WHY WE FORGET OUR DREAMS

WHY WE FORGET OUR DREAMS: An African Metaphysical Explanation of the Ka, the Body, and the Inner Potency System

BY: OMOLAJA MAKINEE

Across Africa, our ancestors did not treat dreams as random illusions or chemical firings in the brain. Dreams were understood as messages, warnings, ancestral briefings, or destiny reminders—communications from the soul’s memory-field into the consciousness of the living person.

And yet, most people today forget almost every dream they have. Why?

Why does something that felt so vivid, urgent, and meaningful during sleep evaporate the moment we open our eyes? Why does the soul speak clearly at night, only for the biological body to silence or distort its messages by morning?

African metaphysics provides a complete explanation—one rooted in the relationship between:

  • the ka energy-field,
  • the biological body,
  • the inner potency system (foresight, telepathy, vision, retrocognition),
  • and the attunement bar of spiritual harmony.

Here, I explores the full mechanism behind dream-forgetting and why spiritual discipline is essential for remembering them.

1. The Ka Energy-Field: The Soul’s Atmosphere

Every human being walks with a ka energy-field, an aura-like extension of their spiritual essence. It surrounds, penetrates, and interacts with the biological body at all times.

In African metaphysics:

  • Dreams emerge in the ka-field, not in the brain.
  • When you dream, you enter an internal realm where the physical body becomes suppressed.
  • The biological body’s noise—desire, hormones, anxieties, sensory impressions—falls silent.
  • The ka achieves direct contact with its soul’s memory and ancestral communication channels.

In sleep, the soul speaks clearly because the body is quiet. But in waking life, the body takes over again. This is the root of dream forgetting.

2. Why Dreams Fade: The Body Rewrites the Message

When a person wakes up:

  • The biological body reactivates: Its cravings, hormones, sensory impulses, and emotional noise surge back into dominance.
  • The thalamus begins filtering: It decides what enters conscious awareness and what gets discarded.
  • Psychextrics Hormonal Index Marker (HIM) and Hormonal Fluidity Index (HFI)’s distortions return: Hormonal tones and emotional tensions begin reshaping memory.

In this moment—between sleep and wakefulness—the dream loses clarity. The message was delivered perfectly in the ka-field, but the body scrambled the download. Thus many people wake up saying:

“I know I dreamed something important… but I can’t remember.”

The soul remembers. The ka-field remembers. Only the biological body forgot.

3. The Attunement Bar: Why Some Remember and Others Forget

To understand why dream recall varies so sharply between people, we must consider the Attunement Bar System. Imagine spiritual attunement as a bar rated from 1 to 9.

Bar 1–3: Low Attunement

This is the state of the average person today:

  • No spiritual discipline.
  • No fasting or prayer.
  • No self-mastery over desire.
  • Regular fornication with no spiritual awareness.
  • Constant emotional turbulence.
  • Disconnected from ancestral communication.
  • Dominated by biological cravings, such as lying, cheating, scamming, causing pains and sufferings, stealing, causing chaos where peace should reigns, committing evil deeds and abusing your power against those less to defend themselves.

A person living at “Bar 3” dreams frequently, but their dream recall becomes a game of hit or miss. The ka receives the message. But the body may blocks, edits, or erases it.

Bar 4–6: Medium Attunement

A person here is spiritually aware, though inconsistent.

  • They pray sometimes.
  • They avoid spiritual contamination most of the time.
  • They reflect, meditate, and control impulses occasionally.
  • They experience moments of clarity followed by confusion.

When they dream, they remember some, forget some, misinterpret many. They may recall symbols but not meaning, events but not context.

Bar 7–9: High Attunement

This level belongs to spiritually disciplined individuals:

  • Priests.
  • Prophets.
  • Healers.
  • Elders with ritual mastery.
  • People who avoid spiritual pollution.
  • Those whose desires do not rule their decisions.

They maintain harmony between:

  • The ka energy-field;
  • Their Inner Potency (foresight, telepathy, vision, or retrocognition);
  • Their Inner Circuitry (dreams, clairvoyance);
  • Their biological body.

Here, dreams remain crisp and unbroken. They remember every detail upon waking—because the body cannot overpower the ka-field.

4. How Spiritual Discipline Raises the Attunement Bar

Many people assume religious devotion or ritual practice is about morality. But in ancient African teachings, discipline is energetic technology.

  • Fasting reduces hormonal noise.
  • Prayer strengthens the ka.
  • Sexual discipline prevents the body’s cravings from hijacking spiritual circuitry.
  • Meditation silences internal chatter.
  • Self-awareness strengthens the inner pathways between ka and consciousness.

Ancestral rituals illuminate the ka’s memory channels. Religion is not merely belief—it is energetic alignment.

People become religious—sometimes extremely so—because they sense instinctively that spiritual harmony requires suppressing the body and elevating the ka. This is why prophets, babaláwo, sangomas, and elders possess a clarity that ordinary people do not. They have mastered the art of raising their attunement bar.

5. The Ka versus The Biological Body: A Constant Battle

During waking life, the ka and the biological body constantly interact.

The ka sends: Intuition. Prophecy, Warnings, Past memory of Dreams, Ancestral messages.

The body sends: Desire, Fear, Hormonal distortions, Sensory confusion, Emotional cravings.

If the body is stronger, ka messages disappear. If the ka is stronger, its messages remain intact. This is why dream retention is a sign of spiritual harmony.

6. Why Priests Rarely Forget Their Dreams

Traditional African priests—Babaláwo, Akomfo, Inyanga, Dibia—maintain:

  • Higher vibrational states;
  • Heightened inner potency;
  • Chronic alignment between ka and consciousness;
  • Reduced biological interference.

Their attunement bar rarely falls below 7. This allows them to:

  • Recall all dreams;
  • Interpret them without distortion;
  • Access their inner circuitry;
  • Practice clairvoyance without body interference.

Priests are therefore the stabilisers of the community’s dream-world. They help interpret what ordinary people cannot hear clearly because the seekers own bodies are too noisy. This is why priesthood is sacred—because they stand where the body cannot corrupt the message.

Conclusion: Remembering Dreams Is About Spiritual Alignment

People forget their dreams not because dreams are meaningless, but because their biological body overpowers their ka energy-field.

Dream retention depends on:

  • The strength of the ka;
  • The alignment of inner potency;
  • The clarity of inner circuitry;
  • The suppression of biological cravings;
  • The spiritual discipline of the individual.

Thus:

  • A person at Bar 3 forgets.
  • A person at Bar 6 remembers sometimes.
  • A person at Bar 9 remembers everything.

Dreams do not fade. Only the body interrupts them. The soul has already spoken. What remains is whether the person is spiritually attuned enough to hear.

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