Have you ever bought a dream off someone?
Me neither.
But, supposedly, this is something you can do.
I know that Koreans are very into dreams. When I was pregnant, my mother-in-law often asked me about my dreams. There are certain dreams that are supposed to foretell good (or bad) things about the coming child. Honestly, good or bad, I didn't really want to know. But I really hadn't ever heard anything about dreams outside of pregnancy. Till last week, when my mom told me about my halmoni's pig dream.
My halmoni recently had a (supposedly) very rare dream about a pig. Dreaming about a pig, I have learned, is very, very good news. It means that you will become very, very rich. And who doesn't want to become very, very rich? And this was not any old pig dream. She actually grabbed the pig by its little curly tail and wrapped the tail around her finger.
She then immediately proceeded to call my mom and offer to sell the dream to her. You see, if you buy someone's dream off them, you can collect on their good fortune. My mom paid $5 for the dream and then spent $10 on a lottery ticket (at my halmoni's urging). But then my mother made a very big mistake.
She blabbed about her dream. And she didn't just tell one solitary soul, no, she told her whole office despite the warning of one of her co-workers who tried to hush her because, you know, the dream loses its value if you blab about it.
Of course, she only won $1 with the lotto ticket and a big "I told you so" from her co-worker. My halmoni only feels bad that she didn't tell my mom all the rules about pig dreams in the first place. So now my family has lost its opportunity to become very, very rich.
Unless, that is, you have recently had a pig dream. Maybe we can make a deal?
- Nina
