Musk on a Donkey
From the journal, Today
Have patience, Musk shows up in Part 3.
Part 1
I am with a man who seems unsavory to me, like Danny DeVito's character in the TV series Taxi. We are playing an electronic billiards game. The goal is to aim a ball so that it hits other balls on the table, making certain balls go into certain pockets. Then, the short man looks under the table and says, "what's all that down there?"
Two men are under the table amid several piles of what look like coins. One says, "Those are tokens that have fallen beneath the table due to a defect, like a breach in the coin return system, that caused them to be lost. Do not worry, we will clean them up and fix the machine. You can continue playing."
The short man gathers a couple of handfuls of tokens without the other two men noticing, and places them near the corner of the table we are using so we can play for free.
Part 2
Next, the scene shifts to another room. I am with the short man and a woman. The short man wants to watch a video. I don't, but he pleads. The woman has a bag full of videos with her. The one the short man wants to see is titled, "John," and is based on the Bible. I reluctantly agree to watch the film.
Part 3
Now, I see Elon Musk meet a man at, I think, an airport. Elon has a donkey with him. He says, “come with me.” And gets on the donkey. As they ride, Musk engages the other man in conversation. Musk then says, "Do you mind if I show you something?” Then, “of course, you have to come with me now, because it is written that when they fall into conversation, they will go to this place together.”
They get to something like a barn or manger. Inside is a bed. Musk goes to the bed and somehow divides it in two, pushing the two sides away from the middle to show what is underneath. There are swirling masses of ants and mice. He says, “this is a problem.”
“What do we do?” Asks the man.
“It isn’t that complicated. We drive them out before the owner [of the bed] returns.”
Musk then uses his hands to push the mice out from under the bed and guide them to the door. The ants are disturbed, and follow the mice. Then I see other creatures, vermin, following the others. They make their way to the exits, running in fear, then squirm around several doors to escape.
Comment
It has been awhile since I’ve had a symbolic dream. This one has two similar ideas bridged by a reference to the name John from the Bible. It is unclear if it is John the Baptist, the writer of the Book of John, or Revelations. The “two similar ideas” are the broken billiard table with something underneath that doesn’t belong (tokens), and the broken bed with something underneath that doesn’t belong (vermin). I don’t think Elon Musk is a symbol. He is literally Elon Musk.
Part 1
The goal of the billiard game is to aim straight to successfully knock one ball into another to force it into a specific pocket. The table is broken, but in a way that is hidden. It leaks tokens, or a stand-in for money, on the floor beneath the table. This means that the money going into the game is being wasted. The men cleaning it up seemed to be honest, as opposed to the man playing the game, who I thought of as a crook, particularly after watching him take some of the money from beneath the table.
The idea of any game, including billiards, is that rules must be followed to ensure a fair and honest game. In this case, there is a problem with the money going into the game, but I don’t see how that affects the game itself, other than to ensure it isn’t worth the cost of running it until the corruption underneath is fixed. From the surface, the game appears to be functioning normally, but it isn’t.
Part 2
The only significant element I see here is the reference to “John” and the Bible. In the dream, I thought it was the Book of John.
Part 3
This was more interesting to me than any other part of the dream. It has Elon Musk riding a donkey. In the Book of John, Jesus enters Jerusalem riding a donkey in these verses:
14 Jesus found a young donkey and rode on it, fulfilling the prophecy that said:
15 “Don’t be afraid, people of Jerusalem.[a]
Look, your King is coming,
riding on a donkey’s colt.”[b]16 His disciples didn’t understand at the time that this was a fulfillment of prophecy. But after Jesus entered into his glory, they remembered what had happened and realized that these things had been written about him. (John 12:14-16
Some readers may be offended that I dreamed of Musk riding a donkey instead of Jesus, but I can’t help what I dream. I don’t know who the man with Musk is, but he is there to 1) provide assistance “will you come with me?”, and 2) fulfill a prophecy, “it is written.”
The destination Musk takes the man to is not the destination the man intended when he met Musk. I don’t know the meaning of this, other than it is part of what “is written.”
They enter a stable or manger with a bed in it. This now sounds like the manger in Bethlehem where Jesus was born. This makes sense in the context of 1) the Bible (the Book of John does not mention a “manger.” This is mentioned in Luke and Matthew. 2) a bed in the manger, clearly designed for an adult human, is symbolic of the most famous man to have ever been born in a manger. 3) Riding to the manger on a donkey is reminiscent of Jesus’ donkey ride to Jerusalem.
The bed is separated in two by Musk, in a motion similar to that of Moses’ parting of the Red Sea, another Biblical reference. Under the bed on the floor are colonies of ants, mice, and other vermin. This is also not unlike the state of the Red Sea after the Jews had crossed it and the Egyptians had rushed in. The vermin remind me of the corruption of the table in Part 1, of the Egyptians in the Red Sea, and of generalized but widespread corruption.
Musk says that he and the other man must remove the vermin before the bed’s owner returns. This implies the bed’s owner is temporarily away, but will return imminently. At this point, the bed’s owner appears to be Jesus, thanks to these references: 1) riding the donkey, 2) “it is written”, 3) manger, 4) bed in manger, 5) owner temporarily away, to return, as in Jesus’ long rumored return.
To me, the vermin are so numerous that they defy eviction. Musk thinks they are not a problem, and begins sweeping them away by hand. He asks the other man to help. Here, the vermin rush out of the manger in a panic, away from Musk’s swinging arms. Again, this reminds of the Red Sea example, where the Egyptians are destroyed. It also makes sense as a simple illustration of sweeping out corruption by first exposing it to the light of day and making a minimal effort to clear them away.
Conclusion
I don’t like to identify an absent character as Jesus because that name is so fraught for people of different faiths. However, in this case, I think it is appropriate. The first and second dreams appear to be references to “cleaning up” corruption that was hidden until recent exposure. The dream appears to be saying that Elon Musk will play a role, possibly a significant one, in cleaning up the corruption. This makes sense in the context of contemporary American politics and Musk’s commitment to free speech and his recent statement that he is sick of people “talking about doing good, but who do evil.”
The larger implication of the dream is that cleaning up the corruption clears the way for a return to earth by Jesus. I don’t know who the man is that Musk asked for help, but the dream appears to be such a man, and that Musk will approach him, not the other way around. The only person I can think of who reminds me of the person identified in Part one as similar to the actor Danny DeVito, is Alex Jones, recently returned to x.com (formerly Twitter) just last night. Jones is taller, but burly and emotional.