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I have just woken up to a really fascinating dream and I think there's potentially a lot to it. There's a lot of interesting elements that complete it as it delves into the nature of political power. Perhaps people can help me about what it means? I had woken up when the sun was out and had a dream about losing my bag with my phone at a market with my school mates before this dream. I fell back asleep. I was sitting on the first row of white pews for the lack of a better word, similar to the rows of seats you would see at a stadium but not as many seats and they weren't retractable. Only about 4 rows or so each towering above the one in front. We were inside a massive hall so big that the roof seemed non-existent. The place was completely lit up except for the details of the halls architecture as it was unimportant. I didn't care for the source of light. I was with my high school class peers but I distinctly remember only two being of my class friends being present (I am finishing year 12 right now and we have finished our last classes so I won't be seeing them at school ever again except for the one friend who I talk to in the dream when we do our chemistry exam). We were wearing casual clothes. I think I was wearing shorts. Opposite of the pews was another set of pews facing towards us. Between us laid a 10 metre wide green carpet than ran down the lane of pews to somewhere which I had not seen. In those pews were famous names. Right opposite of me was the royal family. Queen Elizabeth, Prince Phillip, etc. I assume Kate Middleton was there too. Next to them further down were politicians, intellectuals and powerful men. They all had light colourful clothes. Light blue shirts, light green shirts, etc. The men wore trousers. Some of them were making a fuss and having conversations but the royal family were silent and unified. We were located in some place in Melbourne, Australia which is my home city. Someone was making an announcement into a microphone at the end of the carpet which I never glanced towards. I didn't hear exactly what they were speaking about but I knew to stand up as everyone else was. There was slow patriotic music playing over the speaker. Everyone held their heart with their right hand and took a bow then made a flourishing gesture with both hands. I played along to fit in but I had no idea what we were making allegiance to. To me it didn't exist and it felt a little uncomfortable. We sat back down and I looked right down the pews and saw Ronald Reagan standing up making a fuss. A minute or two later my class stood up because we were about to leave the hall. My friend stood beside me and I mentioned the famous people and said, "You know, I know the names of all those people who were sitting opposite to us". He was bewildered and said "Oh reallllly?". It seemed to me that he had no idea who any one of those people were, even the queen! Then I left the hall and saw my other friend running around the place but I had no conversation with him. There were no girls, It's an all boys school. I exited the hall through the mist of the crowd not paying attention to any faces and walked to the outside to the side of the hall where there was a simple concrete building with glass panels that ran down one side above the waist and a glass door next to those glass panels. I entered inside and inside was a lounge. Simply a square room with a round table with chairs in the middle slightly off to the top right corner and I assume there was a coffee maker and snacks on the other table in the corner. There were also black couches for leisure. The room was pretty busy, many people were having conversations. In the room were many of the famous people whom were mostly chatting with us mortals having interviews and so forth. The atmosphere was very casual but busy. I entered and looked around eagerly. To my left was a couch a metre away from the wall with the glass panels and it was left to the door facing roughly towards the centre of the room. On it was an unoccupied black man (I'm european) turned away from me sitting on one of the cushions closest to me. He wore a fine business suit. I walked around and glimpsed at him and looked at the clip board which had the name "BEN CARSON" and it had extra sheets of paper for writing. I didn't need it, I put it on the other cushion and sat down next to him. I said "Hey! Ben Carson?". He smiled and calmly said "Hello". He spoke very calmly and clearly throughout. I asked him how his career was going to grease up the wheels. I can't remember exactly what he said as it was of little importance to me. We then went on and then came the moment. I said, "What do you think about libertarianism, you know neoliberalism. I know it's rather popular in the United States". He said, "Well, what does it have to do with politics?". It sounded to me that he was asserting that we need a robust political system to keep integrity and that libertarianism is loosey goosey and could never be established. Perhaps that's not what he really meant. Perhaps he was saying that all he cares about is power so he does what he can to attain power. I too was assertive. I closed my eyes in concentration and said, "Politics is a branch of philosophy concerned with the way that