Dreams: African interpretations (English version)

I am continuing the dream series. We are people with different upbringings and cultures, so your dream may mean one thing in a western point of view, but mean another from an African point of view. The following are common African dream interpretations. To dream of-

A celebrity: it is good luck;

Eating food: someone is putting a spell on you through a dream;

Having sex with someone: you are sleeping with an evil spirit;

Taking a selfie/ someone taking your picture/seeing your reflection: someone is trying to capture your ‘powers’ (makes more sense in Zulu);

A hut: ancestors are asking that you build them a hut;

Eating fruits/vegetables: someone is pregnant;

Being pregnant: either you are pregnant, or a secret is going to come out;

Being on your periods: miscarriage;

Walking up a mountain: life is going to be hard/ delayed;

Buying new clothes: Good luck;

Bathing: you need a cleansing;

Feces/maggots/frogs: someone is trying to terminate a part of your life (relationship/job/ money), or your life with the use of umuthi;

A wedding: it means the opposite, a funeral. So, there is going to be a death;

A baby crying/breastfeeding: that is an evil spirit coming in the form as a baby;

A funeral: means the opposite of death, i.e. more life to you;

Ceremonial meat served on a wooden platter: disease (that could possibly lead to death);

Green snake: an ancestral visit;

Black snake: an enemy;

Dirty house/cleaning the house: a cleansing of the house is needed;

Being intoxicated: you can’t handle your problems/ struggling to handle them;

Car accident: chances of a death;

Calm body of waters: ancestral visit bringing blessings;

Money: good luck; and

Leopards, lions, crocodile, HUGE snake/ python: different animal forms that ancestors can reveal themselves in.

I will post a Zulu version too because some explanations are better in Zulu. I did find it quite challenging to translate some Zulu words to English but I got it done with Makhosi Mkhize. Team work makes the dream work.

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