Strange Dreams While Sleeping in My Living Room
Oluwatoyin Adepoju
We recently bought new furniture for our living room in our house in Ikeja, Lagos, and, on account of the comfort of the place, other members of the family have been sleeping there at times, without incident, but my inadvertently falling asleep there last night and this night, Dec 17, 2024, have led to strange, emotionally disturbing dreams.
Last night, on Dec 16, taking a break from work, I fell asleep in the living room, seating upright on a chair.
I dreamt I was working on a book which I did not know was a magical object.
As I worked on the book, unknown to me, my efforts were activating a negative spirit which would otherwise have remained latent.
When the spirit was sufficiently galvanized it came after me.
Realizing the danger, I ran, finding I was in my aunties house in England, where I had lived for a time.
The spirit was manifest as a line of bluish light with something like a frontal protuberance like a head.
The entity finally caught up with me and I tried to cry out the name of Jesus, which I normally do when I have bad dreams, upon which the dream would dissipate and I would wake up, but this time, calling out the name was so difficult, as if my lips were weighted and my whole body seemed trapped in a cocoon making movement almost impossible.
Since invoking the name of Jesus was proving difficult, I then began to sing a Christian worship song as the insubstantial but frightening entity advanced.
As I began to sing the worship song, the situation snapped and I woke up.
The whole encounter took place in a state between waking and sleeping, in which one is not fully asleep but not fully awake, a twilight zone.
On the night of this morning, Dec 17, again taking a break from work at about 2 am, I curled up on one of the cushions in the living room to rest.
Before resting, keeping in mind my experience of the previous night, I barricaded myself spiritually using a version of the sign of the cross adapted to Yoruba origin Orisha spirituality and also added another adaptation of the Christian sign of the cross, which, unlike the Christian version, includes an invocation to "the mother" instead of only to "the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit".
I practise diverse spiritualities, at times modifying and syncretizing them.
I fell asleep and dreamt a friend and I were in another country, which came to my mind as the Netherlands.
The place was something like an inn, with a good number of customers, all Caucasian, and where one could order food.
My friend and I called the attention of the waiter to take our order and he came over.
Instead of simply taking our order, however, he accused me of owing him money, claiming I had not paid for a previous order I had made.
I was puzzled since I knew nothing about that.
As I approached him to politely question the logic of his claim, perhaps touching his sleeve, he fell to the ground and began to convulse.
In alarm, I reached out to help him up but he kicked me away, as I observed that the dimensions of his body were not human although he was humanoid, looking more like a diminutive child with the features of an adult.
Puzzled, I tried to explain the situation to the other customers at the inn, and they let me know that they identified with me in my claim of not owing the waiter and his establishment and urged me to be on my way and not bother about the situation.
I fleetingly observed that they had strange faces, with one of them, who was particularly nice in addressing my discomfort, having an unusually long and curved jaw while another had strange pockmarks on his face.
My friend's presence was sensed as a supportive companion but he did nothing throughout the experience while the other customers did not respond to the convulsing waiter.
With the discussion with the other inn customers concluded, I woke up.
I would appreciate any views on the significance of this experience.
The only book I worked on recently where I constructed an approach to calling on a spirit is a book I wrote on the water spirit Ekene of the Niger Delta Agbarha community and I had only positive impressions and no dreams when writing the book.
The book I am studying right now is Toyin Falola's Global Yoruba and even though it is very rich in discussing Yoruba spiritualities, its ideas and images are completely benign.
The image is of my puzzled self in the room where I am working.
Oluwatoyin Adepoju
Thanks Prof for ypur striking analysis
There is nothing unusual in this dream. Your living body wants to join a conclave, but its members kicked you out, knowing that you will betray them.
In a normal dream of adoption, you will join the communion and wake up with strange power.
The confusion derives from what is called a spiritual ambiguity of the door that opens and closes at the same time.
The door to the cave opens.
He sees the light behind
Darkness in front
A door without a gate
A door without a lock
But the feet cannot enter.
Could you give me the evidence, TF.
The evidence derives from the dream: intuition.
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Toyin Falola
There is nothing unusual in this dream. Your living body wants to join a conclave, but its members kicked you out, knowing that you will betray them.
In a normal dream of adoption, you will join the communion and wake up with strange power.
The confusion derives from what is called a spiritual ambiguity of the door that opens and closes at the same time.
