He was not told to jump. He just jumped!

I had a funny dream dream the other night involving a member of our support staff (euphemism for DDT, Document Delivery Technician aka messenger). This man is a Maasai known as Ole Seiya. Ole Seiya has been hospitalised for the last two months. The story is that he hurt himself while doing a Maasai jig.

In case you did not know, a Maasai dance does not actually involve any rythmic body moves. It's basically a competition to determine who can jump the highest. So up they go, then down they come. That's it. I wonder why they dont bag any Olympic medals at the high jump event. Or maybe they do it's just that I dont know.

Anyway, it seems that ole Seiya got touched by a fervent desire to outdo everyone else and because he's no longer the young man he used to be, something snapped. At first I thought it would be something minor. I mean, how much can one hurt himself by jumping like a foot high?
But as time went on I began to realise that it must have been a serious injury and this bothered me cos I just couldn't understand how one can sustain a serious injury that way.

Then the other night I had a dream in which I was watching this Safcom commercial where a mamaa shoots up into the air with "Nimeshinda!". Only this time it was not the mamaa. It was Ole Seiya. Unfortunately, unlike the mamaa in that commercial, he was not in the hands of a caring camera tricks operator. He was in the hands of Nature. So he came down with the full force of gravity. What followed is the stuff of dreams. The ground happened to be hard so instead of his feet sinking into the ground, his thighs sunk into his torso. So there he was. A shorter man. You could see his head, chest, stomach then right below, his knees and feet.

I cant quite remember what happened after that. The dream just fizzled away the way dreams do but as I was brushing my teeth the following morning,I was reflecting on the power of the mind. Was my subconcious trying to explain to my puzzled concious how Ole Seiya got injured? If it was, then my subconcious is so funny it's not funny at all. I mean having a funny subconcious is not funny.