Day to Day happenings in my life

Time Machine

Prompt:
"We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams."
Jeremy Irons
In what ways and how do you think memories and dreams are related?

This is a great quote from Jeremy Irons, I never thought of memories as time machines before. But yes, that’s just what they are. We can close our eyes and step into the Time Machine and choose which ever past era we wish to visit. Of course the longer one has lived there are more of those eras, or perhaps we might refer to them as decades, to choose from.
On first reflection I thought there was no connection between memories and dreams, after all aren’t memories factual? But the mind plays tricks and those memories are probably not trustworthy but have morphed into the stories we tell ourselves.
As for dreams, these night time imaginings are uncontrollable and daydreams are simply wishful thinking.