Can someone help me interpret a message sent to me?

[FrankfromtheHRV]

So last night had prayed for God to send me a vision, to give me some foresight my life. That night i dreamed that i was on a boat (which was on stilts) and my sister, father and I were repairing it, I was re-varnishing the deck. Suddenly a taxi drives up and my sister turns to me and says " (my real name) your late for your wedding". I then run to the cab and it starts to drive when i wake up. Wondering if anyone can provide me with help and tell me if it means anything or nothing. Thanks!

 

[runningdude]

Knowing nothing about your life, goals, or situation, I can only assume this dream vaguely reflects some issues that you have been worried about. Perhaps you are worried that you are “late” in taking too long to be ready for marriage.

 

[Auntie_A]

I see it in a similar way to the previous poster: the ship is family, faith, culture, marriage, all that you bring " on board" to your life. The stilts indicate protecting the ship from the lowly, earthly mud that can sink or trap a good ship. The repair and varnish is you working on improving your ship, your self.

It feels like a dream of ideals; high ideals , then suddenly, reality or time, steps in to interrupt all of the higher idealism with this taxi coming in to take you to a wedding that you might be late for. Weddings can symbolize a wedding but it can also mean things that are coming together, coming to fruition. The lateness is just the anxiety or realization that we don’t have loads of time to make everything perfect.

It seems positive as indicating a good direction in your life. It seems practical in that it involves a ship, family, repairs and improvements, and a taxi with a warning from your sister not to waste time.

Dreams are not rocket science. Many people will read them differently. But they can reflect some deep ideas in interesting symbols. Continue to pray and seek God’s path for you but remember to look around you for help from trusted people.

 

[JRKH]

I do not think that it is a good idea to ask others to interpret this dream.
You asked God to give you some insight. If this is His reply, then it is up to you to prayerfully seek from Him the insight it is intended to supply. It is not up to others to potentially muddy the waters with their ideas…

Go to the Father in gratitude for His gift, and then ask Him to help you to understand it.

Just some thoughts.

Peace
James

 

[thistle]

So last night had prayed for God to send me a vision, to give me some foresight my life. That night i dreamed that i was on a boat (which was on stilts) and my sister, father and I were repairing it, I was re-varnishing the deck. Suddenly a taxi drives up and my sister turns to me and says " (my real name) your late for your wedding". I then run to the cab and it starts to drive when i wake up. Wondering if anyone can provide me with help and tell me if it means anything or nothing. Thanks!

A dream is usually just a dream and means nothing but anyway nobody here is a dream interpreter. We cannot help.

 

[Bob_Crowley]

So last night had prayed for God to send me a vision, to give me some foresight my life. That night i dreamed that i was on a boat (which was on stilts) and my sister, father and I were repairing it, I was re-varnishing the deck. Suddenly a taxi drives up and my sister turns to me and says " (my real name) your late for your wedding". I then run to the cab and it starts to drive when i wake up. Wondering if anyone can provide me with help and tell me if it means anything or nothing. Thanks!

It’s either going to be an ordinary dream, or a vision or spiritual dream.

If it’s an ordinary dream, just ignore it. It will have no significance whatsoever.

If it was a vision or spiritual dream, then later circumstances will possibly give some you some guidance as to what it means. The baker, cup bearer and Pharaho had their dreams while Joseph was in prison, but they didn’t have any context without events to back them up. The baker was executed, the cup bearer was pardoned, and Pharaoh put Joseph in charge of the country to prepare for a coming famine.

If I were you, I’d just write it down somewhere - a journal maybe - and then forget about it, until something happens to put it in context.

Meanwhile I’d suggest you start relying on more conventional means of finding out what God expects you to do - keep studying if you’re at school, do the best you can in whatever job you’re in, talk to more experienced Christians about potential vocations and so on.

 

[Dorothy]

I do not think that it is a good idea to ask others to interpret this dream.
You asked God to give you some insight. If this is His reply, then it is up to you to prayerfully seek from Him the insight it is intended to supply. It is not up to others to potentially muddy the waters with their ideas…

Go to the Father in gratitude for His gift, and then ask Him to help you to understand it.

Just some thoughts.

Peace
James

I agree that it is not a good idea to ask for dreams to be interpreted. It could be a distraction and hindrance in one’s spiritual journey.

It is always good for us to pray to the Lord that His will be done in our life.

 

[BlueKnight]

The boat represents your life/work/ministry. Your sister is the Blessed mother. The stilts are Gods protection and provision for a time of rest that is to prepare you for a voyage or the next part of your life. The taxi is heavenly help to get to the wedding.

