Question by nacsez: The Religious/Spiritual Perspective on Dreams?
Dreams are one of those things which we all experiece, but very few of us actually take the time to think about, even fewer understand, and perhaps no one understands completely.
My question:
Do the various holy books (Bible NT, OT, Quran, Vedas, Sutras, Occult texts, Kabalah, etc…) have anything to say about dreams? How about other religious or spiritual sources?
please site if possible with quotes not verse number.
looking for all types of answers from all faiths and faith abstainers. will choose best answer
thank you for all the christians who have answered; i was also hoping for other traditions to weigh in on this one…
i still feel like even though dreams existence has been addressed in many of these passages, what they are hasnt really been approached…
Best answer:
Answer by Father K
Pilate’s wife, a foreigner in the land, was warned in a dream that her husband must prevent the persecution of Jesus. She said to Pilate: “Have thou nothing to do with that just man: for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him” [Matt. 27:19]
There are many others, including:
Genesis: But God came to Abimelech in a dream one night and said to him, “You are as good as dead because of the woman you have taken; she is a married woman.”
Genesis: He had a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it.
Numbers: he said, “Listen to my words: “When a prophet of the LORD is among you, I reveal myself to him in visions, I speak to him in dreams.
Deuteronomy: If a prophet, or one who foretells by dreams, appears among you and announces to you a miraculous sign or wonder,
Judges: Gideon arrived just as a man was telling a friend his dream. “I had a dream,” he was saying. “A round loaf of barley bread came tumbling into the Midianite camp. It struck the tent with such force that the tent overturned and collapsed.”
Daniel: he said to them, “I have had a dream that troubles me and I want to know what it means.”
Daniel: Then the astrologers answered the king in Aramaic, “O king, live forever! Tell your servants the dream, and we will interpret it.”
Daniel: The king replied to the astrologers, “This is what I have firmly decided: If you do not tell me what my dream was and interpret it, I will have you cut into pieces and your houses turned into piles of rubble. But if you tell me the dream and explain it, you will receive from me gifts and rewards and great honor. So tell me the dream and interpret it for me.”
Matthew: But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.
Matthew: And having been warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, they returned to their country by another route.
Matthew: When they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get up,” he said, “take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him.”
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