Find a Doctor Who Can Save you From Depression and All Mental Illnesses

Dream interpretation is like the Internet: you can open many windows that lead you to another level of knowledge as you research the content of your psyche and your reality, in addition to learning to understand how people around you think, feel and sense.





You only have to write down your dreams. Write them down and wait. When you have around 5 dreams in your notebook or PC file, you will start to understand how to interpret them because you can relate the messages you received. This will be the beginning. Continue writing your dreams every day, and after many dreams, you’ll see the complete picture of what is happening in your psyche and around you.





Of course, it is essential to have a glossary with the dream symbols, which have been elucidated according to the scientific method of dream interpretation discovered by the psychiatrist and psychologist Carl Jung. I am a writer and have improved this method and can provide you a relevant glossary in my ebook, while Jung was too ignorant to do so. I continued his research and discovered that craziness is actually caused by the anti-conscience, which is untamed and very violent.





Only someone who is not a psychologist or psychiatrist could discover the existence of this wild conscience (anti-conscience) because all scientists follow the same basis for their research. However, their foundation is wrong. The same thing happened when the human beings believed that Earth was flat, whereas it turned out to be actually spherical. They looked for solutions based on the wrong impression about the Earth and therefore, none of their conclusions were correct.





All psychiatrists and psychologists believe that our conscience is right and we have to do what it tells us, even if we accept advice from someone else. Most people in our world think exactly the same.





However, my discoveries obtained by interpreting dreams revealed that the human conscience is absurd, ignorant and idiotic whereas the unconscious that produces our dreams is wise and saintly. Jung had concluded that the human being should listen to the advice of the unconscious mind but always do what one’s own conscience decides.





He thought that the wise unconscious that produces dreams to cure us from depression and craziness would also cause craziness. This is because Jung could not find another explanation, and he was afraid to continue investigating this finding. He accepted ignorance and stopped his research at a certain point. He was guided by the unconscious as well because he was not ready to learn the entire truth.





My research was not based only on the previous notions of the scientific world but also on the facts that I observed as a poetess. In addition, I could observe the works of many scientists that were consistent with each other, and all these resources revealed the same reality. Therefore, I abandoned the rule of my own conscience and followed only the directions I received in my dreams and symbols of daily life (that can be interpreted like dreams) that were sent by the wise and saintly unconscious mind.





No scientist would ever agree to do so; however, I did this because I clearly saw how crazy the human conscience was and I understood that far more craziness could originate only from the conscience and not from the unconscious as Jung mistakenly believed. Only the conscience shows us several signs of craziness and not the perfect unconscious mind that works like a doctor.





This is why I discovered that the human being is basically a monster and that one has to tame this violent nature and learn how to live peacefully, respect others and help them, so that one is happy and everyone in this world is happy too.





The other factor that the scientists ignore is that happiness is impossible on Earth because of the terror and violence that exist here. Terror destroys everything. This is why schizophrenia and psychosis and all the terrible mental illnesses that torture our population exist. Everything starts in our own psyche, which worsens in the crazy world we live in.





Everything in our world pushes us towards the labyrinth of craziness, helping the anti-conscience destroy our conscience completely. It is completely impossible to cure schizophrenia, psychosis or any mental illness in a world governed by terrorism, violence, immorality, corruption, greed, hypocrisy and futility.





If everything in our world is absurd, how can our population be balanced, calm and happy?





On the other hand, if the human being is a monster that has to be tamed and taught wisdom, how could one create a world that would be different than one’s own nature? One could only create a hell characterized by poverty, prostitution, wars, cruelty and indifference to human pain.





The solution for humanity and especially for each individual is dream interpretation, which is synonymous with craziness prevention. Everyone must prevent craziness as soon as possible, since it already exists in our psyche and even characterizes our conscience. With the invasion of the anti-conscience into the conscience, one becomes crazier, until one gets lost in the labyrinth of craziness.





We see dreams every time we sleep because the wise unconscious tries to save us when we sleep from the inherent craziness, so that the anti-conscience cannot invade our minds. The unconscious sends us mysterious messages that we have to learn how to decipher because if they could be easily understood by our conscience, the anti-conscience would understand them as well and distort them. We would then have no protection against craziness.





Depression is a warning that craziness is coming or that it has already arrived. You have to do something to change your life and behavior; otherwise, your depression can become a neurosis, which can easily worsen in a very short period of time if you do not treat yourself.





You need not go anywhere or pay any doctor. The wise unconscious is your doctor, the best that you could ever find. You only have to write down your dreams daily and relate them and study their meaning after translating dream symbols into words. You also have to follow its guidance to completely develop your conscience, forever eliminating the anti-conscience.

Seven Reasons We Should Listen to Our Dreams

Some believe dreams are just random firings of the synapses in our brain. Others say that dreams are one of the brain’s ways of processing information from previous day. But is that what the Bible teaches us about dreams?

I don’t believe it is.

The Bible both tells us that God communicates through dreams and give us examples of God communicating with people through dreams. Below I’ll examine some of what I teach in my course about dream interpretation at a Christian university and online Bible college.

Some Scientific Observations Concerning Dreams
Sleep laboratories have proven that everyone dreams one to two hours each night during a certain period of sleep known as alpha level, which is light sleep. Every 90-minute cycle of sleep begins with alpha, then goes into deeper sleep which is called theta, and finally deepest sleep which is called delta.

At the close of the first 90-minute cycle each night, the individual returns to alpha level sleep, where he has a short, five-minute dream period. The next time he cycles up to alpha, he has a ten-minute dream period. The third time in alpha, the dream period is about 15 minutes, and so on. If one sleeps a full eight hours, the entire last hour is essentially spent in alpha level sleep. Thus, the average person sleeping for eight hours a night will dream about one to two hours of that time.

Alpha level sleep is where one has what is called Rapid Eye Movement (REM). Rapid Eye Movement is exactly what it sounds like: the eyes of the dreamer begin moving rapidly. He is actually watching the scenes in the dream, and thus his eyes are literally moving back and forth, observing the action. By observing the alpha level sleep when Rapid Eye Movement occurs, researchers in sleep laboratories have determined when a person is dreaming and how much time is spent dreaming in an average night.

Seven Reasons We Should Listen to Our Dreams
1. God declared that He WOULD speak through dreams and visions in the Old Testament.

And He said, “Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream�? (Num. 12:6).

2. God declared that He DID speak through dreams and visions in the Old Testament.

“I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets�? (Hos. 12:10).

3. God declares that He WILL communicate through dreams and visions in the New Testament.

“And it shall come to pass in the last days,�? saith God, “I will pour out of My Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams�? (Acts 2:17).

4. God declares that He WILL COUNSEL us at night through our dreams.

I will bless the Lord who has counseled me; Indeed, my mind (inner man) instructs me in the night (Ps. 16:7 NASB).

5. Rather than our dreams being fatalistic, dreams are calling us to change SO WE WILL NOT PERISH.

For God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not. In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed; Then He openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction, That He may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man. He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword (Job 33:14-18, emphasis mine).

6. God does very significant things WITHIN dreams. For example, He established the Abrahamic Covenant in a dream.

And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him....And God said to Abram....In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying... (Gen. 15:12,13,18, emphasis mine).

7. God grants supernatural gifts THROUGH dreams.

In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, “Ask what I shall give thee....�?

“Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge Thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this Thy so great a people?�?

“...Behold, I have done according to thy words: lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart; so that there was none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee....�? And Solomon awoke; and, behold, it was a dream (I Kings 3:5,9,12,15).

What have you been dreaming? What may God be trying to communicate with your through your dreams? I encourage you to take note of your dreams and work to interpret them. If you are not sure how to interpret dreams, please read my previous article, “Principles for Interpreting Dreams�?.

Another Example of Dream Interpretation

In some of my past articles I have discussed the principles for interpreting dreams, given an example of dream interpretation, and written about why we should listen to our dreams. With dreams being both an important means of God communicating with us and because dream interpretation is generally a rather misunderstood concept, I felt it would be good to provide another example of God communicating through dreams. Below is an example of dream interpretation involving a co-worker of mine, a lady who used to edit my materials and take Bible school classes from me at my Christian university and online Bible college. She came to me with the following dream:

In the dream, she entered her house and smelled smoke. She went upstairs looking for the fire but she couldn’t find it. Then she looked downstairs, but could not find it. She went into the kitchen and the smoke smell was stronger. She opened upper kitchen cabinets and could not find the fire. She opened the lower kitchen cabinets, flames leapt out, and she awoke.

At the time, we could not understand what the dream was saying. Two months later, she went to the doctors with an intestinal ailment which was diagnosed as inflammation of the intestines. It was a stress-related disease, and the doctor put her on medication which took care of the inflammation.

Do you see that her dream was warning us of this physical ailment two months before the doctor diagnosed it?

