Posted by giveawayboy on January 29, 2003 at 12:17:58:
In Reply to: not hijacking j's string posted by giveawayboy on January 29, 2003 at 12:06:47:
*****BILL'S HANDY DANDY DREAM INTERPRETATION WARNING*****
1)Dreams are nice. Be open to them.
2)Dreams can be helpful tools. Learn how to use them.
3)Dream can be abused or misread. Don't do that.
4)Dreams are part of reality. However, they are at a different speed than realtime. Learn the difference.
5)God is Lord of all. He is Lord of the waking world and of dreamtime.
6)Allow for error in interpretation. It is quite possible. Infact, don't force interpretations. Learn the images and principles that come to you from dreamtime. These will be invaluable tools to you in waking reality once you learn to read them in harmony with your waking life as well. Remember everything is held together in Christ. Keep your focus on Christ and not on your dreams. Be circumspect. This means you are always looking around trying to see things as they actually are.
7)Try to stick w the actual images, words and feelings of the dream and try not to delete or add images, words or feelings. Keep a pad by your bed. When you wake up practice writing those images and experiences and words and feelings or smells, sounds, etc. that flow to you out of the dream world. Don't force antying. There is no need to do this. A dream is simply a dream. It is not to be taken as an oracle, although sometimes a dream can convey God's messages to us. Still, don't make the dream the central focus ever.
8)If a description of a dream doesn't seem to make sense, allow it to NOT make sense. There is no need to interpret every dream.
9)If a description of a dream does not seem complete, allow it to NOT seem complete. There is no need to interpret every dream.
10)Anything of import that would come to us in a dream will be revealed to us ultimately by God so don't make the dream the be-all-to-end-all. There is no need to interpret every dream.
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I guess I could add a few things to this:
*Dreams and waking reality are different but related.
*Rarely is one dream self-contained. It will usually interact w others.
*We can grow in our understanding and use of dreams.
*The main thing is to treat dreams like a language. You learn how to use that lanugage.
*When you study your own dreams you can learn about yourself.
*All fields of knowledge are related somehow.