized, "Oh, my God, what am I doing? What am I doing?"

He went to church during Christmas and felt even worse—full of remorse. Then he came back to Russia, came back to Moscow, and told his generals, "We have to stop the war. Enough is enough."

They said, "Are you crazy? We have already made so many gains. It'll be so embarrassing for us to stop the war."

Putin said, "No, we have to stop the war."

And he came out publicly and stopped the war.

This was all because of Arjun, because he was a dream catcher. He could go into people's heads and change people's minds. And this was a big power.

His guru, the yogi, told him, "You did a good thing today, but this power can also be misused for wrong things. The moment you use it for anything wrong, you will lose this power. You can only use it for good things. You can change people's minds, not for your own benefit, but for the benefit of the world."

And this is how Arjun became a dream catcher.