I've always thought it would be cool to find answers in my dreams. Sound dumb? Maybe, but even so, sometimes when I pray about things on my mind I think that maybe God will speak to me through my dreams. You know, give me a clear direction and answer about something.
But how do you know when your dream is telling you something and when it's merely a manifestation of things you're thinking about?
Distinguishing between the two would be key.
So, I don't know about you, but I don't take dreams as an answer...
(as much as I'd like to sometimes)
Therefore I suppose it doesn't really matter.
Naw, I don't agree with that. I don't believe things are so black and white (ie., if it was so hard to distinguish between the two than it must not be real). You have to develop the ability to distinguish between the two, I would argue.
ReplyDeleteI know it gets fickle after that and there is definitely a valid argument against believing God tells people to do things in their dreams (starting wars for example). But I've always been interested in understanding what dreams mean, and I think they're really interesting spaces in time where your creativity is boundless. It doesn't always produce good ideas, but why should we expect it to (even the most distinguished artists create duds)?
I know I'm coming at it from a different angle - not whether or not God can communicate to us but how we can derive some form of creativity through our dreams(or at least a brain exercise for creativity). But have you heard elizabeth gilbert or amy tan speak at TedTalks before? They both talk about creativity at one point and they mention how it's something outside of themselves, and I agree with that. And I am completely open to the idea that it is something that we receive from a higher being, so that's how I connect the two ideas together. Although I also believe it's a culmination of a lot of things, but whatever; that's not the point of the post!
Anyway, I'm completely open to it (except for Freud's interpretations; i don't really like freud, lol).