Category: Flying Dreams, Symbols in Dreams

Many of us have had dreams of flying similar to this one: Three bad guys are chasing you and you can't run fast enough to get away. They are gaining on you and you quickly surmise the scene. There is a brick wall in front of you and bad guys behind you. "Oh, yeah," you think. "I know what to do. I can fly." 

You put your hands in front of you in classic Superman style, point your toes and...ZOOM, up you go into the air. Up, up and away from the bad guys on the ground.
 
Just as quickly, you see power lines just above you. If you hit those, you will die. You don't see any way around them and definitely can't go through them. You know you must stay lower than those lines or...

Brrrrnnnngggg! goes the morning alarm, and you're relieved. "Whew, It was only a dream. No power lines, No bad guys. But what does that mean?" you think.

As fun as it can be to fly in your dreams, flying is usually not a positive symbol. Often when we dream of flying, the Lord is talking to us about the hissy-fit we pitched the day we had the dream. Now, before you send me an email and hyperlink an article you Googled to prove me wrong, hear me out.

For example, think about the dream above: the dreamer was being chased by three bad guys. This was the dream a friend of mine had. In real life, she was battling sickness, weight gain and discouragement. Those can be three pretty bad guys. She had been praying and believing for the Lord's answers for her weight gain and healing, but on this particular day, she was worn down. Her husband seemed a bit nonchalant about the whole matter, and although she knew he truly cared, he didn't show it much. She was totally fed up with being sick and disgusted with the growing ham in her hocks. That day, she let him have it. She sobbed and ranted and blamed him for a lot of her troubles.

That night, she had the dream of flying.


Dreams can be so "punny."
The sobbing and ranting that she did in reality was symbolized as her decision to fly in the dream. She "flew off the handle," or in other words, she lost it--her temper, cool, patience, and along with all that, she momentarily lost the fruits of the Spirit. She got "out there," not steady, balanced, or in control.

Her husband is a good guy and listened intently, but like most guys, had no clue what to say and just wanted to DO something to fix it, fix her. Consequently, her sobs and rants got louder and louder, because she was miserable and just wanted him to know it, not try to fix it. That's the part in the dream when she was about to hit power lines. She was exerting her power to rant and was bordering on saying things that could cause serious issues, and she was definitely stepping on his toes.

Then, suddenly, she realized she was blaming him and he really was a good man who loved her and would have done anything for her, if he had only known what to do. So she apologized, and the poor guy meandered to the garage to maybe clean the lint from the dryer or check the lids on the garbage cans.

Her hissy-fit was over and she felt a little better, but her husband thought she might be a little crazy, and the Lord wanted her to learn to better handle discouragement. Isn't it interesting how the Lord uses dreams to gently reprimand us? That dream gave the dreamer a little smack on her bottom from her Father as a reminder to live in the fruits of the Spirit, especially when circumstances are contrary to our feelings.

Have you had dreams of flying? Drop me a line and tell me about them.

Sweet dreams!

Watch author Sylvia Jackson discuss dream interpretation from her new book Dream Interpretation Toolkit: Practical Tools to Interpret Your Dreams Tomorrow. 

Some people feel that dream interpretation is as nutty as a fruitcake; maybe you are one of them. But hang on here for a Claxton fruitcake-in-a-can second. Some of you have thrown out the cake with the can. For sure, many dream interpretation experiences have been mostly "fruits and nuts," yet as believers we want to know the Lord’s reasons for giving dreams and learn a balance about revelation in order to understand and benefit from His messages.

Almost twenty years ago, when I first began having a magnitude of dreams, my understanding of them was a definite mix of ingredients that rivaled any fruitcake recipe out there. There was a little truth baked in with a bunch of old, dried fruit, mixed nuts, and a pinch of who-knows-what. Since then, I've studied Scripture and the Lord has taught me a lot about dreams, how to interpret them and what to do with the interpretation.

The Lord never intended for us to think of dream interpretation as "flaky." He wants us to understand His language and benefit from all revelation, including dreams, visions, His voice and the Word.

In the book, "Dream Interpretation Toolkit," we learn how to correctly interpret and properly apply the revelation we obtain from dreams. We see how dreams in the Bible were orignally intended and how interpreters such as Joseph and Daniel derived the correct meanings. And we learn how to correctly interpret our own dreams, and not serve up fruitcake...even to ourselves.

God's ultimate purpose in every dream is to reveal Jesus, in one way or another. When a dream-interpretation-cake is baked up just right, it will always lead you to Him and the reasons for which He came to earth, suffered, died and rose again: to save, heal, and deliver us.

While greeting others in a Sunday morning service, a woman beside me spoke to a man who had come to say hello to her family. “You wouldn’t believe what your wife did in my dream last night!” she exclaimed. The poor man’s big Sunday-morning smile fell like a concrete block as fear and embarrassment hit him. It was obvious he thought the dream could have revealed something terrible about his wife to this prophetic person and, now, to everyone around who heard her statement.

Unfortunately, this happens often. Having interpreted thousands of dreams for many people, this is often the biggest mistake I see with dream interpretation. It’s also the one that can cause the most trouble with others and what has often given dreams a bad rap in the Church as a whole.

WHAT PEOPLE IN YOUR DREAMS MEAN
People in your dreams, especially those you know, most often symbolize a part of you. It isn’t the way of the Lord to reveal secrets about another person in dreams. (At rare times, a dream has a message to give another person; however, this is an unusual occurrence and it's always safer to assume the dream is about you first.) Instead, most dreams are meant for you, the dreamer. 

To discover what a person is symbolizing in your dreams, think about the different things they could mean to you. God works with us through dream symbols in order to get at the issues of our hearts, often where we need help or correction, so consider the past or current issues with which that person struggles. In dreams, people don’t represent a general thing such as friendly, nice, sweet, etc. Rather, they likely symbolize issues you have in common with that person. 

Here's an example: 
You dream of a former co-worker who had serious insecurity issues. The presence of this co-worker in your dream likely indicates that you have struggled with your own insecurity issues recently. He is representing your struggle with insecurity in the dream.

People in your dreams, especially those you know, are important keys and are the first symbol to unlock in order to derive the correct interpretation. Make this one adjustment and you'll open up an entirely new understanding of what God is speaking in the night.


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Sometimes it seems the Lord doesn’t speak to us at the very times we feel we need to hear Him most. When we are trying to handle a troublesome situation, we just don’t always perceive Him speaking. The problem is that our emotions can speak louder than His whispers, but even then He doesn’t leave us without hope or direction. He loves us and is always trying to communicate. He gives us dreams as one of the ways He continues to stand at the door of our hearts and knock to get our attention.

For God does speak—now one way, now another—though man may not perceive it (Job 33:14 NIV).

He does speak. The Bible is a story of God’s communication with mankind. Jesus said in John 10:27, “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.”

The most common topic He addresses in dreams is our heart issues, those things that are troubling us or that are against His laws or will for our lives. Before we have a dream, He first tugs on our hearts at the moment we are dealing with a tough situation, communicating, “Don’t do this, don’t think this way, let it go, etc.” Sometimes people call this experience “a check in the spirit,” or a feeling of conviction. He speaks to us about anything that causes concern for us or for Him; however, it’s not easy to hear Him or perceive conviction when our emotions are high.

If we miss His first attempt to get our attention, He tries it a different way—we often are given a dream: in a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men as they slumber in their beds, then he opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction (Job 33:15-16).

According to these verses in Job, He's always talking: first in whispers and tugs, next in dreams. 

So the next time you feel He isn't talking when you desperately need to hear Him, pay attention to, first, those little tugs at your heart and next, your dreams.



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