Strange Dream

You may have faith but don’t let faith have you! If a faith devours its followers, isn’t it the same to a lion devours its preys?
That thought came to me yesterday as reading how HIV patients died in believing and did what they were told “believe in God and stop taking the medication”. I did think about how faith and cults can be as dangerous as the demons that eat people.

I was about to ask that question on Yahoo Answer but I gave the idea up.

But there have been demon worshipers who clearly know how the demons eat people. They’d feed their demons anyway?!

I didn’t go to bed with that thought though. But I dreamed about three people me, someone who wore like Jesus Christ and a third person I didn’t notice properly. There was a person who had a lion, rather an invisible lion that appeared, commanded his lion to chase the one who looked like Jesus Christ and there we three had to run from the lion chasing us.

I didn’t know how we three could climb a hill quite high but not tiring and it was rocky. There I (alone) met a few people sitting on a bench waiting for bus to come – that was a bus stop looked very much modern and the design was quite unique and high class. I told those people about the lion coming and they laughed and I could clearly see they later saw the lion themselves and they might get panicky – not sure if it was my wishing thought happened in that dream. I didn’t know where or which direction the other two went but they disappeared from the dream completely. I didn’t see they got trouble or out of trouble.

The bus stop was on my left-hand side. There was a low wall behind the bus stop which I climbed over and continued running down that hill. There I saw some buildings at the other side of the hill and a stairs to climb down the hill. I ran down that stairs where I saw a broken landing (the only one) made of jade. I safely landed on the edge of that landing and kept running. I noticed the lion was not after me. I didn’t know the fates of the other two and those waiting for a bus at the bus stop.

And the dream ended there as I woke up. It was about 4:46AM.

A fact is I do believe Jesus existed as a revolutionist opposing the Romans’ occupation of his land. But I believe him not as a god or son of god. I also believe he (his image) has been used by some people in the past for their own purpose. Maybe my dream has something to do with my views.

When I woke up from the dream, I immediately thought that the stairs and landing might be Buddhism which can be a little broken but safe enough for me. As I’m writing about the hill, I recall I also read an article about a hill and stones. I don’t know if anything to do with it.

20 October 2011
Min Khin Kyaw