Dream Teaching
Dream Interpretation teaching
Some things to remember when trying to understand your dreams are not to get lost in all the little details of a dream, sometimes little details can be important but not always. Try and find out what the main subject or theme of the dream is this is especially important to communicate when trying to help others with their dreams.
Remember that not all dreams come from God and also be careful who you take your dreams too, everyone thinks that they can interpret dreams and most people who think that they are prophetic will go out of their way to give you their interpretation and most of the time it won’t be the right one. I have had many people give me the wrong interpretation of a dream and they can really be offensive to you in what they tell you,
Dreams are almost always symbolic but often they have some things that are literal in them but when seeking to interpret them it is good to look for the symbolism in the dream before looking for the literal such as if you dream about a death it is almost to be viewed as symbolic unless you have a history of death dreams coming true literally.
Dreams can be like a riddle, try and ask questions about things in the dream, like why did this take place at the school instead of at the bank and so on. Also ask yourself what certain things mean to you such as what do dogs mean to you if you dreamt of a dog, do you even like dogs? Or do you dislike them? Dogs often represent best friends. Try and remember how you felt in the dream about certain things. Colors can also be important but it all depends if the color stood out to the dreamer and if they knew that that felt important often times people get lost trying to figure out the meaning of colors and miss the meaning of the dream so don’t spend to much time focusing on colors.
Also, who are the people in the dream? Do you know them? What do they look like? How do you feel about the person in the dream?
Where is the dream taking place? Is it in a school, a house, outside, on a boat, or a mountain? Schools often are symbolic of learning so if you dreamt about going back to school then your dream is revealing that you are or will be learning a lesson or something over again or if you dream that you are back in school but you really aren’t required to be there then your dream may mean that you really already have learned the lesson and know better but are choosing to not move on and learn something new and now find your self learning the same things over again but you could start anytime learning something new.
Are there vehicles in the dream? Vehicles can be symbolic of a career or ministry. Money can be symbolic of resources.
Also, where are you in the dream? Are you the main character- then the dream may be about you, are you observing and only watching -then the dream may not be about you, are you participating -then the dream may not be directly about you but it may affect you.
God speaks to us in terms and in symbols that we can understand so if you are trying to help someone else out with their dream then you will need to know what symbols mean to them.
I once was talking with a young man about how God speaks through dreams and such and he began to tell me that he used to have dreams all the time then he took a psychology course in college. The course taught that dreams don’t come from God, aren’t spiritual and don’t have much meaning. He said that after taking the course and learning that he immediately stopped dreaming. You see what had happened was he lost faith in dreams and no longer paid attention to them and the result was he no longer dreamed.
