Regarding intended audience
If I had that dream, the first thing I would do upon awakening is an examination of conscience. I would look to see if I had allowed anything to become a ‘commandment’ for me that was not one of God’s commandments. Was there anything in my life I was doing that was clearly opposed to God’s law of loving God first and foremost, and loving my neighbor as myself? Was I following the beatitudes? Am I keeping the 10 commandments fully in my heart, and allowing them to guide me?
It means don’t listen to evangelical fairy tales because they don’t believe in the 10 commandments. They have their own which they make up as they go.
It’s thought that dreams are the unconscious mind’s attempts to classify, catalogue, and file away all the experiences of today and the past,
Once in a while a dream will have some correspondence to reality, but this is coincidence and unpredictable. Trying to find out what a particular dream means is a hopeless task.
We are tested on the Commandments every day.
Dreams often act as a safety valve which helps us deal with our problems and find solutions. The unconscious can have a powerful effect on our thought and behaviour - as with hypnosis…
it means your subconscious is reminding you of what you already know, that obedience to God’s commandments comes before all other duties. Is there something going in in your life that means you needed such a reminder from your inner self?
The dream means exactly what the words tell you. There is no reason to reject them because they are true. There is also no reason why you shouldn’t share them because we all need to be reminded sometimes of the truth…
I am guilty of often thinking in this manner, but if you read through the Bible, you find that God often instructs those who are asleep. I remain skeptical about certain personal encounters (my own and others), but I try to accept that it is a valid form of communication between Him and us.
[BIBLEDRB]Genesis 20:3[/BIBLEDRB]
Although apparently not very often. Only a few times in the Bible, it seems. ( You forgot Daniel and the Magi. )
But apparently the Church has not approved a dream/apparition in 2,000 years.
I did not forget Daniel & the Magi, I chose only some of the numerous instances from the Bible. I have no idea how many people had messages from God as how many of them would choose to share such information? Not only that, but why play a numbers game like that? Here is your argument turned slightly: The number of people healed at Lourdes is small (despite the numerous visitors), should people stop going for miraculous healings because of the unlikelihood?
There have been a few dreams that were approved (St John Bosco) over the last 2000 years, however there have been numerous apparitions–Medjugorje is still going on! There’s also been, Lourdes, Fatima, Guatemala, and so on. St Faustina Kowalska has had conversations with the Lord.
"…Her quest started in 1425, when [she] heard the voices of God in dreams. She asked for an escort to accompany her to Chinon, where the Dolphin (Charles VII) was holding far away from its enemies. She obtained the escort only in 1429, going from Vaucouleurs and reached Chinon a little later.Oh brother!
Once in a while a dream will have some correspondence to reality, but this is coincidence and unpredictable. Trying to find out what a particular dream means is a hopeless task.
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I did not give her advice I answered her question deliberately without giving advice. The dream is just a replay of thoughts, sense impressions, emotions and brain activity, so if she thought she heard a message, that is the message she heard. She said she dreamed the message about commandments, so that is what her brain is telling her. I did not make it up. Take a deep breath and calm down.How dare you say the dream means the person needs to be reminded about the commandments!
Dreams are a chaotic mess and mean nothing. Giving somebody you don’t even know advice based on a dream is wrong!