The door to the cave opens.
He sees the light behind
Darkness in front
A door without a gate
A door without a lock
But the feet cannot enter.
Could you give me the evidence, TF.
The evidence derives from the dream: intuition.
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Cornelius Hamelberg
Olu,
For your cerebral understanding, I’d best recommend Faith and Folly: The Occult in Torah Perspective by Rabbi Yaakov Moshe Hillel
What amazing encounters ! By now, you should have recovered. You were, but I hope that you are not now, still badly shaken by these persistent terror nightmares you have been experiencing when your mind is still very actively at work, in the twilight zones between waking and sleeping.
Mulla Nasruddin also had dreams…
Check out Swedenborg's Heaven and Hell …if you haven’t already done so
“Baby, sweet baby
I'll truly love you through my years
Well it's just that sometimes
By midnight light
I'm frightened by my fears
But if you could just hold me
Warm me, girl
The way you did today
And tenderly anoint my eyes
Then I may see the way” (Al Jarreau : Susan
You are a sensitive, complex, sophisticated person, spirit, soul, not a Simple Simon simpleton or philistine. You are a sensitive spirit, encased in a body - some of us (human beings) are - Coleridge and Wordsworth , William Blake - and poet-priest-prophet Allen Ginsberg who sometimes hinted, half proclaimed that he was an incarnation of Blake, just as Glenn Gould who also sometimes jokes, hinted or it was claimed on his behalf - kindred spirits - that he was or is an incarnation of Johann Sebastian Bach, perhaps in pretty much the same way that in the name of gilgul, some of John the Baptist's followers wanted to know if he was Elijah who had come back…
Nisargadatta Maharaj on dreams
Spirit on the Water - heavily symbolic
There Are Spirits In Oceans & Lakes. They’re Powerful
From childhood you have been fully immersed - full immersion, in a supernatural inner and outer environment.in a supernatural world that’s alive with spirits, jinns ( such as “The spirit was manifest as a line of bluish light with something like a frontal protuberance like a head”) living waters, Mother Idoto, evening shadows being cast like spells from living trees… this spiritual consciousness / awareness / pantheistic-like sense of wonder is one of the reasons why it was so easy for some of the colonial Africans to fall so easily for the rap (I almost wrote trap) and jive from the early missionaries - a certain idea having captivated the infantile imagination, the idea of propitiation from offering sacrifices already an ingrained belief in the supporting culture / cultural milieu, it was only one step away from a more ultimate concept such as ” the lamb of GOD who taketh away the sins of the world” . So It was no surprise - and please forgive me when I say that to some extent it was amusing to read you saying “I tried to cry out the name of Jesus, which I normally do when I have bad dreams…but this time, calling out the name was so difficult, as if my lips were weighted and my whole body seemed trapped in a cocoon making movement almost impossible.” Poor Adepoju. ”Since invoking the name of Jesus was proving difficult, I then began to sing a Christian worship song as the insubstantial but frightening entity advanced”
What a nightmare ! You have been messing around in the treasure troves of so many unknown spirit entities , and now you seem so surprised. Some of the disembodied spirits/ visitors from this world and from other worlds could be angry with you, you know. Know this : You’ve got to be stronger than your enemy .There’s supposedly a world of demon-possession, witchcraft and exorcism - three essential features that keep the Pentecostals in the soul-saving ministry and the salvation business
In real life, it could be (God forbid) some blood-thirsty machete-wielding Boko Haram operatives chasing you in broad daylight down the main boulevard in Ikeja and you yelling at them to stop - in the name of Jesus. Such a daylight nightmare could prove to be a repeat of “Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are you?”
In the jungle at twilight
The lion has his prey in sight ( Taj Mahal: Scattered
Old hat 👍
Jung : Psychology and the Occult
Freud: The Interpretation of Dreams
Briefly, Ojogbon’s inner and innate understanding, even if cryptically but succinctly stated, seem to correspond with what’s being said about Freud and the paranormal , here :
“ Freud (1909) writes, “In an analysis . . . a thing which has not been understood inevitably reappears; like an unlaid ghost, it cannot rest until the mystery has been solved and the spell broken” (p. 123). What troubles us now is laid at the feet of a ghost; that ghost must be identified, appeased, laid to rest.”
