Dream Interpretation

[Abbiehaspeace]

I had a dream and I am unsure of its interpretation. It started with me being in my mom's bedroom when I received a text from a friend I haven’t spoken to in years. We’ve had a falling out, and I know he doesn’t like me, but in this dream, he thanked me for sending him a Bible. The strange thing is, I did send him a Bible in real life through the Billy Graham prayer line, but he doesn’t know I was the one who sent it, and he hasn’t even received it yet since it takes about five weeks to get to him.

In the dream, he mentioned he’d been reading Proverbs 31:10 (I think it was), and asked if I wanted to call. I was thrilled to get the text, but at the same time, I was so tired that I didn’t want to call him back right away. I remember picking up the phone, laying it down several times, telling myself I’d call later. Even though I was tired, I kept thinking about the message because I felt so happy, and there was this warmth surrounding me in the dream. Eventually, I ended up leaving my mom's room, and went into my old room, when I was a kid and danced with joy.

Now, here’s where things get a little blurry. I’m not sure if this part was part of the same dream or a separate one, but I went back into my mom’s room, questioning whether the vision I had about Landon (the friend) was real. I wondered if it had been a vision. I prayed about it, and my mom asked me to stop praying because she was cold and it was making it hard for her to sleep. I was laying on her blanket, and it seemed to be bothering her. So, I moved to ANOTHER room that I got when I was older, turned the light in my closet on, and tried to sleep, (the rest of the room was not lit)

Then, a demon appeared. It wasn’t like a literal scream, but the force of wind from its breath was like a scream. It was breathing on me, and spit was flying from its mouth. I told it, "Be rebuked in the name of Jesus," but it didn’t stop. It told me I had no authority so I said, "No, but Jesus does," but it kept going, breathing harder, and I felt overwhelmed. I then asked God to forgive me, and the force lessened, but it didn’t go away entirely. I asked again, and that’s when I woke up.

To give more context, I know the story in the Bible about the man who tried to cast out demons without authority and ended up being attacked, but I’ve had a noticeable transformation in my life since becoming a Christian. I don’t curse anymore, I no longer engage in other activities I used to. So, I’m confused about why this happened. I’ve also had an experience a few months ago that left me feeling like I’m not a Christian anymore, not in the sense that I’ve stopped believing in God. I still go to church, I still pray, and I still believe in Jesus. Nothing will change that. But that experience has made me feel like my relationship with God isn’t the same anymore. Can you help clarify this for me? I’m struggling to understand what it all means.

The dream was also filled with vivid colors. My mom’s bed sheets were blue, her walls were white. The child room had pink walls with a green trim at the top, and the last room I entered—the one I actually got as an older kid—had the closet light on, and the rest of the room was dark.

 

[Abbiehaspeace]

I also had very strong emotions when I danced in the baby room, the most wholesome in the world.

 

[NewLifeInChrist]

Hi Abbie. Your dream is interesting and your response to the dream is even more interesting.

Sometimes we dream about things that are on our mind. This dream is obviously related to you sending the Bible to your friend. It includes visual representations of the kinds of things you want your friend to get out of having a Bible (i.e., you want him to be blessed by reading the Scriptures just as you have been blessed). The fact that you were dancing at the news indicates the joy you would feel for him if this were to happen in real life.

The demon encounter probably relates to recent thoughts you may have had about the spiritual warfare we encounter when we try to do things for the Lord. Or, it could represent an expectation that you may have that the devil does not approve of you sending your friend a Bible. What is interesting about the second prayer causing you to wake up is that you waking up was the answer to your prayer for the demon to go away. It is as if God answered the prayer in your dream and woke you up to send it away.

Your reaction to the demon in your dream not going away when you told it to go away seems to me to miss the point. The point is that you continued to stand behind the Lord, not giving one inch to it, though you were a bit self-consious. And when confronted with it not listening to you, you appealed to God for help, and eventually He obliged. There is nothing in what you relayed about your dream that would lead me to think you are less of a Christian than you should be. What it tells me is that you care for your friend's eternal well-being, you are proactive in trying to help him, and you would be overjoyed if you learned that sending him a Bible did in fact help him. And it tells me you expect spiritual interference to thwart your efforts, but you know that He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world (1 John 4:4).

