Interpretation of My Dream

I have always been enthralled by the various interpretations that Nigerian spiritist-clergy give to dreams.
If you eat in your dream, you have been initiated into witchcraft.
If you swim in your dream, you have mammy-water spirit.
If masquerades chase you in the dream, spirit of death is over you.
And if you dare to have sex in your dream, you will be excommunicated almost!


Sigmund Freud
From blog. syracuse.com
Haba! See me, see wahala (trouble)!


What does Freud have to say about this other than what he has already said: "There is a psychological technique which makes it possible to interpret dreams, and that...every dream reveals itself as a psychical structure which has meaning..." -Sigmund Freud The Interpretation of Dreams.


Is this what we now take to assign every dream to a demon where as the man was referring to thing s more substantial than spiritual? To him, dreams are unconscious manifestations of the desires we consciously suppress!


Martin Luther King Jr
From blogs.babble.com
But this is not my concern anyways. What concerns me is the dream of great peoples of this world like Martin Luther King Junior. His dream is what America is living today. President Obama being the head of the United States could be seen as being a fulfilment of that dream. 




This has prompted me to think and ask: what is my own dream? 
What is your dream?
What are the dreams of the people who appoint themselves as our leaders?


Believe it or not, there is an inter-relationship to these dreams.
My dream is tied to yours which in turn are predicated on the way that our leaders want to take us - of course I know that some of my pentecostal brethren will disagree! 
But if we are pragmatic, there is no denying the fact that what we become is tied to each other's dream and what path our leaders decide to pursue.


Nigeria's Presidential Convoy
From www.gistexpress.com
Take Jos, for instance, where the actualisation of the dreams of so many people die prematurely simply because our leaders have chosen to call a spade a shovel. What do they care? Their own wards are overseas and with strict instructions to avoid Jos! and when they even go there, they go with armed and armoured personnel/vehicles. Who wants to dare? But I am prompted to ask: whose dreams are they protecting inside these armoured vehicles?


Take time off and look at this website http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_state_car to see what your leader drives in and ask your self why. It will shock you to note that it is mostly those who rule under-developed and so-called "developing countries" that ride in armoured vehicles. What are they protecting themselves from and what kind of dreams are they protecting: the peoples' or theirs?


I took time to look at my dream:
I have a dream of a world without violence!
A world in which, in the words of the president of Krygyzstan Roza Otunbayeva, we will forget politics and read poetry.
A poet is a dreamer, not just dreaming dreams of sex, being pursued by animals and evil spirits, but that of beauty, grandeur, perfection.
She or he sees "the beautiful" in every thing and tries to beautify the world with imageries.
Dreamer-poets build and not destroy.


Perhaps in a way, there are demons everywhere. Our leaders need to dream good dreams. And if they don't, we have to make them do that for the benefit of our children.


Bad dreamers are leaving by the day. Tunisia, Egypt, Libya is going going ... 
Who will be the next? 

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