Dreams...

Dreams are interesting topics to talk about. The one I'm talking about now refers to the ones you have in your sleep...not your hopes for the future. Sometimes you can have completely random dreams that take elements of recent happenings, and sometimes God can totally speak to you through dreams. Sometimes you can even be spiritually attacked in dreams.

I feel like the dreams I usually get are the ones where I have no idea what is going on or the bad dreams I have. The ones where I have no idea what goes on usually involves me running around an imagined city with elements from Tokyo or an imagined multiple story shopping center...and there was even one in a luxurious hotel of sorts. I never understood those dreams...I either run from something or I am searching for I have no idea what. Sometimes I would even hop onto a train to go from one part of the city to another.

There are also those dreams I remember because I'm about to die in those dreams. These range from being chased by a T-Rex as a child only to run into a Vietnamese noodle shop to eat, or when I was in 4th grade, I had a dream where I hear about a baby tiger escaping from the zoo. For some reason the baby tiger found it's way to the room I was hiding in, and my brother pushed me out of our hiding spot under a blanket. Then it started eating my leg...Sometime in junior high or high school I even had a dream where I was protecting a deck of "magical cards" from the mafia and they chased me around until they eventually shot me while I was running uphill. I actually felt the pain of a bullet going into my leg in my sleep...

Then there are ones that seem to be prophetic. I remember when I was in 10th or 11th grade, I had a dream where one of my best friends got liver cancer. She dies in that dream and it really saddened me. The next day, I find out a schoolmate whose last name sounds the same as my friend's first name had liver cancer. He no longer has it now, and I'm sure he's having an awesome time with his life now.

Then a couple nights ago around 5AM, I had this really freaky dream. I was talking to a friend of mine about Disney movies for some reason, and we mentioned Monsters Inc. All of a sudden, she starts shivering or shuddering, and I ask what was wrong. She said everything was fine. Then we continued talking and I noticed she was shuddering even more. I asked if she needed help with anything, and she yells "NO". She eventually falls over, so I offer to help her back up. At this point, she yells at me to stay away from her. It was totally freaky for me, and I was kind of scared. Whenever I would approach her, she would yell in a high pitched voice. I thought it was a demonic attack of sorts, but I remembered that Jesus' name has power. I then stretched my right arm forward and said, "In Jesus' name, leave her." At this point, my "vision" of the dream becomes blurry, so I repeat, "In Jesus' name, leave." Right as I said it the second time, I wake up to notice I was saying it out loud.

It's the most recent dream I remember, and I felt it could be an attack. It could also be a message to be interpreted like my friend did for me yesterday in the afternoon. Whatever the case, I started praying protection over her and myself right after having it. I should probably start remembering to write down more dreams.

Comment your thoughts about dreams or even write down any you have had recently that you are fine sharing.

Until next time,
Kenneth