human behaviour is organised. Libertarian theory simply is that human behaviour is organised such that all relations are voluntary". I gulped on that last word. During the time I had said that I was trying to keep my eyes open but I just couldn't open them. I forced them open with my fingers but they only stayed open for a second and I made no eye contact with him during these two sentences. After I had said that my eyes opened and a girl about the same age as me (18) sat down on the other cushion so now all the cushions were occupied and I was in the middle. Ben Carson went on talking but I was distracted because the girl was pushing on my legs and sat strangely close. I never made eye contact with her. I saw Ben leaving with a friendly expression on his face that I should follow him so I did follow him and left the girl to sit alone. I followed Ben outside and he then turned to me and made a joke. I couldn't register it but he mentioned "Atlas Shagged" at the end and so we both laughed. We walked side by side and I mentioned Atlas Shrugged and told him it's a book he MUST read and that it is pinnacle to libertarianism. I said this despite never reading the book myself but I knew it was the most popular of Ayn Rand's books. I had just read some of The Fountainhead. We walked down the main street which I was familiar with. The sun was setting, it was about 7pm. The sky was turning orange and the restaurants had their fire lamps on. He mumbled "What are we going to do?" and I said "don't worry, we will be best friends". We both laughed. I took out a skate board. The footpaths were empty so he pushed me while I was on my skate board and I went super fast. Faster than I could go just by pushing with my legs. I stopped and skated back towards him. I only saw one pedestrian. At first I thought it was my friend whom I had not spoken to but as I got closer and he got closer I realised it was a short, skinny brown guy with dreadlocks. His eyes were wide open and he wore a colourful singlet. He pace was fast and he had an abnormal walk. It wasn't aggressive but just abnormal. He walked past us. I skated back and forth a couple times and then we passed an small anglican church that was amongst the shops and restaurants. He said "hold on" and I saw him enter the church assuming he's going in for the prayer. I waited patiently outside. Then I woke up. So I thought this dream was really fascinating as it delved into the nature of a politician and it had a little to do about me as well. I think what he said about libertarianism is very interesting. It is to do with fatherlessness? What do you think about it?

Dr. Ben Carson overcame a very difficult upbringing and a vicious tempter to become a gifted neurosurgeon famous for pioneering life-saving brain surgery techniques and for leading a team of seventy people to separate conjoined twins. Carson is currently battling Donald Trump at the top of the polls for the Republican presidential nomination. As of late the mainstream media has questioned the truth of Carson’s backstory – raising some legitimate questions but also smearing him with nonsensical falsehoods. What is The Truth About Ben Carson? The Truth About Ben Carson Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story by Ben Carson http://www.fdrurl.com/ben-carson-gifted-hands One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future by Ben Carson http://www.fdrurl.com/ben-carson-one-nation “There are some people that are thrust into positions of great responsibility, and sometimes we don’t vet them. We don’t look into their past, we don’t look into their associations. We don’t look into their accomplishments. We don’t look into the kind of person they are. And all of those things become clear. I actually welcome the magnifying glass. I don’t have any problem.” http://www.newsmax.com/Newsmax-Tv/DrBen-Carson-Magnifying-Glass-Islamic-State-ISIS/2015/01/16/id/619126/ Ben Carson’s Violent History “I would go after people with baseball bats. I remember once a guy hit me with a pebble, and I took a big rock and threw it right at his face, broke his glasses, almost put his eye out. I remember another kid did something silly, shut my locker or something when I wasn’t ready, and I took the combination lock and put it in my hand and (pop) knocked a three-inch gash in his forehead. I was terrible, I tried to hit my mother in the head with a hammer.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UD9vn3QIsZs http://www.mediaite.com/online/ben-carson-should-produce-his-long-form-stabbing-certificate/ “When I was 14, another teenager angered me, and I took a large camping knife and I tried to stab him in the abdomen, and fortunately under his clothing he had on a large metal belt buckle and the knife blade struck with such force that it broke and he fled in terror.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLbe2Klls3c http://www.mediaite.com/online/ben-carson-should-produce-his-long-form-stabbing-certificate/ “Oh, that really happened,” Carson’s mother told Parade Magazine in 1997. “I sat him down and told him that you don’t accomplish much by being a bully. You accomplish more with kindness than you ever do by being harsh.” http://nypost.com/2015/11/10/mom-says-so-ben-carson-really-did-try-to-stab-a-kid/ http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/nov/9/ben-carsons-mother-verified-stabbing-story-in-1997/ “I was more terrified as I recognized that I was trying to kill somebody over nothing.