I Did Also Have a Dream

Two nights ago, I had a bizarre dream and since the dream was of an absurd political nature I thought KABOBfest would be a proper outlet for it. This is a further proof that everything in the Middle East is political, even dreams. Feel free to read into my dream and what it means.

The dream starts with me hanging out at the Syrian-Israeli borders and there were few Israeli tourists—the way they leered at me gave it away. We were looking at a huge mountain made out of mud; it looked more like a wall than a mountain. All of a sudden Bashar Al-Asad, the president of Syria shows up on a motorcycle coming from the Israeli side and heading toward the Syrian side. Attached to his motorcycle was a giant robot following him and looking more like a bodyguard to the president. The tourists started to checkout this futuristic scene not knowing what to make of it. There were a few other motorcycle ridding men who looked like they were parading in a show of force. The moment Bashar got into the mountain, through one of the giant holes it had, an Israeli unit showed up chasing him and his men. At that moment some random people showed up in fighting mode as if they were anticipating the Israelis. The dream gets even weirder as a group of men show up with lions, think Aslan from Narnia. The lions were angry and had chains to their necks. The men commanded the lions to take the chains and go into the mountain via a hole in the mountain—a different one—and secure the gate behind Bashar. The lions headed toward the mountain with their chains and struggled to get through the hole; the hole seemed not big enough. Eventually they made it and the Israelis were held back; they could not go after the president of Syria or any of the parading men.

I started thinking that the Syrians are trying to make a statement to show that they can do anything they want and they do not fear the Israelis; and how cool is Bashar showing up on a motorcycle protected by a robot? “Hey, I am Bashar, I am cool and so technologically advanced;” and how about those angry lions that were working for the Syrians? Yes, the lions were working for the Syrians! And the Israelis not able to know who was in their country! Also I now connect that his last name is Asad, which in Arabic translates to Lion. To my surprise, I remember my last thought in the dream was trying to convince myself that the Syrian security cabals would use a fake Bashar, just in case their operation was foiled.