Dreams

[Jasonspaulding01]

Last year my girlfriend and i took a drive through the hills of West Virginia. During our drive we visited a community called Falls View. As we drove through we came across an abandoned Church. The church was not extremely old but had fallen into disrepair. I said to her "would'nt it be an interesting project to photograph some of these empty churches and put together a photo album". We completed our drive and i never did anything with the idea. The image of that church has never left me...it haunts me daily. The image of that church became a symbol to me, of everything that is wrong with this great country. And now the crazy part..the dream. Black and white images of churches of every type empty and dark. Some pristine but empty some broken and grown over and some even burned. In the dream I am acting out the project the images my pictures and i find myself before a ruined pulpit. As i approach my foot drops through the floor and in the space i find a bible. I hear the voice of my mother who says..I have always seen great things for you. In the dream this was paraphrased "great things". I have no idea what this means and I have found my self snapped to reality in the middle of the day at work having drifted into this dream. I am terrified of what this means only because i dont know whats being asked of me. My mother thinks God is knocking on my heart to do what I dont know. Can someone help me figure this out am i being led by the spirit down a mew path or am i going mad? I cannot now even think about this without loss of composure i weep when i review the imagery every time. So many men in my family are men of God. My father was a pastor my cousins sing in a gospel group amd another is a pastor. Please help me decipher the meaning of this. Thank you.

 

[GrowingSmaller]

It sounds like your happy enought most of the time, but this dream is troubling you in some way. Maybe you could pray with faith to forget it. In Islam a bad dream, well we spit over the left shoulder and seek refuge from the devil. If pondering this dream makes you feel "mad", well maybe try to focus attention elsewhere. You will be rewarded for that which you struive. Worring over a dream , whats the deal (i.e. the benifit and profit in it?) Come judgement day (or even come the time when you look back on life) would you relaly want to have striven for the answer of what is perhaps both unknowable and fruitless. The need to know seems to be coming from your subconsiocus, perhaps you might go into meditation and instruct yourself "I happily forget this dream and move on into new life" of even "This is a new era, and I am much imoproved".

 

[plummyy]

I'm not really sure about dreams.... because people either say "it's a compilation of your day" or "your hidden desires" (I am 100% against that, oh my gosh) or "it's symbolic"---which, I rather feel good about. I think dreams do have a tendency to play out images you see often (for me, I'm always around nature and spooky things), but I wouldn't doubt that the things you sometimes think about are present as well. On one hand you can think that the dream is entirely introspective, but if you believe in a deity that would have access to your mind, you could also think of it as a more literal message--- Symbolically fire (generally)=good, but literally.... fire=bad.

For example of some symbolism:

Fire represents cleansing/transformation/passion. The burning of a church could be a way of acknowledging any new ways you have come to experience/view your religion. Not in a bad way, that is, perhaps. So-to-say, the destruction of what may have hindered you, or that you need to change.

Falling suggests having lack of control/recklessness/impulsiveness/insecurity.

A floor represents your support system/security, the division between conscious/subconscious. Floor boards represent protectiveness over what you... protect.

A bible represents inspiration, knowledge, and belief (basically, the same as it would in waking life for you).

To dream in B&W suggests that you need to be objective, that you are unyielding in your thoughts and need to find middle ground between opposing views (compromise, that is).

To hear a voice in your dream is a message from the spiritual realm (or from your subconscious). It can also mean that you need to speak up more about what you want.

With that in mind: You are on ground floor, and this voice of your mother's that praises you, is coming to you not when you are at a high place. Perhaps you feel as though you are not good enough for those words, or have not lived up to your faith. You are very protective over it, and yet you are unsure about it. You need to re-purpose/put together a new support system/ sense of security so that you can have a better understanding of yourself and others, to stop from falling through it, which may include how you interact with and use your faith---this could mean lessening you submersion in certain things. Finding the bible on ground floor could indicate that you are expending too much time protecting it---this could mean that you value it, such as bringing it up and putting it on the pulpit that you noticed to be vandalized (?), but have something else that you think needs protecting.

(A friend bought me a dream dictionary)

 

[Jasonspaulding01]

I'm not really sure about dreams.... because people either say "it's a compilation of your day" or "your hidden desires" (I am 100% against that, oh my gosh) or "it's symbolic"---which, I rather feel good about. I think dreams do have a tendency to play out images you see often (for me, I'm always around nature and spooky things), but I wouldn't doubt that the things you sometimes think about are present as well. On one hand you can think that the dream is entirely introspective, but if you believe in a deity that would have access to your mind, you could also think of it as a more literal message--- Symbolically fire (generally)=good, but literally.... fire=bad.

For example of some symbolism:

Fire represents cleansing/transformation/passion. The burning of a church could be a way of acknowledging any new ways you have come to experience/view your religion. Not in a bad way, that is, perhaps. So-to-say, the destruction of what may have hindered you, or that you need to change.

