Why do we dream? Dreams, big or small, are unfolding waves of the many faces of the Supreme Energy which we call Nature or God. Everything that nature brings to us must have a meaning, an understandable or hidden meaning, abstract or direct. In other words, Nature does not lie. “And God spoke to him through a dream,” is a common statement in the Bible. The Bible is full of dream stories which show that one of the many ways God uses to communicate to people is through dreams. Dreams are not a manifestation of human beings. Other living things dream too. Those who have lived with domestic animals have stories regarding when they witnessed a goat or dog dreaming.
Through dream waves many people have been able to see events in distant future. From the biblical dream of Joseph with his twelve brothers which predicted his rise, to the ones he interpreted while in service in Pharaoh’s kingdom together with the ones recorded in the Book of Revelation highlight the subject.
The dead-living or spirits communicate with us through dreams. African spirituality has a big chapter in the role that spirits play in many aspects of our social life. Spirits are not at play only among Africans. They are universal. To give an example, ask the record keepers of the White House and they will confirm, “Historic buildings can usually boast a ghost or two, however, the White House in Washington, DC has had more than its fair share of famous people passing through its portals, but former President Abraham Lincoln seems to be the most active of the ghosts recorded there.” (8) (8) Modern Mysteries of the World, Colin Bord, pg.83; Strange events of the 20th Century, Grafton Books, 1989, London.
Does this not say that President Abraham Lincoln is still alive somewhere? Nevertheless, in spite of the United States of America being armed up to the teeth with scientists – astrophysicists, agronomists, psychiatrists, scientologists and the host of the others – all of them operating from the empirical platform approach would still fail to explain not only the reasons for the spirit of Lincoln paying visits to the White House, but explain away the dream of President Abraham Lincoln. It was a dream that foretold his assassination nearly five years to come. In his own published words he reported accurately what he saw in the dream by saying:
“About ten days ago, I retired very late. I had been waiting for dispatches from the front. I could not have been going to bed when I fell into a slumber, for I was weary. Soon I began to dream. (In the dream) There seemed to be a deathlike stillness about me. Then I heard subdued sobs, as if a number of people were weeping. I thought I left my bed and wandered downstairs. There the silence was broken by the same pitiful sobbing, but the mourners were invisible. I went from room to room; no living person was in sight but the same mournful sounds of distress met me as I passed along. It was light in all the rooms; every object was familiar to me; but where were all the people who were grieving as if their hearts would break? I was puzzled and alarmed. What could be the meaning of all this? Determined to find the cause of things so mysterious and so shocking, I kept on until I arrived at the East Room, which I entered. There I met with a sickening surprise. Before me was a catafalque, on which rested a corpse wrapped in funeral vestments. Around it were stationed soldiers who were acting as guards; and there was a throng of people, some gazing upon the corpse, whose face was covered, others weeping pitifully. ‘Who is dead in the White House?’ I demanded of one of the soldiers. ‘The President,’ was his answer. ‘He was killed by assassination.’ Then came a loud burst of grief from the crowd, which awoke me from my dream.”
What proved that the President’s life was predestined was that on the election night, 1860, he had a strange dream of which, in the mirror, he saw two images of himself – one image glowing in health and the other ghastly pale, as if in death. The inter-operation of the dream was that he would be elected to a second term, but would die before it had run its course, hence the symbolism presented by the second ghastly image of himself in the mirror.
Over five years after the day of his dream about his death in the White House, on April 14, 1865, at 10: 15 P.M, President Lincoln was shot dead, just when he had been nominated for the second term (9)
An important question one might ask is whether, in the meantime, the soul of President Abraham Lincoln was ever subjected to reincarnation since his death. Lincoln’s prediction tells openly that we tread on a programmed universal consciousness.(10)