Dream Interpretations?

[Marie1234]

Hey everyone,

I’m not sure if Spirituality is the right section to post this under, but here goes

I’m just wondering if anyone out there believes in dream interpretation? Like, through dreams you can get in touch with your subconscious better?

Do you think God speaks to us through dreams sometimes?

If you have an opinion or a story, I would love to hear it!

Thanks in advance!

(also, if anyone knows what the Church says about dreams, I’d greatly appreciate it if you’d tell me about it )

 

[bzkoss236]

I think dreams can be caused by a lot of things. Any particular dream could have a number of causes wrapped into one. You’ve got previous experiences, memories, issues that need working out, wishful thinking, random brain activity, and, of course, God.

I do think God can speak to us in dreams. I personally have had dreams in the past in which an angel came to me to help me with loneliness problems. Though, I’ve had plenty of dreams which seem to random to contain any message.

 

[GEddie]

As far as I know, there are no Church teachings on dreaming.

But there are Scriptures where God uses dreams to guide someone, and we should take those as true. God can do that.

Dreams come from your subconsciousness while your conscious mind is asleep, so yes, you can learn to use your subconscious mind via dreaming.

ICXC NIKA

 

[RPRPsych]

Hey everyone,

I’m not sure if Spirituality is the right section to post this under, but here goes

I’m just wondering if anyone out there believes in dream interpretation? Like, through dreams you can get in touch with your subconscious better?

Do you think God speaks to us through dreams sometimes?

If you have an opinion or a story, I would love to hear it!

Thanks in advance!

(also, if anyone knows what the Church says about dreams, I’d greatly appreciate it if you’d tell me about it )

Dream interpretation is an inexact science, which is badly in need of further investigation. (My guess is that at least some dreams provide valuable information about psychological conflicts, but others may just indicate one’s general physical or mental condition, and others aren’t meant to make sense.)

On God speaking to us through dreams: there’s a lot of precedent for this, starting with Jacob and Joseph, going through Nebuchadnezzar, to St. Joseph and the Magi, and right up to the man who killed St. Maria Goretti. It’s not an everyday occurrence, though.

There are also some reports of demonic phenomena (such as “false prophecies” in dreams), but I doubt they are widespread.

Here’s Ben Sira on dreams - he’s quite the skeptic!

“The hopes of a man that is void of understanding are vain and deceitful: and dreams lift up fools.
The man that giveth heed to lying visions, is like to him that catcheth at a shadow, and followeth after the wind.
The vision of dreams is the resemblance of one thing to another: as when a man’s likeness is before the face of a man.
What can be made clean by the unclean? and what truth can come from that which is false?
Deceitful divinations and lying omens and the dreams of evildoers, are vanity:
And the heart fancieth as that of a woman in travail: except it be a vision sent forth from the most High, set not thy heart upon them.
For dreams have deceived many, and they have failed that put their trust in them.”

(Ecclesiasticus 34: 1-7; emphasis added.)