Dreams Encore Bridge

One of the biggest problems with dream interpretation is that we fail to comprehend how big each piece is in relation to the whole, so we discard some of the small pieces that we need later on to complete the puzzle. Think of a collection of dreams as a puzzle. When we put a puzzle together, we dump all the pieces out onto the carpet then prop the picture from the cover up against the sofa leg and turn the pieces over one by one. Then, we begin by connecting the frame. After we connect the border, we group like colors together and, following the picture on the cover of the box, we fill in the rest. 

This book is a second level book on understanding how to get the words from your dreams. What you will learn in this book is how to connect dreams that you have already interpreted so that you can stand back to see the whole picture that God has for your life. Only when you see the vision He has for you, can you begin to walk into it. To utilize This book to the utmost it is important that you have an understanding of the dreams as they come to you: In essence you need to already be writing down the dreams and asking God how to interpret them in a spiritual context using Scriptures. A big part of dream interpretation is desire, determination and discipline. 

Desire: You need to desire to understand your dreams in a spiritual context as if they are directional words given in coded messages from God while you sleep. This takes faith. It it is your desire, yet you feel that you do not have faith enough to believe that they are from ‘God’ then, pray for Him to give you a clear dream which will give you the faith to believe that they are from Him. 

Think of it this way: If you were trying to give a message to someone and had the capability to enter into their mind with messages written on the back of their brain, and he or she asked you to prove yourself, do you suppose you would do it? 

Chances are pretty good, if you are reading this book, that you have a interest in dreams and want to know if these are messages in to your subconscious given from God. In this case, just ask for the gift of faith to be given to you. By definition it is the assurance of things not seen and the conviction of things not present. Faith is believing in things as if they are when you seen no external evidence of them. In order to believe in dreams as messages from God, you need to have the faith to believe that God cares, and conveys messages this way. Then, you need to step further into the spiritual realm by trusting that He will give you the proper interpretation of the dream, so you can walk into the answer. 

Dreams are when God touches down and faith empowers our feet to walk into the answer. We have the ability to enable the dream by moving toward what we see (dimly) to be where we need to go. We can only go somewhere where we have enough light to see where we are going. If we are on a trail at night, then we need a flashlight to stay on the trail. The same is with dreams. If we have a dream, then we can only follow it as far as we can discern the meaning of it. 

Initially, we may have a single dream. If we can follow that dream, then God will give us another. They become like trail markers along the path when we notice them along the way. I encourage you to try it. 

Determination: This is when we set our mind to do something. I can’t tell you how many times I have met people who tell me, “I wanted to be a nurse and started Nursing School, but things came up in my life and I dropped out and never finished school.”

These individuals had desire and determination, but failed at the third essential element, which is discipline.

Discipline is a very difficult task when it comes to accurate dream interpretation. In order to ‘catch’ the dream, you have to write it down quickly, often when you wake up from a sound sleep or in the middle of the night. A dream is like a fish on a hook. We sit in our boat and toss out our line. When a fish gets on the hook, we still need to set the hook and haul the fish into the boat before we can fry it up for dinner. 

To correlate it with a dream, we need to have catch the dream as it surfaces into our consciousness. A dream comes when we are asleep, so we need to get a hold of it when we are awake in order to write it down. It is like a fish which remains under the surface until we are able to hook it and get it to the surface of our head. 

And, many times we remember the dream just as we wake up, but if we fail to write it down right then, we forget it soon. Did you ever have a dream, then later on in the day, all of a sudden, recall it? It is like a fish that was under the water, then hopped into the boat. You didn’t attach a hook to it or try to drag it into your consciousness, but it just ‘hopped into your head’ later on. 

One of the reasons that I have been able to write so many books from dreams is that I have disciplined myself to wake up in the middle of the night and write them down. You can tell the difference between my pillow and my husband’s pillow because mine has ink stains on it where I have fallen back to sleep with the pen in my hand while writing down a dream in the middle of the night. I admit that there are a lot of dreams that I miss because I do not exercise enough discipline. I probably only catch about half of my fish. Take heart, there is a lot of fish in that pond.

[Excerpts from Dream Language Understood.]