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLbe2Klls3c http://www.mediaite.com/online/ben-carson-should-produce-his-long-form-stabbing-certificate/ “I was already reading about personality disorders and behavior disturbances, and I knew that I had one…and I said ‘Lord, you’re going to have to be my psychotherapist, because I can’t go on like this,’ and I just turned it over to Him. And I said, ‘If you want me to do something in life, you’re gonna have to fix this. If not, you know, I’ll just go on like this, but I’ll tell you right now, I can’t do it.'” http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3bo3k3_ben-carson-says-he-knew-he-had-a-personality-disorder-told-god-to-cure-it-or-else_news http://thedailybanter.com/2015/10/here-are-7-crazy-things-ben-carson-said-in-one-speech-to-quack-mannatech-group/ “I recognized that if I couldn’t control that temper, I would never realize my dream of becoming a doctor.” http://fortune.com/2015/05/04/ben-carson-fortune-classic/ Recently the media has questioned the stabbing story and Carson now claims that almost victim previously described as Bob was a “close relative,” under an alias. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ben-carson-stabbing_563c1115e4b0b24aee49cb2f “The person that I tried to stab, you know, I talked to today, said would they want to be revealed? They were not anxious to be revealed. And it was a close relative of mine. I didn’t want to put their lives under the spotlight. This is something that I wanted to do. none of those people decided that they wanted to do this. And the media is ruthless. So I would say to the people of America, do you think I’m a pathological liar like CNN does? Or do you think I’m an honest person.” http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3cpsbr_ben-carson-changes-his-stabbing-story-again_news http://thedailybanter.com/2015/11/ben-carson-changes-his-stabbing-story-again/ Donald Trump on Ben Carson http://www.breitbart.com/video/2015/11/06/trump-carsons-story-of-violent-past-strange-you-dont-get-better-unless-you-take-pills/ Hoax Exam Story Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story by Ben Carson http://www.fdrurl.com/ben-carson-gifted-hands http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/ben-carsons-yale-classmate-we-did-the-prank-test-that-carson?utm_term=.cpPGo87ObN#.moLgWLnwBm http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/11/10/major-media-outlet-casts-serious-doubt-on-yet-another-ben-carson-story-then-a-key-witness-comes-forward/ https://www.facebook.com/realbencarson/photos/a.143829065783568.1073741825.138691142964027/551604265006044/ http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2015/11/09/wsj-cnn-politico-debunked-anti-carson-bio-attacks-crumble-under-scrutiny/ Mannatech Relationship https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQSoHRwtwvI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCDCVV9XgNM https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/oagnews/release.php?id=2086 http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/09/politics/ben-carson-mannatech-fact-check/ http://www.nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/396562/carson-newsmax-i-didnt-know-anything-about-all-mannatechs-legal-stuff-jim https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/10/29/ben-carson-calls-on-rival-campaigns-to-help-him-end-gotcha-debate-questions/ http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2015/10/brief-history-ben-carson-and-glyconutrients http://www.nationalreview.com/article/396193/ben-carsons-troubling-connection-jim-geraghty Take the Risk: Learning to Identify, Choose, and Live with Acceptable Risk by Ben Carson http://www.fdrurl.com/ben-carson-take-risk Minimum Wage Position(s) http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/241449-ben-carson-backs-raising-minimum-wage http://www.westernjournalism.com/ben-carson-people-need-to-be-educated-on-the-minimum-wage/ http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/carson-proposes-starter-minimum-wage/article/2572273 http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/11/10/ben-carson-changes-his-mind-again-on-minimum-wage.html Immigration Position(s) http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/06/18/ben-carson-borders-must-be-sealed-to-keep-terrorists-out-illegals-should-be-given-path-to-amnesty/ http://www.breitbart.com/california/2015/09/09/ben-carson-draws-thousands-in-ca/ http://dailycaller.com/2013/03/19/ben-carsons-most-surprising-policy-positions/2/ Gun Control Position(s) http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2014/03/10/dr-ben-carson-against-gun-registration-because-we-should-be-really-concerned-about-martial-law/ http://www.mediaite.com/tv/conservative-hero-ben-carson-to-beck-you-have-no-right-to-semi-automatic-weapons-in-large-cities/ Abortion Position(s) http://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/ben-carson-abortion-stance-121456#ixzz3rADxpAhN http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/dr-ben-carson-i-would-love-see-roe-vs-wade-n451071 