Her dream said, “In her house there was a fire.�? Her house was the place that she lived - her body.

The fire was in the kitchen. The kitchen is the place we eat, and thus symbolized her digestive tract.

The fire was not in the upper cabinets, which would symbolize her upper digestive region, or her stomach.

It was in the lower kitchen cabinets, which would symbolize her lower digestive region - her intestines.

The dream said, “In your intestines, there is a fire,�? two months before the doctor diagnosed it.

A year later the dream returned. She realized immediately that if she did not relax, the stress she was experiencing would bring another visit to the doctor’s office. She did relax and was able to offset another attack. Awesome counsel! Worth listening to, and worth acting upon. This is an example of a subjective dream which was talking about things taking place within the individual. It was providing her with God’s counsel, instructing her of calamity to come if she did not mend her ways. WOW!

A guide to dream interpretation

Most of us dream. But only a very small percentage of us understands that dreams hold much importance and opportunity for our self growth, improvement and self discovery. But many mystics of both Eastern and Western origins are aware of the fact that dreams hold a wealth of untapped knowledge. Because of its inherently vague nature, dreams and the art of interpreting them never entered mainstream sciences. Jungian psychology is the closest mainstream science that took dreams seriously.

This article is a concise description of the method of dream interpretation that I use. There are several points/guidelines to take note.

1. The dreams are often symbolic representations of what we are experiencing or are about to experience in the near future. I have found that my dreams often convey messages of occurrences that will most likely happen within a month or so.





2. Usually the people that we encounter in the dream symbolize the different aspects/characteristics of ourselves. For example: a woman may represent a feminine aspect of oneself even when one is male in the waking hours. Much of our repressed tendencies also tend to manifest themselves as characters in dreams as well.

Have you ever wondered why we sometimes appear and behave so differently in our dreams. Well, my take is that dreaming offers an outlet for us to be 'somebody else' that we never had the opportunity to be during our waking hours.

1. Often how we feel and the emotion we felt during the dream reveals and conveys much about the meaning of the symbols.

Intuition and the willingness to examine ourselves with brutal honesty are two very important factors for successful analysis.

Below is a list of commonly encountered symbols. In my opinion, we should always take into consideration the fact that symbols hold certain semantics and meanings that are specific to individuals. Thus the interpretations of symbols are not generic and therefore there can be no hard and fast rules with regards to dream analysis.

Common dream symbolism

Water- associated with emotion.

Ocean or any large body of water - often represents the subconscious mind. The state of the sea often is an indication of the emotional state as well

Eating/digesting- Trying to understand an issue/situation

Walking- associated with learning and assimilating.

Path, road or pavement- symbolises life or spiritual Path/journey

House- symbolises our self. Within the house, the various rooms could represent the various aspects of self.

Snake- symbolises knowledge.

Tree and forest - subconscious feelings that governs our emotions

Bridge- a transitional phase or period of transformation / change

Below is an example of a dream and its interpretation.

Dream

Miss A was visiting a foreign country. She boarded a train that has a stop in a shopping complex that meanders through mountains and terrains. She remembered telling the train driver that she wanted to alight in the shopping centre so that she can find her way home.

Instead of alighting at the intended destination, she alighted at a strange place. She had difficulty getting to her destination. She contacted her partner (boyfriend). Though they communicated through the phone, she was still stuck and lost in that unfamiliar place. By this time, she was starting to get depressed. In the moment of depression, she woke up from the dream.

Symbolism involved

Foreign country- unknown knowledge, new experience Train- accelerated learning and understanding Through mountains and terrains- ups and downs Find the way home- spiritual path Train-in-charge - guiding aspect Her partner - male/ mental aspect Queen shopping center station - an intermediate stage that must be attained.

Interpretation

Miss A is currently experiencing and/or learning something that is still unknown to her. It is something that is rather difficult for her to grasp and apply. She is/will be experiencing some feelings of ups and downs. However, if understood, the newfound understanding and knowledge could significantly accelerate her self-growth and discovery. However, for the time being, it is something not within her experience yet (as symbolized by alighting at a strange place instead of the designated station). When she tried contacting her male partner (which symbolizes using her mental reasoning), she was still confused and thus became depressed.

Well, that's all for a quick lesson in dream interpretation. I hope it is informative and beneficial.

Happy Dreaming...

Perchance to Dream: Your Magical World of Dreams

Dreams – they intrigue us. They mystify us. They enchant us. Sometimes they scare us. What do we do with this whole other dimension of our lives? Do we just ignore our dreaming life – or can we use dreams in some way in our lives?





We all dream. Though some of us may think we don’t, sleep research has shown that, in actuality, we all really do dream. The problem is that some of us may not remember our dreams. We remember dreams when we shift to a lighter level of consciousness (measured by brain waves) when we’re dreaming. In other words, if we hear a noise, for example, or if we shift our bodily position, we come out of the deeper level of dream-stage sleep to a lighter level of consciousness, or even wake up completely. It is only when this happens that we remember what we had been dreaming about.





Dreams are fascinating – at least they have always been to me. Indeed, I have been working with my own and interpreting others’ dreams for many, many years, and I am a firm believer that dreams give us rich material to work with in our lives, if we are so inclined – and that we can, in fact, demystify and understand our dreams.





As a step towards this, let’s look at the actual phenomenon of dreams. One interesting thing I have learned from my work with dreams is that what we lump into the broad category of “dreams�? may in truth be different types of phenomena. So the first step in understanding and working with our dreams is to know what “type�? of dream we have had.





Now this may be a surprising revelation. Dreams are dreams, right? Well, think about this for a moment: have you ever had a dream that felt different from other dreams? For instance, have you ever had a dream that felt so real that you felt that you really were somewhere else?





Well, you may have been.





As strange as this may sound, there are many theories (including some in quantum or modern physics – which I certainly don’t profess to fully understand) that alternate realities and other dimensions exist – and our nighttime experiences may actually be visits to these other realms. As eerie or “outlandish�? (no pun intended!) as this may sound, if you believe that our consciousness is not ultimately limited or bounded by our bodies, this idea can make perfect sense – because when we’re sleeping our bodies are quiet and our minds and consciousness are less bombarded by noisy feedback from our bodily functions, thus being freer to “leave the body�? and roam.





So oftentimes when we’re sleeping our consciousness is off exploring and experiencing, and some of these experiences may be translated into the form of dreams – experience dreams – whereas others may be forgotten or slip into oblivion, at least from our conscious or semi-conscious awareness.





And, to complicate matters further, the illusory veil of time may be lifted, and we can be exploring other times as well – including past lives.





So, the next time you wake up and feel like you’ve been somewhere else, remember this: maybe you have been.





(Phew! Still with me? I told you dreams were fascinating….)





As exotic as this type of “dream�? experience may be, other types of dreams may seem more mundane in comparison.





Some dreams really do represent a sorting out of the day’s experiences or working on problems, as our brains sift through and correlate information and experiences. These dreams are usually mundane and quotidian. Included in this type of dream experience, however, are very creative dreams in which we actually solve problems we’re working on and receive answers we have been looking for. A classic, and oft-cited, example of this type of creative problem-solving dream is the model of the benzene molecule, whose structure was received by Kekule, a chemistry professor, in a dream after he had been puzzling over this question; the dream was of a snake biting its own tail and twirling in a circle.





One interesting type of dream is that in which we are communicating with others on some level. If you wake up and feel that you were having a discussion or communicating with your long-lost love, you may, in fact, have truly been doing just that. In these communication dreams – or communication experiences – the person being engaged in dialogue can be living or “dead.�? Some communication can come in the form of guidance and can be coming from our spirit guides (or guardian angels, angelic presences, or whatever terminology you wish to use).





Some dreams are “psychic�? dreams, in which we receive information we have no other concrete way of knowing. These include precognitive dreams that can give us information about the future, as well as clairvoyant (French for clear-seeing) dreams that can give us glimpses of things going on in the “real world�? while we are dreaming.





Some dreams are mainly expressing fears or desires we may have, especially those that may be lying below our conscious awareness. These dreams serve to make us consciously aware of these fears or desires so that we may work on them, and these dreams may also represent our actually working on these issues at an unconscious level.





One of the richest types of dreams is that in which we are working on personal or spiritual growth issues. In these dreams we are receiving (or generating, whatever your point of view) information on these issues. These dreams can be the most content-laden and most rewarding for us to work with, as they point out things for us to look at or work on, or connections between and among factors in our lives that we may not have realized were there. These dreams may also be the most cloaked in symbols.





Many dreams are one-time scenarios that we only have once, but we also have recurring dreams, dreams that repeat the same theme over and over again, sort of a nocturnal reverie leitmotif. These dreams are usually, though not always, more significant than single dreams and can represent general issues that we are working on (whether we realize consciously that we are working on them or not). Over time, as we make progress on the underlying growth issues, we will tend to see these dreams shift and evolve.





