Post your dreams here

[MrE]

This thread is focused specifically on dreams that you have had. Share here, if you are willing to do so.

Without the sharing of dreams, which are spiritual in nature, scripture would be sadly lacking. You can hardly read a single story in scripture without encountering a dream, and what we know of God specifically includes what others have experienced of Him through dreams.

Please share as you will.

 

[Lamb]

I have wonderful adventure dreams!! I visit strange worlds and go through the dream as someone I'm not.

Some of my favorite dreams besides the adventure ones are the ones that are filled with relatives who have passed. I've had some dreams where my husband's mom (who passed away), grandmothers (who both passed), sisters (still alive) and my daughter (still alive) and I are preparing a meal in the kitchen. There was a lot of chatter, laughter and good vibes.

 

[MrE]

I have wonderful adventure dreams!! I visit strange worlds and go through the dream as someone I'm not.

Some of my favorite dreams besides the adventure ones are the ones that are filled with relatives who have passed. I've had some dreams where my husband's mom (who passed away), grandmothers (who both passed), sisters (still alive) and my daughter (still alive) and I are preparing a meal in the kitchen. There was a lot of chatter, laughter and good vibes.

Dreams are spiritual in nature, and within a spiritual context and understanding, food is knowledge. To 'break bread' (is to explain things, or have things explained for you) and to have understanding given, knowledge shared. All that 'spiritual' chatter, laughter and meal prepping in the kitchen is full of spiritual significance, whether one recognizes it as such or not. It's true communion.

 

[Lamb]

This morning I was dreaming that my husband and I moved to a different area and we made some new friends...actually a big group of friends. But the problem was that we needed to not make the friends mad because they could be "bad", so we tried our best to be on good terms with them.

 

[Frankj]

This morning I was dreaming that my husband and I moved to a different area and we made some new friends...actually a big group of friends. But the problem was that we needed to not make the friends mad because they could be "bad", so we tried our best to be on good terms with them.

A Shakespearian warning: "To thine own self be true".

Always stand on your own beliefs and don't alter them to please others.

Is this something you are finding yourself facing in your life or some aspect of it?

Just my thoughts.

 

[MrE]

This morning I was dreaming that my husband and I moved to a different area and we made some new friends...actually a big group of friends. But the problem was that we needed to not make the friends mad because they could be "bad", so we tried our best to be on good terms with them.

An excellent principle to live by-- 'Let's try to not make folks mad, because they can be bad.'

That seems to be a reinforcement of the golden rule.

 

[Lamb]

Another dream from a day ago was that I was holding a box of bees my job was to move them to another location. It was a tiny box, not like the real ones where their hives are. The bees kept flying in and out of the box, but they wouldn't hurt me because they trusted me, but others around me were in a panic thinking they would get stung. I got them to their new location and hung the box on the wall where they were supposed to go but worried someone would knock them down.

Thoughts?

 

[Frankj]

Another dream from a day ago was that I was holding a box of bees my job was to move them to another location. It was a tiny box, not like the real ones where their hives are. The bees kept flying in and out of the box, but they wouldn't hurt me because they trusted me, but others around me were in a panic thinking they would get stung. I got them to their new location and hung the box on the wall where they were supposed to go but worried someone would knock them down.

Thoughts?

You seem to have a recurrent theme of going to a different place where you fear you will be unwelcome or simply not accepted for yourself.

Are you planning or contemplating a move or making some other major life change?

Dreams are often expressions of our unconscious fears and anxieties, ones we are not really aware of, a sort of way of mentally processing them without consciously dealing with them.

Of course, as Freud would say, sometime a cigar is just a cigar.

May the Lord bless you with understanding.

 

[MrE]

I was on a family trip which included extended family- cousins and their families and such. It was intended that we all go to some sort of a concert, or play at this big conference center-- oh and everyone was supposed to wear their "family" t-shirts, each family group having their own. I was going to quickly run up to my room to get mine, last minute, but on the walk toward the conference center we were among many people, all heading the same direction, presumably for the same purpose.

