Christian dream interpretation
Interpreting you dreams with religious meaning
Christian dream interpretation - with the correct guidance or training, you can interpret your dreams for christian meaning.
Over the ages, many civilizations and many religious beliefs have used dreams, or rather the interpretation of dreams, as a means to help control their populous. Whether realistic interpretation was given to dreams under these circumstances is not known, but in the modern day, a more scientific approach can yield startling results.
In the old testament, God declared that he would communicate through dreams and visions. This can be found in Num. 12:6 - "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". Other indications can be found in (Hos. 12:10) and (Acts 2:17).
Dreams are principally symbolic, by which I mean that the component parts of the dream could each have significance, but not necessarily the obvious meaning. You can get guidance and a dictionary of symbols from 'Your dreams revealed'. This is an excellent book on dream interpretation, which will offer a scientific and detailed account on how your dreams can be interpreted.
The Bible, as well as other great books of historical and revealed religion, show traces of a general and substantial belief in dreams. Plato, Goethe, Shakespeare and Napoleon assigned to certain dreams prophetic value. Joseph saw eleven stars of the Zodiac bow to himself, the twelfth star. The famine of Egypt was revealed by a vision of fat and lean cattle. The parents of Christ were warned of the cruel edict of Herod, and fled with the Divine Child into Egypt. Pilate's wife, through the influence of a dream, advised her husband to have nothing to do with the conviction of Christ.
Here are some examples of the interpretation of symbols from the book.
"Bible. To dream of the Bible, foretells that innocent and disillusioned enjoyment will be proffered for your acceptance. To dream that you vilify the teachings of the Bible, forewarns you that you are about to succumb to resisted temptations through the seductive persuasiveness of a friend."
"Birthday. To dream of a birthday is a signal of poverty and falsehood to the young, to the old, long trouble and desolation."
"Birthday Presents. Receiving happy surprises, means a multitude of high accomplishments. Working people will advance in their trades. Giving birthday presents, denotes small deferences, if given at a fete or reception."
"Biscuits. Eating or baking them, indicates ill health and family peace ruptured over silly disputes."
"Bishop. To dream of a bishop, teachers and authors will suffer great mental worries, caused from delving into intricate subjects. To the tradesman, foolish buying, in which he is likely to incur loss of good money. For one to see a bishop in his dreams, hard work will be his patrimony, with chills and ague as attendant. If you meet the approval of a much admired bishop, you will be successful in your undertakings in love or business."
"Bite. This dream omens ill. It implies a wish to undo work that is past undoing. You are also likely to suffer losses through some enemy."
