Since I have been on this forum It seems there are some Christians that give their dreams a lot of credit. Its a first for me. I dream every night and most if any have no real meaning to me. So seeing so much interest in them makes me wonder what I have been missing.
A little note you might be interest in that was on the news recently said that dreams are necessary to clean the brain and reduce the chances of Alzheimer's disease. It seems that dreaming is a way the brain disposes of trash that is cluttering the brain. So it definitely has a usefulness.
Tell me why a dream means so much to you if it does. Why you believe it is important to interpret your dreams?
Most dreams are ordinary, but some are not. By far the most common type of dream are the mental or emotional processing dreams everyone has of minor significance, and next the not quite as common but still common emotional processing dreams of more significance, which can repeat. An example of a common emotional processing dream would be to dream you came to a party, but forgot some clothing, or have wrong clothing, for instance, or that your cat shows up some place far from home, or that you are flying, or falling, etc. I once had a repeating dream where I fell from an airplane, and progressively in each time of the dream I'd get further, and I was angling my arms to go towards a lake I could see below, so that I' might dive into water and have a chance instead of hitting ground. Eventually I actually dove into the lake, and it turned out to be Lake Travis, an old familiar lake near the city were I had moved. That dream was about finding a new home and a new phase of life, after college, and while not of great significance it was still meaningful on an emotional processing level. An interesting type of dream that is less common, but most people I think have at times is a dream where a solution to a problem you are working on appears.
Finally, while there are probably more categories, the truly significant dream or vision of which I've had only a very few I can remember was for example when I prayed earnestly for the answer to a very weighty personal decision, which I could not figure out (and it wasn't a worldly concern like merely which house to buy or whether to live here or there, or this place of work/college, whatever kind of worldly stuff, but instead was something that truly mattered profoundly on a moral and personal level, and I could not figure out the answer), and the answer came, direct and clear, in a way I shouldn't reveal on the internet I feel. So, for those few, which are from God, you can't mistake them. For this kind, you'd not wonder if it was 'only a dream'! (I don't want to reveal more over the internet, but it's the kind of thing where you'd have 0% doubt, and total certainty, so it's not at all like ordinary dreams.)