http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/carson-dodges-exceptions-position-abortion-human-life-begins/story?id=33116894 http://www.lifenews.com/2015/08/17/ben-carson-on-abortion-once-conception-has-been-achieved-that-is-human-life/ http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/ben-carson-not-pro-abortion-ian-tuttle Fetal Tissue Research Position(s) https://drjengunter.wordpress.com/2015/08/12/ben-carson-did-research-on-17-week-fetal-tissue/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/08/13/ben-carson-no-apologies-for-1992-fetal-tissue-research/ http://www.lifenews.com/2015/08/17/ben-carson-on-abortion-once-conception-has-been-achieved-that-is-human-life/ Gay Marriage and Homosexual Position(s) http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2013/03/28/_be_they_gays_be_they_nambla_be_they_people_who_believe_in_beastiality.html http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/04/politics/ben-carson-prisons-gay-choice/ http://www.bilerico.com/2015/01/ben_carson_homophobic_bakers_might_poison_gay_wedd.php https://www.facebook.com/realbencarson/posts/439171262916012 http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2014/02/04/choose_to_be_gay_no_you_don_t.html http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/rachelwitkin/ben_carson_s_10_worst_anti_gay_comments http://www.apa.org/topics/lgbt/orientation.aspx http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/cnn-holds-another-awkward-interview-of-ben-carson-on-gay-rights/article/2566953 http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2015/03/ben-carson-prison-proves-homosexuality-choice Religious Beliefs http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/09/ben-carson-creationism-six-days http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3294139/Now-Ben-Carson-says-don-t-know-old-Earth-backs-creatonism-admits-natural-selection-denies-evolved-species.html http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/ben-carson-big-bang-a-fairy-tale-theory-of-evolution-encoura#.usP5xK98EJ http://web.archive.org/web/20150928074313/http://archives.adventistreview.org/2004-1509/story2.html http://www.christianpost.com/news/ben-carson-criticizes-young-earth-creationism-earth-billions-years-old-147566/ http://www.christianpost.com/news/ben-carson-says-darwins-theory-of-evolution-influenced-by-forces-of-evil-but-believes-in-micro-evolution-146909/ http://www.vox.com/explainers/2015/11/5/9677942/ben-carson-pyramids-grain Chemistry Dream Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story by Ben Carson http://www.fdrurl.com/ben-carson-gifted-hands Obamacare https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2013/10/11/ben-carson-obamacare-worst-thing-since-slavery/ Health Care http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/28/upshot/ben-carsons-health-care-plan-new-and-more-confusing.html Veterans Affairs Scandal http://www.mediaite.com/tv/ben-carson-whats-happening-with-the-veterans-is-a-gift-from-god/ Michael Brown Shooting http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/nick-pistor/gop-candidate-ben-carson-says-he-probably-wouldn-t-have/article_0e097a3d-ebde-5ed1-a89e-f382805ef1bd.html Oregon Shooter http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/07/politics/oregon-shooting-ben-carson-survivor/ Muslim President http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/254296-carson-a-muslim-shouldnt-be-president http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/254465-carson-clarifies-muslim-remarks-presidential-candidate Education Funding http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/learning-curve-gives-carson-trouble-again Affirmative Action http://dailycaller.com/2013/03/19/ben-carsons-most-surprising-policy-positions/2/ War on Drugs https://reason.com/blog/2015/10/22/ben-carson-wants-to-intensify-the-war-on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gB11Nd5T-Io Political Affiliation http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/nov/4/ben-carson-officially-switches-parties-returns-gop/ Baltimore Popeye’s Armed Robbery http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3crjsu_ben-carson-at-popeyes-shoot-that-guy_news Race Riot Hero http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/another-ben-carson-tale-implodes-no-evidence-supports-claim-he-shielded-white-classmates-from-1968-race-riot/ Family Health Issues https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/05/03/ben-carson-to-postpone-first-rally-to-say-goodbye-to-his-ailing-mother/ President Barack Obama http://www.rawstory.com/2015/03/ben-carson-calls-obama-a-psychopath-in-gq-interview-because-he-looks-elegant/ http://time.com/32647/which-professions-have-the-most-psychopaths-the-fewest/ Trade http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2015/11/06/ben-carson-backs-white-houses-tpp-trade-deal/ The Company You Keep http://thehill.com/opinion/op-ed/255970-the-nation-of-islam-could-be-chicagos-savior http://dailycaller.com/2015/10/17/top-carson-aide-wants-taxpayers-to-fund-farrakhan/ http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/10/support_of_farrakhan_organization_may_force_ben_carson_to_separate_from_longtime_adviser.html Supports Puerto Rican Statehood http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/08/politics/ben-carson-puerto-rico-statehood/