The Dream

Last night I had a remarkable dream. I dreamt I were in a jungle. A densely overgrown jungle with tall trees, great plants, and nice flowers. The jungle was so overgrown that I couldn't see the ground under my feet. Through the tops of the trees I could just see the clear blue sky. I started to walk. I didn't know where I went to. I just walked, but it was not that easy as I had expected. I had to creep like an insect through all the plants. And on the same time I had to be very careful. I knew that in a jungle like this one there could be a lot of wild animals.

After walking for a little while I came to it. The beautiful spot of the jungle. Here the trees were taller, the plants were greater and more beautiful than the rest of the jungle I had seen. The birds were singing quietly in the trees. I stood behind a great bush and peeped through the leaves where I could see a naked woman. She lay on something which looked like a sofa while she was surrounded by lions, snakes, a rhinoceros, and other wild animals. In the beginning I thought they wanted to attack her, but then I noticed how peaceful they were and how unworried the woman was. It seemed like she was the mistress of the animals. Maybe she was Eve. Maybe I stood behind a bush in the Garden of Eden and looked at Eve. But where was Adam then? On the same time I saw a person standing in the background. It looked like a native. He was playing the flute silently. No, this couldn't be the Garden of Eden. I knew from the Bible that the only persons who lived in the Garden of Eden were Eve, Adam, and of course God. This native person couldn't be Adam nor God. All this looked more like a court. A court with a queen, her servants, and her royal musician. On second thoughts she did actually look like a queen. The way she was laying on that sofa, and the way she looked straight ahead was just so queenlike. Suddenly I knew what she was. She was the Queen of the Jungle. She was naked and free. She could sit on that sofa and look straight ahead without lifting any finger. Suddenly I trod on a branch which broke and for the first time I saw the woman's eyes, and the animals, too, look at something else. They all looked at the bush which I stood behind. I started to run. I ran and ran... and then I woke up. I were not in the jungle anymore. I were in my own bed.