(And it’s the most common question of all.)
The most important thing to understand about dream work is that dreams are symbolic. The second most important thing to realize is that dream symbols are personal. Mine are mine, and yours are yours.
You’ve been asking and they’re finally here! The teaching that we just recorded at Catch the Fire Toronto last month is now available on MP3. Dad leads six interactive interpretations with audience members, translating each aspect of their dream using the DAESI Dream Work Method.
Creative Prayer is the devotional style I have used most often over the last 35 years.
Are our dreams just recycling leftover events from the day? Does everyone really dream every night? What’s the one thing in our dreams we should always take literally Did God speak through weird dreams with strange symbolism in the Bible?
We had an awesome time at our Dream Interpretation Workshop in Toronto this weekend! God honored us with His presence and the filming went beautifully. Over 250 of you joined us and it was especially wonderful to meet so many of you personally!
Now that we are familiar with the DAESI Dream Work Method, let’s apply it to a real life dream. The following night vision is from Kathy and illustrates many key principles of interpretation including one of the most important: how the dreamer herself is the most qualified person to interpret the dream’s message. Below is Kathy’s dream work in her own words.
I am asked how I make sense of my dreams as people often feel their night visions don't mean anything at all. They have trouble figuring out how their dreams actually relate to their waking lives, much less how they can be translated and understood to be revelatory messages from the Lord.
While many Christians believe God can speak through dreams, they consider it to be a rather out-of-the-ordinary experience. They may have felt the Lord lead them through a dream or two here or there over the years. They may have received a very literal dream where Jesus came to them and spoke clearly and gave them new direction for their life.
That is awesome and God definitely does do that. He did it in the Bible, and He certainly continues to do that today.
In the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve chose not to live out of the supernatural realm and dependence on God. They determined to live from their heads rather than their hearts, resolving to decide on their own between good and evil (Gen. 3:5).
But God did not give up on humankind that easily. When our minds rest at night, our spirits still fellowship with God. Even though we abandoned relationship with Him and chose to live out of our minds during the day, God knew He could still reach us at night through our dreams. This was His back-up plan.
Esther recently attended our dream interpretation training, and as a result is now receiving guidance through her dreams. Here is one of them!