I saw this large black family-- grandparents, and kids among them, probably four generations-- and it was obvious that they were wanting to take a group photo, so when the man with the camera caught my eye, I offered to snap a pic for him. He handed me the camera and they gathered along one side of the walkway and fought for an open moment with no one walking in front or behind their group. The man had not given me instructions on how to use this camera and when I went to take the pic, it was zoomed in so close I could only see three people. It had a lens, as well as what was like an ipad-sized screen attached to the camera and the lens was extended and attached by an adjustable ball-joint connector, which was loose-- so everytime I tried adjusting the focus and/or angle the thing would just flop down the moment I raised the camera to take the shot.

I had some of my family members trying to block traffic on the walkway, for the pic and while I struggled with the camera-- it became increasingly comical and chaotic, though I was truly frustrated. I was mindful of the time, and worried that we were all going to be late for the start of the show, and more than once I was asked if I was still going to run and get my matching shirt. Finally, I handed the camera contraption to a younger, more tech-savy member of our group and I dashed off to change my shirt, but it was almost assured that I'd miss the opening.

 

[MrE]

Another dream from a day ago was that I was holding a box of bees my job was to move them to another location. It was a tiny box, not like the real ones where their hives are. The bees kept flying in and out of the box, but they wouldn't hurt me because they trusted me, but others around me were in a panic thinking they would get stung. I got them to their new location and hung the box on the wall where they were supposed to go but worried someone would knock them down.

Thoughts?

A horse is a horse, of course, of course.... and a bee is always a bee.

What are the attributes that come to mind? Busy bees, industrious, honey bees- that pollinate flowers and from whom we get that sweet delight, and so on. And yet, some people-- probably most people, even those who think the best of bees, likely have some fear of them. Bees can, and do-- sting on occasion. They swarm and attack on occasion.

The beekeeper is like the horseman-- comfortably handling what others might fear, comfortable, -yet mindful of the power hidden within what has been trusted to their care. Humble, and respectful of the fact that the bees, or the horses are capable of great things, and even great harm, while they in obesience "allow" their keeper to essentially boss (or move) them around.

How's that?

You likely have never heard of this principle before, so I'll offer a quick explanation. In spirit (in dream) when animals appear, it is their attributes that should draw our attention when trying to understand the dream. This has been the case through all ages. A lion, a lamb, a dove, a bear, a beast---- a snake.... each has its own set of attributes and our conscious mind creates associations for us, in an attempt to make sense of the spiritual realm that we catch glimpses of in dreams. When "you" experience something in dream, of course it is not the physical "you" at all, but you 'in spirit' that sees and hears and feels and experiences. You awaken with some memory of it, at times, and at other times, it all vanishes like smoke. The things you see and experience with your own eyes are visions, the things you see, but don't necessarily experience in the first-person we can think of as dreams, though dreams and visions are terms most often used interchangeably.

 

[Lamb]

A little more info on what's going on in real life...we have ground bees, wasps and other types of flying bugs that have built their homes in 4 different places in our front landscape. I'm trying to just let them live because they are pollinators, but I'm also wondering if they'll still be alive when Trick-or-Treating time comes around. I don't want any kids getting harmed.

 

[MrE]

A little more info on what's going on in real life...we have ground bees, wasps and other types of flying bugs that have built their homes in 4 different places in our front landscape. I'm trying to just let them live because they are pollinators, but I'm also wondering if they'll still be alive when Trick-or-Treating time comes around. I don't want any kids getting harmed.

I love the "in real life" reference. That's the tendency for all-- to think of this physical world as "real life" and the spiritual world as not.

I don't mean this as a personal criticism directed toward you, it really is our collective way of thinking about dreams. I've learned to look at them much differently. Rather than immediately concluding that you must be dreaming about bees because you've been dealing with bees "in real life" - I'll suggest that it's actually the other way around. You are dealing with bees "in a physical" sense, because you are dealing with bees "in real, real life" --which is the spiritual realm, and this physical world is merely a reflection- "made in the image" of that spiritual reality.

