Usually I don't remember my dreams and this one was really interesting.
I was playing golf and was at the green about to make a put. It was nice midday sunlight
All of a sudden I heard a loud thunderclap and I looked up in front of me and there was a massive storm cloud rapidly forming and spreading across the sky as I was watching it briefly.
I felt safe with this storm bit realised I need to get into shelter, but the only shelter around was in the direction of the storm so I started running into the storm and I was marvelling at the black clouds and all of a sudden a bolt of lightning fell and spilt into 5 branches striking the ground.
It didn't startle me or frighten me but it woke me up after hearing the lightning strike.
I lay awake thinking the Strom is the natural result of forces above us instead of running from the storm it was best to embrace it and weather it out, but the lightning had a sense of God's power behind it. For some reason seeing the lightning comforted me
Reading into dreams can be misleading or even dangerous.
Dreams are formed by purged thoughts. So it’s a big jumbled mess of all your thoughts that the brain has decided can be discarded.
It says in Acts 2:17 that God will give his people dreams and visions in the last days.
Most of my dreams I don't bother to remember but this one was more vivid and stayed in my mind.
I wouldn't go so far to make all my decisions form forcing dreams but when I get ones like that I will write them down
No. Prophetic dreams are very real. I have had the dreams you describe. Not the same at all. The dreams that "tell" are different. Real. Sounds and voices are real. There is no relationship to vague psychological reenactment of past experiences. You cannot judge someone else's experiences.
I didn't judge, I made a valid point.
I'm not discounting the possibility of premonition and dream based messages. The point I was trying to make is that the vast majority of dreams are just garbage filtering.
Thank you. Of course the vast majority of dreams are as you describe, but this conversation was about those exceptions.
The thing I've learned from my experience with vivid dreams is that they can be driven entirely by my desires.
When my wife and I went through a rough spell all I could think about for months was what it would be like if we worked through things and got back together. One night I had a vivid dream, perfect in every detail of us getting back together. I saw it all happening, felt it all happening. For weeks I expected it to play out exactly like the dream, but it didn't. Yes we worked through things, but it took a tremendous amount of effort by both of us and nothing of that vivid dream came true.
In the end that vivid dream was nothing more than a massive build up of all those thoughts that had been circling relentlessly through my head for weeks... months.
We've been on edge since the election was stolen, praying, hoping and relentlessly obsessing about small details trying to find some proof that this nightmare is going to end and freedom will prevail.
It is much safer to assume a vivid dream is nothing more than a large scale garbage dump than to get emotionally invested into something that may not come to fruition.
Certainly worth talking about though, sometimes that can help sort your own thoughts out.