 

[JLB]

I also had very strong emotions when I danced in the baby room, the most wholesome in the world.

Maybe the Lord is showing you that returning to a place of childlike innocence is the path to freedom and joy in your life.

Forgiveness is extremely powerful.

There are many Christians today who take prescription drugs because of anxiety… not understanding that harboring unforgiveness brings on the tormentors.


Then his master, after he had called him, said to him, ‘You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt because you begged me. Should you not also have had compassion on your fellow servant, just as I had pity on you?’ And his master was angry, and delivered him to the tormentors until he should pay all that was due to him.
“So My heavenly Father also will do to you if each of you, from his heart, does not forgive his brother his trespasses.”
Matthew 18:32-35

• And his master was angry, and delivered him to the tormentors until he should pay all that was due to him.

• “So My heavenly Father also will do to you if each of you, from his heart, does not forgive his brother his trespasses.”

 

[Hidden In Him]

I had a dream and I am unsure of its interpretation. It started with me being in my mom's bedroom when I received a text from a friend I haven’t spoken to in years. We’ve had a falling out, and I know he doesn’t like me, but in this dream, he thanked me for sending him a Bible. The strange thing is, I did send him a Bible in real life through the Billy Graham prayer line, but he doesn’t know I was the one who sent it, and he hasn’t even received it yet since it takes about five weeks to get to him.

In the dream, he mentioned he’d been reading Proverbs 31:10 (I think it was), and asked if I wanted to call. I was thrilled to get the text, but at the same time, I was so tired that I didn’t want to call him back right away. I remember picking up the phone, laying it down several times, telling myself I’d call later. Even though I was tired, I kept thinking about the message because I felt so happy, and there was this warmth surrounding me in the dream. Eventually, I ended up leaving my mom's room, and went into my old room, when I was a kid and danced with joy.

Now, here’s where things get a little blurry. I’m not sure if this part was part of the same dream or a separate one, but I went back into my mom’s room, questioning whether the vision I had about Landon (the friend) was real. I wondered if it had been a vision. I prayed about it, and my mom asked me to stop praying because she was cold and it was making it hard for her to sleep. I was laying on her blanket, and it seemed to be bothering her. So, I moved to ANOTHER room that I got when I was older, turned the light in my closet on, and tried to sleep, (the rest of the room was not lit)

Then, a demon appeared. It wasn’t like a literal scream, but the force of wind from its breath was like a scream. It was breathing on me, and spit was flying from its mouth. I told it, "Be rebuked in the name of Jesus," but it didn’t stop. It told me I had no authority so I said, "No, but Jesus does," but it kept going, breathing harder, and I felt overwhelmed. I then asked God to forgive me, and the force lessened, but it didn’t go away entirely. I asked again, and that’s when I woke up.

To give more context, I know the story in the Bible about the man who tried to cast out demons without authority and ended up being attacked, but I’ve had a noticeable transformation in my life since becoming a Christian. I don’t curse anymore, I no longer engage in other activities I used to. So, I’m confused about why this happened. I’ve also had an experience a few months ago that left me feeling like I’m not a Christian anymore, not in the sense that I’ve stopped believing in God. I still go to church, I still pray, and I still believe in Jesus. Nothing will change that. But that experience has made me feel like my relationship with God isn’t the same anymore. Can you help clarify this for me? I’m struggling to understand what it all means.

The dream was also filled with vivid colors. My mom’s bed sheets were blue, her walls were white. The child room had pink walls with a green trim at the top, and the last room I entered—the one I actually got as an older kid—had the closet light on, and the rest of the room was dark.

Greetings and blessings in Christ!

Welcome to Christian Forums, and thank you for sharing your dream with us. We had a recent shut down, but before that we were considering creating a Dreams & Interpretation Forum, and you are now the second person to post one unsolicited, so I will take that as a sign we should likely be going ahead with doing so : )

Haven't had time to read through your actual dream yet, but I will try to do so later, and blessings once again. We are glad to have you.
Hidden

 

[Hidden In Him]

Maybe the Lord is showing you that returning to a place of childlike innocence

Yes. I agree.