So there is a true variety of different types of dream experiences – a veritable cornucopia of dreams. And, to make the experience even richer, any one dream can be a combination of different types of dreams. For instance, we can have a dream in which we are talking to someone we know, which takes place in another country and time period. This dream may be both an experience, in which we are actually exploring a past life, as well as a communication dream, in which we are actually exploring a past life connection with someone we know in real time and are communicating with him or her on some level in that other time period. And this dream could also have a psychic element as well, if something were revealed about the future.





This is one of the fascinating aspects of dreams. (Can you tell how excited I am about dreams?) Dreams are truly a very rich and complicated phenomenon – or set of phenomena.





Now the next question is, do we want to do anything with our dreams? I am a firm believer that looking at our dreams and attempting to work with them in some way can be very rewarding for us. They can give us information about our lives, and they can certainly give us insight into ourselves as we move along on our paths and evolve. For those of us who are into meaning and like to understand things in our lives, dreams provide a rich vein of material to mine.





I must say at this point that my orientation toward dreams starts with a spiritual assumption, and that is that we are here to learn and grow. (And wouldn’t life be boring if we weren’t?) So my work with dreams is very much colored by this assumption. And, as we learn and grow – and evolve – in our lives, dreams can be a powerful tool. Without this assumption and orientation, we may regard dreams as no more than an oddity, a nighttime venture into the irrational, and a curiosity devoid of any use or practicality.





And, interestingly, in my work with dreams, I can’t ever remember working with a dream that had no true meaning.





So, if you’d like to delve into the magical world of dreams and see what you can gain, I’ll take you on a guided tour of how you might approach your dreams. (Why not? You’ve come with me this far!)





First of all, I would recommend only working with the dreams that feel significant to you, whether you understand them or not. We often remember a dream strongly upon awakening, sometimes to the extent that it will stay with us throughout the day, resonating as it is evoked at odd times by different things. These are the dreams I would work with.





Some dream-workers recommend keeping a journal by the bed and programming yourself to wake up from every dream and record it. My approach is less active. I operate under the assumption that we’ll generally remember the significant dreams and that, if we take too proactive an approach, we might be disturbing our sleep too much. Being rested is too important in our stressful world to deliberately disturb sleep!





Once we have a dream that we feel is significant, the first step, as mentioned above, is to figure out what type (or types) of dream it was.





After we know what type(s) of dream it was, we then want to try to understand it. This is where we get into the realm of dream interpretation, because dreams are so often veiled in symbolic form. And this is also where things can become sticky, because good dream interpreting is somewhat of an art and requires skill.





It also requires intuition. So throw out all your dream dictionaries that tell you that a certain symbol has certain meanings! A dream is not a generalized story, aimed at the general populace with general meanings; it is a specific message for the dreamer alone and, as such, it is expressed in the dreamer’s own vocabulary. The dreamer alone has the keys to understanding it – or a good dream interpreter who uses intuition to decode the meanings specific for the dreamer.





And that’s another fascinating aspect of dreams: any one dream can have several different meanings – and all of them equally valid meanings for the dreamer.





So, sharpen up those intuitive pencils and let’s start tackling those dreams!





After you’ve determined what type(s) of dream you’re working with, you’ll want to follow these steps:





1. Ask yourself (or the dreamer) how you (or he/she) felt about the dream, both upon waking and in retrospect. Was it pleasure, fear, anxiety, optimism, relief, etc.? Our feelings about our dreams are keys to their meanings.





2. Allow yourself to get into a very relaxed state of consciousness and clear your mind as you go over the dream’s unfolding sequentially in your mind (or as the dreamer relates the dream to you, if it’s not your dream). What things go through your mind as you review or listen to the dream? What is evoked? What percolates up from your subconscious?





3. Instead of focusing on how “bizarre�? the dream seems, approach it as a very rich, cogent, and, yes, respectable event. If we are just focusing on the bizarre quality of dreams, this serves to distract us from their credible validity and the richness in insight they can offer to us.





4. Then work with each symbol in the dream independently. Focus on a symbol, while asking yourself (or the dreamer), “What does this mean to me (or you)?�? For example, we might feel that coins in a dream signify riches. However, if the dreamer’s husband was a coin collector, the symbol may also be saying something about the dreamer’s husband or their relationship. I once had someone relate a dream to me that she had had, very upset because there was a cat in the dream and someone had told her that a cat in a dream means death(!). When I asked this woman how she felt about cats, she replied, “Oh, I love cats!�? Well, obviously for her the cat in her dream did not necessarily mean death! Remember, too, that any one symbol can have more than one valid meaning.





5. Ask yourself what the general theme of the dream is. What area(s) of your (or the dreamer’s) life is it related to – work, relationships, childhood, etc.?





6. Go over each “story�? segment of the dream and work to understand it as a discrete little unit.





7. Put all the pieces, or segments, of the dream and their meanings together. What picture emerges? How does each segment relate to other segments?





8. Pay attention to any words or phrases that are prominent in the dream. Puns and plays on words are common in dreams and often meaningful.





9. Look for any elements that may have particular significance for you (or the dreamer). What do these elements mean? (For example, a numerologist may have numbers pop up in dreams and these numbers may have numerological significance that contributes to the dream’s meaning(s), or a florist may have flowers or plants appear prominently that may have significance.)





10. Look at the other people who appear in the dream. How do you (or the dreamer) feel about each person? Further meaning may be gained by also looking at each person as you (or the dreamer). Are these people parts of yourself (or the dreamer) that are embraced, disowned, or suppressed?





11. Remember, again, that any one dream can have several different meanings. What different meanings does the dream have? What pictures emerge? What is the dream telling you?





Working with our dreams and practicing dream interpretation can take time and patience. However, we gain more skill and confidence over time.





It can definitely be helpful to keep a dream journal of significant dreams that you’ve had, with the plan of rereading them periodically. Often when we go back and read over dreams that we’ve had a year or more ago, we can gain even more insight. We often understand our dreams even more and realize the issues that were being expressed. Going back over former dreams can also give us perspective on the shifts we’ve subsequently made in our lives, how we’ve evolved and grown.





Dreams represent wonderful and abundant material and, interestingly, we all have our own individual dream signatures, types of dreams unique to us. Some people have fairly straightforward, short dreams, while others have long epic, complicated, and interwoven oeuvres. As much as I enjoy interpreting dreams for others, I get just about as much enjoyment seeing dreamers’ “ahas�? of realization, when they suddenly see their dream make sense to them.





Dreams can give us answers we’ve been looking for. Dreams have even saved people’s lives when they’ve had heavily symbolic dreams that turned out to be about health conditions they had been unaware of, such as cancer!





Allowing yourself to explore your dreams and understand them can open up whole new vistas and dimensions for you – and definitely enrich your life. You can understand yourself more and feel more in control of your life. You can demystify those nighttime enigmas – and maybe even save your life! You can even have fun! So, allow yourself to go on a “magical mystery tour�? of dream exploration!





Sweet dreams!

Perchance to Dream: Your Magical World of Dreams

Dreams – they intrigue us. They mystify us. They enchant us. Sometimes they scare us. What do we do with this whole other dimension of our lives? Do we just ignore our dreaming life – or can we use dreams in some way in our lives?





We all dream. Though some of us may think we don’t, sleep research has shown that, in actuality, we all really do dream. The problem is that some of us may not remember our dreams. We remember dreams when we shift to a lighter level of consciousness (measured by brain waves) when we’re dreaming. In other words, if we hear a noise, for example, or if we shift our bodily position, we come out of the deeper level of dream-stage sleep to a lighter level of consciousness, or even wake up completely. It is only when this happens that we remember what we had been dreaming about.





Dreams are fascinating – at least they have always been to me. Indeed, I have been working with my own and interpreting others’ dreams for many, many years, and I am a firm believer that dreams give us rich material to work with in our lives, if we are so inclined – and that we can, in fact, demystify and understand our dreams.





As a step towards this, let’s look at the actual phenomenon of dreams. One interesting thing I have learned from my work with dreams is that what we lump into the broad category of “dreams�? may in truth be different types of phenomena. So the first step in understanding and working with our dreams is to know what “type�? of dream we have had.





Now this may be a surprising revelation. Dreams are dreams, right? Well, think about this for a moment: have you ever had a dream that felt different from other dreams? For instance, have you ever had a dream that felt so real that you felt that you really were somewhere else?





Well, you may have been.





As strange as this may sound, there are many theories (including some in quantum or modern physics – which I certainly don’t profess to fully understand) that alternate realities and other dimensions exist – and our nighttime experiences may actually be visits to these other realms. As eerie or “outlandish�? (no pun intended!) as this may sound, if you believe that our consciousness is not ultimately limited or bounded by our bodies, this idea can make perfect sense – because when we’re sleeping our bodies are quiet and our minds and consciousness are less bombarded by noisy feedback from our bodily functions, thus being freer to “leave the body�? and roam.





