I take dreams seriously now, but 10–15 years ago, not so much.
But I still had a dream one night that rattled me to the core, and I didn’t understand much about it then, but now, maybe 15 or so years later. I see it was something of a prophetic vision.
I can’t remember much of it, but it started in a weird room all in white. Then there was an evil Chinese Emperor looking character dressed all in red ancient Chinese garb. He looked like something out of the old martial arts movies. He was wearing something like this:
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And he had the long fingernail’s like this:
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And there was a young hero in my vision. A typical handsome, cocky young martial artist, like Bruce Lee or Jet Li. And the story that was playing out in my dream was a typical one I used to see in the old Martial Arts flicks I watched as a kid in the 80’s. Young handsome Hero challenges evil Emporer dude, and the two have a fight.
Except in this dream…in this nightmare…things did not go well for the handsome young hero.
The things I saw were not pleasant, to say the least. And I’m not one given to violent dreams either. But suffice it to say the young man underestimated the power and evil of the red emperor. When winning the battle, the red emperor was unmerciful and brutal to the young man.
Part of the brutality came in the form of cannibalism, and I won’t describe it much further than that due to Medium’s TOS agreement, and my own unwillingness to “go there” again.
Upon waking, I was greatly disturbed by this dream. Who wouldn’t be right? I don’t even watch horror movies too often. And I felt so bad for the young man in the dream. I couldn’t feel his physical pain, but it’s like I could feel his emotions all too clearly. Very powerful were his feelings of deep humiliation.
These feelings rattled my body as I tried to figure out what this dream meant or why I had it.
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I couldn’t make heads or tails of the cannibalism, nor the fact that the entire dream was overpowered by the colors white and red, with little hints of gold.
But one thing I felt deep in my heart is this dream had something to do with MEN. It was about men. God had given me a vision into what it feels like for some men, including men in my life who I felt let me down. My father, my son’s father, and a male friend I left behind in another dimension…
And now thinking back on this dream, I recall men just having a screaming outburst and acting emotionally hysterical sometimes. For instance, on YouTube, we were discussing relationships and why women needed to “be there” for men.
And I’ll never forget this one guy just started yelling in comments about being in HELL. That their lives as men were HELL. And yeah, I’m sure this man was either very stressed out or mentally ill or something. But men are always going on and on about how HARD their lives are.
Usually, I just roll my eyes because it sounds like self-centeredness. Why don’t they take a look at all the crap they give us women and all we have to deal with and tell us about hard?
But then it’s like that dream will pop into my head and I’ll begin to wonder. This dream came back into my memory recently when I argued with another “red piller” and wanted to just give up on men seriously. It’s like how much of this bullshit can a person take?
But then again I have a son, and I didn’t want him hurt by what some scumbags are doing, and then God also reminded me of the Red Emperor dream. And it worked to calm me.
I think there’s something spiritually “wonky” going on with men, for a lack of a better term.
And it needs to be addressed before it destroys men and women as well, by proxy.
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The men who have the Red Emporer devouring them from the inside out are likely the red pillers, the men who are in agony and try to take that agony out on women because we are an easy target.
This may have been a prophetic dream, one I would not understand until many years later when the gender war was in full swing.
I always thought this term “red pill” was suspicious. And my dream seemed like a battle between red and white. The red of the Emperor’s gown, the blood, the lasagna…
(Lasagna represented the young man’s flesh in the dream.)
(I know! I’ve had a hard time eating lasagna since then😩 )
Men have a lot of demons to face. And sorry guys, those demons are not women.
There are countless other issues that men have to deal with; mental health, homelessness, drug addiction, loneliness, jobs, education, poverty, not to mention spiritual matters. But it’s like many men have completely checked out of the fight.
It’s like the young heroes humiliation has washed over them and immobilized them. They don’t even know where this humiliated feeling is coming from, so they blame women.
Sorry, gentlemen, but it’s not our fault and you have to find the real source of your problems. I believe it’s s spiritual battle, men are ingesting so much negativity and evil on a daily basis. Rap music, games, manosphere, pornography, arguments on the internet, negative self talk, negative talk from others, the media, negative blogs. If this is what you are letting into your consciousness everyday, then how can you expect love and beauty to come out of this?
We women are also imbued with the negativity. I fight every day to find positive media to take in or read positive books.
Because we cannot check out of this. The world isn’t going anywhere. We can’t run away to the “metaverse” or whatever, because if we don’t take care of the problems in this world, we’re just going to bring the problems into this different dimension, which is the metaverse.
It’s going to take work. It’s going to take less escape to fantasy worlds, more connecting to Lord God and creating the fantasy world HERE.
And remember, you are loved. Despite what the media says, women still love men. We’re still here, but we’re trying to survive in a collapsing system, the same as you.
We can definitely do this and come out a better, stronger species.
But men have to face the Red Emperor first. And that’s a scary prospect.
But I think a team effort would work better than a single guy, don’t you?
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This post was previously published on medium.com.
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