Magical realism is used as a literary mode to highlight the significance of cultural intermingling, hybridity, and transformation. In the Novel Songs of Enchantment', Nigerian author Ben Okri uses dreams, visions, and magic to connect politics and history to bring out the concept of African consciousness in postcolonial society. The paper focuses on using imagination and its purpose in the novel. The mode of magical realism in the book helps the reader to view postcolonial Nigeria through dreams which serve in two ways firstly, through culture and society, and secondly, through hope of postcolonial Nigeria. This study aims to analyze how Okri encodes African consciousness versus Western epistemology and revaluates history through dreams and visions. Further, the study tries to analyze how Okri redreams postcolonial Nigeria through the third eye in 'Songs of Enchantment