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
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.
I have seldom known the message until the event took place but then I could work it out. Perhaps you needed to make an honest effort to find peace with the result I don't know but for me it's been too often to be a coincidence. Oh and when it became too much I simply asked it to stop until I could handle more. And it did.
I had plenty of conversations with God. My wife and I did work through it. The whole thing brought me back to my knees.
I was only tested to my limit and not pushed over it.
I’m just saying that my experience has shown, God is real and dreams are garbage removal.
I see. I don't question your experience. You did find an answer. And it's yours.