Falling suggests having lack of control/recklessness/impulsiveness/insecurity.

A floor represents your support system/security, the division between conscious/subconscious. Floor boards represent protectiveness over what you... protect.

A bible represents inspiration, knowledge, and belief (basically, the same as it would in waking life for you).

To dream in B&W suggests that you need to be objective, that you are unyielding in your thoughts and need to find middle ground between opposing views (compromise, that is).

To hear a voice in your dream is a message from the spiritual realm (or from your subconscious). It can also mean that you need to speak up more about what you want.

With that in mind: You are on ground floor, and this voice of your mother's that praises you, is coming to you not when you are at a high place. Perhaps you feel as though you are not good enough for those words, or have not lived up to your faith. You are very protective over it, and yet you are unsure about it. You need to re-purpose/put together a new support system/ sense of security so that you can have a better understanding of yourself and others, to stop from falling through it, which may include how you interact with and use your faith---this could mean lessening you submersion in certain things. Finding the bible on ground floor could indicate that you are expending too much time protecting it---this could mean that you value it, such as bringing it up and putting it on the pulpit that you noticed to be vandalized (?), but have something else that you think needs protecting.

(A friend bought me a dream dictionary)

Perhaps so. It is true that my support system is broken. And I am seeking to objectify my moral compass and analyze my views of the world. But i am torn about the real life issues that plague our times. There are terrible evils in the world and I am struggling with the question of how to fight them. It seems indecency is now pop culture. I miss 13 channels I miss shows with a moral story for the watcher and a nationwide focus on family. I wonder am I being called to stand up for God? Or am is it simply God telling me the time to renew my faith is long overdue.

 

[savedbygrace71]

Last year my girlfriend and i took a drive through the hills of West Virginia. During our drive we visited a community called Falls View. As we drove through we came across an abandoned Church. The church was not extremely old but had fallen into disrepair. I said to her "would'nt it be an interesting project to photograph some of these empty churches and put together a photo album". We completed our drive and i never did anything with the idea. The image of that church has never left me...it haunts me daily. The image of that church became a symbol to me, of everything that is wrong with this great country. And now the crazy part..the dream. Black and white images of churches of every type empty and dark. Some pristine but empty some broken and grown over and some even burned. In the dream I am acting out the project the images my pictures and i find myself before a ruined pulpit. As i approach my foot drops through the floor and in the space i find a bible. I hear the voice of my mother who says..I have always seen great things for you. In the dream this was paraphrased "great things". I have no idea what this means and I have found my self snapped to reality in the middle of the day at work having drifted into this dream. I am terrified of what this means only because i dont know whats being asked of me. My mother thinks God is knocking on my heart to do what I dont know. Can someone help me figure this out am i being led by the spirit down a mew path or am i going mad? I cannot now even think about this without loss of composure i weep when i review the imagery every time. So many men in my family are men of God. My father was a pastor my cousins sing in a gospel group amd another is a pastor. Please help me decipher the meaning of this. Thank you.

This is quite the dream. I'm not real sure on what God is leading you to, but it's definitely something. How sure of your salvation are you?

 

[lesliedellow]

Last year my girlfriend and i took a drive through the hills of West Virginia. During our drive we visited a community called Falls View. As we drove through we came across an abandoned Church. The church was not extremely old but had fallen into disrepair. I said to her "would'nt it be an interesting project to photograph some of these empty churches and put together a photo album". We completed our drive and i never did anything with the idea. The image of that church has never left me...it haunts me daily. The image of that church became a symbol to me, of everything that is wrong with this great country. And now the crazy part..the dream. Black and white images of churches of every type empty and dark. Some pristine but empty some broken and grown over and some even burned. In the dream I am acting out the project the images my pictures and i find myself before a ruined pulpit. As i approach my foot drops through the floor and in the space i find a bible. I hear the voice of my mother who says..I have always seen great things for you. In the dream this was paraphrased "great things". I have no idea what this means and I have found my self snapped to reality in the middle of the day at work having drifted into this dream. I am terrified of what this means only because i dont know whats being asked of me. My mother thinks God is knocking on my heart to do what I dont know. Can someone help me figure this out am i being led by the spirit down a mew path or am i going mad? I cannot now even think about this without loss of composure i weep when i review the imagery every time. So many men in my family are men of God. My father was a pastor my cousins sing in a gospel group amd another is a pastor. Please help me decipher the meaning of this. Thank you.

You might be better off addressing your query to one of the pastors on here, rather than have atheists giving you their "helpful" advice. Maybe God is addressing you, and perhaps not, but you don't need help from people who have an a priori commitment to the latter being the case.

