Meaning of a Dream/vanity

[Dianer0839]

I've never posted before and understand if this is not posted or is inappropriate..please delete.

I have not been able to find an answer to the meaning of a dream I had as follows.

[delacoert]

I always heard that if you see the dead in a dream you should pay close attention to any word spoken.

Is this a warning or a message of love?

I'm certainly no expert. I have often dreamed of my father since he died. He remains alive in my thoughts, so it is no wonder at all that I dream of him. We are never far from all those we have loved.

I hope you will rest easy and be glad to have a dream visit now and then.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Dianer0839 ...

The woman is you.

You were not ready to let your stepfather
go when you lost him. You have not dealt
with this loss emotionally, fully.

It isn’t a message from the dead. It is
a message about you moving ahead in life.

Your body and mind are wise enough to
hold onto pain until you have dealt with
it. They are also wise enough to let go
of pain once you have done so.

It is time to let go.

Good luck.

AMorePerfectUnion

[Salvation]

You have FReepmail and I suggest you follow through with it.

[ROTB]

1) Are you a born-again Christian, or something else?
2) Is your birth father alive? Did you ever know him?
3) What was your father wearing?
4) What was the young woman wearing?
5) What color was her hair?
6) If outside, what time of day and weather was it? If inside, how well was the room lit?
7) What kind of vehicle did they show up in? Model, year, condition?

In the last days,’ God says, ‘I will pour out my Spirit upon all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy. Your young men will see visions, and your old men will dream dreams.
Acts 2:17

[stockpirate]

Everyone in the dream is a part of you, not separate people.

[Salvation]

**It’s a dream. Spirits cannot cross the great divide.**

The Bible tells us otherwise -- this is next week's Gospel.

 

Mt 1:18-24

Gospel

This is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about.
When his mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph,
but before they lived together,
she was found with child through the Holy Spirit.
Joseph her husband, since he was a righteous man,
yet unwilling to expose her to shame,
decided to divorce her quietly.
Such was his intention when, behold,
the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said,
“Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary your wife into your home.
For it is through the Holy Spirit
that this child has been conceived in her.
She will bear a son and you are to name him Jesus,
because he will save his people from their sins.”
All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet:
Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son,
and they shall name him Emmanuel,
which means “God is with us.”
When Joseph awoke,
he did as the angel of the Lord had commanded him
and took his wife into his home.

[HungarianGypsy]

I have been seeing my dad in dreams off and on for a few months. In each dream was also a friend of mine who I did not even know until months after my dad's death. I always remember one where he asked what I thought of that friend. I tried to fumble and admitted I had feelings for my friend. He gave me that look only a dad can, kissed his fingers to my face and said, "From God's lips to yours."

Perhaps your dream means that you still have work to do in life and your stepfather will be waiting for you when the time comes for you to leave. A reassurance.

[Innovative]

Don’t worry — you did say you weren’t ready to go, that’s key, in my opinion.

On occasion I and others I know had disturbing dreams that could have been interpreted as “ominous” but nothing happened.

And things can happen without any warning.

Say a prayer for your stepfather’s soul, for yourself and family and let it go.

[Vendome]

I like your post but there is a huge difference between Jesus and other spirits. Not to argue with you and perhaps a good exchange of information between us as friends:

Luke 16:19-31 (King James Version)

 ¹⁹There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:

 ²⁰And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores,

 ²¹And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.

 ²²And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;

 ²³And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.

 ²⁴And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.

 ²⁵But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.

 ²⁶And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.

 ²⁷Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house:

 ²⁸For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.

 ²⁹Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.

 ³⁰And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent.

 ³¹And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.

[Vendome]

Sorry, meant to include you on this.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2641321/posts?page=29#29

[FreeKeys]

Dreams are by far and away merely your subconscious mind continuing to work on recent problems from your waking life. There are clear symbols, there are not-so-clear symbols and then there are emotions associated with them. It can be jumbled and confusing, but there’s almost always a thread tying it all back to recent concerns of yours.

Right Dreams are pictures of feelings. Usually feelings you've experienced recently, but sometimes unresolved feelings you've harbored for years triggered by recent experiences. See Waking and Dreaming by Karle, et al

[boop]

A psychiatrist I know was trained during the Jungian period in the 50’s. He would ask you about the SYMBOLS in the dream, which do have specific meanings. The subconscious knows everything. Our conscious mind only knows the conscious world. We would probably go nuts if we could “really” know what our dreams meant. Freud wrote that dreams are unconscious “wishes”. Not sure I’d agree, but maybe you “wished” or were hungering for more deep contact with this loved one.

[kabumpo]

I take dreams about the dead very seriously, as did Jung and his followers. It’s a warning. I don’t know of what. You are prepared for whatever comes your way - you told him you weren’t ready. If you see him again, ask him a question. Say “what do you want?” I learned that from an Indian medicine man.

[bannie]

Was the Indian medicine man in your dreams?

[kabumpo]

No, he was someone I knew who I told about a dream.

[bannie]

Was he American Indian (not many full-blooded left!) or Eastern Indian?

I’m just curious as to where this came from...I’m not a believer.

[RegulatorCountry]

Trying to take control of a lucid dream can sometimes be disconcerting. I’ve had a recurring dream since childhood, with a creature of some sort pursuing me from tree to tree (yes I was flying). I’ve had it so many times I know it’s a dream. I try different things because I’m aware I’m dreaming and try to affect the outcome, it counters. Disconcerting because it really seems as if there’s another intelligence in there, in my own dream. Weird.

[Intolerant in NJ]

Dreams are just more or less random firings of brain neurons when our conscious faculties which usually keep those firings on track are inactive - they have no predictive or “hidden” meanings.....

[Current Occupant]

My most troubling dream is the one where people are after me and I can’t find my gun or my bullets. Happens a lot and I guess it may mean I need to carry more.

[aruanan]

Random thoughts on the subject (produced in a dreamlike continuity):

Concentrate on the part of the dream that appears to be most completely unrelated to anything you've known in the past. That's probably of more significance to you than the familiar window dressing in which it is featured.

Your mind processes and consolidates information constantly but a large portion is done during sleep. Normally, if you get enough sound sleep, in the waking state, your conscious mind is so completely occupied by all the incoming sense data and by whatever it is you're trying to deal with or accomplish that you're completely unaware of this processing. But if you have a sleep disorder, such as sleep apnea, this function of sleep is so interrupted that your sleep latency can decrease to the point that REM states can irrupt into waking consciousness.

On the other hand, when you're asleep and able to proceed through a normal sleep cycle and relatively free of incoming sensory input, the synaptic static of that information processing and memory consolidation can bleed through or ruffle the surface of the conscious mind in largely visual and auditory forms (smell and taste are usually absent) to which you can respond with an emotional latitude that is as wide as the dream imagery is florid and unrestrained by the physics of the waking world. Usually your consciousness takes whatever happens in the dream as reality, as it does in waking life, but occasionally you'll find yourself in a dream able to compare and contrast different parts of the dream and say, "Hey, wait a second, I'm thinking of how many miles back to the car I've got to walk on this other route when I just got out of the car on the other side of this field. That doesn't make sense at all." And in rare instances you can realize that you're dreaming and control the imagery.

None of this rules out being in a hypersuggestive state in which you could receive some sort of communication that otherwise you'd never accept as being anything but a daydream or a fleeting thought, but it doesn't follow that all dreams are to be interpreted in this way.

Not too long after my dad died, I had a dream in which the family was together and we were laughing about what would be my dad's take on something and then he was there saying, "Hey, I may be dead, but that doesn't mean I've stopped existing." It was a very nice dream.