Just as there are so many others stories, there is one in which a man due to a strange disease could not have
dreams. His contemporaries came to his aid, because if dogs and cats howled and
purred like other animal species, why not this one. Have not you seen a dog,
dreaming? Or if not, then what were the experiences of Pavlov? We can deduce
that animals also dream. It was decided then that more attention had to be paid
so that his dreams would surface like that of all humans where imagination and
reality were confused, while life through time gave us new experiences that
would translate into expectations, that with the time would be other dreams of
better well-being. There are dreams of dreams. They decided to tell him how in
the caves of Altamira they found some cave paintings of our original ancestors,
which gave life to the reality they had. Men who were exposed to the struggle
for the survival of the species. And to get it, they met in those caves, and
went to their imaginations to make their dreams come true. They had prayed in
their own way, and they had gone to their work: On the hunt.
Species of unknown animals and
plants would amazed those men, as if they were hallucinated. But a nightmare
would come with those dreams. With the Moors the Jews also had gone and
with them all that could be prosperity. The gold that represented for the
majority that went in pursuit of these new lands, it would be the backwardness
for the Spaniards, while the English with the industrial revolution would be
the owners of the world, and with these new dreams, ideas of freedom that as
never before had seen, presage that everything would change forever.Then the man began
to dream. Germán Arciniegas in your book "The man of the golden",
this legend would be the stimulus for the dream of Manco de Lepanto thatwrote
Don Quixote. One very different from what they were looking for those who
wanted fame and fortune in these lands discovered. They were ideal represented
in that character who is still fighting the blades of windmills. He wanted to
come to this land, but as he could not, was content to listen and read the
adventures of the conquistadors, and among them those of Gonzalo Jimenez de
Quezada. A dream that would immortalize.
The man finally did what his contemporaries wanted: He dreamed. And the
dream would generate equal to those of the Jews nightmares. He un-derstood how
these new lands after producing new dreams, greed for mate-rial wealth would
generate conflicts. Amid all these dreams other languages with different
customs to those of Cervantes, with a more pragmatic religion they would make
the conquest of the West attracted crowds glimpsed dreams of freedom. Golden
legend sparked new ways of thinking. He glimpsed that new nightmares would come
in his shadow. Not everything that flashed was gold or progress because
wars would continue despite those dreams. He imagined then an imaginary
country built on a bridge in the largest river in the world, and which
contained the answers to the concerns that no human being had been able to
carry out. In the skirt of the woman who represented the statue of liberty, he
supposed that the modern armies would go astray, and in exchange for the dead,
the smell of the flowers of freedom would be possessed in the hearts, which
with only smelling they would get the peace and happiness that they were
looking for. And yet the nightmares continue, and the same men who wanted to
dream, finally decided he had no right to that. The equality of which he
dreamed, it was not the same of them.Freedom was a simple fallacyShe was
chained. He learned truths that were hidden. Greed and avarice were the owners in
those worlds where the indecent prospering. Those dreams although dreams,
chimeras were overflowing concerns in find-ing new satisfactions. Since that
time the man continued to dream. The Legend of Golden would becom-ing a
reality. The contradictions continue.