Author Topic: Dreams (Read 3009 times)

steelcross · « **on:** February 25, 2015, 04:34:36 PM »

I know that we are not to pay too much attention to dreams. Some are from the devil to tempt us, some are from God, but the most part they are from our own minds. The reason I have become more interested in knowing what exactly are dreams, is because I had too many dreams happen in real life as I dreamt them. I am shown a persons true character, and shown events that have taken place.
Now there are some dreams that make me ponder. Any help here will be most appreciated. The first I'd like to share is this, I dreamt I was back in my old school, and my rosary was broken. I took it to a nun, and she fixed it. Her name was, Sandra and she hahanded to me my rosary with a big smile and told me, "it is your obligation".
Any idea what this could mean? There are two more I had about Our Lady.

steelcross · « **Reply #1 on:** February 26, 2015, 11:45:55 AM »

Anyone? Bueller? Bueller? :reading:

Nadir · « **Reply #2 on:** February 26, 2015, 03:32:17 PM »

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I know that we are not to pay too much attention to dreams.

I wonder why you say that? Can you explain, please?

Also what does this mean:

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Anyone? Bueller? Bueller? :reading:

steelcross · « **Reply #3 on:** February 26, 2015, 09:18:02 PM »

Forgive my humor, the bueller? Was from a movie, it's hard to explain that. As for the dream, I realize that most dreams have no meaning, but there are some that do. I have a high interest in dreams.

Marlelar · « **Reply #4 on:** February 26, 2015, 09:35:37 PM »

My dreams have always been nonsensical so I've never paid any attention to them. Perhaps you should ask your priest.

Marsha (not Ferris

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steelcross · « **Reply #5 on:** February 26, 2015, 09:37:49 PM »

Good idea, I will ask my priest.

Viva Cristo Rey · « **Reply #6 on:** February 26, 2015, 09:44:08 PM »

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I know that we are not to pay too much attention to dreams. Some are from the devil to tempt us, some are from God, but the most part they are from our own minds. The reason I have become more interested in knowing what exactly are dreams, is because I had too many dreams happen in real life as I dreamt them. I am shown a persons true character, and shown events that have taken place.
Now there are some dreams that make me ponder. Any help here will be most appreciated. The first I'd like to share is this, I dreamt I was back in my old school, and my rosary was broken. I took it to a nun, and she fixed it. Her name was, Sandra and she hahanded to me my rosary with a big smile and told me, "it is your obligation".
Any idea what this could mean? There are two more I had about Our Lady.

What were the other two?

Nadir · « **Reply #7 on:** February 27, 2015, 02:12:43 AM »

Thank you for answering my questions, steelcross.

When we go to sleep it’s as if we are entering a foreign land where “they” speak a strange language.

If we hear a foreigner speaking a strange tongue, would we say he is talking nonsense? Or what he says has no meaning? No, we would just say, I don’t understand. I don’t know the meaning. So it is with dreams. If you want to understand your dreams you need to know that language. It is the language of symbolism.

Where would we be without dreams? In the first book of the Bible the word dream appears 27 times.
Sometimes dreams are God speaking to us: And God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and he said to him: Lo thou shalt die for the woman thou hast taken: for she hath a husband. This seems to be Abimelech's conscience speaking to him as he has probably suppressed it in his waking moments.

Joseph was a dreamer and an interpreter of dreams. See Genesis chapters 37 and 40

What about St. Joseph? How did he find the answer to his dilemma?
Matthew 1 [20] But while he thought on these things, behold the angel of the Lord appeared to him in his sleep, saying: Joseph, son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife, for that which is conceived in her, is of the Holy Ghost.

Of course dreams are not always prophetic. Dreams just happen, for many reasons. St John Bosco started taking notice of his dreams from around the age of nine years old.

If you wanted to get to the meaning of your dream you can ask yourself questions. You know your history in this regard and we don't.

What does the broken rosary mean?
Is this nun a person you know and what does she represent to you?
What does name Sandra mean to you? etc.

God bless you.

steelcross · « **Reply #8 on:** February 27, 2015, 03:40:10 AM »

Thank you Nadir. You make a lot of sense. Perhaps the broken rosary may mean I need to pray the rosary correctly? As for the nun Sandra, I don't know what to say, I do not know anyone named Sandra, but she was cheerful.

