Couple of days ago, I woke up from my dreams of the usual nonsensical mish-mash of scenes with a word still clearly etched in my mind. The word is 'epiphany'.
Well, my English is not all fantastic, so I've no idea what that word means. What I do know is I recognise the word and must have came across it somewhere. How else I'll have it in my dreams?
So I googled for the meaning of the word and out came three meanings:
1. a Christian festival, observed on January 6, commemorating the manifestation of Christ to the gentiles in the persons of the Magi; Twelfth-day.
2. an appearance or manifestation, esp. of a deity
3. a sudden, intuitive perception of or insight into the reality or essential meaning of something, usually initiated by some simple, homely, or commonplace occurrence or experience.
Now, that's interesting. I have absolutely no knowledge of the Christian festival, not being a christian myself (the only ones I know of is Easter and Christmas because those are holidays!). So it that leaves me with no. 2 and 3.
Honestly, I have not much recollection of my dreams that night except that there were some cameos by some of my colleagues. If there were any manisfestation of a deity, it's definitely not one of them else I would have asked them for 4D numbers that day.
A sudden perception or insight? The most recent insight I've got is that the durian season is burning a big hole in my wallet and leaving me with excesses around my waist. I don't think that will qualify as an epiphany.
So what's the meaning of the appearance of that word, so strongly imprinted in my mind that I still remembered it when I woke up? Till now, I've no idea. Maybe it's just part of the nonsensical portion of my dreams.
posted by Cylee at
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