Times Of Swaziland: DON’T TAKE YOUR DREAMS FOR GRANTED

DON’T TAKE YOUR DREAMS FOR GRANTED
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BY ZWELIHLE SUKATI on 15/04/2017 10:05:00


MBABANE – Traditional healers agree with pastors who say a dream is one way
the spirit communicates to that person.
Bishop Alexander Mwami of Holy Ghost Firehouse, Nelspruit, South Africa, who was
among guest preachers during last week’s Destiny International Christian
Centre’s Barrier Breakers Conference, spoke of how Christians fail to take
action when being warned by his or her spirit of events taking place in the
spiritual world in the form of dreams.
Traditional healer Matjekwane Mahlalela identified with a number of dream
interpretations given by the bishop, such as having sex in a dream being a bad
experience not to be taken lightly.
Mahlalela described having su­ch a dream as an attack by a ro­a­ming carnal
spirit with the sole intention of causing havoc in the dreamer’s real life.
Echoing the bishop’s preaching, the traditional healer said a person being
tormented by this spirit in dreams was most likely to suffer miscarriages,
totally fail to conceive and “if she had a stupid husband the marriage will
collapse.”
Mahlalela said there were many things that come with dreams and the meanings
vary from one person to another.
He further mentioned that it also depends how the dream manifests itself adding
that for some, what they see in a dreams, happens as is in real life.
Tradition
“Even in our Swazi tradition, when you have sex in your dream it is something
considered with everything to do with an evil spirit that takes a human shape in
the dream-tikoloshi. It is a flouting carnal spirit meant to harm the dreamer
and can be in the form of a woman where a man will dream having sex with a
woman.”
He said dreams with snakes were a warning about a person so close to you but
with evil thoughts about you, evil intentions for you or someone badmouthing or
speaking evil things to others about you.
Dogs in a dream have a number of different meanings and it was therefore
difficult to out rightly interpret a dream about them.
“For some, dreaming of a dog biting him means that person will face arrest or
have a case to answer. With others it might mean something, which has to do with
family spirits (tidalwa takubo). The same with dreaming water, meanings vary a
lot. However, clean water symbolises good tidings.”