To give more context, I know the story in the Bible about the man who tried to cast out demons without authority and ended up being attacked, but I’ve had a noticeable transformation in my life since becoming a Christian. I don’t curse anymore, I no longer engage in other activities I used to. So, I’m confused about why this happened. I’ve also had an experience a few months ago that left me feeling like I’m not a Christian anymore, not in the sense that I’ve stopped believing in God. I still go to church, I still pray, and I still believe in Jesus. Nothing will change that. But that experience has made me feel like my relationship with God isn’t the same anymore. Can you help clarify this for me? I’m struggling to understand what it all means.

Abbie, on a brief overview, the dream is calling you back to your innocence. Whatever this encounter was, it appears as if the Lord is telling you to return to your child-like self. Something made you feel "older," and older does not appear to be the direction you want to be going in in this dream. Your mother's room leaves you faithless, and doubting if what God spoke to you can be trusted (and the suggestion is possibly because your mother is somewhat that way, though maybe that was just in this dream for some reason). The older girl's room is where things are dark, and yet there is a light on "in your closet." That imagery plays off the expression having "skeletons in your closet."

A skeleton in the cupboard, or a skeleton in the closet​

If you say that someone has a skeleton in the closet, or in British English a skeleton in the cupboard, you mean that they are keeping secret a bad or embarrassing fact about themselves. "On accepting the job, Maya assured her employers that she had no skeletons in the cupboard."

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/a-skeleton-in-the-cupboard#google_vignette

So that's imagery for something you would rather keep hidden, but there is a demon there, and the suggestion is that if you keep this thing hidden the demon that harasses you over it will be harder to get rid of. The place of spiritual safety in this dream is in your child's room, where you were innocent and free, and dancing for joy (a fruit of the Holy Spirit, not an evil one). So the suggestion here is do NOT keep your experience hidden in the closet but confess it to Christ, and potentially to someone (family, friend, pastor, minister, whoever you feel led of the Spirit to discuss it with).

The interesting part is how it relates to this friend... I will take a look at that in a little while and tell you how it might relate.

Blessings, and thanks again for sharing : )
- H

 

[RandyK]

I also had very strong emotions when I danced in the baby room, the most wholesome in the world.

You are certainly an excited Christian, and should hold onto that, through all of the ups and downs. Sometimes, when we lack authority over the Devil, God is simply telling us our cause is limited, and we should accept the Lord's will.

When you share the Gospel with others, the Devil and his hordes will certainly hate you. Opposition comes with ministry. So, persevere in ministry, but accept whatever comes from God's hand. That's how I deal with it.

It pleases the Lord when we stand our ground, in faith and in love, when there is obvious satanic hostility in the air. It pleases the Lord when we accept less than satisfactory results from our ministry, whether people understand us or not.

We will experience times of ministry in season and out of season. But we must be consistent regardless. That's what I get out of your dream.

 

[Hidden In Him]

I had a dream and I am unsure of its interpretation. It started with me being in my mom's bedroom when I received a text from a friend I haven’t spoken to in years. We’ve had a falling out, and I know he doesn’t like me, but in this dream, he thanked me for sending him a Bible. The strange thing is, I did send him a Bible in real life through the Billy Graham prayer line, but he doesn’t know I was the one who sent it, and he hasn’t even received it yet since it takes about five weeks to get to him.

In the dream, he mentioned he’d been reading Proverbs 31:10 (I think it was), and asked if I wanted to call. I was thrilled to get the text, but at the same time, I was so tired that I didn’t want to call him back right away. I remember picking up the phone, laying it down several times, telling myself I’d call later. Even though I was tired, I kept thinking about the message because I felt so happy, and there was this warmth surrounding me in the dream. Eventually, I ended up leaving my mom's room, and went into my old room, when I was a kid and danced with joy.

Ok, Abby. I looked at the rest of the dream (the first part), and I think it repeats much of the same themes I was telling you in my first post. You are in your mother's room again - the faithless room - where you begin to have doubts, and you are getting tired (like an older woman), so you keep hanging up the phone rather than acting in child-like faith to call him, and with the joy you had at first. The warmth that surrounds you there only "fills out" and fully manifests when you go to your child's room.