So oftentimes when we’re sleeping our consciousness is off exploring and experiencing, and some of these experiences may be translated into the form of dreams – experience dreams – whereas others may be forgotten or slip into oblivion, at least from our conscious or semi-conscious awareness.





And, to complicate matters further, the illusory veil of time may be lifted, and we can be exploring other times as well – including past lives.





So, the next time you wake up and feel like you’ve been somewhere else, remember this: maybe you have been.





(Phew! Still with me? I told you dreams were fascinating….)





As exotic as this type of “dream�? experience may be, other types of dreams may seem more mundane in comparison.





Some dreams really do represent a sorting out of the day’s experiences or working on problems, as our brains sift through and correlate information and experiences. These dreams are usually mundane and quotidian. Included in this type of dream experience, however, are very creative dreams in which we actually solve problems we’re working on and receive answers we have been looking for. A classic, and oft-cited, example of this type of creative problem-solving dream is the model of the benzene molecule, whose structure was received by Kekule, a chemistry professor, in a dream after he had been puzzling over this question; the dream was of a snake biting its own tail and twirling in a circle.





One interesting type of dream is that in which we are communicating with others on some level. If you wake up and feel that you were having a discussion or communicating with your long-lost love, you may, in fact, have truly been doing just that. In these communication dreams – or communication experiences – the person being engaged in dialogue can be living or “dead.�? Some communication can come in the form of guidance and can be coming from our spirit guides (or guardian angels, angelic presences, or whatever terminology you wish to use).





Some dreams are “psychic�? dreams, in which we receive information we have no other concrete way of knowing. These include precognitive dreams that can give us information about the future, as well as clairvoyant (French for clear-seeing) dreams that can give us glimpses of things going on in the “real world�? while we are dreaming.





Some dreams are mainly expressing fears or desires we may have, especially those that may be lying below our conscious awareness. These dreams serve to make us consciously aware of these fears or desires so that we may work on them, and these dreams may also represent our actually working on these issues at an unconscious level.





One of the richest types of dreams is that in which we are working on personal or spiritual growth issues. In these dreams we are receiving (or generating, whatever your point of view) information on these issues. These dreams can be the most content-laden and most rewarding for us to work with, as they point out things for us to look at or work on, or connections between and among factors in our lives that we may not have realized were there. These dreams may also be the most cloaked in symbols.





Many dreams are one-time scenarios that we only have once, but we also have recurring dreams, dreams that repeat the same theme over and over again, sort of a nocturnal reverie leitmotif. These dreams are usually, though not always, more significant than single dreams and can represent general issues that we are working on (whether we realize consciously that we are working on them or not). Over time, as we make progress on the underlying growth issues, we will tend to see these dreams shift and evolve.





So there is a true variety of different types of dream experiences – a veritable cornucopia of dreams. And, to make the experience even richer, any one dream can be a combination of different types of dreams. For instance, we can have a dream in which we are talking to someone we know, which takes place in another country and time period. This dream may be both an experience, in which we are actually exploring a past life, as well as a communication dream, in which we are actually exploring a past life connection with someone we know in real time and are communicating with him or her on some level in that other time period. And this dream could also have a psychic element as well, if something were revealed about the future.





This is one of the fascinating aspects of dreams. (Can you tell how excited I am about dreams?) Dreams are truly a very rich and complicated phenomenon – or set of phenomena.





Now the next question is, do we want to do anything with our dreams? I am a firm believer that looking at our dreams and attempting to work with them in some way can be very rewarding for us. They can give us information about our lives, and they can certainly give us insight into ourselves as we move along on our paths and evolve. For those of us who are into meaning and like to understand things in our lives, dreams provide a rich vein of material to mine.





I must say at this point that my orientation toward dreams starts with a spiritual assumption, and that is that we are here to learn and grow. (And wouldn’t life be boring if we weren’t?) So my work with dreams is very much colored by this assumption. And, as we learn and grow – and evolve – in our lives, dreams can be a powerful tool. Without this assumption and orientation, we may regard dreams as no more than an oddity, a nighttime venture into the irrational, and a curiosity devoid of any use or practicality.





And, interestingly, in my work with dreams, I can’t ever remember working with a dream that had no true meaning.





So, if you’d like to delve into the magical world of dreams and see what you can gain, I’ll take you on a guided tour of how you might approach your dreams. (Why not? You’ve come with me this far!)





First of all, I would recommend only working with the dreams that feel significant to you, whether you understand them or not. We often remember a dream strongly upon awakening, sometimes to the extent that it will stay with us throughout the day, resonating as it is evoked at odd times by different things. These are the dreams I would work with.





Some dream-workers recommend keeping a journal by the bed and programming yourself to wake up from every dream and record it. My approach is less active. I operate under the assumption that we’ll generally remember the significant dreams and that, if we take too proactive an approach, we might be disturbing our sleep too much. Being rested is too important in our stressful world to deliberately disturb sleep!





Once we have a dream that we feel is significant, the first step, as mentioned above, is to figure out what type (or types) of dream it was.





After we know what type(s) of dream it was, we then want to try to understand it. This is where we get into the realm of dream interpretation, because dreams are so often veiled in symbolic form. And this is also where things can become sticky, because good dream interpreting is somewhat of an art and requires skill.





It also requires intuition. So throw out all your dream dictionaries that tell you that a certain symbol has certain meanings! A dream is not a generalized story, aimed at the general populace with general meanings; it is a specific message for the dreamer alone and, as such, it is expressed in the dreamer’s own vocabulary. The dreamer alone has the keys to understanding it – or a good dream interpreter who uses intuition to decode the meanings specific for the dreamer.





And that’s another fascinating aspect of dreams: any one dream can have several different meanings – and all of them equally valid meanings for the dreamer.





So, sharpen up those intuitive pencils and let’s start tackling those dreams!





After you’ve determined what type(s) of dream you’re working with, you’ll want to follow these steps:





1. Ask yourself (or the dreamer) how you (or he/she) felt about the dream, both upon waking and in retrospect. Was it pleasure, fear, anxiety, optimism, relief, etc.? Our feelings about our dreams are keys to their meanings.





2. Allow yourself to get into a very relaxed state of consciousness and clear your mind as you go over the dream’s unfolding sequentially in your mind (or as the dreamer relates the dream to you, if it’s not your dream). What things go through your mind as you review or listen to the dream? What is evoked? What percolates up from your subconscious?





3. Instead of focusing on how “bizarre�? the dream seems, approach it as a very rich, cogent, and, yes, respectable event. If we are just focusing on the bizarre quality of dreams, this serves to distract us from their credible validity and the richness in insight they can offer to us.





4. Then work with each symbol in the dream independently. Focus on a symbol, while asking yourself (or the dreamer), “What does this mean to me (or you)?�? For example, we might feel that coins in a dream signify riches. However, if the dreamer’s husband was a coin collector, the symbol may also be saying something about the dreamer’s husband or their relationship. I once had someone relate a dream to me that she had had, very upset because there was a cat in the dream and someone had told her that a cat in a dream means death(!). When I asked this woman how she felt about cats, she replied, “Oh, I love cats!�? Well, obviously for her the cat in her dream did not necessarily mean death! Remember, too, that any one symbol can have more than one valid meaning.





5. Ask yourself what the general theme of the dream is. What area(s) of your (or the dreamer’s) life is it related to – work, relationships, childhood, etc.?





6. Go over each “story�? segment of the dream and work to understand it as a discrete little unit.





7. Put all the pieces, or segments, of the dream and their meanings together. What picture emerges? How does each segment relate to other segments?





8. Pay attention to any words or phrases that are prominent in the dream. Puns and plays on words are common in dreams and often meaningful.





9. Look for any elements that may have particular significance for you (or the dreamer). What do these elements mean? (For example, a numerologist may have numbers pop up in dreams and these numbers may have numerological significance that contributes to the dream’s meaning(s), or a florist may have flowers or plants appear prominently that may have significance.)





10. Look at the other people who appear in the dream. How do you (or the dreamer) feel about each person? Further meaning may be gained by also looking at each person as you (or the dreamer). Are these people parts of yourself (or the dreamer) that are embraced, disowned, or suppressed?





11. Remember, again, that any one dream can have several different meanings. What different meanings does the dream have? What pictures emerge? What is the dream telling you?





Working with our dreams and practicing dream interpretation can take time and patience. However, we gain more skill and confidence over time.





It can definitely be helpful to keep a dream journal of significant dreams that you’ve had, with the plan of rereading them periodically. Often when we go back and read over dreams that we’ve had a year or more ago, we can gain even more insight. We often understand our dreams even more and realize the issues that were being expressed. Going back over former dreams can also give us perspective on the shifts we’ve subsequently made in our lives, how we’ve evolved and grown.





