Dreams about Strangers

[~Shalhevet~]

Do you think this means anything?…

Every now and then I have dreams about complete strangers. I forget the dream. Then the next day I come across a complete stranger (in traffic or in a store, etc.) that triggers me to remember the dream. I remember it because this stranger was in my dream the night before.

I don't quite understand it. Not sure if it means something or if it's just some weird coincidence. I've always just shrugged it off as meaningless. What do you think?

[~Shalhevet~]

I've also had dreams about places too. Can't remember the dreams but I remember the place.

[HisMindinme]

Do you think this means anything?…

Every now and then I have dreams about complete strangers. I forget the dream. Then the next day I come across a complete stranger (in traffic or in a store, etc.) that triggers me to remember the dream. I remember it because this stranger was in my dream the night before.

I don't quite understand it. Not sure if it means something or if it's just some weird coincidence. I've always just shrugged it off as meaningless. What do you think?

There are dreams where God is clearly speaking and involved. The bible is rather clear about this fact. However, that is not to suggest that all dreams or even many or most dreams carry this notion of having some form of significance. Most and many dreams have an underlying mechanism where there is a thought-biology link. Read and consider the article at the following link:

http://www.columbia....4/breecher.html

The sum of the article is this: The cornea (e.g. glassy outer part of the center of our eye) is so thin and transparent because it has no blood vessels. When our eyes are open, the cells of the cornea take oxygen directly from the air and release cellular waste which is washed away when we blink (e.g. the eye lid works like a windshield wiper blade). However, when we close our eyes to sleep or rest, this cycle of operation ceases. The cornea is no longer exposed to the open air nor are we blinking. However, without respiration, the corneal cells will die within minutes. So, what is the solution? Motion! REM (e.g. Rapid Eye Movement) is something we all do. The movement of the eyes causes the fluid behind and between the cornea and the iris to begin to rotate or cycle. The blood cells of the iris become both the source of oxygen and the taker of waste as the fluid cycles around between the iris and corneal cells. What gets the eyes to move is the process of dreaming. Our dreams present mental scenes that our eyes follow as though we were "seeing". Herein is the link between thought and biology. We respond biologically and physically to what we think. Thus, dreaming is the process of our biology stimulating memory and subconscious thought for the purpose of driving the eyes into motion (e.g. REM) for the purpose of keeping our corneal cells alive.

Now -- the question arises: Could God have created another mechanism other than dreaming to facilitate corneal survival other than REM? Of course He could! However, He did not do otherwise, but left the doorway open to stepping into our dreaming process for the purpose of another level and place of communication. While this God-intervention in dreams the bible refers to as "your old men will dream dreams and your young men will see visions" is not the vast majority of what is happening in our most common dream-cycles, the doorway is nevertheless present and there for the Lord to use as He sees fit. I, myself, have had two such visions in my 49 years of living: one at about 13 and another when I was about 34. Outside of these two, I can safely tell you that all my dreams (strange and otherwise) have been simply the REM process going on. Thus, out of about 17,900 dreams, only two have had this God-involvement. Moreover, I am not unique, but quite common in this regard. It seems more than certain, there are people who NEVER experience any level of dream that could be associated with God intervening or involved in their dreams.

Finally -- while asking the question you have is a good thing and the feedback you get will help you in some way, the reality is this: You must discern finally for yourself the meaning of your dreams. Hopefully, the information and feedback you get here will help. Hopefully, something written above will help. Most assuredly, the most important aspects of life are not experienced in our dreams, but when we are wide awake and making conscious moral choices based on the source of the thinking in our hearts and minds: Seeds of passion, born of Satan and hell, or seeds of principle, born of the Spirit of God. Herein lays the most important question of all! I hope you know the answer!

P.S. -- As the Lord can be involved with human dreaming, so too can hell and Satan. Parapsychology, dream-interpretation and other such things are a dangerous foray into things of hell masquerading as something completely innocent. While there are grey areas and questions to be answered, many such answers will remain unanswered and unknown until the Day in which all things are revealed (e.g. Paul writes, "I will know even as I am also known."). So, the pursuit of such questions and answers in this life, especially where other more important questions go unasked and unanswered (e.g. salvation, etc.): we must be rather careful and wary to stray too far from where knowable safety in the Spirit can be found. Thus, there is a high caution to be stated here about running after dream interpretation.

[Guest]

.... I don't quite understand it. Not sure if it means something or if it's just some weird coincidence. I've always just shrugged it off as meaningless. What do you think....

Pray And Ask The LORD If These Dreams Are From Him

If So Ask Him What He Desires You To Do

If Not Ask Him To Take Them Away

You Do Not Stand Alone

That's What I Think

And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit. Joel 2:28-29

[oldzimm]

I always held this belief that the space between my ears is only a place where God can communicate with me and Satan can't get in. Since Satan knows human behavior very well, he knows how to deceive my brain by temptation through outer sources. What do others think about this, am I out in right field on this one?

[OldShep]

I always held this belief that the space between my ears is only a place where God can communicate with me and Satan can't get in. Since Satan knows human behavior very well, he knows how to deceive my brain by temptation through outer sources. What do others think about this, am I out in right field on this one?

Well maybe Center Field, if your Christ Centered.

I understand it this way, God hears my prayers, all of them, He knows my voice, be it in pain, fear, sadness, or praise and I have a pretty good Faith in what His Directions would tell me in a dream or awake. I have had thousands of dreams, mostly based on things I have seen or heard or smelled without really taken notice of them. I have had a few dreams that the Spirit within me, knew it was a message from God, in those cases there was no doubt about it. Some dreams that I have had seemed to be from God, but, proved not to be, for my God does not play mind games with me and He never goes against His written word. So in doubt look into the Word and Pray about the things you may have seen. Jesus Christ is my Lord and my Savior, the line between us is secured and can not be tapped into by Satan, however, I can always open my big mouth (lips) and sink the largest of ships.

ICL Dennis...

[oldzimm]

I have dreams like that too. The only thing to do is wait to see what happens next. I think it's just a dreAm, but who knows?

When a dream seems so real and so detailed that you can't get it out of your head, that's when to give it some serious thought.

Normal dream-

Your walking down the street with your buddy on a cold winters day.

A dream that needs attention-

Your walking down the street with your buddy on a cold winters day, you see your buddy's breath, you feel your eyes watering from the cold and you feel snow flakes landing on your face. (if you live in Hawaii, whoa! Gods trying to tell you something)

[oldzimm]

Justinian, what is the most realistic dream you ever had?

I can tell you mind and this is the honest truth, I couldn't make this up.

One night I dreamed that somebody punched me in the mouth, I woke up the next morning with a fat lip.

I don't think that was God speaking to me, however I do think my wife got a cheap shot in on me. (she says not)

The op is "Dreams about strangers", well it don't get any stranger then that.

[lance.dunlop]

I've had some pretty vivid dreams before. Not every vivid dream is prophetic though. Some dreams are just weird. But when you have dreams that you are being attacked by deamons, you are praying to an idol for help, and crossed turn into a bright pure angelic light when you cry out to God? Then there's definitely something to it.

Prayer is definitely the key. It could be the dejavu syndrome happening, but it could be God speaking to you, trying to grow you in wisdom, in dependency on Him, or give you people to evangelize to. Which would be equally amazing. The biggest thing is, the ones I had, were really vivid and troubling. I wrote and drew it right away. I had a friend who I felt led to go to that God had given him the interpretation. But I prayed for it, because I certainly didn't have the wisdom to properly discern what was spiritual. But if it's true, God will show you, but you have to seek the answer.