For the other two dreams, the first one is this:
I was outside my deck, I ran down the stairs, turned to my left up towards the sky, there I saw Our Lady as in the Miraculous Medal. She moved her arm and tossed to me a white towel with two blue stripes at both ends if it. The moment I caught it, the dream was over.

The second is this: in my home, I looked out the window, andOur Lady moved through the house, again as in the Miraculous Mmedal, picked me up heading towards the sky. I heard a voice, cannot remember if it was male or female voice, but said, "God is going to introduce you to a girl." The dream ended there, did not say what girl or for what purpose?

Nadir · « **Reply #9 on:** February 27, 2015, 05:04:40 AM »

I didn't look for this. It just popped up:

St Andrew Corsini (feastday 4 February) Born one of the twelve children in 1301, St Andrew’s mother had a dream before he was born that she had given birth to a wolf which became a lamb upon entering a Carmelite church. After a wild youth, Andrew repented when his mother told him her dream. He prayed to the Blessed Virgin with tears, then went to beg his admission to the Carmelite Order. He became a priest, and the Apostle of Florence.

We can easily see the symbolism here. What does a wolf symbolise? What does a lamb symbolise?

I had not seen your reply, steelcross, when I decided to post this.

They are very beautiful dreams. No stranger can interpret your dreams. It is up to you to find the meaning through prayer and study. Maybe there is a good traditional priest you can talk with. Somebody might help you to understand the symbolism but only you know how it applies in your life.

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I do not know anyone named Sandra, but she was cheerful.

And yet Sandra was the name of the nun who fixed your beads and smiled at you. So if don't don't know the person and you don't know anyone called Sandra, you need to ask the meaning of the word Sandra. It is obviously important or you wouldn't remember it. I just did a search and found that it is both Hebrew and Greek, the feminine form of Alexander and it means "helper".

Why the Miraculous Medal and not the Carmelite Scapular? Why a towel? why white and blue? You didn't drop it; you caught it. Just keep asking those questions. Apart from that, I would repeat, it is not for anyone else to interpret your dreams. You must just pray about it. Our Lady features strongly here and she will help you.

steelcross · « **Reply #10 on:** February 27, 2015, 08:47:46 AM »

Thank you Nadir, you may be correct, I must find the answer myself. I just hoped there would be someone who could interpret dreams. I will ask my priest. Thank you again.
God bless. :)

steelcross · « **Reply #11 on:** February 27, 2015, 08:52:29 AM »

Yes Our Lady has never failed to help me when I needed helpthe most. I wish nnon-catholics could be more open to her.

Ascetik · « **Reply #12 on:** February 27, 2015, 10:33:35 AM »

I had an extremely vivid dream once when I had been living in sin for awhile.

I "woke up" from sleep in the dream in my bed and there was no ceiling in my dream, just the sky full of innumerable stars... then the starts began to form the Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Ghost, made out of all those starts, looking directly at me and into my soul. I knew all my sins that offended God immediately when He looked at me. They then morphed in the Person of Jesus Christ holding two swords. Jesus Christ with two swords stared directly at me in his universal glory, shimmering with starlight, and said not audibly, but I could hear it "Take up your sword." I woke up totally shocked and mystified. I rarely have dreams like that, extremely rarely, maybe the 3rd in my entire life relating to something heavenly and never has God Himself appeared in my dream, usually just a saint.

I'm pretty sure I went to confession the next day.

I also had never heard of the two sword in scripture until I looked it up. There is a place in one of the gospels where Christ speaks about two swords, up until that time, I had not remembered ever reading that passage in scripture.

Matto · « **Reply #13 on:** February 27, 2015, 12:37:56 PM »

I once had a dream in which I made bread and in the bread there was the real presence of Saint John Vianney as Christ is normally present in the Eucharist, and I gave the bread to my friends.

MiserereMeiDeus · « **Reply #14 on:** February 27, 2015, 01:25:02 PM »

I don't think it's a good idea to spend too much time pondering the meaning of dreams. There is an entire branch of the occult that deals with dreams that regards them as a sort of fortune-telling. If a dream image -- like a broken Rosary or a sword-weilding Jesus -- jars you into examining yourself, clearly that's a good thing. But I think it's not a good idea to spend a lot of time trying to puzzle out hidden meanings. If you're a pharoah and God sends you prophetic dreams and a patriarch to interpret them for you, the fate of nations hanging in the balance, that's one thing, but I don't think it's the sort of thing most of us are likely to encounter.