The Artificial Safari circa 11 January 2024
It was the first night I had decided to take communion every evening. Before bed I had been thinking about this Instagram reel — the one showing a trans man with children — and wondering what, if anything, I should say.
The Dream
I fell asleep and found myself in a helicopter. There was no conversation, only the sound of the rotors. The person flying us was a woman with a beard. She sat at the controls without speaking or turning around. We were heading to what seemed to be a theme park that mixed safari and skiing. When we arrived, everything was artificial. The animals were all robots or AI. They moved, but there was no real life in them — just programmed motions in a setting built to look like an adventure. The whole place felt constructed and empty, even with people present.
I woke up with the images still clear in my mind.
Lying there, the dream connected in my thoughts to the reel I had been pondering. The pilot with the beard. The safari that wasn’t real. The animals that only pretended to be alive. It felt like a picture of something being presented as exciting and full of life, while underneath it was artificial — a replacement for what God actually created.
The lesson
On that same night, after taking communion, these verses came strongly to mind:
Matthew 18:6 (ESV) “but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.”
Romans 1:26-27 (ESV) “For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.”
The warning about causing little ones to stumble, and the description of exchanging what is natural for what is not, sat heavily after the dream.
I don’t claim to understand every dream, but on the night I began nightly communion, the images stayed with me as a clear warning about replacing the real with the constructed — especially when it touches children.
Clearly from what was written, the Holy Spirit was “triggered”. I proceeded to quote Matthew into that Instagram reel.
To understand further we can study https://findgod.help/en/Sin.html, https://findgod.help/en/Sin2.html and https://findgod.help/en/Repentance.html
