What a strange dream.

I am a persistent dreamer. I am good at day-dreaming and most nights I dream dreams in full colour, HD quality complete with sound tracks usually classical-strings, clarinets and piano sometimes with compositions that I am not familiar with.

I think I inherited my "dreaming" gene from my parents who were often comparing their dreams. My late mum said her dreams were black and white like the TV she grew up watching. I thought it strange. Oh!!! I never needed contact lenses when I am in dreamland. Everything is so real, all my senses are alive and the best part is I often wake remembering in detail my dreams.

Lately, while my good friend was in Hong Kong for a family holiday, I dreamt a rather weird dream concerning her. In it, she was totally radiant and happy and sharing with me how someone she had not been in active contact for a long time, a certain guy whom she deeply loved had surprised her with a proposal on their first date. I was elated to hear the good news and was jumping with joy for this dear friend of many years when her phone rang and her brother was on the line with rather bad news. Her mum suffered a heart attack and the undertakers were on the way to help set up the wake etc. I was shocked and did not know how to react. One moment ago I received news from a friend, long awaited good news of a good marriage prospect. We were jumping up and down for joy on mount everest so to speak and the next I had to feel her deepest pain of losing a mum so suddenly. I was totally speechless and my mind was very blanked. I thought to myself. Oh God!!!Have mercy!!

What happened next in the dream was totally shocking!!! Instead of weeping for her recent loss of a loved one, my friend was ever more exuberant and excited. She was hilariously happy as if she had won the best top lottery prize in the world. I watched her in total disbelief and sheer horror. The next thing I knew Yan woke me up for church service at Suntec City.

What a strange dream. When i shared with Yan he thought it was weird and "a little bit funny," to Elton John's Your Song. Later, just before church service, I had a revelation that the dream was really symbolic. It meant the end of reign of a really domineering mum and the true freedom that she yearned for will materialise.

Imagine my surprise when this friend mentioned that is what she is yearning for exactly- freedom to lead her own life. I can't wait to see her blessed in the area of marriage and family which we had been praying for almost a decade now.