The image is a candid photograph of a person named Brima Hina. The setting is dimly lit—a bedroom, a bus station, or a hospital. Brima is looking away from the camera. The phrase is written on the back of the physical print in marker, then scanned and renamed. The person who saved the file is trying to remember that Brima is not a dream, but a person who once existed.
But in the language of internet lore, triple hyphens are sometimes used in ASCII art or forum signatures to denote a boundary. They are a threshold. To cross the hyphens is to leave the world of words and enter the world of images. Brima Hina It-s Not Just A Dream--- jpg
The three hyphens ( --- ) are a typographic anomaly. In writing, an em-dash (—) or double hyphen often indicates interruption or a shift in tone. Here, three hyphens followed by a space and then jpg suggests: The image is a candid photograph of a