The repairs are the sacraments. The deck is where people stand, you are making finishing touches to your earthly relationships.

A wedding is a party and celebration!

Forgive and ask forgiveness. Tell all you love them and get ready for being wed to Jesus.

It is a call to repentance and preparation for God who is calling you to something new.

 

[fred_conty]

Maybe it was just a dream about fixing up a boat to go on a wedding cruise. You were working so hard on the boat with you Dad that you forgot the time. So then your sister came and reminded you not to be late for your wedding.

Just a pleasant little dream.

May God bless and keep you. May God’s face shine on you. May God be kind to you and give you peace.

 

[ClearWater]

So last night had prayed for God to send me a vision, to give me some foresight my life. That night i dreamed that i was on a boat (which was on stilts) and my sister, father and I were repairing it, I was re-varnishing the deck. Suddenly a taxi drives up and my sister turns to me and says " (my real name) your late for your wedding". I then run to the cab and it starts to drive when i wake up. Wondering if anyone can provide me with help and tell me if it means anything or nothing. Thanks!

Sometimes a dream is a remnant of what happened during the day.

Sometimes, it reflects what’s going on.

Consider the dream, if it has some more significant meaning, in the context also of what’s going on in your life of late.

 

[ClearWater]

What’s been happening in your life that you were seeking answers? What were your questions…with regards to what?

 

[ClearWater]

Further, what were your feeling as you dreaming this? Were you …angry, sad, afraid?

 

[ClearWater]

Once, I had a dream years and years and years ago that I was in a wheelchair, but in my dream, I wasn’t frightened by that, though, in the slightest. The dream seemed to actually be related to something else, though, I am using a wheelchair, now, come to think of it. The wheelchair, even now, doesn’t scare me, though.

 

[Frankenfurter]

If you stop and think, you might find that there is some thing that you are unconsciously working out. Perhaps a conflict between two things that you wish you could, but cannot do at the same time. But both important to you.

 

[Deus_tecum]

I was once concerned about a career change, and asked God to give me a sign of what career to go into. Instead of a direct answer I had a dream that night in which I was in a burning theater. The flames were huge and at the front where the screen would be. I started gathering people and directing them to the exits, as they were not moving on their own. They were just sitting there looking at the flames like they were watching a movie. Some of them refused to get up. A few years later I was a volunteer in a youth ministry where the kids came from very difficult backgrounds, and I told about that dream to the kids. The kids said “That’s us!” in regard to the theater goers. For awhile I thought the dream meant that I should go into some type of professional ministry, but that has not happened. I now believe that dream applies to all of us. Our true Spiritual career is leading people to God and away from the flames of hell. It’s not necessarily what we do to earn a living. St. Paul made tents for a living, I am told.

 

[Mystical_Seeker]

I do not think that it is a good idea to ask others to interpret this dream.
You asked God to give you some insight. If this is His reply, then it is up to you to prayerfully seek from Him the insight it is intended to supply. It is not up to others to potentially muddy the waters with their ideas…

For me, as long as I understand that interpreting dreams is only an exercise of the imagination and not some sort of mandate or signal that must be decoded, I think it can be helpful. That is, it is helpful for me, and out of my respect for you and your comments, I won’t confer that to the OP automatically or in general without warning.

Especially on things that are mysterious, I love to hear what other people’s imaginations come up with, given some of the same triggering ideas. But yes, that’s what it is their imaginations; I don’t know of any “definitive” mapping from dream life to “what it means” that is consistent among dreamers or within one dreamer over time.

Sometimes when others offer me their points of view on things that have “no right answer” it helps open something up in me. Whether it be dreams or someone else’s take on something that makes sense to me one way but turns out makes sense to someone else’s.

If I’m looking for answers or spiritual direction, I’ll talk to my pastor. But on the Internet I like to draw many opinions. That’s one of the greatest advantages. I can present my dream as a work of imaginary scribble-art to see what they say. Kind of hearing many reactions to the same scripture in some ways of practicing Lectio Divina, except I don’t take my dream to be scripture.

I recognize your warning though: if we look with the idea that we are going to “figure this out” or that it is telling us something “we need to know” then IMO we’re crossing over into the superstitious and risk mistaking something that isn’t meaningful or salient to my spiritual life and treating it like it is (kind of like an idol), then we’re on an academic head-cramming exercise that will likely lead to nowhere good, or worse. So if I come out of it with some ideas about my life, great. If I come out of it thinking it meant something specific that I should do, I should only do that if it only adds to, not substitutes for, other reasons for doing whatever it is.