Dreams represent wonderful and abundant material and, interestingly, we all have our own individual dream signatures, types of dreams unique to us. Some people have fairly straightforward, short dreams, while others have long epic, complicated, and interwoven oeuvres. As much as I enjoy interpreting dreams for others, I get just about as much enjoyment seeing dreamers’ “ahas�? of realization, when they suddenly see their dream make sense to them.





Dreams can give us answers we’ve been looking for. Dreams have even saved people’s lives when they’ve had heavily symbolic dreams that turned out to be about health conditions they had been unaware of, such as cancer!





Allowing yourself to explore your dreams and understand them can open up whole new vistas and dimensions for you – and definitely enrich your life. You can understand yourself more and feel more in control of your life. You can demystify those nighttime enigmas – and maybe even save your life! You can even have fun! So, allow yourself to go on a “magical mystery tour�? of dream exploration!





Sweet dreams!

Dreams – Do They Have a Meaning?

There are too many recorded incidents to dismiss dreams as mere ‘vestiges of the day’ that get projected on the silver screen of the mind at night. For example, dreams have foretold impending deaths, saved people from certain fatalities, helped solve complicated problems, helped achieve some astonishing discoveries and inventions and have even turned the fortunes of many.

 

Our own experience also points to the fact that, at times, dreams do try to tell us something vital or important, but we are unable to comprehend them. The problem is that dreams don’t speak our lingo. They speak in symbols and require thorough knowledge of dream interpretation or a competent dream expert for interpretation.

 

In my years of experience in interpreting dreams, I have gained some immense insights into the meanings and workings of dreams. There are many, who claim that they don’t dream. We all do, only many of us don’t remember them on waking up.

 

Let us see some common dreams that most of us have dreamt at some point in our lives:

 

?          Exam dreams: Whether we are brilliant in studies or less than average performers, we cannot deny having had those frightful examination dreams. These run something like this: We are unable to reach the examination hall and the clock is ticking away; our pen just refuses to work; we just don’t seem to comprehend the question paper or recall the answers...the variations are endless. Fortunately, such dreams are not related to examinations at all. They suggest that we are being tested or scrutinised in some way in our waking lives. These may also be related to our self-esteem and confidence or the lack of it.

 

?          Chase dreams: Who has not broken into a cold sweat running scared from an assailant or a murderous mob in dreams? Howsoever fast we ran, the pursuer always seemed to catch up. At the exact moment of getting caught, we woke up with a start! Although these dreams can arise from an actual fear of being attacked, they often stem from our feelings of anxiety in waking life. These dreams indicate avoidance or running away from some unpalatable situation, rather than confronting it. These dreams are more common in women due to their physical vulnerability.

 

?          Naked dreams: Turning crimson with embarrassment on finding ourselves completely or partially naked in public in our dreams generally leaves us unsettled on waking up. Such dreams are often a reflection of our lack of confidence or self-esteem in real life. We may be hiding something and are afraid that others might discover it by seeing right through us. Nudity also symbolises our fear of getting caught or exposed in something that we have done. This dream can have variations, which can range from embarrassment to feeling proud about your nakedness in public. Each, of course, has different interpretation.

 

?          Falling dreams: Almost all of us have experienced getting scared out of our wits while plunging down from dizzying heights in our dreams. No amount of convincing can rid us of the fear that we will not actually die if we do not wake up before we hit the ground! Falling can be of two types – one when we wake up alarmed before we hit the ground, the other when we do a soft landing, slowing just before the point of impact. Both have different interpretations. Generally, falling is an indication of insecurity, instability and anxiety. Such dreams occur when we feel overwhelmed and out of control in some situation in our waking lives.

 

?          Dreams of losing teeth: Dreams of falling teeth are quite common. These may take the form of teeth crumbling in our hands or falling out one by one with just a light tap. Such dreams not only horrify and shock us, but often leave us with a lasting image. It was thought that such dreams represented malnutrition, which may have been true for some dreamers. Actually, such dreams reflect our anxiety about appearance and how others perceive us. Don’t we all fall for that dazzling smile! Teeth are used for biting and chewing and represent power. To dream of losing teeth indicates powerlessness in some current situation.

 

Alas, dreams are certainly not limited to these themes. Just anything can be encountered in the windows of our mind. We are sometimes left perplexed by the very nature of our dreams – Why did I see a snake in my dream? What was my long lost friend, whom I had forgotten, doing in my dream? What was that woman, whom I had met only once, getting excited about in my dream? How did I explain this mind-boggling problem so simply and accurately in my dream? The dream content is infinite.

 

All dream imagery is symbolic. Each dream symbol is person specific. In other words, what a symbol represents for one person can have an entirely different meaning for another. This is the reason why dream dictionaries generally prove useless. Of course, a common streak runs through all symbols, but they have to be interpreted in the context of the dream content.  

 

But, if you can relate the changes happening in your life to the kind of dreams you are dreaming, you can certainly take a step towards understanding the meaning. It will help you immensely by putting your mind at ease.  

 

So, don’t let your dreams go waste, you never know what you will unravel. Great opportunities and fortunes await those who are able to interpret their dreams.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Revelation

 

Revelation

 It is doubtless not profitable for me to boast. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord (2 Corinthians 12:1).

 Spiritual revelation is the uncovering of hidden knowledge and wisdom about the wonder and adventure of living our lives in Christ. It is to discover that all God’s intentions toward us are good in bringing us forth into the image of His Son. The awareness of His goodness and infinite love is to find fulfillment in Him, which brings great joy to our hearts. Revelation is to see God exalted in His works and ways and to marvel at His wisdom made manifested in mercy and grace. How wonderful to see Him as Father and to discover the ways of being a son to Him. Even if our lives are a mess, God sees the incredible wonder of His Son coming alive, emerging, growing and maturing in us who believe. He opens our eyes to see the same in the lives of our wives, children, brothers and sisters. Revelation is God’s way to let us experience Him through His senses. He allows us by His Spirit to see what He sees, hear what He hears and feel what He feels. How glorious when He reveals to us His desires and pleasures and we revel in His joy.

 Revelation is the basis for hope in God. Hope is a vision that comes through revelation from the Spirit of God with an expectation of fulfillment. Hope is the food for our faith, which create substance in a world of unseen realities. Faith is one of three qualities Enoch and Elijah had in their relationship with God. Hope and love is the other two dimensions in a relationship with God. These graces are the doorway to dwell in the Spirit with God. They received a testimony that they pleased Him and never tasted death. When God took them they could not be found among the sons of men. Without a revelation, vision or dream people perish. Without revelation there is no hope. Without hope there is no faith to create substances for the pleasure of God. Without faith you cannot please God and he who does not manifest faith that is worked by love does not know God.

 A relationship with God starts with a revelation from God. Revelation starts with seeking and searching for godly wisdom by giving yourself to prayer and the word of God. This is the road to faith and hope that is worked by love. This is pleasing to God. Trust and love do not develop outside of a deep relationship.

 God reveals Himself to us in dreams, visions, revelatory gifts of the Holy Spirit, parables of the word and the audible hearing of the Gospel and even messages from angels. The interpretation of His riddles brings understanding to the mind and unspeakable joy to the heart. How much He delights in you when you search out concealed matters. Revelation is not so much an understanding of what God can do for you or what you can do for God, as it is an assurance of what He is to you, and a plan of what you can become to Him. Revelation comes to you that you can grow into a substance of fulfillment for God, the household of faith and the rest of the kingdom of God. The image of His Son is His delight.

 The kingdom of God is all about relationships. The purpose of God for your life is to become a son to Him by conforming to the image of Christ according to the anointing that is working in you. Revelation is most often an enlightenment to draw you in a closer relationship with God and your neighbor. It is an ever-growing awareness of what He is in you, for Him. It is a discovery of the anointing that is working in you so that you can fulfill the purposes of God for your life. Revelation is normally an unveiling of the hidden Christ who lives in you but it can also be an unveiling of any other hidden matter. However, revelation is never complete until you see God exalted and glorified in the matter. If you fail in your relationships the revelation knowledge that you obtain will puff you up and you will not grow into a fountain of worship to God and an anointed substance for others, which is not the image of Christ.

 Because of Adam’s transgression all of his offspring, unredeemed men, are dead to God spirit, soul and body. Unredeemed men are confined to the prison of the natural realm and cannot observe God who lives in the liberty of the realm of Spirit. So the realities of the Spirit are foolishness to carnal men for they are not able to see, understand or experience it. How can the dead understand the Living, or what does death and life have in common? Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand (Matthew 13:13).

 Though natural man knows God from the witness of creation, he did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful but became futile in his thoughts. The natural man cannot help but to be foolish and arrogant because he is conceived in sin and shaped in unrighteousness and iniquity. He is born blind and unless he becomes born of the Spirit he will remain blind until he dies in his sin.