Cornelius Hamelberg
Oluwatoyin,
In my time in Nigeria, in some sections of the One Mile Market in Port Harcourt, and in certain sections of the market place in Aba , they were selling alleged copies of the Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses and much of the attendant paraphernalia, talismans, etc sought by those hellbent on acquiring material riches and worldly power
The Quran : Al Baqarah verses 101-104 states:
101 And when there cometh unto them a messenger from Allah, confirming that which they possess, a party of those who have received the Scripture fling the Scripture of Allah behind their backs as if they knew not,
102 And follow that which the devils falsely related against the kingdom of Solomon. Solomon disbelieved not; but the devils disbelieved, teaching mankind magic and that which was revealed to the two angels in Babel, Harut and Marut. Nor did they (the two angels) teach it to anyone till they had said: We are only a temptation, therefore disbelieve not (in the guidance of Allah). And from these two (angles) people learn that by which they cause division between man and wife; but they injure thereby no-one save by Allah's leave. And they learn that which harmeth them and profiteth them not. And surely they do know that he who trafficketh therein will have no (happy) portion in the Hereafter; and surely evil is the price for which they sell their souls, if they but knew.
103 And if they had believed and kept from evil, a recompense from Allah would be better, if they only knew.
104 O ye who believe, say not (unto the Prophet): "Listen to us" but say "Look upon us," and be ye listeners. For disbelievers is a painful doom! “
#https://www.google.com/search?q=Quran+-anlestecahing+magic+of+soilomon&num
In all seriousness, and for your own good, as you may or may not know, magic, the study of magic, dabbling in magic, the practice of magic is strictly forbidden in the Torah .
As you may also know or not know, Jesus was accused of sorcery
The “Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are you?” incident allegedly occurs in Ephesus, as recorded in Acts 19 (13 -16):
“Some Jews who went around driving out evil spirits tried to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those who were demon-possessed. They would say, “In the name of the Jesus whom Paul preaches, I command you to come out.” Seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, were doing this. One day the evil spirit answered them, “Jesus I know, and Paul I know about, but who are you?” Then the man who had the evil spirit jumped on them and overpowered them all. He gave them such a beating that they ran out of the house naked and bleeding.”
I spent a few days in Ephesus in 2015 - followed Muhammad Buhari’s election victory from a hotel there and ran up a telephone bill of circa £400 sterling which I had to pay when I got back to Stockholm; I had thought that I was using the hotel’s free Wi-Fi ; Muhammadu Buhari’s victory was declared on the same day that the Iran Nuclear Deal was announced -and coincidentally, since there was a contingent of Iranian men and women staying at the hotel, we boogied down till the wee hours of the morning. More importantly, a miracle occurred on the evening of same day that I visited John’s Basilica and the House of Jesus' Mother in Ephesus ( I have been unable to tell anybody the details of this very important miracle)
Two things : (1)In any culture that’s soaked in an atmosphere of the supernatural, breathing the air of superstition, bedevilled by witchcraft etc, an environment over which hovers the clouds of mystery and all manner of speculation about the omniscient, all-powerful Supreme Deity , His agents, and other forces of nature, then the sudden appearance of the missionaries with their ancient stories of miracles and claims that they are the representatives, emissaries, ambassadors, holy men, and holy missionaries of that Supreme Deity and of ”the lamb of Go” who was sacrificed -slaughtered on the Cross and resurrected three days later, easily gains credence with a superstitious folk, if the folk are not deeply anchored in their own organic way of life and beliefs - but are greedy when persuaded that they must be patient, even long suffering , and that the patience and suffering will be rewarded with the unspeakable rewards that they will enjoy in heaven, after they die.
(2) There are a lot of evil forces out there. They want blood.
In your battle with the first evil entity,” a line of bluish light with something like a frontal protuberance like a head” - probably a creation of your own mind, you say that you “ tried to cry out the name of Jesus”, which you normally do when you have bad dreams. In my humble opinion as a Chrsitain who calls out to Jesus when in trouble, you could try to be friends with The Holy Spirit or to acquire the Ruach HaKodesh….
The Apostle Paul has told you all your requirements, all that ‘s necessary for you when you want to resist the Satanic forces and the demons wolves going around in sheep's clothing. He has made this clear in Ephesians 6:10-18 👍
“ Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord’s people.”
The most powerful prayer in Christianity is The Jesus Prayer
Oluwatoyin Adepoju
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