Each can choose to row their own boat accordingly, and I won't force my understanding on you or anyone else.

Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily..... Life is but a dream.

 

[Lamb]

Sometimes my dreams are just my brain's way of figuring out problems.

Some other dreams I've had over the past couple of days:

I was on a school bus in charge of a special needs girl about the age of 8 or 10? and we were going to her home. When we got inside the house, I looked outside a window and saw some people raking leaves. I didn't really know the property line, but I assumed that two boys were on the girl's property and I said to her that I should go out and pay the. But I tried to remember if I had any cash in my purse since I don't always have much on hand. Then the boys moved back toward the other property and I don't know what the girl said to me after that because I woke up.

Then another one

I tend to have dreams series and one such series I call the waiting dreams where I'm just waiting. I'm not sure what I'm waiting for and oftentimes I'm not alone. Are we waiting to wake up? There are times when I talk to the people around me, but most of the time we wait in silence. Sometimes we're sitting up and other times we're in rows of beds. There are different types of settings such as outdoors and indoors. But it's the waiting...just waiting that we're doing and we don't feel impatient. We just know that we're waiting.

 

[MrE]

Sometimes my dreams are just my brain's way of figuring out problems.

Not just sometimes. What we remember and recall of our dreams is always 'our brain's way' of making sense of what we have seen in spirit. The spiritual realm is not like the physical world we experience, rather it is something "other." It is something unknown, unfamiliar, mysterious, unexplainable and indescribable for the most part.

How then can we make sense of such a place, things seen and heard and experienced, that can't really even be put into words?

Our "brain's" create for us-- associations. When we speak of dreams we end up saying things like-- "it was like............" or, "it seemed as if......."

This is the manner in which we associate something unknown with something known.

But it's a stretch for some people to accept these things... much easier to pass dreams of as simply pizza-related. However, that's an idea you will never find in scripture. Dream lives matter.

 

[Frankj]

This is the manner in which we associate something unknown with something known.

It's the nature of the human thought process to compare new experiences to to past experiences and understand them in terms of how we understood them at the time.

This is why we do things like see images in the clouds and such, we are bringing forth the closest past memory that they compare to and projecting that on the actually random image of the cloud we are seeing. The mind can easily see a pattern in something random, it's how we understand things that are not really understandable, make some sense of what may be nothing other than a random pattern.

 

[Lamb]

Sometimes when my bladder is full, I have dreams that I have to find a bathroom.

 

[Lamb]

Last night I dreamed that I was in charge of a Girl Scout event (which I used to do in the past), and it went well, but I was horrified that even though I planned for lunch, I neglected snack time! Everyone still had a great time, and the moms brought their dogs who were as well behaved as their children. It was a nice event, but I still didn't like the fact that I forgot about snack time.

 

[jswauto]

Nightmares can be a real problem!!

But great news:

You can call the name Jesus in your dreams!!

 

[jswauto]

Last night I dreamed that I was in charge of a Girl Scout event (which I used to do in the past), and it went well, but I was horrified that even though I planned for lunch, I neglected snack time! Everyone still had a great time, and the moms brought their dogs who were as well behaved as their children. It was a nice event, but I still didn't like the fact that I forgot about snack time.

Please post more dreams-they're awesome. The analysis is unparalleled.

 

[Lamb]

Please post more dreams-they're awesome. The analysis is unparalleled.

All right

I had a dream I was young again and was on the bus ride commute to my job. A guy I had a big crush on in grade school through high school was on the bus too, but he was sitting next to someone else. He didn't get off at his stop and I thought to myself that if he got off at my stop and walked back that he liked me. The next stop was mine and I got off and he got up out of his seat. He was next to the bus driver and said something to him and then gave me a sad look as if he pitied me. All I could do was stare because I knew he wouldn't get off the bus or walk with me, and that made me sad.

Info about the guy in real life, he passed away about 5 years ago and we actually used to take the train into Chicago to our jobs when we were in our 20s. I found out then that he was gay and it was never meant to be, but that's okay because I was dating my husband then.