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I woke up today with one info the most vivid dreams I have ever experienced. I had dreamed that I was in a very large and beautiful cathedral during mass, and was in line for communion. When I was up, I saw the priest of my parish and he smiled at me. Then I held my hands up for the Eucharist, but he said that he was sorry but couldn’t give me the Eucharist. I was confused, so I just went up for a blessing and continued walking. As I was walking back, I remember being overcome with sorrow, so much so that I was struggling to keep from crying. But then I started crying and thinking to myself “I’m sorry”, but I do not know for what. Then I woke up. Does anyone have any opinions on what this dream could mean if anything? I haven’t committed any mortal sins since I last went to confession, so I don’t know. I know dreams are usually just illogical and produced by our subconscious, but I have never had such a vivid dream before.
 
Probably one of your worst fears coming to the surface, that’s all. I’ve dreamt that my quite reverent and orthodox parish suddenly became a theater or everyone was talking or they were going to do some odd thing instead of the Mass. We dream a lot of strange things, but I wouldn’t take it seriously, if I were you. 🙂
 
Do not be DISCOURAGED but be ENCOURAGED to attend Holy Mass and rightfully receive Holy Eucharist perhaps this Saturday afternoon. God may want you to come back to Him and this dream may make you feel like you just have to. He is calling you back to Him. Take the dream seriously but with a light heart as all dreams should be kept.

Receive Penance/Reconciliation before Holy Mass on Saturday. Just understand that attendance to Mass is such a blessed gift from God. Not to be taken lightly or for granted. ALL Catholics need to read this dream post and respond by attending Holy Mass not next week or in 2 weeks … but this week.

God Bless You.
 
Dream interpretation is so subjective. Symbols can mean different things to different people and have more than one meaning.

If you are truly interested in dream interpretation, this is my favorite “dream” information website.

dreammoods.com/

I’ve found that keeping a dream journal is very useful when I am in a period of reflection or trying to make a decision about something important.

A lot of dream interpretation is intuition and what seems right in your situation.

Maybe you are afraid that you will be denied the Eucharist, maybe it’s something deeper. Maybe you are afraid that you will be denied something important in your waking life.

Obviously, I don’t subscribe to the “it’s just your unconscious showing you illogical things” theory of dreams.

Always take your vivid dreams seriously. They are vivid because God wants you to remember them. If it’s really bothering you, ask God to explain the dream. Given that we are in the time of Lent and self-examination, there might be something that you think you’ve already dealt with that needs to be revisited. It couldn’t hurt to ask, right?

That’s the best I can do as someone randomly answering your question over the internet. Have a great evening.
 
One of the dreams that I’ve never bother to interpret was actually a really cool dream.

It occurred during RCIA. I was a Catholic woman in the States pre-V2. All of us ladies wore head coverings and it was quite a scandal when a lady didn’t. It was also a scandal when one of the ladies I was friends with got divorced. For some reason, I thought it was a good idea to start pointing my finger at other parishioners, during the service (yeah, talk about bad form and the fact that this is so not me - at all!) telling them to stop judging the lady because she was doing the best she could in a bad situation. (This part was just a bad soap opera and I was glad when it was over and I got to the second part of my dream.)

Anyway, I ended up traveling to Germany in the 1960’s or 1970’s and I was with a huge tour bus group of women. We, our group of women and women from all over, ended up filling up this cathedral and the highlight of the mass was that the Pope was there and he was lecturing to us about how women could serve in the church (w/o being priests). We, women, were servers and doing everything that was required for the mass (except what the priest was supposed to do.)

It was a weird dream given that I wasn’t born until the mid-70’s and it had a historical novel type of feel. It was like the story started in the 1920’s or 30’s and ended at the end of this women’s conference. I really felt like I was a character in a story.

However, the thing is during this period of my life, learning church history was a big deal to me and it seemed like my mind just wanted to reinforce some of the concepts that we had been talking about in class. At least, that’s how I interpreted it. It also could have just been a dream telling me to take a trip to a German Cathedral or go to Rome and visit the Pope. Who knows? I’m happy with the first explanation. 😎
 
The dream might not mean anything at all. But, if you think it does than just try to figure out what the symbolism means to you. I have in the past had dreams of driving a car and having no brakes and waking up before I crashed into something. But I have learned that in my dreams, the car is me and I only have these dreams at times when I feel my life is out of control or frustrating (thus the no brakes).
 
Dreams are a way to explore a situation in your real life in a safe environment. While you at at rest you are sorting out all the things in your life and exploring things that you cannot really do in real life. While you slept you sorted out something, but your conscious mind tried to interpret it and what you remember is the dream.

The fact that it involves communion is likely just what your conscious mind interpreted that you can remember. The underlying subconscious theme is the exploration of your own consciousness.

Seems like you were simply exploring your own consciousness while you slept. Which is what sleep is for. Usually this might evoke images of crawling into cellars and deep parts of buildings as that is how your mind interprets the entry into the subconscious. But in your case, also going up for communion.

Dreams happen at the point between consciousness and subconsciousness.

That you dreamed of our lord just shows that he is part of your conscious life.
 
Fascinating.

I recently dreamed I was at mass and in line for communion. As I reached the front, no ministers (priest or lay minister) was there to give me communion. I thought I had somehow “missed it.” So I headed back to my seat.

After I took a few steps, a priest called to me. I turned around to see a priest friend standing there with the large host the priest consumes at mass. He broke it in half and offered me the other half.
 
Dodge_pursuit said:
Fascinating.

I recently dreamed I was at mass and in line for communion. As I reached the front, no ministers (priest or lay minister) was there to give me communion. I thought I had somehow “missed it.” So I headed back to my seat.

After I took a few steps, a priest called to me. I turned around to see a priest friend standing there with the large host the priest consumes at mass. He broke it in half and offered me the other half.
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I believe that we often dream these kinds of things to encourage us out of our fears.

One dream I had, when I was a rather new Catholic, was that of seeing the priest as Christ himself with his arms outstretched to me. I helped allay my latent fears that I had somehow erred in being reconciled to the Church. 🙂
 
Ask the Holy Spirit to show you any hidden sin in your life. There may be something that your subconscious feels guilty for.
 
I suspect it means to receive the Eucharist in the mouth not the hands.

God is calling you to be more holy and to prepare yourself more for receiving holy communion.

It was a gentle guidance, not a rejection.
 
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