That your friend was reading Proverbs 31:10 suggests that you are being shown how to take the path to restored virtue, and becoming desirable to Christian men (and a potential Christian husband) who want that kind of woman. I say potential husband because some translations for that verse read, ""Who can find a virtuous woman? For her price is far above rubies." But other translations have "a virtuous wife," and the translation can actually go either way in the original.

The real question is this: What was your friend's invitation suggesting? It could potentially point to him specifically but not necessarily, so while I would certainly consider giving him a call, I would not automatically assume that it has to be about him if things don't develop. Just trust God with that. But it could simply be symbolic, in which case he represents Christian men in general who may take an interest in you in the future, and are looking for a virtuous woman. So the dream suggests that in order to be what they are looking for, you will need to have

1. Faith in God's forgiveness
2. Faith in His restoration power
3. Faith in yourself to be restored to virtue, and
4. Faith to see yourself as virtuous when men should take interest in you in the future, especially those who want that kind of woman, so as not to disqualify yourself.

If you would like to share with a sister in private about your situation I can post one for you who would be glad to help (or a couple of them actually), but only if you would be comfortable with it.

Btw, there are some Bible studies I plan on starting up in a week or so that deal in part with Peter's teaching on the importance of being virtuous, and they touch on this very thing. If you like, I can invite you to those as well. Those will be public in the Pentecostal forum : )

Hope this has been a help to you, and thank you again for sharing.
Hidden In Him

 

[Hidden In Him]

You are certainly an excited Christian, and should hold onto that, through all of the ups and downs. Sometimes, when we lack authority over the Devil, God is simply telling us our cause is limited, and we should accept the Lord's will.

When you share the Gospel with others, the Devil and his hordes will certainly hate you. Opposition comes with ministry. So, persevere in ministry, but accept whatever comes from God's hand. That's how I deal with it.

It pleases the Lord when we stand our ground, in faith and in love, when there is obvious satanic hostility in the air. It pleases the Lord when we accept less than satisfactory results from our ministry, whether people understand us or not.

We will experience times of ministry in season and out of season. But we must be consistent regardless. That's what I get out of your dream.

This is often true, Randy, but in this particular scenario, it kinda suggests to me that she should push through in faith, receive restoration, and be fully recovered from whatever caused her to cast down her fearless confidence in Christ. With confidence in Christ comes the ability (and faith) to walk in greater authority in Him : )

 

[LOOKING]

Hello,


Your dream is very interesting, and every part and detail has a specific meaning. The process of decoding a dream is complex and takes time (and often requires multiple discussions), but dreams can be interpreted and can provide extremely precise insights.

But that experience has made me feel like my relationship with God isn’t the same anymore. Can you help clarify this for me?

This dream does not mean that God rejects you; otherwise, you would have had no dream at all and would feel nothing. This dream seems to suggest that you are not understanding religion correctly, which is different. It seems to mean: "You need to come to a better understanding of religion." The old ways are no longer valid.


Dreams are symbolic. For example, your mother telling you that she is cold and needs to sleep when you try to pray could mean that your prayer was not accompanied by a corresponding emotion—it was just an intellectual exercise that left you "cold" and "tired."


Your inability to send the demon away suggests that you are stagnant in your religious understanding, which translates into being unable to get rid of your own demons. While they are not overpowering you, they are slowly approaching, meaning you are not progressing, and time is passing. The only thing that seems to work is repentance, yes, but now you must also rectify.


But what is wrong?


Your dream seems to reflect your spiritual situation. First, a friend who was angry with you thanks you for sending him a Bible. He does so through a letter—that is, using words—so it may symbolize that your friend represents intellect (words). At some point in your life, you experienced a conflict between emotions and intuition. This part could suggest that there is now an opportunity to reconcile them because your reason has discovered the Bible thanks to your intuition, and it acknowledges this. Here, we once again see the relationship between emotions and ideas, represented by you and your friend sharing the Bible. However, your hesitation about calling him suggests that there is still a lack of confidence between your intuition and your intellect.


