I saw Sisyphus in my dreams once…

This was a few years ago. I saw Sisyphus in a dream once. Up until that moment, I had never heard the legend or knowingly come across the imagery. Yet in the dream, I saw it very clearly, a muscular man rolling a massive rock up a mountain. Then someone, or perhaps simply a voice, mentioned the name "Sisyphus." That was the dream.

When I woke up, I did what I often do with unusual things that appear in my dreams or waking life, I looked it up. To my surprise, I discovered the myth and the story behind it. Based on the circumstances of my life at the time, I immediately understood the message in the only way I knew how—I was stuck in a loop.

Many things come to me this way. Symbols, myths, legends, phenomena, theories, ideas I have never consciously read about, encountered, or directly engaged with. Yet when I follow the trail, I almost always learn something new. There is usually another layer waiting beneath the surface.

Over time, I have made peace with the terms of my life, and one of them is that this way of knowing, of revealing, is how my Agwu communicates with me, by making the unconscious obvious.