Castro dream 1/9/08

[The Blue Flower]

Funny that I'd be posting about a dream again. Last week was one about *. This is the entry from my dream journal for 1/9/08:

"Just dreamed I was in an auditorium, at the front, helping to run a show on multiple tv screens. The room was dark, and the show ended with Castro's image in yellowish-green on a black background. People applauded. When the lights came up, I said, "Wait. I want to tell you my Castro story." And I told them that in the 60's I went to school with kids whose parents had been engineers and doctors who had fled Castro's Cuba. And one summer, at my first real job as a grocery checker at a Publix market in Orlando, a man would come through the checkout line with a note in his pocket that someone had written for him of what he should buy. The money was there in his pocket, also, for me to take out to pay for him. One day, someone in line behind him asked what had happened to his hands. He said one word--"Castro." And that to me had always been what the revolution meant. While I was telling this story, people in the audience were talking. I had to talk over them. One woman was talking about howthey'd cut the hamstrings of people so they couldn't walk, and someone else said, "Oh, so that's what it means when you say you're hamstrung." Then I woke up.

In my journal I wrote that I thought this meant he'd die soon.

[Angel Wings]

1. hmmm...very interesting

[MorningGlow]

2. Fascinating dream, Defenestrate

I turned on the radio in the middle of the news report this morning and the first word I heard was "Castro". And I truly thought he had died, till I heard the rest of the report. I think he's "on a banana peel", as my mother says.

[The Blue Flower]

3. Edit to add something

I meant to include the fact that the story I told in my dream was a true story. I've told it to people before when they wanted to talk about how great the revolution turned out to be for the people of Cuba.

[Bluestar]

4. I think it's very possible that he is already dead

and has been for some time. They will break this news in a few weeks, after the news of his stepping down has settled in.

I, too, had the experience of working with a lovely Cuban woman when I was about 25 years old. Her husband had been a skilled surgeon in Cuba, but wasn't qualified to practice medicine in the U.S. so he was doing unskilled labor. When they first arrived in the U.S., she was pregnant with their first child. Her husband was working one day when she went into labor and she had to make her way to the hospital by herself. She didn't speak any English and was desperate to try and make someone understand that she was going in to labor. She finally went into labor on the bus, trying to get to the hospital.

My former boss was a senior in high school (in Cuba) and president of his school when Batista was overthrown. There was a demonstration at the high school and even though he wasn't involved in the demonstration, an arrest warrant was issued for my boss. At 17 years old, he could no longer stay in Cuba and his relatives had to smuggle him to Florida where he had to live without his family.

Both of these stories touched my heart and I can see how intensely that Cubans hate Castro.

I am curious about the recent astrological changes that have occurred over the past 24 hours and how this news about Castro and the news of regime change in Pakistan fit in. I hope some astrologers will weigh in.

[Popol Vuh]

5. Interesting dream...

Most people who fled Cuba back at the time of the revolution are the one's who were benefiting from the tyrant Batista (who tortured and murdered thousands) or unfortunately fell for the Batista and CIA hype.

Things in Cuba are certainly not the best in the world, but, I would argue that more of that has to do with them suffering US imposed sanctions for the last forty years than anything else.

The best documentary I've seen about Castro and the Cuban revolution is the DVD (Fidel The Untold Story). Its very informative, well made and certainly an eye opener. I'd be willing to wager that most people who view it will to one degree or another change their position about Fidel and the Cuban revolution.




Another documentary that's fairly decent and can be viewed online is El Che



Defenestrate, please don't take my post the wrong way. I am just someone who does a lot of studying of history, especially history of the Americas, and, I always make it a point to get more than one perspective and enjoy passing along material.

[The Blue Flower]

6. Not at all

Last year I watched a documentary on Cuba's response to the Soviet Union suddenly being unable to provide them with fuel, and how the Cuban people brainstormed new, green ways to grow food and produce whatever they could for themselves. It was a very positive story, and one that could be instructive to us all. I don't argue against their medical or educational systems, either. But I, too, feel it's important to maintain a balance and pay the dark side its due and to learn from that part of their history.

As I commented about the * dream, (r)evolution can happen in a good way or a bad way. I would prefer leaders who take the high ground.