The story about the man who became rich through a dream

Once upon the time, there lived in Baghdad a wealthy man who unfortunately lost all his means. Because of that he was forced to earn his living and work really hard. One night he had a strange dream with a man who came to him saying: "Your fortune is in Cairo; go there and seek it."

So he set out for Cairo. He arrived there after dark and took shelter for the night in a mosque. As Allah would have it, a band of thieves entered the mosque. The noise awakened the owners, who called for help. By the time the Chief of Police and his men came, the robbers managed to escape.

They only found the man from Baghdad sleeping deeply. Naturally, he was arrested and beaten with palm rods until he was nearly dead. At the end the policemen threw him into jail.

Three days later the Chief of Police sent for him and asked: "Where do you come from?"

"From Baghdad" - he answered.

"And what brought you to Cairo?" - the policeman continued the interrogation.

The man from Baghdad answered that one night a man came to him in a dream and told him to come to Cairo to find his fortune.

And he added: "But when I came here, the promised fortune proved to be the palm rods you so generously gave to me."

"You fool" - said the Chief of Police, laughing until his wisdom teeth showed - "A man has come to me three times in a dream and has described a house in Baghdad where a great sum of money is supposedly buried beneath a fountain in the garden. He told me to go there and take it, but I stayed here. You, however, have foolishly journeyed from place to place on the faith of a dream which was nothing more than a meaningless hallucination."

He then gave him some money saying: "This will help you return to your own country."

The man took the money. He realized that the Chief of Police had just described his own house in Baghdad.

After a long way back when he returned home, he discovered a great treasure beneath the fountain in his garden.

P.S. I wish you sweet dreams ;)

That's my version of well-known stories from the collection of "The Stories of 1001 Nights"