 

[ScottA]

Last year my girlfriend and i took a drive through the hills of West Virginia. During our drive we visited a community called Falls View. As we drove through we came across an abandoned Church. The church was not extremely old but had fallen into disrepair. I said to her "would'nt it be an interesting project to photograph some of these empty churches and put together a photo album". We completed our drive and i never did anything with the idea. The image of that church has never left me...it haunts me daily. The image of that church became a symbol to me, of everything that is wrong with this great country. And now the crazy part..the dream. Black and white images of churches of every type empty and dark. Some pristine but empty some broken and grown over and some even burned. In the dream I am acting out the project the images my pictures and i find myself before a ruined pulpit. As i approach my foot drops through the floor and in the space i find a bible. I hear the voice of my mother who says..I have always seen great things for you. In the dream this was paraphrased "great things". I have no idea what this means and I have found my self snapped to reality in the middle of the day at work having drifted into this dream. I am terrified of what this means only because i dont know whats being asked of me. My mother thinks God is knocking on my heart to do what I dont know. Can someone help me figure this out am i being led by the spirit down a mew path or am i going mad? I cannot now even think about this without loss of composure i weep when i review the imagery every time. So many men in my family are men of God. My father was a pastor my cousins sing in a gospel group amd another is a pastor. Please help me decipher the meaning of this. Thank you.

Don't try to decipher it. If it is not clear to you, do not trust input from others unless confirmed by God. Only petition God for help and guidance. Worst case scenario: you ignore it, and God spits you out on the shore like Jonah, where he wanted you to go in the first place. Relax. God is good!

 

[Jasonspaulding01]

This is quite the dream. I'm not real sure on what God is leading you to, but it's definitely something. How sure of your salvation are you?

Not very ive dodged the Church for years.

 

[savedbygrace71]

Not very ive dodged the Church for years.

God may be pointing you to Him. He loves you and he wants you to surrender to Him. Have you ever repented of your sin, turned away from yourself, and placed your faith in Jesus Christ and trusted in Him to save you?

 

[plummyy]

Perhaps so. It is true that my support system is broken. And I am seeking to objectify my moral compass and analyze my views of the world. But i am torn about the real life issues that plague our times. There are terrible evils in the world and I am struggling with the question of how to fight them.

I felt strange writing out that last bit... like a fortune teller at a carnival booth, "that'll be $40".

I don't think dreams are all-for-naught, but I also don't think you need to dream about a shaken floor in order to know when you have a bad support system, and more specifically, you don't need to dream of burning churches in order to feel that your values are challenged/destroyed (like you said in your post, these are things you were aware of before having your dream). You don't need your dream in order to take notice of yourself or the things that happen around you. People who are unacknowledged or don't pay attention in waken life, will not have a dream and wake up with the first thought that they need to learn about symbolism or whatever else---they'll over look it, just like they overlook everything else. So considering that, I think if you were sending yourself a message, or if god was, you clearly already had those thoughts in your mind before falling asleep.

Pop culture... I'm happy I listen to metal But yeah...[Watching tv has almost become like watching one long commercial, one long ad, and all you get is a migraine and a notch up on your electric bill. Ads that try and treat you to the sin-repent cycle of 'informing' you (always by a doctor) that a product will fix you, but if it doesn't work, there's something else. In which those products are cheap, but made of dirt, take resources to make, but are made badly so that it will have to be thrown away, so that you have to buy it again, and it will still not work. There are a lot of wrongs to be found in modern culture. Lots of layers to that onion.](that's how I view one section of it, anyway, and I went on a limb and ignored your comments on family values because I just really wanted to talk about consumerism for some reason).

 

[juvenissun]

Last year my girlfriend and i took a drive through the hills of West Virginia. During our drive we visited a community called Falls View. As we drove through we came across an abandoned Church. The church was not extremely old but had fallen into disrepair. I said to her "would'nt it be an interesting project to photograph some of these empty churches and put together a photo album". We completed our drive and i never did anything with the idea. The image of that church has never left me...it haunts me daily. The image of that church became a symbol to me, of everything that is wrong with this great country. And now the crazy part..the dream. Black and white images of churches of every type empty and dark. Some pristine but empty some broken and grown over and some even burned. In the dream I am acting out the project the images my pictures and i find myself before a ruined pulpit. As i approach my foot drops through the floor and in the space i find a bible. I hear the voice of my mother who says..I have always seen great things for you. In the dream this was paraphrased "great things". I have no idea what this means and I have found my self snapped to reality in the middle of the day at work having drifted into this dream. I am terrified of what this means only because i dont know whats being asked of me. My mother thinks God is knocking on my heart to do what I dont know. Can someone help me figure this out am i being led by the spirit down a mew path or am i going mad? I cannot now even think about this without loss of composure i weep when i review the imagery every time. So many men in my family are men of God. My father was a pastor my cousins sing in a gospel group amd another is a pastor. Please help me decipher the meaning of this. Thank you.

I think you are seeking wrong doors. We do not have Joseph nor Daniel any more. YOU are the only one who can interpret your dreams for you.

Thanks for the sharing anyway.