Dreams are curious things. While I admit the majority of everyone's dreams almost all the time are completely fabricated from our brains firing memories and thoughts into your subconscious, and our our brain patterns always thinking in stories somehow create some sort of cohesive dream, there are a few dreams every once in a while that give you pause.
There are complications however. Religion teaches us sometimes God speaks to us in dreams, and many of us have had religious experiences within our dreams, and who is going to discredit those if in fact they did happen? Usually when you tell people they don't try to exactly dissuade you from believing, but they do try to poke holes or allow for the possibility that maybe it wasn't all from God, or all a message. It is not very often that we receive such clear images or messages as to take lightly a message sent by Heavenly Father. But then there are millions of people out there who are more than willing to tell you about their dream sent by God. On my mission it seemed everyone (and I mean everyone) had had a dream(s) sent by God. It wasn't ever very difficult to convince people of modern revelation, in fact, most of the churches proclaimed to be speaking with God as well. It is easy for the poor, living in a religious culture, to believe anything that lets them know they are not alone in this world. And they dream every night. It seems to me that I cannot discredit the hope and the belief that millions of people have in dreams. I so often speak of dreams as being a step away from speaking to an angel that it's difficult to remember the different degrees we can receive comfort in our lives. And it comforts me to know that maybe our Heavenly Father is reaching out to these people in some of the only ways they can be reached.
But I have had a few dreams that were... special I suppose. Several in fact. And even a few on the wrong side of the track. I have felt some very real presences and I cannot explain away with righteous living, or watching scary movies as I was dreaming and even waking after the dream. I cannot help but wonder of our susceptibility in the twilight of our will power as we wake.
Now, it has been a long time since I felt, or experienced those things. But the fact that they remain in such vividness in my mind allows me to know they were not simply overreactions to be filed away or even watered down. But that's not the point. The point is it doesn't matter what I've experienced in terms of what anyone else has. What matters is the fact that we recognize our own experiences when we do have them I suppose.
I have nothing conclusive concerning dreams really. It's one of those subjects that I discuss with people but never take anyone's opinion into consideration except my own, strange I know, but there it is.
-A
