A year later, Polokwane pastor’s dream win is still memorable
Lottery winning tickets in different parts of the world have changed peoples lives and perceptions regarding lottery.
Winning the lottery is very much the stuff dreams are made of for a lot of people. Of course, this is taken in the metaphorical or figurative sense for the most part, but sometimes it quite literally enters our subconscious while we sleep.
Many Polokwane residents will remember a popular story from 2018, when a pastor from the area won R15 million via the Lotto – and insisted the numbers he picked came to him in a dream.
While being chased, falling and work are common themes in dreams around the country and, indeed, the world, money is another well-document subject for our sleeping subconscious.
It makes sense, then, that offsetting money troubles be coupled with slumbered thoughts about winning the lottery.
The Polokwane pastor is a good example of those whose lottery dreams came to fruition, but he is not alone, as a few examples from around the world show.
Canada’s Olga Beno, for instance, had a dream about winning lottery numbers. She then started to bet and eventually won a fat prize, which she used to plan a trip to Disney Land with her family. That all happened as recently as 2017.
Another Canadian, Mary Wollens, won three times more than Beno back in 2006. As an 86-year-old widow, she had her share of financial struggles, a lot of which were corrected when she won the equivalent of R178 million (by today’s exchange rate) on the Ontario Lottery. She had dreamt about a lottery ticket and a big check before entering and winning.
England’s Deana Sampson reckons she had help from the afterlife. She bet on the UK National Lottery regularly and one evening, dreamt about her deceased brother telling her that she would win. She did – and bought her house and took her family on a dream holiday.
Many South Africans daydream about winning the lottery. For a lot of them, those dreams have become a reality. But a study conducted by Unisa’s Bureau for Market Research found that more than 70 percent of people who bet on the lottery cited the “need for money” as a big reason for entering. This goes to show that it’s not all about winning to live the high life, but rather trying to get winnings to spend on necessities.