 The carnal man is blind to his own place in creation. Having chosen the destructive way of independence from God, he does not understand that he is pulling the entire creation down with him. It is in this evil and destructive independent state of heart that he destroys others and creation.

 From the beginning God intends to have sons and not performers. Solomon, the wisest man that ever lived, did not love God like his father David, who loved God with all of his heart. Solomon desired God’s wisdom apart from a relationship with Him and ended up a fool serving the idols of his wives and concubines. Balaam, a mighty prophet of God, whose heart was not entirely set on God ended up in error. A revelation of God’s character and power, which is His Glory, without a deep relationship with God, does not make sense because it is the relationship that ministers life and not independent works. Anything divorced or independent from a relationship in God is legalism and brings forth death. This is to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good (law or legalism) and evil (lawlessness). Good is better than evil but it is still fruit from the tree that introduced death to the earth. This is nothing else but a quest for self-righteousness.

 You need to be born again to receive revelation from the Holy Spirit. How else will you see the kingdom of God? If you are not born of the Spirit through faith in Christ you are dead to God and you cannot enter the realm of God’s Spirit where the riches of His knowledge and wisdom is found. Jesus is the true Light, which gives light to every man coming into the world. When you turn to Christ, God commands light to shine out of darkness into your heart to give you a revelation of the glory of God in the presence of Jesus Christ. When the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ shines in your heart the ignorance that exists because of blindness, is removed. It is in His light that you see the Light of the world. The cry of the Spirit is, “Allow Me to reveal the Son of God to your heart that you may be changed into the same image.�? The nature of the Spirit of God is to open the way by leading you into all truth, which is Christ.

 Revelation is to perceive God with the eyes of the Spirit that we may come to know Him. Eternal life is to know the only true God and Jesus Christ whom He sent. The choice that God made to hide so many wonders from us is an act of love in that He draws us to Himself to continuously seek His face. Eternal life is for those that fervently seek to live in the presence of God and discover His hidden beauty. How will we be conformed into His image if His glory is not revealed to us or how will we tell about His power if we do not see Him exalted in His wondrous works and ways.

 It is difficult for a carnal Christian to receive spiritual revelation because the carnal man is dead to God and thus unable to receive the things of God. His fleshly mind is unable to perceive the things of the Spirit. Because he does not receive or understand the things of the Spirit he is enmity with God. He who lives according to the flesh set his mind on the things of the flesh, which is death. This is a picture of the life of carnal man that tries to figure out the things of the Spirit with his fleshly mind. Such one must pray that the God of our Lord Jesus, the Father of Glory, may give to him the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him. The answer concerning mysteries and secrets is with God. Often, a person has no or little revelation because he does not seek to know the answers to the mysteries of God. A revelation has not come to maturity unless you see God exalted in His works and ways. In the day that you seek God with all of your heart you will find Him revealed in the woodwork of the detail of the Scriptures.

 During Old Testament times, God spoke to the fathers by the prophets at various times and in various ways. The Lord does nothing unless He reveals His secret to His servants the prophets (Amos 3:7). The Old Testament prophets prophesied concerning Christ and concerning His suffering. Yet they did not understood it as God has veiled His wisdom in plain sight from them. The wisdom of God is revealed in that Jesus has become the Mediator of a better covenant. All the things that were written by the prophets concerning the Son of Man were accomplished. Thereafter God spoke to us by His Son that He may reveal Him in which image we must come forth. A revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ set us free from the curse of the law and causes us to come forth into His glorious image as we behold Him in the Spirit. Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. When we behold Him through the Spirit of God we lay hold of Him in the same manner that He laid hold of us. If the revelation is not united with faith it does not profit us. It is through faith that we are transformed into the perfect image of Christ that we behold in the Spirit. His image is the end from the beginning and it is an ever-growing image. Just as a tree planted at the waters we grow from glory to glory in Him. Every stage is perfect in Christ. To know Him is to grow and mature in Him according to the anointing that is working in each one of us. The anointing of each member of His body is unique according to its purpose and function.

 For every member to function in the glorious body of Christ emphasis must be placed on servanthood. The Lord will surely reveal His secrets to His servants the prophets. Your service to others must coincide serving the purposes of God in accordance with the anointing that are working in you. So, if you are in Christ, you are a servant of the living Christ (the Head and body). To be a servant of the purposes of men is not serving the purposes of God. O Lord our God, masters besides You have had dominion over us (Isaiah 26:13a).

Jesus the servant of the Lord, died for the joy that was set before Him, which is to see His seed. Jesus said, “Take My yoke [yoke of servanthood] upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly of heart, and you will find rest for your souls�? (Matthew 11:28). The greatest desire of God is to see us coming forth into the image of His Son, in other words, to conform to the servanthood of the Lord Jesus Christ.

The Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees (by revelation) the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son does in like manner. We are to follow in the footsteps of the Captain of our salvation and do likewise for the Lord is the vine and we are the branches. If we abide in Him, we bear much fruit. Without Him we can do nothing. In the Son, we share His godly wisdom to do the will of Him that sent us and to accomplish His work. The Holy Spirit is the One that lead and guide us into all truth. We must do what we see the Lord is doing, and do it in like manner. This is the way to enter into the labor of the Servant of the Lord and thus enter with Him into the rest of God.

Often we jump the gun and get involved in activities, which we believe might be in the will of the Lord. This is not the way to walk if we believe we are conforming into His image. We must first see and hear and afterward do as we were instructed. To live a life where Christ is not manifested in our flesh is a life severed from Him and accounts for nothing. The just shall live by faith. Faith is based on hope and hope is based on revelation.

Search for the wisdom and knowledge of the Lord diligently. In seeking the Lord with all of your heart He will reveal Himself to you. Yes, if you cry out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding, if you seek her as silver and search for her as for hidden treasures; then you will understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God. For the Lord gives wisdom; from His mouth comes knowledge and understanding (Proverbs 2:3-6). The Lord reveals Himself in wisdom and understanding.

The Lord did not sit in an armchair at night and say, “Father, please give me the agenda for tomorrow�?. Often, the Lord went to the Mount of Olives to pray throughout the night. In the days of His flesh He offered up prayers, and supplications with strong powerful crying and tears. The Lord prayed with intensity of spirit and in doing so the Father revealed His will to Him.

God who inspired the Scriptures is the same God that talks to us about its interpretation. Seeking diligently the interpretation of God’s riddles is to develop our spiritual perception and revelation of godly wisdom. In seeking God’s ways we will always be dependent on God, which lead us into a deeper relationship with Him so that we may grow into the image of His Son. We reach into the Lord in faith, which is beyond revelation where we are one with God and one in God that the world may believe that the Father sent Jesus to the glory of His name.

If you have a basic understanding of the interpretation of dreams and visions then the other ways in which God choose to reveal His wisdom and knowledge to you will be understood much easier. Reading the Scriptures is reading the dreams of God that needs interpretation. A dream is a series of thoughts and images in the form of a story or event. Most revelation is the response of the Holy Spirit toward God’s dealings with you or as a result of much activity. For a dream comes through much activity… (Ecclesiastes 5:3a).

People that can interpret dreams and visions are often blessed in interpreting the Scriptures accurately. Dreams, visions, tongues and parables in Scripture are events or stories that most often needs interpretation. An interpretation is the translation of objects and/or sounds into an understandable language. It is the glory of God to conceal a matter, but the glory of kings is to search out a matter (Proverbs 25:2).

Dreams, visions and pictures occur in the imagination of man’s heart. Man is created in the image of God with an imagination like God’s where His omniscience dwell. To explain allow me to use the following example: Although Jesus suffered on our behalf as God’s Lamb to take away the sin of the world two thousand years ago, the Father told us what He saw from the beginning of the world, namely: And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of the lamb slain from the beginning of the world (Revelation 13:8, emphasis added). You may say but that was what John saw in a vision. That is true but God shared some of His omniscience with him at that moment in time. This is supernatural knowledge obtained, which would have been otherwise unknown.

Because people do not know the Scriptures (dreams of God) and the revelatory power of the Holy Spirit they err much in interpretation. I do not refer to the ability of quoting scriptures but perceiving the word of God through revelation. And Jesus answering said unto them, Do ye not therefore err [deceive, wander], because ye know [see, perceive, understand] not the scriptures [writings], neither the power [the ability] of God [Holy Spirit] (Mark 12:24).

God’s greatest dream is to bring us forth into the image of His Son but revelation is also directives given to us to make certain godly decisions or to prepare us for future events. Paul saw a vision about a man from Macedonia that asked for help. That was a revelation of God’s love for the Macedonians and His will revealed to Paul to preach the gospel to them (Acts 19:9-10).

Every dream and vision in the Bible and every meaningful dream thereafter has a purpose for which the Lord has sent His word to perform His will.