Nevertheless, this connection between your intellect and intuition through the Bible takes you back to your childhood, when your mind was unified, and there was harmony between intellect and emotions—something we must strive to achieve (as Jesus said in Matthew 18:3). -> Then, the dream takes you back to the room you had as a child, which symbolizes this unification and harmonization of intuition, emotions, and intellect, bringing you joy.


But then you start doubting. You go back to your mother's room. You pray, but this prayer is disconnected from your emotions. Your mother is cold and tired (your emotions). Then you move to a new room, the one you had when you were older, and you have lost this connection with yourself. Here, you try to rest, but as the demon approaches, your disconnected understanding of religion seems unable to drive it away. You speak the words, but they are disconnected from emotion.

I think you need to understand that it is not the words themselves, but the emotions that accompany them, that give you a full understanding of the message. Words are only a vessel for something greater. You must restore harmony within yourself by integrating everything into your understanding.

Hope this helps you.

 

[RandyK]

This is often true, Randy, but in this particular scenario, it kinda suggests to me that she should push through in faith, receive restoration, and be fully recovered from whatever caused her to cast down her fearless confidence in Christ. With confidence in Christ comes the ability (and faith) to walk in greater authority in Him : )

I had one of the strangest dreams I've ever had last night, and I'm sure God was in it. I'm not really a dream interpreter, as you seem to be, but I do have dreams on occasion. It seems related to the current conversation so I will briefly share it.

In my dream I was walking/jogging along a road, feeling like a failure in life. I've made errors in my life, and feel like God has punished me with a "thorn in the flesh," satanic opposition that stifles me. But suddenly thousands of little clouds started rising up from the earth, filling the sky, and others rising much higher towards space no longer in puffy little clouds. The puffy little clouds were rising everywhere I could see, and I wondered if others could see them.

It ultimately dawned on me that everybody saw the phenomenon--perhaps taking place everywhere! It's like everybody had to drop what they were doing and recognize this was something God was doing in current history as part of His end times scenario.

I realized that God had not abandoned me--only that my faith had been more attached to personal efforts at ministry than with God's abiding love. God will be faithful and fulfill everything I have been living for. The whole world will have to recognize that God is in charge and will bring about His judgments for all.

This has been a common theme in my life and a regular message I've been given, I think. We will be persecuted by the Evil One, but we are not to succeed by the results we want or expect but persevere in faithfully proclaiming what we know God has given to us.

I was given this revelation as a youngster in about 3rd grade. God showed me that my classmates would choose not for the most successful opportunity, but for the more popular offering to do your own thing and to have your own way. God will be rejected, and people will idolize leaders who give them what they want to believe.

In the end times the whole world will worship the Beast, because he offers an alternative to worshiping and serving God. But those who prevail in faithfulness with God will ultimately end up owning the world, less those who insist on being their own gods.

 

[Abbiehaspeace]

Ok, Abby. I looked at the rest of the dream (the first part), and I think it repeats much of the same themes I was telling you in my first post. You are in your mother's room again - the faithless room - where you begin to have doubts, and you are getting tired (like an older woman), so you keep hanging up the phone rather than acting in child-like faith to call him, and with the joy you had at first. The warmth that surrounds you there only "fills out" and fully manifests when you go to your child's room.

That your friend was reading Proverbs 31:10 suggests that you are being shown how to take the path to restored virtue, and becoming desirable to Christian men (and a potential Christian husband) who want that kind of woman. I say potential husband because some translations for that verse read, ""Who can find a virtuous woman? For her price is far above rubies." But other translations have "a virtuous wife," and the translation can actually go either way in the original.

The real question is this: What was your friend's invitation suggesting? It could potentially point to him specifically but not necessarily, so while I would certainly consider giving him a call, I would not automatically assume that it has to be about him if things don't develop. Just trust God with that. But it could simply be symbolic, in which case he represents Christian men in general who may take an interest in you in the future, and are looking for a virtuous woman. So the dream suggests that in order to be what they are looking for, you will need to have

1. Faith in God's forgiveness
2. Faith in His restoration power
3. Faith in yourself to be restored to virtue, and
4. Faith to see yourself as virtuous when men should take interest in you in the future, especially those who want that kind of woman, so as not to disqualify yourself.

