Morality and Dreams

[mikew72324]

Hi,

My name is Mike. I can best describe myself as a really great person who is striving to be better. I recently started to notice unusual behavior in my dreams. I appear to be making decisions, although they are not decisions that I would make in reality. Often, they either show a disregard for others or are overly lustful. I would like to stop. I mean that I want to reassociate morality and dreams. I feel that merely my reflection on such dreams is unpleasant and has some degree of effect on my daily thoughts and actions.

Are there any faithful prayers, advice, or writings related to dreaming and morality?

Thanks,
Mike

 

[GEddie]

Hi,

My name is Mike. I can best describe myself as a really great person who is striving to be better. I recently started to notice unusual behavior in my dreams. I appear to be making decisions, although they are not decisions that I would make in reality. Often, they either show a disregard for others or are overly lustful. I would like to stop. I mean that I want to reassociate morality and dreams. I feel that merely my reflection on such dreams is unpleasant and has some degree of effect on my daily thoughts and actions.

Are there any faithful prayers, advice, or writings related to dreaming and morality?

Thanks,
Mike

We are not responsible for cOntent in our dreams, inasmuch as these form without our conscious participation.

However, you may wish to pray to Saint Dymphna, as she is the patron saint of mental concerns; and dreams reside in our minds.

ICXC NIKA

 

[irishOntarian]

I used to have this sometimes. I’d say a prayer every night to ask God not to let me have any evil/immoral dreams. Its about the best safety policy. Other than that, all you can do is control your imagination during the day, and remember that the things that happen in your dreams aren’t chosen by you so you’re not committing a sin
Of course, if it gets really bad you might want to talk to a priest or your spiritual director, but I think most people get dreams like that occasionally, and you just have to live through it.

 

[MidnightSun12]

I always sleep with a rosary under my pillow and I find that this helps impure dreams become less frequent.

 

[brotherjoe]

You might want to read a book about dream interpretation as the content of our dreams seem to be expressions of our own unconscious mind. These dreams may have meaning for you once you figure them out. But you have to pick a professionally qualified author - there are quacks out there. I once had a vivid dream of killing a particularly nasty fictitous character - the fact was, I was killing my own self-contempt and it was a very good thing indeed.

 

[pgnat1]

At one point in my life (about 6 months ago), I was feeling like you. Even though I am a teenager and it is kind of normal for those dreams to happen because of my hormones, I wanted the dreams to stop. I prayed for sometime, and it really worked! Prayer is so powerful! If you have faith in God, you can move mountains!

Jesus, I trust you!!!