 The revelatory gifts (word of knowledge, word of wisdom and discernment of spirits) are also ways in which the Holy Spirit reveals to us knowledge and wisdom otherwise unknown. Often these gifts are working in conjunction with the interpretation of dreams and visions or serve as a revelatory aid to interpret the Scriptures.

 The revelatory gifts can work in isolation or together. Let me give you an example. A while a go I was in a busy shopping mall in my city. Normally I am communicating with the Lord keeping my spirit open to Him. All of a sudden a woman cursed me using the vilest language imaginable. I did not know in what way I have offended her. I look at her and said to her, “Your father raped you when you were six years old. When you were at age you marry an accountant, which abuse you before your marriage and afterward. The last straw was when he assaulted you and burned your clothing. You divorced him, left your country and you are working now in this city as a nurse.�? She was astonished and asked me, “Who told you this because all of what you had told me is the truth.�? I said to her, “God loves you and has a plan for your life.�? She started to cry uncontrollable. After ten minutes I left. I had no chance to lead her to Christ. I knew at the time that the Lord wants to deal with her on His own.

 Another occasion was when a man visited us. We sat at the kitchen table and we shared the gospel of Jesus’ saving grace with this fellow. This man started to pretend he knew God. I looked at my refrigerator and saw a vision of an African Green parrot in a cage on top of it. When the parrot saw me it flee away with a distinct noise through the bars of the cage and hid behind the refrigerator. The experience was so real that the natural and spiritual surroundings were blended into the one world of Christ. I got up to look for the parrot behind the refrigerator. It is needless to say that it was not there. In the vision I discerned that the man was in bondage (the cage) and that he was just repeating what he heard in the past (like a parrot) from his mind (color green). The Holy Spirit showed me he was pretending.

 At all times be a humble servant of the Lord. Do not be intimidated by my experiences. These experiences do not happen all the time. By sharing what the Holy Spirit has shown you from the Scriptures can be equally effective. Often you will not even realize that you have ministered to somebody’s need.

 Stay humble by making sure that the other party is blessed and edified. Do not draw attention to yourself. Do not be puffed up by the revelation the Holy Spirit has given you. Remember you are a servant of the Lord. You serve the purposes of God and you enjoy living in the presence of the Holy One. Enjoy Him.

The Wonderful Gift of Dreams

Dreams have always fascinated me. So, 25 or so years ago, in an effort to learn more about dreams, I embarked on an exploration of sleep and dream research. I worked with dreams more and more over the years, interpreting my dreams and those of others.





I have learned some fascinating things about dreams over the years, one of which is that what we lump into the category of dreams are actually different phenomena. One commonality among these phenomena is that while we are dreaming our body is quiet – unless, of course, we are sleepwalking (or daydreaming). Aside from this commonality, however, there can be great variability in what we call “dreams.�?





So, one of the first things to remember is working with our dreams is that there are different types of “dreams.�?





1. In some, our consciousness, unbounded by our bodies and not continually bombarded by noisy feedback from our bodies, is actually off exploring other realms. These “dreams�? are actually experiences, some of which we may remember as dreams and others we may have no recall about at all. The illusory veil of time can be lifted and we can be experiencing other times, including past lives.





2. Some dreams actually are just a sorting out of our day’s activities, as our brains sort and correlate experiences and information.





3. Some dreams may actually be communication experiences in which we are communicating on various levels with other people, both those living and those transitioned. We may also be communicating with our guides and others who wish to get through to us.





4. Some dreams are precognitive and actually give us information about the future.





5. In some dreams, we are being given messages from the universe and our higher self or other levels of our own consciousness. These dreams tend to be about our personal and spiritual growth issues and can be the richest for us to work with on our paths.





6. Some dreams are one-time dreams and others are recurring. Recurring dreams are usually, but not always, more significant than single dreams and can represent general issues that we are working on (whether we are consciously aware that we are working on them or not). In these recurring dreams, we may have elements that repeat as themes, sort of a nocturnal reverie leitmotif.





These represent some general types of dreams and it is important to note that any one dream can actually be a combination of different types, sort of a cross-breeding of genres.





It can further us greatly as we evolve and grow to work with our dreams, and understanding them is the first step toward this. This can be tricky in and of itself, as many of our dreams are cloaked in symbols. Thus, dream interpretation becomes essential in working with our dreams.





I consider dream interpretation to be similar to explication of literature (which I did a great deal of and loved in high school and college) – with one major difference: it is critical to bring intuition to the task. Whereas in explicating literature we look for all possible meanings for all possible readers and applications, in interpreting dreams we look for the interpretations specific to the dreamer. And please note that it is “interpretations�? in the plural sense. One wonderful aspect of dreams is that any one dream can have several different – and all equally valid – meanings for the dreamer.





Intuition is further essential in interpreting dreams because we all have our own vocabulary in dreams, and our dream symbology and language will be highly individual. Thus, dream “dictionaries�? that list symbols and universal interpretations are no help at all in interpreting a particular person’s dream. We have to uncover the meaning of symbols specific to the dreamer, his or her own vocabulary.





Although it may take more effort to use our intuition and come up with the meanings of a dream specific for the “dreamer,�? the rewards can be rich and varied as we mine information and gain insight for ourselves and others on their paths.





Aside from working on and developing our intuition, there are some questions we can ask and some pointers in working to interpret dreams:





1. How did/does the dreamer feel about the dream, both upon waking and in retrospect – pleasure, fear, anxiety, optimism, relief, etc.?





2. What type of dream does this seem to be? (See above.)





3. Allow yourself to get into a very relaxed state of consciousness as you go over the dream’s unfolding sequentially in your mind (or as the dreamer relates the dream to you, if it’s not your dream). What things go through your mind or are evoked as you review or listen to the dream? What percolates up from your subconscious?





4. Instead of focusing on how “bizarre�? the dream seems, approach it as a very rich, cogent, and, yes, respectable, event. Focusing on the bizarre quality alone serves to distract us from the credible validity of the dream and the richness in insight it can offer.





5. Work with each symbol independently in the dream. Focus on a symbol, while asking yourself (or the dreamer), “What does this mean to me (or you)?�? I once had someone tell me she had had a dream with a cat in it and was worried because someone had told her that a cat in a dream means death. When I asked her how she felt about cats, she replied, “Oh, I love cats!�? Remember that any one symbol can have more than one valid meaning.





6. What is the general theme of the dream? What area(s) of your (or the dreamer’s) life is it related to (work, relationships, childhood, etc.)?





7. Go over each “story�? segment of the dream and work to understand it as a discrete little unit.





8. Put all the pieces, or segments, of the dream and their meanings together. What picture emerges? How does each segment relate to other segments?





9. Pay attention to any words or phrases that are prominent in the dream. Puns and plays on words are often meaningful in dreams.





10. Look for any elements that may have particular significance for you (or the dreamer). What do these elements mean? (For example, a numerologist may have numbers pop up in dreams and these numbers may have numerological significance that contributes to the dream’s meaning(s).





11. Look at the other people who appear in the dream. How do you (or the dreamer) feel about each person? Further meaning may be gained by also looking at each person as you (or the dreamer). Are these people parts of you (or the dreamer) that are embraced, disowned, or suppressed?





12. Remember, again, that any one dream can have several different meanings. What different meanings does the dream have? What pictures emerge? What is the dream telling you?





Working with our dreams can be extremely rewarding as they further our process and facilitate our personal and spiritual growth. They can point out issues we are working on or need to give attention to. Dreams, indeed, can be great gifts.





Happy dreaming!

Dream Interpretation the Old Fashioned Way

I remember sitting on my grandma’s big fluffy bed, watching her write in a faded, worn out notebook; squenched, tiny faded lips and her eyes shut tight, remembering a dream she had dreamed the night before.





“What are you doing, Grandma?�?





“Quiet child! I’m going back to the dream world for just a few minutes. Interpreting my dream, see?�?





Sitting as quietly as any kid could, breathlessly anticipating the moment she would open her eyes and smile heavenward, “Ahhh. I understand. Thank you.�? A few moments more of furtive scribbling and then we would begin our day together.





At the time, the little ritual felt sacred. I could not ask her about her private dreams, or how she knew how to interpret them, but my curiosity for such matter was overwhelming at times. As the years passed and I grew a little older, I also became bolder if not wiser.





“Grandma, I had a dream last night,�? I tossed out, ever so matter-of-factly one day. The lift in her little wrinkled eyes told me even then that she was on to me, but she indulged my cleverness.


“You did? Tell me all about it. I interpret dreams, you know,�? she smiled, knowing full well I already knew this. I would tell her my dream with all the drama and gusto I could muster, and she quickly broke it down.








“It doesn’t matter who you dream about,�? she began. “You are always everyone in your dream. Whatever you think of whatever person you see or meet in your dream, are facets of you.�?