If you would like to share with a sister in private about your situation I can post one for you who would be glad to help (or a couple of them actually), but only if you would be comfortable with it.

Btw, there are some Bible studies I plan on starting up in a week or so that deal in part with Peter's teaching on the importance of being virtuous, and they touch on this very thing. If you like, I can invite you to those as well. Those will be public in the Pentecostal forum : )

Hope this has been a help to you, and thank you again for sharing.
Hidden In Him

Yeah, if you would like to give them this forum, or have them message me, I'd really appreciate it. The more the merrier and also, I would love to be in your virtuous study, perhaps, that's where I need to get my next leading. Thank you for your reply. God bless.

 

[Hidden In Him]

I realized that God had not abandoned me--only that my faith had been more attached to personal efforts at ministry than with God's abiding love. God will be faithful and fulfill everything I have been living for. The whole world will have to recognize that God is in charge and will bring about His judgments for all.

I've been thinking over the same truth lately, Randy. You sometimes wonder if you will amount to anything at all, and then you look to Him and you remember how dependent you are upon Him to do a work in you. But then you remember the promises He has made to you, and you believe He will be faithful to keep them, and your outlook comes back into proper focus again : )

In the end times the whole world will worship the Beast, because he offers an alternative to worshiping and serving God. But those who prevail in faithfulness with God will ultimately end up owning the world, less those who insist on being their own gods.

Exactly.

In my dream I was walking/jogging along a road, feeling like a failure in life. I've made errors in my life, and feel like God has punished me with a "thorn in the flesh," satanic opposition that stifles me. But suddenly thousands of little clouds started rising up from the earth, filling the sky, and others rising much higher towards space no longer in puffy little clouds. The puffy little clouds were rising everywhere I could see, and I wondered if others could see them.

It ultimately dawned on me that everybody saw the phenomenon--perhaps taking place everywhere! It's like everybody had to drop what they were doing and recognize this was something God was doing in current history as part of His end times scenario.

Clouds produce rain when they come together, and the latter rain is coming. It's just a matter of how long it will take. But we will not be "waterless clouds" like the scripture says of heretics, who never bring the Spirit of God into other people's lives. We will bring Spirit-filled ministry, and I fully believe you will be part of that as well. Your input in conversations and threads is more of a blessing than you think.

So yeah. We are starting to see the latter rains beginning to formulate themselves in their earth. It might take a little time still, but the job is to rise up from the earthly, carnal life first, bless God : )

 

[RandyK]

I've been thinking over the same truth lately, Randy. You sometimes wonder if you will amount to anything at all, and then you look to Him and you remember how dependent you are upon Him to do a work in you. But then you remember the promises He has made to you, and you believe He will be faithful to keep them, and your outlook comes back into proper focus again : )


Exactly.


Clouds produce rain when they come together, and the latter rain is coming. It's just a matter of how long it will take. But we will not be "waterless clouds" like the scripture says of heretics, who never bring the Spirit of God into other people's lives. We will bring Spirit-filled ministry, and I fully believe you will be part of that as well. Your input in conversations and threads is more of a blessing than you think.

So yeah. We are starting to see the latter rains beginning to formulate themselves in their earth. It might take a little time still, but the job is to rise up from the earthly, carnal life first, bless God : )

You are such a kind, caring brother! You must be from the South! ;)

 

[Hidden In Him]

You are such a kind, caring brother! You must be from the South! ;)

I live in the South (and I think it rubbed off on me), but I'm actually from the North, LoL.

 

[RandyK]

I live in the South (and I think it rubbed off on me), but I'm actually from the North, LoL.

Yes, I'm from WA State, but am here in Alabama right now. I absolutely love the people, who call me "Randy sir," run to open doors for my wife and myself, and basically act like ladies and gentlemen regularly. I could eat this kind of kind treatment for breakfast, lunch, and dinner!

 

[Hidden In Him]

Yes, I'm from WA State, but am here in Alabama right now. I absolutely love the people, who call me "Randy sir," run to open doors for my wife and myself, and basically act like ladies and gentlemen regularly. I could eat this kind of kind treatment for breakfast, lunch, and dinner!

Yeah, it's different