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Thursday, December 12, 2019

Dream of Black Youth - December 12th

I woke up earlier from this strange dream - I don't have dreams like this. I was walking toward a large wooden bridge that crossed a lake or river. There were black youth all around - everyone was probably 18 years and older, like at a university.

Everyone in the dream was a young black person. As I began to cross the bridge I heard a few people crying. There were some youth standing and talking at the entrance of the bridge as well as some on the bridge. Others were walking.

As I began walking on the bridge, I noticed some black youth swimming in the water and there were floating corpses of black youth. The living were helping the dead bodies get to the other side - I walked in one direction, they were swimming in the other.

There was a constant alarm horn sound in the air, like a sound of mourning. As I approached the exit of the bridge, I saw a large hill leading down to the water. The hill was completely covered in dead bodies of black youth.

There were other living people on top of the hill piling bodies on top so that they'd slide or roll down into the water. In the water there were living people grabbing the bodies to get them across the water. Then I woke up.

This was disturbing. And if it hadn't been so awfully strange, I wouldn't have posted it.

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Tweet from today (12/12/2019):
I didn't think the dream belonged here [Twitter], so I removed it from my twitter feed and posted it to my website. A dream is just a dream. If not, and if I have additional context, I may add it at a later time. (I am going to look into it and also see if there is any counsel from above.)
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12/14/2019:

Thinking about the dream. There was no sense of panic or urgency, whatever happened had already happened. The bridge itself was large and sturdy; it reminds me of a boardwalk.

I thought I'd check to see if the landscape/topography of any HBCUs matched the landscape in the dream. I didn't realize how many HBCU's there are (there are over 100+). I started with the 'A's and went to each school's website to see if they had a campus map. If they didn't, I went to Youtube to look at campus tours to see if anyone filmed the school's surrounding areas. This took a long time. But then I had a "duh" moment and began using Google maps. Much faster - but was still repetitive dull work (from Alabama A&M to Xavier). I went through each school and saw no landscape that matched what was in my dream.

So maybe the dream was just a dream - or maybe it has nothing to do with a HBCU. I won't ponder beyond this.

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