People are dying in my dreams :(

After some of the feed back from my last blog I thought this was the next logical topic to cover!

To put things very simply to begin with, seeing someone die in a dream does NOT mean that they are about to drop dead in real life!

Someone dying in a dream often represents that something between you and them is going to come to an end.

For example, let’s imagine that you are having problems at work and then you dream that your boss dies ……. one common reaction people have is to feel guilty and assume that somewhere deep within their subconscious mind they are so angry with their boss that they wish the boss was dead.  However, if the dream has a spiritual source, it could be communicating to you that the problem at work is going to come to an end.

I’m not saying that people dying in your dream is always a good thing, the dream could be letting you know that your relationship with that person could be coming to an end. Depending on who it is (and how you feel about them!) that could be a good or a bad thing.

As with everything connected with dream interpretation, context is everything and this blog covers the topic in sweeping generalities. I sincerely hope though that  this relieves some of your fears and guilt next time you encounter someone dying in your dreams.

Sweet dreams!

‘Don’t worry – it was just a nightmare!’

How many times have you been told this as a child or even said it as a parent?

When I was young I had a dream/nightmare that would recur once every 18 months or so. It really scared me and even now, all these years later, I can still recall scenes from this dream very vividly and certain parts still makes my heart race with fear.

In my 30s I happened to be in a seminar where people were talking about dreams and said that is any of us had dreams that they could remember we could write it down and they would try to interpret it for us. Immediately my recurring dream from childhood came back to mind, so I wrote it down and handed it in.

Well, without going into too many details, it turned out that the purpose of these recurring dreams was to instill fear in my life and, more specifically, to believe that if I found myself in difficult situations no-one would be able to help me. This was a lie, but I believed it and as I grew up I was quite insecure and doubted my own abilities. Am I saying that all of my insecurities were a direct result of these dreams? No, but looking back I can now see that the dreams played a part.

Talking through what happened in the dream and dealing with any lies or fear that is raised by the dream could help to diminish any long-term effect. Dreams which God has originiated in us will bring a sense of hope. Nightmares don’t do this so, therefore, we do not need to accept any message that they try to give us.

As I gain experience in interpreting dreams for people, I have come across a significant number of people who have been paralysed by their dreams. “I can’t….” , “I won’t ever be able to ….”, and so on, are common phrases used by people who are still haunted by nightmares from childhood.

So if you, or one of your children, has a “bad dream”, please don’t simply dismiss it – replace the lies with truth!

Sweet dreams