Post by Questioner on Sept 6, 2010 13:29:09 GMT -5
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I hope that you all dream. Dreams are so very important to our overall health and well being. They are our subconscious minds telling us, warning us or making us aware of the things that bother us in our daily lives and they CAN help us to sort out problems we may be experiencing.
Almost everyone has experienced one or more dreams that contain anxiety or outright fear. These experiences can be quite traumatic or become recurrent. For some, unpleasant dreams or nightmares repeat in actual content.
For others, the content may change while the theme remains the same, such as scenes of falling, or of being pursued or attacked, of being late or unprepared for class, a presentation or an exam. Some people even dream of being stuck in slow motion and unable to move, or of being naked in public, to name a few common themes.
Research has shown that most recurring dreams are described as being unpleasant. Furthermore, many dream theories converge in their view that this type of experience is associated with lack of progress by the dreamer to recognize and solve related conflicts in life.
Fear of nightmares from early in life, or other anxieties or misguided beliefs about dreams and the unconscious can block dream recall, but this can usually be overcome by learning about the useful nature of dreams and by recognizing that many nightmares, like a bitter but quite necessary medicine, represent opportunities for healing and insight, and can warn of psychological imbalances that we need to remedy, or of current behaviors or decisions which may soon become detrimental unless we change them, as exemplified in this dream by Stanford University pioneer sleep researcher [glow=red,2,300]Dr. William Dement[/glow]:
Each night before I sleep, I pray for those who are in need, ill, and those who are lost, have been murdered, or have yet to be identified. I ask the Lord to direct my prayers and my mind to show me things about a case that I'm working on. I ask him to allow me to remember the dream so that I may be able to help.
I had a few while dreaming of Morgan. One was the gold Jeep. I remembered that it was a newer one, that the Jeep also had gold wheels and a brush clearing front bumper that was attached to the grill. I put that one into print. The next one that I had, I was actually Morgan. I was laying on a wooden plank floor, in front of me was a very worn maroon oriental carpet. My face was down on the wooden planks and someone walked in front of me, the planks moved under the persons feet, and I knew that I needed to not breathe so that the person wouldn't know that I was still alive.
I woke up because I wasn't breathing, which hasn't ever happened to me before. Was this just an anxiety dream, because I wanted so much to help? I'm still not sure. But I believe that God directs us in dreams. These are some passages from the Bible that show me that dreaming is nothing new to man.
[glow=red,2,300]Gen 20:3[/glow]But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou [art but] a dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken; for she [is] a man's wife.
[glow=red,2,300]Gen 20:6And [/glow]God said unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart; for I also withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore suffered I thee not to touch her.
There are so many more verses in scripture that speak of dreams. I believe that the Bible is a teaching tool for man, who is basically sinfull and by reading the Bible we sinners can learn as we live, so that we can be the best we are able to be.
I hope you dream