On average, Grandma used to have four or five dreams every night that she could remember. She called some of them “brain flatulence�?, some she called “premonition dreams,�? but her favorites were called the “knowing yourself dreams.�?





“Usually my dreams are ‘knowing yourself dreams’,�? she recalled.


Grandma never let me in on her secret of interpreting dreams until the time I bought her a book I believed that she would enjoy. I don’t know what I was thinking.








Grandma cooed over the purple tulip wrapping paper containing the dream interpretation book, and I felt rather pleased with myself that I had chosen a gift for Grandma that no one else had; of course, I did have a reason for choosing the gift. It was all in my plan, see?








When Grandma tore away the last remnants of the wrapping, her small blue eyes, not entirely unexpectedly, transformed instantly into large black saucers.








“What is this?�? she demanded.








When the title of the book registered, her eyes narrowed and her gaze resembled bullets aimed at, well… you can imagine. The room seemed to shrink as Grandma stared at me in icy silence.








“I thought you would like it, Grandma. I thought you would like to read what other people thought about dream interpretation,�? I innocently manipulated.








“Why would I want to do that, dear? I know what I’m doing and I learned from a master: my own grandma.�? She handed the book to me, indignant. “Bethie, I don’t need this.�? Then, her tone softening suddenly, I knew my plan had worked. “It’s about time that I taught you how to interpret dreams like my grandma did for me.�?





I discarded the ‘offending’ book and eagerly pulled up a chair.








Grandma called her methods the old fashioned way.








“Sometimes the old way is the best way,�? she said. “When you dream about an animal, for instance, think about what that animal means to you. If you dream of a snake and you are afraid of snakes, then you are afraid of something. If you dream about a snake and the snake appears knowledgeable to you, then you are receiving knowledge of some sort. You see?�?








Grandma taught me that there are some universal signs in dreams as well, signs that will have the same meaning for many people. “Water,�? she said, “is usually your feelings. If you are drowning in a dream, it usually means that you’re overwhelmed.�?








“You really have to completely take a dream apart and put each piece in its own category in a notebook.








“First write out your dream, just as you saw it. And if you can, draw an illustration of the dream as well. Once you have it on paper, start with the obvious parts that you already know has a meaning for you.�?








Grandma’s example: Let’s say you dream about climbing a tree and there is a cat up in the tree. The cat meows at you and you think it wants down. The tree and cat are on a college university. The cat scratches you and you wake up.








According to Grandma, look first at what you know is currently happening in your life. Is there anything bothering you at work, or are there some questions and have you been wondering what the answers could be? What does the tree or a cat mean to you?








In Grandma’s old world dream interpretation, a tree to me means growth and a cat means secret knowledge. A college would be a place of learning to me. A cat scratching me, even though it seems like a bad thing, really isn’t. The cat (secret knowledge) made contact with me; I am growing from this (tree) and I am learning.


If you want to know more about yourself, interpreting one’s dreams is a good springboard. You’ll soon get the hang of it and you’ll find yourself excited to wake up in the morning, anticipating ― like Grandma did ― writing down your dreams. There are answers in dream interpretation that are only for you.








Grandma showed me that I can learn many things about myself through my dreams. She also taught me that dreams are personal, and are meant only for ourselves. There is the occasional premonition dream in which everything is crystal clear, and can even feel like it is happening in the real world. Dream interpretation is different for everyone, but my family relies on Grandma’s techniques.








One quiet afternoon, years after Grandma had passed on, I stumbled upon the dream interpretation book I had gotten her as part of my ‘plan’. I happened to notice that it looked quite worn, and when I opened it to the first page, she had scrawled some notes about how it would be better to interpret it her way.








She had written comments throughout the entire book, practically on every page, but despite this, it was clear that she had made a kind of peace with the book. It was on the last page she had written: “Dreaming is like art interpretation. One man sees a beautiful countryside in the artwork, while another sees a desolate field; but both of them have the right to their own opinion. Whatever works best for both interpreters is fine with me, but do listen to your Grandma, Bethie.�? Spoken in true Grandma Fashion, I smiled, closing the book. As the covers met, I caught a whiff of her perfume as it mixed with the dust particles floating, dreamlike, past the sinking afternoon sun.

Hear the Voice of God : Dreams and Dream Interpretation

Dreams and Dream Interpretation

By Joseph Ho

Jan 23rd, 2009

What is a Dream?

Dream is defined as a sequence of images that passes through a sleeping person, much like a video show except that it also carries some personal emotions. Everyone have dreams but most people do not know that their dreams do have significant impact on their real life. Dream serves to warn, instruct, direct, and foretell future events in a person’s life.

Are dreams significant in a person’s life?

Dreams are the messages of the night. It is also called visions of darkness, because it is during deep sleep that our inner soul becomes sensitive to the spiritual realm. The messages in the dreamscape contain symbols which are specific to the dreamer and so a dream dictionary can not be accurately applied for any serious dream interpretation.

Dreams can truly benefit the recipient only when it is properly interpreted. Some dreams occur from having too much activity during the day and it only reflects our mood, this kind of dream does not carry any significant messages. There are however, certain dreams which bring us warning of future events in our life and these are prophetic dreams and we should pay special attention.

Types of Dreams

There are basically 3 major types of dreams.

Type I is the carnal dreams that come from the internal soul of the person. . Past troubles which we have not properly dealt with can manifest fear, anger, and sadness and caused recurring dreams.

Type II is the Spiritual Prophetic dreams which is sent by God to foretell the future. This type of dream almost always speaks about the future and they are very important to us.

Type III is the dream we get when we are hyper active during the day. This type is more confusing and leads to disturbed sleep since they are haphazard and disjointed.

How are dreams interpreted?

In the bible, Proverbs 18:16, “A gift opens the way for the giver and ushers him into the presence of the great.�?

Dreams Interpretation is a gift, it can not be easily learnt in a class setting, but it however can be imparted by a spiritual mentor. Impartation refers to the spiritual laying of hands upon the person and saying a prayer over them.

Dream is a form of divine communication that connect God with to us since God promised to tell his servant what is to come. Dream is a more complete system of authentic communication because it is a four dimensional message, it contains events, people, feelings and words or symbols. Dream can not be intercepted as in any man made device.

The dreams are interpreted much the same as the instantaneous flow of prophetic utterance, meaning given by the Holy Spirit. Peace with assurance that comes from the Holy Spirit will be the only guidance that ascertains the truth. In the book of Hosea 12:10, the bible says “I have also spoken by the prophets, and have multiplied visions; I have given symbols through the witness of the prophets.�? This refers to prophetic dreams. Although anyone can claim that they can interpret dreams, the difference between true and false interpretation is that the truth will come to pass.

Philippines 4:7, “And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.�?

1Corinthian 14:33, “For God is not a God of disorder but of peace.�?

JOSEPH THE KING OF DREAMS

Joseph’s first dream was about rising high above his brothers. Joseph’s second dream of rising was about his brothers and parents paying homage to him. God had prepared Joseph to interpret Pharaoh’s dream.

When God sends you two dreams on the same matter, it will surely come to pass without fail. The bible says that a matter must be established by two unchangeable facts; Matthew 18:16, 2 Corinthians 13:1 and Deuteronomy 19:15.

So why did God favor Joseph? Joseph honored his father Jacob and was obedient and trustworthy so he was chosen to be trained in God’s school of adversity. He was told by God what will happen to Egypt. Knowing is only half the solution without the how to solve it, knowledge is useless. God does not give us a warning and then we are to pray about it, in fact, we are to order our life around the dream so that we will not be affected by any crisis.

Joseph’s Interpretation of Dreams

Someone’s problem becomes our promotion and God’s making us famous by marketing us to the key people in the world.

Joseph’s first dream interpretation for the Cupbearer and the Baker in Genesis 40:1, was a preparation for him to meet the most powerful man in Egypt. Joseph’s second dream interpretation regarding the Pharaoh’s two different dreams; one about the corns and the other about the cows was God’s divine plan to exalt Joseph over Egypt. God caused Pharaoh to have those dreams.

Only the anointed one from God is able to answer this riddle. And only Jesus Christ is the baptizer of the Spirit and only Jesus can authenticate a gift and since it’s a gift, not all people are called to be interpreter of dreams. My people suffer from the lack of knowledge, Hosea 4:6. But God said in 1 Corinthian 2:9, “However, it is written: No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him. But God has revealed it to us by his Spirit.�?

Finally, dream Interpretation is a spiritual gift, and if you have a dream you should consult reputable Christians of the same faith. I pray that you will have divine messages of the night from our Lord Jesus Christ. If you need your dreams to be interpreted you can check out my website at www.kingscepter.com and send me your dreams at prophet3333@yahoo.com. Please indicate the title of your email as dream interpretation. God bless you all.